Only four other people besides LeBron James have ever made it to eight consecutive NBA Finals series, and all of them were members of the Bill Russell-led Celtics dynasty of the late fifties and early sixties when most of the league’s players were white.
With LeBron’s Cavaliers set to tip off as overwhelming underdogs in a fourth straight Finals matchup against the Golden State Warriors tonight, the most amazing thing about it is that there’s hardly anything the Warriors could do in this series that would outshine the greatness of King James or diminish his status as the most dominant force in the NBA.