OAKLAND, Calif. — Standing there next to Bill Russell, the flecks of gray in LeBron James' beard matching the full gray in Russell's, James was as Russell will forever be.
A winner.
This is not some bad guy who left home or some good guy who came back. He's a winner.
Here, there, everywhere.
James took Kobe Bryant's farewell season and Stephen Curry's unanimous MVP season and turned it into his Cleveland Cavaliers championship season with a 93-89 Game 7 triumph.
Russell was on the postgame platform Sunday night because the league named the NBA Finals MVP award after him, because he is regarded as the consummate winner with 11 titles in his 13 seasons.
With the outcome of Game 7 in doubt into the final minute, the official Finals MVP ballot had blank spaces for voters to choose one player if Cleveland won and another if Golden State won.
At work there is a preconceived notion that winning the series makes all the difference in deciding who is "most valuable."
There was a real possibility that James, so dominant in this series without a real leading Warri ...
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