LeBron James
LeBron James
LeBron Raymone Jamesis an American professional basketball player who is a free agent. James has won three NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, three NBA Finals MVP Awards, two Olympic gold medals, an NBA scoring title, and the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He has also been selected to 12 NBA All-Star teams, 12 All-NBA teams, and six All-Defensive teams, and is the Cavaliers' all-time leading scorer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth30 December 1984
CityAkron, OH
CountryUnited States of America
It was a perfect miss. That sounds crazy, but I missed it perfectly, and I followed it and got fouled, and we were in a position to go to OT, but I lost the game for us. I've never practiced that but I know how to hit the back of the rim and make it pop out.
It would have been a disaster if we couldn't win this game after being up by 25.
Drew goes with the flow. When he gets the ball, he produces. We don't run many plays for him. He had a hell of a game for us. We'll need him to do it again Friday.
Everybody that came into the game attacked. We have some things to work on, but we got the win and that's all that matters.
To win in this environment was excellent. I'm not sure if I ever won here. I told you I was not going to have two bad games in a row.
We are still getting better. We are becoming a good team and it is good to see that...We need to approach games like we do at home, which is difficult, but once we get to that point we will be much better.
I think Charles Barkley kick-started us. I heard at halftime he said the game was over. I'd like to thank Charles for kick-starting us.
We have to (win on the road). It's a tough place to play. We have to have the same mindset (we had in Game 1).
(The All-Star Game is) over and done with. We have to come in (tonight) and concentrate on Orlando. We've been (above .500) a couple times this year. We haven't been 11 or 12 games (over .500). It's time to make a run. We have a different mindset from last year.
I don't think we have had a defensive performance like that this season. We came in with the mind-set to get stops. That was the key to the game for us.
I don't think we were ready to play from the opening tip. Once you get to the point where every game means the same, where every game you play for 48 minutes, then you become a great team. Right now, we are not.
Tonight was a big effort. We executed all through the game even when the reserves came in the last eight minutes. Those guys executed.
We had to bring our 'A' game and that's what we did.
We wanted to be mentally focused and not give a team like Portland back into the game. We closed the game out.