LeBron's 8 Straight Finals: More Impressive Than You Remember

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Bron really made going to the finals look so easy even though its not

To even make 1 finals is hard. But to make 8 straight is beyond impressive. And each run had it’s own set of adversity. LeBron’s run to 8 straight was insane.

2018 did a lot for his legacy imo. Especially when you consider the mid season nuke

This video was needed. Nobody remembers Bosh getting hurt in the playoffs in 2012. Nobody remembers kyrie limping through the 2015 playoffs. Nobody remembers 50/50 games, moments coming down to the wire yet somehow LeBron's team ends up on top. Nobody remembers LeBron going beast mode in deciding games where its do or die. You can talk about the competition all you'd like, but don't leave out the rest of the important details.

as a boston fan seeing him go against paul garnett and allen to smart tatum and brown was insane in real time

I truly believe there will be no other NBA player to accomplish a feat like that You can say what you want about competition and what not but making the Finals 8 straight seasons and being healthy for all seasons, that is unheard of in sports

Even crazier that the only time he missed not rest related, was like two weeks his first year back in Cleveland for the back issues.

The Warriors and Heat have been in the Finals 12 out of the last 13 times and have somehow never played each other. LeBron played in 10 of those and played against both teams.

I doubt we'll ever see another player do this again.

That 2018 pacers series was so dire at one point people forget. And most people has the cavs losing to the Celtics coming into that series. And let’s not forget the raptors were considered one of the best TEAMS in the league, not just eastern conference.

Great piece. One added note on LeBron's "stacked" teams. Play-by-play data tells us that Bron's teams, when he wasn't on the floor those eight seasons, scored 17,310 points and gave up 18,040 points to their opponents, which translates to a 29-win team (in an 82-game season). I wouldn't call that stacked. Yes he played with some all-stars, but in the Cleveland years, when Kyrie was on the floor and Bron sat, the Cavs were just as bad as before LeBron came back to Cleveland. (In the minutes with Kyrie on the floor but not Bron, the Cavs were equivalent to a 35-win team.) And even in Miami, the Heat when Wade and Bosh were on the floor without Bron were only an even-up team (points and points allowed about even), while Bron with either of the other stars had success equivalent to a 64-win team; with all three stars the Heat were equivalent to a 70-win team. You could argue that some of this is LeBron's fault: always wanting to play with other star players, he was on a lot of top-heavy teams that didn't have enough rebounding, enough this or that--they were thin. But whereas Bron in those years was always successful in any configuration (in Miami, when Bron played without either Wade OR Bosh, the Heat were STILL equivalent to a 52-win team), the other stars could never carry those thin teams when Bron sat.

9 Finals in 10 years the modern era will never see anything like this again. 🐐

The fact that some people try to knock this accomplishment by saying he didn’t win them all is unbelievable. Goes to show how little people know about basketball.

I think another impressive aspect of all his Finals runs, is the lack of consistency of roster. Obviously, Dom talked about the impact of injury, but he was also doing this with a variety of rosters; no two years the same

LeBron made it to the finals so many times in a row people started thinking it was easy to get there. Here we are having different teams and different set of players in the finals since then. That's sooo wild.

It’s the greatest streak since them 60s Celtics!! I don’t think it’ll be matched!!

It’s insane to see just how much he really is hated, like you don’t have to be a fan and have him as your GOAT but he’s literally the greatest basketball player ever topped only by MJ, his resume and accolades are stacked, he’s a athletic anomaly in our sport, any all time stats list and there’s a 90% chance he’s on that list, you can’t even just use the “longevity” excuse when players who’ve played as long as he has or longer still don’t measure up to the stats he’s put up, he’s had the longest prime of any NBA player bar none. He had an unprecedented amount of hype as a kid and somehow even then still blew the expectations out of the water, he’s clearly suffered from his own success back in his prime where’d he’d take rosters way past their limits like the 07 Cavs who had no business going into the finals, or the 2018 Cavs when everyone counted them out, he’s had his moments of failure like 2011 but like I said you don’t need to be a fan but you have to pay respect where respect is due and he’s more than earned it

2012: bosh hurt in playoffs , bron legacy game , okc stacked team and boston stacked team 2013 : wade and bosh injuries + slowdown and non-star performances , bron 16 point 4th quarter that led to the allen shot that led to a win against one of the best teams of all time. 2014: bosh and wade way out of prime made it to the finals to face one of the best finals teams of all time 2015: one of the iconics , buzzer beater to avoid 3-1 vs bulls , love injured , kai injured , avg 36 13 9 on a very skilled and 3rd best defense warriors who were a way better team 2016 : thankfully y’all remember about this but not many acknowledge how impossible it is to score 41 in two straight games averaging a triple with it being down 3-1 to tie it 3-3 and then have the greatest defensive play of all time and win it all vs a 73-9 warriors top 5 teams of all time and people seam to forget they had top 3 if not 1 defense in the league . 2017: no need to explain this kd + 73-9 is enough literally unbeatable, and bron averaged 32/10/11 that series 2018: probably the goat playoff run , 2 buzzer beaters , 7 40 point game , a finished kevin love 2nd best scorer and player on that sorry ass team , swept a really great Toronto team gave boston hell scary performances and had 51/8/8 vs warriors and still wasn’t enough shows how good they were 2019: before injury lal were 3 seed bron was leading mvp race still aging matters 2020: avg 29/10/8 on a playoff run on 52+ % shooting and being the best player in the world with likes of giannis,joker,embiid,curry,durant,harden should be at their prime while bron at 35 showed the world that he is the best in the world at 35 > than all those players in their prime 2021: yes he was leading mvp race before injury but after than injury bron was definitely not even 50% still took finalists suns to 6 with a traded roster 2022: we all witnessed that shit man it was special , could have had that scoring title if he wanted to … 2023: incredible at this age and damn closing out 40/10/9 at the best team in the nba with an injury shows that

Never took this man for granted 👑