CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Twelve years ago, a 21-year-old LeBron James entered his first Game 7 as an NBA player and left with a loss in which the Cavaliers scored 61 points. That's what the Detroit Pistons sometimes did to teams back then.
So if the young Boston Celtics want a fight, well, James has been to a few of those.
"It's just about winning the game now," Boston's Marcus Smart said after the Cavaliers' win in Game 6 forced Sunday's Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals in TD Garden. "It's not going to be pretty. You've got to be able to get down and dirty.