LeBron James intent on bringing Cleveland first sports championship in 52 years
Saturday afternoon at Oracle Arena, on the eve of an unlikely Game 7 of the NBA Finals, reporters offered LeBron James numerous opportunities to reflect on the moment before him: Does this mean more than your six other Finals appearances? "You guys ask me the questions, but you guys know the answers to them," James said, trying to end a tired line of queries. No franchise has come back from the 3-1 deficit the Cavaliers faced to win the Finals. In the past two games, with his Cavaliers facing elimination, James scored 82 points on 32-for-57 shooting (56.1 percent), corralled 24 rebounds and dished 18 assists. In Thursday's Game 6, the 31-year-old James passed Hall of Famer John Havlicek for eighth place on the NBA Finals all-time scoring list and moved past Derek Fisher into fifth place on the all-time postseason 3-pointers list. "I'm going to give everything I've got to my teammates and my coaching staff tomorrow night, as I've always done," said James, who leads both Finals teams in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. In July 2014, over breakfast at a Las Vegas hotel suite, James told Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins the story that became the biggest announcement in...
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