The first Saturday night ABC game of the season is a doozy. It pits Kawhi Leonard, averaging 33.4 points and 63.6 percent shooting in his past five games, against LeBron James, this generation’s best basketball player by a mile.
Oh yeah, there’s also LaMarcus Aldridge, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love involved in the basketball game. And Gregg Popovich, who LeBron called the “best coach of all-time” Thursday night.
This has all the makings of a Finals preview, if the basketball team that blew a 3-1 lead in the Finals last year somehow fails to meet its lofty expectations.