LeBron James calls his inner circle of advisers and friends his "team" and he referred to that team several times during the press conference after the Cavaliers were eliminated from the playoffs on Thursday.  

Alan Hahn of Newsday reports that James' entourage was with him in Boston as he absorbed the shock of another disappointing end to his season.

"It was well over an hour after his season officially ended, prematurely ended, here at the TD Garden, and LeBron James was still sitting in a corner of what, at this point, was an empty visitors dressing room," wrote Hahn.  "The door was closed and it was quiet for the first time since James left the team's hotel that afternoon.

"He summoned for his entourage -- 'My team,' as he refers to them, which consisted of agent Leon Rose, ubiquitous attache William 'Worldwide Wes' Wesley, his manager, Maverick Carter and his business partner and friend, Randy Mims -- into the dressing room and had the door sealed again. James didn't emerge until well after midnight, wearing black jeans and a black and white sweatjacket and a black cap with his logo."

Once he was in front of the media, James talked about how he and his team will execute a gameplan when this summer's free-agent feeding frenzy begins.

But 'July Madness' is still a few weeks away and Hahn, displaying the kind of restraint that is virtually unheard of among media people, did not ask James about the "New York Knicks" chants Celtics fans shouted at him late in the game.

"I had the urge to raise my hand to signal for the microphone and ask him a simple question: Did you hear the chants?" wrote Hahn.

"But I felt it wasn't the right time to ask such a question," Hahn continued. "Here was a player in that vacuum of a troubling loss, aware that the world now wants to know what he's going to do next. It was enough that everyone took notice the media contingent included four-fifths of the Knicks traveling beat writers (only the Bergen Record was not represented). This wasn't a time for New York-centricity."