For two reasons:Reading crunchtime is more complicated than a missed (or made) game-winner It shortchanges how brilliant he is the NBA Live Mobile Coins other 95 percent of the time. But the five percent is such an integral part of LeBron's career so far that glossing over it shortchanges the meaning of the other 95. On Wednesday night and for the past few years--a fluke isn't a fluke if it happens over and over again.

 

It's not like the Clips game turned on one missed jumper, or one flubbed free throw. It was an entire offense grinding to  Cheap MU Legend Zen a halt for a quarter's worth of crunch time basketball, with LeBron leading the way to nowhere.Sure, great players can fail. Kobe Bryant--the yin to LeBron's crunch time yang--missed a game-winner Wednesday night, and Dwyane Wade was as invisible as James on offense (albeit with one spectacular play to keep the Heat hopes alive).

 

Before he wandered around the Austrailian outback and learned how to let go, Dirk Nowitzki was deemed a failure. His team's barely above .500 this year. But not one of those guys is the most talented player on earth.That's LeBron's spot now and for the foreseeable future. And as long as he bears that burden without a title next to his name, watching

 

 LeBron will be less about the gap between he and the greatest players of all time than the real or imagined gulf between "most talented" and "best."Embrace it. This makes him more fascinating than any "best player" the NBA's ever seen. But it also makes you wonder: Wouldn't Miami have been better off with Chris Paul on  https://www.mmogo.com/


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