"The Most at Stake": 2x NBA Champ Reveals the Game That Could Have Adversely Affected LeBron James' Hall of Fame Campaign

"The Most at Stake": 2x NBA Champ Reveals the Game That Could Have Adversely Affected LeBron James' Hall of Fame Campaign

Now with four championships to his name, it’s easy to forget that it took LeBron James nearly a decade to win his first title. After several valiant efforts with an underpowered Cleveland Cavaliers roster, LeBron notoriously joined the Miami Heat in 2010. Viewed as the favorite to win it all in 2011, LeBron and the Heat embarrassingly fell to the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. So when his team was on the brink of elimination once again in 2…

Shane Battier: 'LeBron James did something twice that Jordan I don’t think could have done once. He won two NBA titles with Shane Battier as his starting power forward'

Shane Battier: Final score? 98 to 79. LeBron, for the record—do you remember his stat line? Forty-five minutes, 45 points. Nineteen of 26. Yeah. Nineteen of 26! Ridiculous. Also, by the way, 15 rebounds. Threw in five assists—casually. I mean, it was the greatest game I’ve ever seen anybody play. It’s a hard argument to beat. Given the stakes, the gravity of the situation, the historical implications… We’re going to be arguing Jordan versus LeBr…