Y’all in here talking about all time performances against the goddamn pacers
This is the sort of idiocy I have to point out, where you take out all context and pretend that because it's the "Pacers", it's not meaningful. The Pacers were a strong team last year who outplayed the Cavs at every single position other than LeBron. As if one of the most famous shots of Jordan's career wasn't against the Cleveland Cavaliers, or as if the most famous game of Kobe Bryant's career wasn't against an awful Toronto team, or as if Wilt Chamberlain isn't more known for what he did against a trash Knicks team than anything else in his career.
We're comparing LeBron to Durant. Durant barely has two classic performances in his entire lifetime portfolio outside of cases where his team had a huge talent advantage that determined the outcome of the series before it even started. While against the Pacers LeBron played damn near 1-on-5 during the series and won it with one epic performance after another. The Pacers big men were all running wild on the Cavs while Oladipo was playing like a star, Pacers had SEVEN guys in double figures while Love with 11ppg on 33% shooting was the only Cav in double-figures besides LeBron. And the Cavs still won behind LeBron's dominance.
When KD does that, wake me up.
He had 3 all time performances in the playoffs alone. And game 1 of the finals
I don't even know which three of them you mean.
1st Round Game 2: Down 1-0 to the Pacers after a blowout loss in which his teammates showed they were going to let themselves get manhandled by Oladipo, Turner, Lance, and company, LeBron turns in a
46-12-5 game on 17-24 shooting. Even with that he still needs to score 11 in the 4th to preserve the 3-point win, including a clutch 4-4 from the line when up just 3 with 22 seconds left.
1st Round Game 5: Coming back home needing to win, LeBron went for
44-10-8 on 14-24 shooting. When everyone on the team went ice cold and only scored 9 points combined in the final 15 minutes of the game, LeBron had follow a
game-preserving block with a game-winning three.
1st Round Game 7: LeBron does what he always does in Game 7, putting up a
45-8-7 on 16-25 shooting with 4 steals to eek out a 4-point win and take the series.
ECSF Game 2: Going on the road against the 1-seed Raptors, LeBron drains a
game-tying fadeaway with 30 seconds left in Game 1 to push Toronto to overtime and survive a 1-point win, then compiles a ridiculous
43-8-14 game on 19-28 shooting to leave no doubt.
ECSF Game 3: With Raptors trying to survive the series, LeBron puts up a
38-6-7 game on 14-24 shooting and scores 16 in the 4th including this game-winner at the buzzer.
ECF Game 2: After getting blown out in Game 1, LeBron put up a
42-10-12 on 16-29 shooting with 5 threes and
still lost.
ECF Game 4: In a must-win situation down 2-1 at home in Game 4, LeBron put up a
44-5-3 game on 17-28 shooting to tie the series.
ECF Game 6: Down 3-2 and facing elimination, LeBron thows together a
46-11-9 game with 5 threes and 3 steals to tie the series.
ECF Game 7: LeBron does what LeBron does, going
35-15-9 on 12-24 shooting with two big blocks to win the series.
Finals Game 1: Facing what everyone considers to be pretty much impossible odds against the Warriors, LeBron goes into San Francisco and hangs
51-8-8 on 19-32 shooting on Durant, hitting the go-ahead shot with 32 seconds left and only a slew of terrible calls, a missed free throw by George Hill, and a brain aneurysm by J.R. Smith kept them from the upset win.
That's 9 classic games, 8 40+ point games all with ridiculous stat lines, 3 huge elimination game wins, 2 buzzer beaters and a total of 5 go-ahead or game-tying shots in the final 30 seconds of games. All in a single playoff run at the age of 33 on an awful playoff team.
KD hasn't done that
in his entire career.
