Cavs beat Warriors

RaceBannon said:

Here's my Grantland analysis

Every year during the long NBA season we search for new stories to entertain us. The Hawks are this year's surprise and a fun story to follow. The Warriors and Clippers run up and down the court and play an entertaining brand of basketball that is worth the price of League Pass or the weekly ESPN games.

The West is filled with would be title contenders. Chicago (never mind). Atlanta and Toronto lead the way in the East.

I have been a Steph Curry fans since his college days. The pure shooter is one of most exciting players at any level. As this CHART shows. Westbrook and Durrant are worth the price of admission. Russell Westbrook took 38 shots! Here are all 38!

But last night reminded us that the NBA more than any other pro league is all about the Big Dog. And the Big Dog is still Lebron James. He is all of Curry, Westbrook, and Durant in the body of a linebacker or tight end. He makes any team or group better.

As Wesley Morris wrote here, Lebron still suffers from the natural athlete tag that follows Black athletes around. His mind has always been under rated by the haters and twitter bashers. The coaching job that James has done this year is one of the best seen the last 20 years.

He spent the first 40 games letting Irving and Love and the rest try to be the stars and hog the ball and not play defense. He even took two weeks off to remind them what life without him was like at Minnesota and last year in Cleveland.

Upon his return we have seen the Cleveland we thought we would see as they have won 18 of 20 and a refreshed Lebron is showing the other would be alpha dogs who is still the boss. Irving and Love look like winners.

Yes it is a good point made by Grantland contributor RoadDawg that we haven't seen them in the playoffs but we have seen Lebron. Cleveland wins the East rather easily. They now look like a legit threat to win it all. The Portlands and Clippers of the world go home in May. The champions come out to play.

Lebron will forever be haunted by the loss to Dallas. 3-2 is better than 2-3 by a long shot. Three in a row before losing the 4th would have been a far better script for the Miami Experience. The two losses to the Spurs were to a better team. And Lebron is the only man to beat the Spurs dynasty in the Finals.

Jordan will always be 6-0 and James can never be that. But he isn't done collecting rings.