For Ten Minutes, Did LeBron Transcend The Game of Basketball?
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by user Lessformore
With 11 seconds left in the game, it wasn't "if LeBron makes this shot...", it was "when LeBron makes this shot..." There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that the shot, whatever kind it was going to be, was going in. The real questions were, how much time will be left when he's through? and what will the Pistons be able to do with it? The answers: 2.2 seconds and nothing. How can you beat a team whose best player is unstoppable? And not just the clichéd, announcer version of unstoppable, but actually unstoppable. When a man has the ability to score a team's final 25 points does he not transcend the typical definition of "player"? How can you defend a person like that? Someone, who when he touches the ball, silences an entire arena. Someone, whose dunks leave the opposing fans bewildered and confused. The NBA greats all had defining games, was this his? Will we look back on this day in ten years and say, "This is when LeBron became LeBron"? Because for the last 10 minutes of the game, LeBron James was the Cleveland Cavaliers. This isn't an insult to his teammates but recognition of his greatness. It's not that he didn't give his teammates opportunities; he couldn't give them opportunities. This was his game. And no one, not the Detroit Pistons, or even his own team, was going to stop him from winning it.
