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Shane Battier: Final score? 98 to 79. LeBron, for the record—do you remember his stat line? Forty-five minutes, 45 points. Nineteen of 26. Yeah. Nineteen of 26! Ridiculous. Also, by the way, 15 rebounds. Threw in five assists—casually. I mean, it was the greatest game I’ve ever seen anybody play. It’s a hard argument to beat. Given the stakes, the gravity of the situation, the historical implications… We’re going to be arguing Jordan versus LeBron forever. And this game is the reason why that argument is even plausible. I’m always going with LeBron—for a simple reason.” Pablo Torre “Is it because you scored eight points that game?” Shane Battier “LeBron did something twice that Jordan, I don’t think, could have done once. He won two NBA titles with Shane Battier as his starting power forward. No way—no way—Jordan could have done that. As great as
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