He’s 32 years old now, but LeBron James continues to be the arbiter of other teams’ demise in the Eastern Conference. The line of groups who have grown up and groomed themselves for success against LeBron is now ten years deep. There’s the Tom Thibodeau and Derrick Rose Bulls teams, the first iteration of Lance Stephenson in Indiana, and the 60-win Atlanta Hawks. All have ran into that human buzzsaw, the greatest to suit it up since MJ.
Now, it’s the Toronto Raptors stepping up to the plate.