In the earliest days of a decorated and illustrious career, before the 17 consecutive All-Star Games, the MVP honors in three of them, and before he became as much a fixture of the midseason extravaganza as the ball itself, LeBron James fell victim to the most plebian of NBA slights. He was an All-Star snub. “Still kinda irks me a little bit,” James said this week. “But I got over it.”