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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2687220, member: 488"] LeBron dragged a nothing team playing without their second best player for a large chunk of time to 50 wins. He posted 31/10/10 on 54/39/72 shooting splits over the last 25 games or so while leading the league in minutes, propping up a putrid second unit, and destroying crunch-time to the point that they over-performed their expected wins by a bunch. Replace him with a mortal superstar like, say, Westbrook, and they're fighting to get in. The Warriors on the other hand are so good without Durant that you have columns out there defending the idea that they miss him at all (the idea that they are as good without him is obviously dumb, but you get the sense that the Cavs would completely implode without LeBron - put LeBron with Steph, Klay, and Draymond and somebody might die). Durant did outplay LeBron in the finals last year, but Durant really, really had things made for him there. LeBron put up 34, 12, and 10 on 56% from the floor and 39% from three against one of the best, most versatile defenses ever. Now that I think of it maybe Durant didn't outplay him. [/QUOTE]