{"id":3955,"date":"2012-06-22T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2012-06-22T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:53:13","slug":"redemption-for-lebron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/06\/22\/redemption-for-lebron\/","title":{"rendered":"Redemption For LeBron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in forever, I actually closely watched the NBA playoffs, which were highly entertaining. Well, except for the Hawks blowing, but that is typical.<\/p>\n<p>The more and more anti-LeBron the world becomes, the more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/02\/12\/lebron-tell-fan-to-f%E2%80%99off\/\" target=\"_blank\">I have been pulling for the guy and the Heat<\/a>. Say what you will, but to me, the Miami Heat were all about being a team. When it counted the most, <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/dailydime\/_\/page\/dime-120621\/daily-dime\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nba\/dailydime\/_\/page\/dime-120621\/daily-dime', 'LeBron stepped up and led by example');\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron stepped up and led by example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His 26 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists in the closeout game represented, by any measure, the cherry on one of the greatest individual playoff runs in history. He averaged 30 points and 10 rebounds during the playoffs; moved to power forward when Chris Bosh missed nine playoff games with an injury; led rallies from deficits in three consecutive series; delivered one of the most dominating games of this generation with 45 points in a road elimination game in Boston; got his first Game 7 victory; set a record for number of playoff games with at least 25 points, five rebounds and five assists; and became the fifth player ever to have multiple Finals triple-doubles. You could go on and on. The summation is that James is a worthy champion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s not to like about the Heat\u2019s team effort and the way LeBron played in the playoffs?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of wankers, I wonder what sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/cavaliers\/news\/gilbert_letter_100708.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nba.com\/cavaliers\/news\/gilbert_letter_100708.html', 'open letter that nut job owner');\" target=\"_blank\">open letter that nut job owner<\/a> in Cleveland is going to write next?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in forever, I actually closely watched the NBA playoffs, which were highly entertaining. Well, except for the Hawks blowing, but that is typical. The more and more anti-LeBron the world becomes, the more I have been pulling for the guy and the Heat. Say what you will, but to me, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/06\/22\/redemption-for-lebron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Redemption For LeBron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}