NBA’s Lebron James Gets Super Scoring Powers from Biting Fingernails

 

CLEVELAND — Cleveland Cavaliers (and avid New York Yankees fan) LeBron James is always taking his game to the next level.  Some people might wonder how James is always improving his already-high basketball IQ.  It could be practice, natural ability, Bubbleyum, or perhaps… fingernail biting.Cavaliers coach Mike Brown says that LeBron is always biting his nails because it gives him “super powers”.  “We’re not talking about Batman and Swamp Thing”, says Brown, “I’m just saying that the biting gives him an edge over the other players.”

 

Sports medicine teams have explained the phenomenon of fingernail biting. 

 ”It could be that LeBron’s fingernails naturally produce certain performance-enhancing chemicals and proteins that are not present in the fingernails of other athletes”, says Martin Stein, a specialist in keratin physiobiology. 

 

Stein says that LeBron’s fingernails produce a lot of natural proteins and amino acids that are instantly metabolized and before you know it, he’s shooting 3’s, and getting triple-double figures. These proteins are produced in the lunula and become more enriched as the fingernail grows.

So are fingernails the fast break (get it?) for a quick bucket in basketball?  “Not really”, explains Stein.  “We have not found any of these proteins and chemicals present in the fingernails of other ballers, but there’s probably a couple out there, plus there might be quirks of other players that might do similar functions, such as lick-lipping, weird blinking quirks, or scratching.”

 

 

“Basketball has had a history of eccentric habit-based behavior in terms of enhanced performance ability”, says Stein.  “Whether it was Bill Walton’s crazy hair in the 70’s, or coach Bobby Knight’s obsession with chair throwing, these behaviors, in a way, release chemicals, adrenaline, and sometimes even creatine.”