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SamTheMan67 · 05-31-2007, 09:15 PM

I cant explain the feeling i have. That is the greatest thing i have ever seen.

**remy23** · 05-31-2007, 09:23 PM

I feel great too. We need one more monster effort from James to beat the Pistons in Game 6. Beating Detroit in Game 6 would feel even better.

RW#30 · 05-31-2007, 09:31 PM

They crowned him tonight. He earned his name after tonight's game he is the KING.
I am too a witness.

TheBowski · 05-31-2007, 09:40 PM

I feel bad for casual basketball fans who watched that game because they won't be able to grasp what just happened.

**Pioneer10** · 05-31-2007, 09:42 PM

He was just ridiculous: the last time I had this feeling in a playoff game was watching Bird and Nique go at it and then maybe Hakeem destroying Robinson

**Marcus13** · 05-31-2007, 10:55 PM

That was the most amazing playoff performance I have ever seen

SamTheMan67 · 06-01-2007, 11:38 AM

I cant stop rewatching this game thinking about it. Waking up thinking about it. I just am in awe, this is like when i lost my virginity except better!! hahaha jk =-)

kirk_2003 · 06-01-2007, 12:14 PM

im amazed.. he put up one heck of a showing and proved that the cavs is LEBRON JAMES!

**SheedSoNasty** · 06-01-2007, 01:35 PM

Unfortunately, I was not a witness last night. Saw the highlights, and it looked as though he completely dominated at the end. I'm happy for you guys to have gotten this far. Take out the Spurs!

**Pioneer10** · 06-01-2007, 10:37 PM

There were just too many articles to reprint but this one cracked me up:

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he box failed. The Chicago Bears would have failed. This was high school all over again. James was the biggest, baddest athlete on the floor, and when the ball was in his hands everyone else was an accessory.

James scored the Cavaliers' final seven points of regulation. Nobody else from Cleveland even shot the ball.
James scored all nine of the Cavaliers' points in the first overtime. Nobody else from Cleveland even touched the ball.
James scored all nine of the Cavaliers' points in second overtime.
This was silly. James was going dribbling past one guy, juking another and dunking on a third. Prince got out of the way of one jam, wanting no part of that poster.
This was absurd. James was dribbling out the shot clock and falling backward and throwing in a 23-footer over Prince's condor wingspan.
This was insane. James was going left, losing Billups with a behind-the-back dribble to the right, then hitting a moving 22-footer with two seconds on the shot clock.
This was magical. This was memorable. This was the best performance of this NBA season, and yes I'm aware Kobe Bryant scored 65 points against Portland this season. That was nice, but that was Portland. And that was the regular season. This is Detroit, and this is Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals.
I want to say this was something we won't see again, but who would I be kidding? James is just 22, and Cleveland has shown no ability to surround him with talent. Bryant is *****ing about his supporting cast? Check out the garbage James has to work with in Cleveland, Kobe. Shut up, Kobe.
Won't see this again? Shoot, I'm thinking we'll see it again Saturday in Game 6.
At least, I'm hoping.

Rest of the article here:
http://www.sportsline.com/nba/story/10205255/2

**Pioneer10** · 06-04-2007, 11:10 PM

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5. The readers seem to be split on how we should name LeBron's Game 5 performance. Old friend Jason Whitlock sold me on "LeBron's 48 Special" but a host of readers think it should either be called "LeBron's 29 for 30" or "LeBron's Leap." Maybe we should make this an ESPN.com poll.
While we're here, two leftover Game 5 e-mails:
• Dave F. in Brooklyn: "That performance was truly insane. I was sitting in my living room giggling. It was like one of those kung fu movies where Bruce Lee is fighting 30 guys, but they only send one at a time for some reason."
• Jake in Vegas: "One of the things you didn't point out was TNT panning the Palace crowd during their postgame show. The looks on the faces of the Pistons fans is the one thing that I think I will always remember about the game. I've never seen anything like it in sports. They were COMPLETELY shell-shocked, just sitting there with blank looks on their faces like they had just survived a back-alley encounter with Keyser Soze. And its not like this was even the series-clinching win, either. Most times when they show the fans of the losing team after a tough home loss, they are either trying to ward off the trash-talking from the opposing teams' fans or just trying to make their way out to their cars. The Pistons fans just sat there like they didn't want to go home so they wouldn't have to go to bed with nightmares of King James dancing through their heads."
And just for kicks, a postgame e-mail from Game 6 from Brandon in L.A.:
"I love the NBA. Can you think of any other avenue in life in which a 22-year-old black kid from Akron, Ohio, would excitedly jump in the air and lovingly embrace for a good 20 seconds a 7-foot-3, 31-year-old from Lithuania?"

6. Speaking of Bron, Kevin from Cleveland passed this along: "Here's a link from the News-Herald, a local paper just east of Cleveland, in which sportswriter Roger Brown puts you at No. 3 on the list of the six people who have done the most damage to their reputations since the Cavs-Pistons series. Here's what he wrote:
"Simmons spent months ripping and mocking James as an overhyped fraud -- and gained lots of national attention in the process. But after James' historic Game 5 performance, Simmons scrambled to save face in embarrassing fashion. He wrote a column on LeBron that was more slobbering and fawning than a 13-year-old girl writing a fan letter to Justin Timberlake."
Sorry, I have to respond to this one. First of all, if Roger can produce anything I've ever written that called him LeBron an "overhyped fraud," I will send him a $200 check to double the salary that the News-Herald is paying him every week. I think he has me confused with Charley Rosen. Second, I love the idea that me "ripping" LeBron gained me national attention ... really? From who? Did I happen to be in a coma at the time? I criticized him in my Anna K. column from Miami (and rightfully so, Bron mailed in a game on national TV); my All-Star column from Vegas (where Bron's lack of enthusiasm for the season was a major topic, and if you don't believe me, check out the ESPN.com column by Brian Windhorst from March once LeBron started playing hard again, and this from a writer who's covered LeBron for his entire career); when LeBron made the absurd "global icon" comment; and a couple of times during the playoffs when Bron-Bron didn't seem properly enthused by the proceedings (and he wasn't). I don't regret a single thing I wrote about LeBron in the past year. Everything still stands.

And third, before Game 5 of the Detroit series, I picked the Cavs to win in 6 and wrote an extended section about LeBron showing signs of turning the corner and getting it in Games 3 and 4, to the point that I had my hopes up for Game 5 because there was a chance something truly special might happen. Here's the exact quote:
"The fact remains, No. 23 happens to be the only interesting thing about this painfully disjointed Pistons-Cavs series ... Like many others, I'm looking forward to Game 5 solely because of LeBron. Like many others, I want him to shift into fifth gear, hush the crowd, rip Detroit's heart out and make the Vivid Video face after everything's said and done. Like many others, I will be disappointed if this doesn't happen."
Bottom line: if you're going to rip another writer, make sure you've actually read the guy first.

ROFL at Simmons going off on Roger Brown. It's nice to know he's been exposed as a hack on a national level now

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