BOSTON: LeBron James will belong in the top three NBA MVP finalists until he retires or until Father Time strikes with a chase-down block just as stunning as the one James put on Andre Iguodala.
But at 32 years old, James surely knew that his MVP days were over. And since it is a regular-season award, the league’s announcement Friday night that James will finish no higher than fourth is partially his own doing, in the same realm as the Cavaliers’ decision to give up on the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference after back-to-back April debacles against the Atlanta Hawks.