Clevelands first season without james was an awful year, finishing with a record of 1963. In the summer of 2010, cavaliers superstar lebron james became a free agent, and announced on espn that he would join the miami heat, to join chris bosh and dwyane wade. Playoff advanced stats jordan is the alltime playoff leader in per and box plusminus, and has the highest usage percentage, but james tops everyone in vorp and. Bulls legend michael jordan received 66 percent of the vote in a business insider poll on whos the greatest basketball player of all time and thats not even his most lopsided victory over. During the playoffs, lebrons teams played better overall. After a terrific series where the heat decimated the celtics in only five games, lebron james and miami were decimated by the bulls in the second half after being tied heading into the break. Lebron james thought loss to celtics in 2012 couldve. Lebron james punched a whiteboard after jr smith forgot the score at the end of regulation in game 1 and suffered a badly injured right hand.
This was the teams first lead of the series after they previously trailing 10 and 21. Lebron james full highlights cleveland cavaliers vs boston celtics eastern conf finals 2018 nba playoffs. James is, after all, arguably the greatest player in nba history. Lebron james last year became the first player to lead an nba finals in points, rebounds and assists. Its also available for football, hockey and baseball. For michael jordan, it was the bad boy detroit pistons. For four straight years, jordans chicago bulls went headtohead. The only two other exceptions are the 2007 nba finals. When king james has an off night, which happened in a 111108 loss to boston in game 3 of the eastern conference finals sunday. The bulls and nets squared off in the first round of the playoffs that year, and though the nets played the bulls closer than many expected, jordan averaged 36. Lebron james is 36 in the nba finals, but he also appeared in the eight consecutive finals series with the heat or cavs from 201119. While both players are known for tenacious defense on the wing, jordan finished first in the league in steals three times in his career. James had played well in the series overall but was outdueled by paul pierce in game 5 in miami. On april 25th in 2018, lebron james, in the final five seconds of game 5 against the indiana pacers, followed up a clutch block on victor oladipo with a buzzerbeating gamewinning 3 over thaddeus young.
Lebron james became a villain by leaving the cavaliers for the heat on the decision in 2010. In a related stat, dating back to the entirety of his career, lebron james has won a road game in 37 of his now 40 playoff series. Lebron posts latest tripledouble, lakers rally past bulls. James went 4of16 shooting down the stretch and pierce hit a 3pointer in the final minute that was the difference. Michael jordan and lebron james are more similar than you. Lebron james epic full series highlights vs celtics 2018. Michael jordans stats from bulls 4 playoff series vs. Michael jordan blows away lebron james in goat survey. For lebron james, it was the kevin garnettpaul pierce boston celtics. Lebron james held derrick rose to 110 shooting in the miami heats game 5 win over the chicago bulls, and just 6 percent shooting in the series. Lebron led the 2016 finals in points, rebounds, assists, steals. The bulls were in the race for james or wade plus bosh, which many thought would be the true super team of the east given the bulls much stronger roster than miamis. Looks like lebron james is now dumb enough to work for the.
Jordan is superior in the scoring department, but james grabs rebounds and dishes out assists at a higher rate. Lebron james nba finals full series highlights youtube. Or, like, lebron, hes 35, hes got so many minutes on his. Michael jordan comparison headtohead comparison between the nba stars michael jordan and lebron james that includes championships won, honors and awards obtained, regular season and playoffs stats and other data put side by side. The eastern conference went through james for almost an entire decade. Did lebron james or michael jordan make more insane clutch. James backtoback clutch plays gave the cleveland cavaliers a 9895 victory and a 32 series lead. Lebron james gets wish with new michael jordan series. Here you have lebron jamess game by game stats in the 20032004 nba season. Every day, well send you an email to your inbox with scores, todays schedule, top performers, new debuts and interesting facts and tidbits. James prevented the celtics, bulls, hawks and raptors from reaching the nba finals in that stretch.
The most mindblowing lebron james stats of the nba playoffs. Note this is the basic game log, with points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. In that series, calipari did all he could to avoid being the victim of a tale like karls. Michael jordan inspired countless copycats throughout his 15year reign atop the nba, but the true heir to his airness was rarely one of them. Lebron james delivered yet another matchwinning moment for the cleveland cavaliers, nailing the buzzer beater that put the cavs 30 up in their series against the toronto raptors. Lebron james becomes first player on record to lead series. Playoff advanced stats jordan is the alltime playoff leader in per and box plusminus, and has the highest usage percentage, but james tops everyone in. Meanwhile, the bulls finished 6220 and earned the first seed in the eastern conference playoffs. Hes made 16 allstar teams, 15 allnba teams and has three mvp trophies. Lebron james led the cleveland cavaliers to their first ever nba championship in a historic upset over the golden state warriors. Power forward and point guard and small forward and shooting guard shoots. Mjs teams were barely better than lebrons in the regular season although mj had his dynasty 90s bulls, remember mjs horrible early teams and the wizards. Lebron james gets his wish with new michael jordan documentary series release date a look at the 10part documentary series on michael jordans final season with the chicago bulls.
The bulls had the glorious years of watching jordan dominate the nba for. He scored 725 total points in the 1995 postseason, trailing only kawhi leonard in 2019, lebron james in 2018 and jordan in 1992, and he played fewer games than leonard and james did. If you like numbers soon we will add the complete lebron jamess 200304 game log. Lebron james and the cleveland cavaliers tempted fate, but eventually came out 104100 winners in game 4 of their first round series with the indiana pacers. Lebron james defense on mvp derrick rose amazing in miami. Unless, of course, youre dealing with the cavaliers lebron james. Rk player age g gs mp fg fga 3p 3pa ft fta orb drb trb ast stl blk tov pf pts fg% 3p% ft% mp pts trb ast stl blk. The heat had led that east finals 20, but boston stormed back to take games 3, 4 and 5 with bosh suffering from an abdominal injury.
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