Has he never seen a prize fight?

So.

LeBron James is too much of a competitor, too much of a “winner” to congratulate someone who’s just beaten him?

Give me a break.

James has handled both his enormous hype and his enormous success rather well. But his leaving the court without shaking hands with the Orlando Magic after Cleveland’s Game 6 defeat and his boycotting of the post-game news conference were childish moves.

"It’s hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them," James told reporters the day after the Cavs were eliminated. "I’m a winner. It’s not being a poor sport or anything like that. If somebody beats you up, you’re not going to congratulate them. That doesn’t make sense to me. I’m a competitor. That’s what I do. It doesn’t make sense for me to go over and shake somebody’s hand."

Hockey players — who go at each other significantly harder than basketball players — routinely shake hands at series’ end. And boxers — who literally, not figuratively, beat each other up — routinely embrace.

It appears that James, 24, still has some growing up to do.