Nov 28, 2017. LeBron James relies on a host of NBA veterans who were once rivals. How does it feel for Kyle Korver, Jae Crowder and others to team up with the King? With the ball in their hand, and two to three points being the goal, Lue subs Kevin Love in for Tristan Thompson with Kyle Korver replacing Iman Shumpert. As play unfolds, James draws Warriors do-it-all center Draymond Green at the top of the three-point arc. He dances, briefly, before driving with his left.
Season Stats Season Totals Per Game Avg. GM Min Pts Reb Ast Stl FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PTM 3PTA 3PT% Blk TO PPG RPG APG SPG TOPG BPG 33 749 348 66 37 15 116 240.483 34 39.872 82 184.446 12 24 10.5 2.0 1.1 0.5 0.7 0.4 Career Averages Career FG 3PT FT Rebounds Misc.
Game Log Game FG 3PT FT. Date Opp G Min M A% M A% M A% Off Def Tot Ast TO Stl Blk PF Pts Dec 21 CHI 1 25 5 7.714 4 6.667 1 1 1.000 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 2 15 Dec 19 @MLW 1 23 1 7.143 0 4.000 0 0.000 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 4 2 Dec 17 @WAS 1 24 4 6.667 1 2.500 2 2 1.000 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 11 Dec 16 UTA 1 25 5 9.556 2 3.667 0 0.000 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 2 12 Dec 14 LAK 1 22 4 6.667 1 3.333 1 1 1.000 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 10 Dec 12 ATL 1 23 6 11.545 6 9.667 1 1 1. Cox And Stokes Us Foreign Policy Pdf. 000 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 19 Dec 9 PHI 1 28 4 8.500 4 8.500 1 1 1.000 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 13.
“He wants you to shoot that b---h when he passes it,” Channing Frye says. Cleveland’s sharpshooting center is perched courtside at Madison Square Garden, watching LeBron James loft jumpers before the Cavaliers’ morning walkthrough begins.
James overhears the conversation and promptly stops his warmup. He raises his voice to a volume that is loud enough to be heard by those nearby but still too reserved to qualify as a commotion. The semantics, though, are more than pointed. “I didn’t know I was going to have to be the starting point guard when the season started,” James crows. A Cavs’ development coach pauses feeding James’s shooting pocket, chuckling along with the rant. “We weren’t doing much passing this summer,” James continues. “In the summer time we did a lot of catch-and-shoot, post-ups and sh-.
We were feeling good. This season, however, James has whizzed the ball almost exclusively to running mates who once feverishly sought to end his Eastern Conference reign. “Guys who compete on other teams, you always look at those guys like, ‘I wish I could play with him one day or coach him one day,’” says Cavs head coach Tyronn Lue. Lue himself was part of the last team, the 2010 Boston Celtics, to defeat James in the conference finals,. “LeBron was always looking over at our bench,” Rivers says. “He even told us one day, ‘I always see you guys over there scheming.’ You could see he was always observing what we were doing, especially our play calls—even our defensive play calls.” James would draw the Celtics in the conference finals once more this past spring, when Isaiah Thomas dropped 17 points and 10 assists in Game 1 before and Jae Crowder hounded the four-time MVP for 33 minutes a night, desperately trying to dethrone The King. Cleveland ended Boston’s season for the second time in three years.
So when Thomas and Crowder ultimately comprised the Cavs’ return package in, the longtime teammates at first struggled to grasp uniting with the enemy. “It took a minute for us to get outside of that,” Crowder says. “There were some real wars. Me and [James] used to go at it.”.
His phone pinged with a peace offering from James shortly after news of the trade broke. Crowder’s biggest rival quickly became his staunchest ally. “Before I even met him, he sent me a paragraph text after the trade went down, a couple hours later, just talking about what we can accomplish and what it’s going to take to accomplish that goal we want to work towards,” Crowder says. “That was just in a text. He’s taken, like, a big brother role for me.
He’s the type of dude that likes to do gatherings and stuff and meet up for dinner.” James has a long history of fending off rangy Celtics wings. In an effort to extend Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen’s championship window, Boston general manager Danny Ainge swapped for the Thunder's younger Jeff Green in 2011.
The Celtics simultaneously added more versatility while cleaning their cap sheet. “[Perkins] became so expensive to Oklahoma City that they had to move [James] Harden,” Ainge says.
Green could also shadow James and the Celtics needed those exhaustive efforts in addition to a scoring attack complementary to the team’s stars. They most memorably, when Green poured in a career-high 43 points and James countered with 37 points, 12 assists and a game-winning 21-footer in Green’s face with 10.5 seconds left. Green would drill a remarkable, buzzer-beating three in Miami the following November. But after three seasons of unmemorable basketball, Green didn’t hesitate when his former nemesis reached out this past offseason. “I don’t think he needs to recruit anybody,” Green says. “He sent me a text, T-Lue gave me a call, saying that he wanted me to come and that was all I needed.” (Even the Celtics’ original LeBron-stopper James Posey is a member of the Cavs’ coaching staff.). Jim McIsaac/Getty Images A Lue text message started Cleveland’s this July as well.