It's a credit to the level of consistency that we've seen throughout his career, but sometimes we forget that the bar has been raised so high for/by LeBron James that an athletic specimen that's somehow still peaking as a performer during his 15th season has a hard time reaching it. Realistically, it shouldn't have taken a game-saving chase-down block followed by a game-winning buzzer beater three for me to shift my focus from how handicapable the rest of the Cavaliers are to how super human LeBron James is. Besides having a 41/10/8 stat line prior to that sequence of events, he had already gone above and beyond in single-handedly keeping the series respectable. Not to beat a dead horse, but that's basically what the Indiana Pacers have been doing as LeBron has shouldered its rotting carcass to within a game of the second round. Therefore, there is no reason that I shouldn't have been in complete awe of his efforts before they sent the home crowd into hysterics. I guess the "problem" is that King James has turned in so many majestic performances that they've become too easy to take for granted. It's breathtaking moments like last night, however, where you simply have to put aside the fact that sometimes both his personality and his theatrics leave a hell of a lot to be desired and appreciate what you're witnessing, which is greatness personified. Those are the type of plays you're going to tell your grandkids about, assuming that the ageless wonder isn't still producing them two generations from now. To varying levels of excitement, we were all Myles Turner as a ball that appeared magnetized to the bottom of the net inevitably made it's way there, for "oh my god" was really the only proper response one should have to watching the culmination of an unstoppable level of dominance...
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