OAKLAND — If you could script the first NBA Finals trilogy in history — which is what the Warriors and Cavaliers have now created — you’d probably want it to include the best player of the era right around the exact moment in time that he’s generating reasonable ‘best player ever…?’ buzz.
With LeBron James, this matchup has that. He’s a 32-year-old sporting giant, already etched in Michael Jordan-like lore — he literally just passed him for the most playoff points ever last game — but still, incredibly, in Year 14, still at the peak of his powers.