Like it or not, we’re living in the age of LeBron.
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It’s been 101 seasons since Buffalo could call itself a championship city.
Nike is possibly just as excited as the city of Cleveland is and they’re showing some major support and love to LeBron James, the poster boy of the league and Nike. “It’s going to be the biggest party that Cleveland has ever seen ever”, James told reporters after Sunday’s game. The people of Cleveland no longer have to be plagued by mentions of the year 1964. The NBA Finals had turned into a pro wrestling match, and in that press conference, we got our heel turn. And he made the game-winning shot, a 3-pointer over Curry with 53 seconds left in game 7.
The Cavaliers became the first team in National Basketball Association history to come back and win the championship after being down three games to one in the series.
Fans rushed James’ van as his motorcade arrived.
This would be the sweetest championship of the three James has won in his fantastic career, and could be the one that finally silences his detractors for good.
So that’s what today is like for me as a Golden State Warriors fan, but where I would normally be sitting in a bitter haze-dismissing my coworkers so I can hate-click all the stories about my team’s demise until I find the one where our immediate past gets rewritten and it turns out we actually arose victorious-today I find myself being grateful for sports in general. “But understanding how I can control the game better and whether or not I’ll be in that position again, I know I’ll be better”. I’ll probably never be over that.
He is the most physically gifted basketball player of all time, which is why he can will his team to victory regardless of who is on the floor with him.
Game 6 of the 2015 finals, when Golden State clinched its title, averaged nearly 23.3 million viewers.
Through it all, James remains a tough personality to define.
Michael Jordan has his “Jumpman” logo. Enough with the Drive, The Fumble, The Decision and all those agonies, now in the rear view.
It seems the entire city choked up after James capped his MVP series with a sensational Game 7, a triple-double performance that will long be remembered for his chase-down block of Warriors forward Andre Iguodala in the final minutes – a rejection that seemed to erase so many bad memories in Cleveland.
“There’s no denying what he was able to accomplish this series”, a very classy Curry said after Game 7.
She watched Sunday night’s game at home, on television, with family. Throughout my 13-year career, I’ve done nothing but be true to the game, put my heart, my blood, sweat, tears into the game, and people still want to doubt what I’m capable of doing.
On his Instagram posting, which included him wearing a hat with Kermit the Frog sipping tea – an Internet meme used to denote sarcasm and is paired with the saying, “That’s none of my business” – James unleashed a rant as vicious as one of his dunks.
The Browns left Cleveland after the 1995 season for Baltimore.
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“I knew what we were capable of, even being down 3-1 versus the greatest regular season team ever”, said James. Emotions is everywhere. Like I don’t know what to feel.
