Anthony Davis rejects a claim made by former Los Angeles Lakers coach Lionel Hollins about LeBron James. In stories attributed to Hollins, James is said to have arrived early to work out and, specifically, to have “beaten” Davis to morning workouts. According to the reports, Davis disputes that characterization and pushes back on the idea that James outpaced him in that routine. The dispute centers on the accuracy of Hollins’ account rather than on any gameplay or on-court performance. Both the Yahoo Sports and New York Post reports present Davis’s disagreement as the main development, emphasizing that Davis is challenging the anecdote as it has been described publicly. The exchanges do not change the underlying relationship between the players and the former coach, but they do add a factual disagreement about what happened during those early workout sessions. The reporting reflects that Davis contests the specifics of the claim attributed to Hollins, while the claim itself remains associated with Hollins’ earlier statements.