The picture of everyone in the crowd on their phones when LeBron broke Kareem’s scoring record is amazing.

Incredible. In some sort of weird version of “Where’s Waldo,” I can count three people in this photo not on their phones. Silver Fox in the front row, Gina Linetti from Brooklyn 99 behind him, and the kid near the section number toward the top of the photo.

Now look, I’m not going to go with some kind of ‘Old Man Yells at Cloud’ take here about how, ‘everyone is on their phones these days!’ You know how I found this picture? Scrolling through my phone when I should have been prepping a break for the morning show. And if I would have been at that game last night, I probably would have had my phone out to take a few pictures of this moment as well.

What I don’t understand, and will probably never understand, is WHY we feel we need to have our own picture-record of a moment like that. There are 8 billion professional photographers and camera-people at this game. They are paid to take the perfect picture. The next morning you’re going to find thousands and thousands of crystal clear images online that you can just save to your photo album and never look at again. And yet we all feel that compulsion at games and concerts to take out our phone and take a blurry picture that is only going to take up space on the cloud. I’m sure there are plenty of articles written that psychoanalyze how Steve Jobs inceptioned all of us into feeling this way, but it truly is bizarre. And I’ve never seen it so perfectly encapsulated as I do in this picture.

Related: Last night was the PERFECT LeBron moment. You couldn’t have scripted it any better.

Step 1) LeBron legitimately does something incredible, breaking Kareem’s all time scoring record. No one thought that record would EVER be touched, but LeBron did it.

Step 2) Stop the entire game with TEN SECONDS LEFT IN THE 3RD QUARTER and throw a parade for himself. Grab a mic and talk about humility while there’s a game literally going on that two teams are waiting to finish.

Step 3) Lose the game to the Thunder and do a postgame interview where he (humbly) says he’s the GOAT.

Scene.

It was poetic. A perfect microcosm of his career. He’s one of the greatest athletes that I’ve ever seen in my life, but the guy has ZERO self-awareness. We first learned about that when he was shocked that his public ‘Decision’ to ‘take his talents to Miami’ went over like a lead balloon, and it’s been one thing after another since. Not a doubt in my mind that he’s the 2nd greatest player in basketball history, but he is also a fascinating case-study on what happens to your world-view when everyone tells you how great you are starting at 12 years old*.

Also: Great call by BA on the play-by-play. What a career he’s cultivated. When he took the Brewer job in 2007, I’m not sure I would have ever guessed that he’d develop into a Top 5 Network-guy across all sports.

*In fairness to LeBron, I’m not sure how we can really expect him be self aware. He was anointed the ‘Chosen One’ on the cover of Sports Illustrated when he was 16 years old. ESPN started broadcasting his high school games in primetime. When that’s how you start life, I’m not sure how you don’t view everything from the, ‘I’m the main character,’ prism.

PS: Another example of no self-awareness:

Put it up there with Lou Gehrig’s, ‘Today I consider myself the luckiest man…’ speech and Herb Brooks’ ‘Great moments are born from great opportunity,’ speech. There are times when dropping a f-bomb does sound cool, celebrating the moment you broke one of the most historic records in NBA history ain’t it.