As the Raptors and Cavaliers prepared for Tuesday’s Game 1 of their second-round playoff series at the Air Canada Centre, it was worth asking the question: What if LeBron James can do to the Raptors what he did to the Indiana Pacers?
Much has been made of James’s gargantuan first-round output, wherein he averaged 34 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in a seven-game epic against Indiana. And maybe the thing that stood out the most — beyond his 45 points in Game 7, the most in an NBA Game 7 since Boston’s Sam Jones scored 47 back in 1963 — was how James’s numbers dwarfed those of his next-best teammate.