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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 3550225, member: 1001"] LeBron's nine Finals trips are a weird thing to digest because the East was so bad for his entire tenure with CLE/MIA. I'm not sure who was the best team he beat in the East playoffs. I think it was the '14 Pacers. The '07 Pistons were declining but still tough. A couple of years back someone put together the data comparing MJ's Eastern Conf to LeBron's. The number of 50 wins teams each guy faced and beat, the overall winning % of the teams they beat, etc. and it showed how weak the East was for LeBron. On one hand, LeBron gets credit for dragging crappy teams to the Finals. On the other hand, in a normal, balanced East (which we haven't seen in over 20 years), most of those Cavs teams don't reach the Finals. This is why some MJ-haters knock the second three-peat because the East wasn't as strong but it was still a hell of a lot stronger than LeBron's era. The Pacers, Knicks, Heat, and Magic during the second three-peat were all tough. [/QUOTE]