No surprise: It’s Cavs-Warriors in the NBA Finals, again

He finished the game with 35 points, booking his seventh straight finals appearance as reigning champions Cavs wrapped up a 4-1 victory over Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. “It’s like, we’re in the NBA Finals“.

“Everyone wants to say, ‘Ah man, this is boring and this, that and the other, ‘ but you usually don’t appreciate something until you don’t have it anymore”, Green said. “Not only have I seen him do it in the pros, but I’ve seen him do it with the USA Team, too”. Golden State, they’ve been the best team in our league for the last three years, and then they added an MVP (Kevin Durant). This has somehow never happened before in National Basketball Association history (I’m looking at you, Celtics and Lakers). James, Irving and Love took command from the opening tip-off.

Last night, LeBron James surpassed Michael Jordan as the basketball player with the most points in the playoffs in the history of the NBA.

In Tuesday’s 112-99 Game 4 win, Irving led a comeback from 16 points down and set a new single-game playoff best along the way with 42 points.

During James’ Miami days, it looked like the Chosen One was preparing for a career in his 30s where he would smoke opponents off the block.

In November, Green said he wants to “destroy” and “annihilate” the Cavs in a Finals rematch.

“The conversations about who’s the greatest of all time, things of that nature – it doesn’t matter to me”.

James, who earlier on Thursday suggested comparisons were only for “barbershops”, tried to sidestep the Jordan topic. So I think on both sides, they’re kind of looking and watching and trying to outdo each other. I’m very happy about our accomplishment.

After ousting Boston, James was full of praise for Jordan, saying His Airness was “almost like a god” to him when he was growing up. “He’s a guy who said he wanted us, and he has us starting next Thursday and you know he’s a guy who brings it every single night, so now with the way the Finals went down previous year if I were in his shoes, I would want the same thing”.

But James’ jump in playoff scoring has rekindled the conversation over which player is better, James or Jordan.

While Bron needed more games to reach the total points at 212 compared to Jordan’s 179, he did so at a younger age and on fewer shots. It has nothing to do with passing the rings, passing the points, passing MVPs. “(Chasing his ghost) is just my personal goal to keep me motivated”, James said. They’re coming out and they’re hitting us, they don’t care who you are.

“I’ve always told you guys, anytime I’m linked to any of the greats, even the greatest in Mike, it’s just an honour”, James told reporters Thursday morning with the milestone looming. He’s now third with 1,439. I wore a leg sleeve on my leg and folded it down so you saw the red part. “But nobody’s going to feel sorry for me”. The Lions won the first two and the Browns took the third.

Like I said, I did pretty much everything that MJ did when I was a kid. The Cavs are plus-220, meaning a $100 bet on them would yield $220 if they win the title.