is until you become it. lebron james winning a championship for the city of cleveland is maybe the greatest basketball story ever told. coming up the king versus the president. award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. but allstate actually helps you drive safely. with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast. .and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost.
believes the dots connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart. guys were doing what they were doing. but everyone was listening. on june 8th, 2016, in the all-important game three, the cavs clinched their first win in the best of seven series crushing the warriors. clayton recovers in the bay area with 32 from the king on their home court. but look. we are still down 2-1 so you re still stressed and all of a sudden craziness happens. in game four, the warriors won again taking a three games to one lead. the golden state warriors are one game away from winning a second straight nba championship. no team had ever come back from a 3-1 deficit. there was no room for error and you go against a great team. we knew our chances were slim. we were extremely focussed. even in the face of adversity. for the cavaliers, game five was do or die.
the villain. he changed his whole mind-set coming to the game of basketball. and it led to a dark place. it threw him off. it made him question himself. he didn t know who he was. despite james unease, the talent rich heat plowed the way into the nba finals. when miami got to the nba finals that year in 2011 they looked by far like the best team. after taking the first game in the best of seven series the heat players were confident the championship was theirs. dwyane wade makes a big three point e in the corp.er and poses as michael jordan did once and lebron is throwing shadow punches at dwyane wade. it kind of reminds you of that opening pep rally in miami where it was a premature celebration. after losing game two, the heat rallied to win game three but after that, lost three
miami heat in 2010 for a singular purpose. to win a nba championship. but after the heat s devastating loss in that season s finals, 26-year-old james did some off season soul searching. he removed himself from the world for weeks to try to process just what went down. i mean, he was the pressure cooker from the moment he sat down from the decision to the moment he lost the finals. you can t live your life on someone else s path. he made some new decisions. not just about basketball, but about family. his high school sweetheart savannah and their two young boys. daddy! when lebron moved to miami, savannah did not come with him and did not bring the boys and he realized he needed to have his family with him full-time so he went to savannah and he said i want you to move to miami so by new year s eve second season
that block like, wait. we have a chance. a minute later, kyrie irving hit a crucial three pointer and with ten seconds left, a james free throw sealed the championship. i can t recall a better nba finals than that one. the block became a defining block of the series. for the rest of his life whenever they show a highlight reel of lebron that will be the ultimate moment. it is not a shot. it is not a pass. it shows how complete of a player he is. it had been 52 years since cleveland had won a major sports championship. cavaliers players could barely contain their emotions. all of a sudden he crumbles. he just starts crying. it is like a guy searching for home and he found it. he is a different person than the guy we met as a 18-year-old which is what we all want to be. you don t know who that person