Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Losing Won't Tarnish LeBron's Legacy

ORLANDO – There is now a 95.6 percent chance LeBron James will not make the NBA Finals. If you think that makes him a failure, there's a 100 percent chance you are wrong.

I don't want to turn Cleveland 's Game 4 loss into a LeBron gush-fest, but you could almost hear the haters warming up in the bullpen Tuesday night. Before you start throwing high hard ones at James, take it from someone who knows.

"I'm very proud of our guys to keep hanging in there with what he's doing in this series," Stan Van Gundy said.
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He was not talking about Zydrunas Ilgauskas. He was talking about the guy who is averaging 42.3 points a game. The guy who might have sent Van Gundy's uncle to his final resting place had the last shot gone in.

It didn't, and now the Cavaliers are one game away from having their 66-win season declared a failure. That will be laid on you-know-who's shoulders. It will go something like this:

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