How Professional Athletes Deal With Bench Boredom

With the starters on the sidelines during the final minutes of their 126-94 pounding of the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden earlier this month, the Cleveland Cavaliers bench had good reason to be bored. And they didn't bother trying to hide it. Like high school seniors counting the days until graduation, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving focused their athletic prowess on one task:

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