NBA Finals: 2015 Edition.

I love sports, I really do. They helped me get through some tough times and some of my closest friends came about through playing sports (hey Josh!). I watch sports all the time. The first thing I check every morning is the scores and stats. Any kind of sports from Basketball and Football (REAL FOOTBALL NOT THAT SISSY ASS SOCCER CRAP), to tennis and even golf if I'm depressed. Sports are very important to me, and they play a big role in a lot of peoples lives. Look at LeBron's decision to leave Cleveland in 2010. The sheer hatred of the Cleveland Cavaliers fans towards arguably the greatest player of all time shows how much sports matter. So much passion is exuded in these simple games and cities are very dependent on the success of these teams. Sports matter, and while you may not like it, I love every second of it. So now that I'm done with justifying why I love sports and why all my posts are going to be about it, lets actually talk about sports.

The 2015 NBA Finals are one of the more compelling finals in recent memory. I may be late hopping onto the gravy train, but it still has to be said. LeBron's feel good, coming home story and maybe, just maybe being able to bring Cleveland something versus Stephen Curry's MVP season and his push to be considered the greatest shooter ever, while trying to bring success back to The Bay Area in 40 some years. That's just one story line out of so many. One is LeBron James trying to prove that he deserved MVP. Another is LeBron James putting an entire team on his back, and carrying them it to other worldly heights. Its not all about LeBron though. Game in and game out, Stephen Curry and Clay Thompson are proving that they deserve to be in the conversation of greatest backourts in league history. Curry proving he deserved that MVP trophy.

As the series is now Golden State 3 Games to Cleveland's 2 Games, the biggest story line is becoming more and more apparent. LeBron is having little help, while Curry is having tons of help That is the reality of these finals. LeBron is putting up god-like numbers (36.6 ppg, 12.4 rpg, and 8.8 apg), while playing an average of 45.5 mins out of 48 mins. He is the the Cleveland Cavaliers entire team. Anytime he comes out of the game, the Cavaliers fall apart into the mess of role players they really are. J.R Smith is out hucking 3's like he's Curry, Shumpert is letting his hair think for him and Delladova is just being Deli.

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It's sad because LeBron will get all the hate from people for losing this series. They will say he's chocked away any chance of being on the level of MJ: Our Hero. Nevermind that he is without his 2nd and 3rd best players on the team, or that Golden State is as healthy as a team can possibly be in the NBA Finals. Golden State has had everything favor them this series. Home Court advantage, a better PG, better SG, better PF, better Coach. And yet they barely hold a 3-2 series lead, where one made shot could easily have reversed the situations. Odds are LeBron and Co. are going to lose this series. We shouldn't put the blame on LeBron at all though. Take away LeBron from Cleveland and you get 4 straight years in the lottery. He is in the midst of arguably the greatest finals performance of all time, and while his team may be down it's not his fault. Everything Cleveland does, LeBron is at the root of it.

So this post swiftly turned from about the Finals as a whole, to a defense of the greatest player in the world and his many critics. Thats fine. He's carrying a sorry ass team to the peak of basketball, and people are saying hes not doing enough, or complaining about he's going about it.  He should be praised for the work he's doing, even if team success isn't following suit. One man can only do so much, before others must step up and help. And right now, no one is helping LeBron out at all.