Well Ive had more than a full 24 hours to digest what was an absolutely dominating performance from LeBron James last night. I was a Witness to what may have been the first time LeBron did what everyone has wanted him to do for about 4 years and completely dominate the end of the game like MJ. While this was a great performance by LeBron it wasn't as big as people are making it. Mj's 45, including what should've been his career ending game winner, in game 6 of the '98 finals is better, Magic's triple double 42-15-7 game as a Center is better. There are countless finals moments that were better and possible some others early round playoff games.
So I'm not going to call last nights performance the greatest of all time and I am not going to hop on this its over for everyone else in the NBA bandwagon. It was simply one game where LeBron caught fire and couldn't be stoped. LeBron can dominate yes, but one game does not move him into Jordan, Bird and Magic range as one of the greatest players of all-time. Incase no one remembers last year in watch this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vy0kI4SMvo. Yes that's Dirk Nowitzki in Game 5 of last years Western Conference Finals scoring 50, 22 in the 4th, and that was his break out game. Remember how well he did this year in the playoffs?
I encourage you to watch the highlights of the game, and enjoy it for what it was, a great performance. For my sake and yours as well though, please don't give the world to LeBron because of one game when he went unconscious.
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