{"id":64434,"date":"2018-04-30T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64434"},"modified":"2018-04-30T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:56:11","slug":"lebron-james-first-round-series-vs-pacers-one-best-nba-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/lebron-james-first-round-series-vs-pacers-one-best-nba-history.html","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James&#8217; first-round series vs. Pacers one of the best in NBA history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">LeBron James&#8217; first-round series vs. Pacers one of the best in NBA history<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The Cleveland Cavaliers&#8217; first-round series against the Indiana Pacers came down to a win-or-go-home Game 7, but when it was all said and done, LeBron James had completed one of the greatest playoff series performances in NBA history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Sunday&#8217;s outing \u2014 he finished with 45 points, nine rebounds, seven assists and four steals \u2014 was just the exclamation point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">But before we look ahead to Cleveland&#8217;s Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Toronto Raptors, let&#8217;s look back at these past seven games during which James&#8217; per-game averages of 34.4 points, 10.1 rebounds and 7.7 assists put him in a league of his own. As if he wasn&#8217;t already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">This was the fifth playoff series of James&#8217; career in which he averaged at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, something no player in NBA history has done more than once, according to NBA.com\/stats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">James scored 241 points in the first round \u2014 61 more than second-place Giannis Antetokounmpo. He also ranked second in the league in rebounds, second in assists and first in minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">After James&#8217; scoring total, Kevin Love ranked second on the Cavs with 80 points. James also led Cleveland with 54 assists; Jeff Green was second with 11. No other Cavalier scored more than 20 points or tallied more than five assists in any of the seven games against Indiana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">James ranked third in the league in first-round &#8220;clutch&#8221; points scored with 18 \u2014 three of which came on his game-winning, buzzer-beating jumper in Game 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">By picking off a pass in the second quarter of Game 7, James became the NBA&#8217;s all-time leader in postseason steals (396), passing Scottie Pippen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">His 45 points on Sunday were the second-most in a Game 7 win in playoff history, behind only Sam Jones (47 points in 1963), according to ESPN Stats and Info. Game 7 also marked James&#8217; 200th time scoring 20 or more points in a playoff game \u2014 the most of all-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">James now has a career first-round record of 13-0. He&#8217;s also 5-2 in Game 7s with five consecutive victories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/playoffs\/2018\/04\/29\/lebron-james-first-round-playoffs-pacers-nba-history\/563121002\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/lebron-james-first-round-series-vs-pacers-one-best-nba-history.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James&#8217; first-round series vs. Pacers one of the best in NBA history The Cleveland Cavaliers&#8217; first-round series against the Indiana Pacers came down to a win-or-go-home Game 7, but when it was all said and done, LeBron James had completed one of the greatest playoff series performances in NBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":64435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9324,134919,110916,1263,126582],"class_list":["post-64434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-latest-sports-news","tag-lebron-james-first-round-series-vs-pacers-one-of-the-best-in-nba-history","tag-sports-breaking-news","tag-sports-news","tag-usa-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}