Chris Bosh and LeBron James were both delivering during a road trip north of the border, but it's LeBron who gets the basketball-related headlines.
With Bosh out of the lineup to witness the birth of his third child, the Miami Heat needed the star forward to rise to the occasion and help take down the Toronto Raptors. And just as he's always done when the team needs something more out of him, LeBron delivered, this time with 35 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in the 104-95 victory.
Up to this point in the 2013-14, LeBron had been great. But he hadn't been LeBron James.
Entering the game against Toronto, the reigning MVP was sporting averages of 23.3 points, 5.0 rebounds, 8.0 assists and one steal per contest while shooting 55.7 percent from the field, 53.3 percent from downtown and 73.9 percent at the charity stripe. Impressive numbers, but hardly ones representative of the Herculean efforts we've witnessed in the past from James.
So much for that.
Knowing that his team needed something extra b ...
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Article written by Adam Fromal