This Week In 🏀 can only doff our theoretical cap to the only 40-year-old in today's NBA

The usual Monday Musings spin around the league naturally leads off with some words about the Lakers' LeBron James on his birthday

Some NBA musings on a momentous Monday:

🏀 LeBron James turns 40 years old today and, with the Lakers appropriately playing host to LeBron's home-state Cleveland Cavaliers on New Year's Eve, will soon become the first NBA player we've ever seen to play a game in his teens, 20s, 30s and 40s. I will always be personally grateful to say that I was there to cover James' first NBA game that counted on Oct. 29, 2003 ... and I'm at least 40 times more grateful that I'm still here and still covering #thisleague.