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LeBron James With the Best Pre-Game Dunk Ever
While what LeBron James has been doing this season has been quite remarkable in terms of the continuing development of his all-around game and MVP status, sometimes it’s about the flash, like an incredible off the glass, between the legs, 360 dunk he pulled off in a warmup session to a game.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Too Good for Kyrie Irving Right Now
As part of trying to hype the game up between the Miami Heat and the Cleveland Cavaliers, two angles were used – LeBron James becoming a free agent in 2014 and possibly returning to his first NBA team, and the rise of Kyrie Irving among the ranks of NBA stars.
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Miami Heat – A LeBron James & Winning Streak No One Can Stop
It’s quite a rarity these days when Dwyane Wade steals a big chunk of the spotlight from LeBron James, scoring twice what the MVP scored and then some, but the bottom line – a 10th consecutive win and a growing lead in the Eastern Conference is the important thing.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Has Them Playing Like NBA Champions
Being the NBA champions and playing like it are two different things, but with LeBron James playing the best basketball of his career, the Miami Heat, winning nine games in a row, are looking not like a team with the best player in the world, but the favorites to repeat if things carry on at this pace.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James & Dwyane Wade Too Good Right Now
It’s true that there was plenty of showtime basketball in the way LeBron James and Dwyane Wade played to lead the Miami Heat to their 8th consecutive victory, including an off the glass alley-oop dunk, but it was mostly about simply being much better than their opponents.
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NBA Story Lines to Follow Until the Playoffs
With two months and somewhere between 30-25 games left to play for the teams, there’s plenty to look forward to in what’s left of the NBA season, including the MVP battle between Kevin Durant and LeBron James, the whole Los Angeles Lakers saga with time running against them, who emerges from the East to challenge the Miami Heat and more.
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NBA Scorers a Dying Breed
If the pace and rate of scoring doesn’t make a drastic change in the next couple of months, despite the fantastic seasons of Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James, the NBA will have the fewest number of 20-point-per-game scorers in nearly 50 years.
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LeBron James Has Bigger Fish to Fry This NBA Season
The All-Star game? A forgotten memory. When you’re the reigning NBA Champion, MVP and Finals’ MVP, not scoring in the fourth quarter of the All-Star game while getting blocked twice by Kobe Bryant seems meaningless and insignificant, especially when you’re LeBron James.
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NBA All-Star Game Outcome Doesn’t Change
The West don’t always have the better starting lineup, but they usually have the much deeper team (and conference), which explains why they’ve beaten the East three times in a row in the NBA All-Star game, as Chris Paul dominated the start and finish, beating the too serious Kevin Durant for the MVP award, while LeBron James seemed to be trying a bit too hard to make this one mean something.
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Michael Jordan Won’t Be the Greatest of All Time Forever
Before Michael Jordan, there were Magic Johnson, and Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain. And those who watched them during their prime moved along, although the Magic-Michael era was pretty close. Still, players’ legacy are only as good as the memory of the dominating media members. At some point, Jordan won’t be the one mentioned as all-time greatest in the NBA.