This series was supposed to be over. The second it was announced that Kyrie Irving would miss the remainder of the N.B.A. finals with a broken kneecap, the sporting world appeared to agree that the already-favored Golden State Warriors had been handed the team’s first championship since 1975.
Two games later, the Cleveland Cavaliers are up, two games to one, and seemingly have the momentum. The same people who wrote the team off are now wondering how they could have been so wrong.
The easy answer is that LeBron James, despite all of his accolades, was once again underestimated.