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LeBron James stepped over him. Draymond Green immediately reacted.
The former Michigan State star’s Game 4 punch to the groin of basketball’s biggest name changed the course of last year’s NBA Finals.
The Golden State Warriors won that game to take a 3-1 series lead. But it was Green’s fourth flagrant foul of the playoffs, which resulted in him being suspended for Game 5. James and the Cavaliers won that game, then the final two games, to rally for Cleveland’s first professional sports championship in more than 50 years.