Last season, LeBron James missed the NBA playoffs for the first time since he was 21 years old, which put an abrupt end to the longest active playoff streak in the league (13 years) and the longest active Finals streak (eight years).
This season, James has led the Los Angeles Lakers back to the top of the Western Conference, and he’s hoping to get them back to the Finals, too. If Saturday was any indication of the player the Lakers are getting in the postseason, they have as good of a shot as anyone in the west.