Lebron James 45 Pts vs Celtics ECSF 2008 GAME 7 HD 

In LeBron's 3 wins against the 2008 Celtics he had 24.7 ppg 7.7 rpg 9.0 apg on 35.6% and 4.7 TOpg, very sub-par for his standards. LeBron shot under 40% in all 3 of the Cavalier wins. For the series, LeBron's teammates shot 149/344 (43.3%) whereas LeBron shot 55/155 (35.5%). LeBron had more than enough help to get the job done in this series, especially with the Celtics scoring under 100 in all 7 games (84 ppg for the series) after averaging 100 for the season, but still failed.

+Anon Ymous numbers can be very misleading. take into account how many of his teammates fgs were assisted on? how many were because of doubles on lebron? actually watching the games proved lebron didn't have enough help because the Celtics were able to clamp on lebron with multiple defenders and no one took the pressure off lebron

+Anon Ymous LOL spoken like someone who has no knowledge behind the game of basketball and just looks at stats. I really hope you are young or else you are just embarrassing yourself.

+Anon Ymous LeBron averaged 9 apg. Now lets apply that math. 9 x 7 = 63. 149 - 63 = 86. LeBron's teammates shot 86/344 (25%) without LeBron assisting them...Sounds like the help you need to win to me.

Les .Desperado thanks for this. some people are just to stupid to realize things.

You gotta feel for the guy

Batman Wayne #FAX If he had like another superstar that can either be a center or SG. If it's a SG superstar or even an off ball PG. If it was a guard then he can drive and kick a lot to them and they can help a lot in the clutch. And if it's a superstar center(maybe Dwight) then he can set picks and go for lone and play that D. Dwight back then would've fit perfectly with Lebron. Lebron could've easily averaged a triple double in Cleveland if he had teammates that can score more. Mo Williams was a nice like 78 OVR and Varejao was a nice 77 for that team lol. Lebron was a nice 99

Batman Wayne nah I don't feel for the most popular athlete in the world.haha

duckeradin13 most scrutinized athlete in the world also

weewee203ohSpecz nobody wanted to come to Cleveland. When I was younger I remember carlos boozer was supposed to come but he didn't because of his stupid wife. He didn't go to the playoffs instead lebron does and if he helped lebron they would have went to the finals this year

MJ fans would just see this comments and scrolled down.. they don't want to stop and think.. scared to debate about this..

doctordrizzay i wouldn't say it will never be done again.

Give Kyrie credit for that comeback tho, him and Bron were both playing some of the best basketball I've ever seen

So we gonna ignore that in 10-11 the Cavs fired Mike Brown the guy responsible for the Cavs becoming a great defense? We gonna ignore the Cavs lost other contributors like their 4th leading scorer in Shaq? Mo Williams got hurt and traded? Antwan Jamison got hurt & missed game's? Delonte West who was a decent role player left. Big Z their backup center also left. Baron Davis who they got from the Mo Williams trade got hurt. Anderson Varejao got hurt and missed game's. Crazy how LeBron fan's never bring this up. The Cavs were injured and went into rebuild mode. The Bulls without Jordan in 93-94 were 3x champion's and only lost Jordan. They went from champions to losing in the 2nd round. To barely being in playoff contention the very next year.

_ Z0TV well how do you explain this year then? Remember how they said they were gonna try to compete, keep around the vets and make a playoff run? Yeah, they are currently in the top 3 of worst teams in the league

People hate to admit it and at the age of 35 still leading his teams

@T Hunter leading his teams in cupcake era...

At 35 he is still young.

@@TheTaekwon3 and what's funny is people make so many excuses for LeBron. He's tom brady of basket ball. He's one of the greats did a lot with nothing and people still hate on him.

willie broadnex yep still plays like he’s 23

Sekou Murrell haha even the announcer said hes team couldnt make a shot so lebron have to shoot up more hahahaha.... lmao so embrassing all those bums were never seen before hahhha west,ilgauskas lmao no hel at D and offense

Sekou Murrell 😂😂

Sekou Murrell until now still trash

This comment is gold

Lmao

There’s gonna some real tears for sure

Thats crazy, to think about that

Facts I been a Bron since I was like 6 lol

+Marc Saenz Yes

+MIvarsson99 Jesus you've gotta be kidding

Jesus Christ 35ppg in elimination games

Bronx B "Stacked Lakers" Two all stars vs. the Celtic's 4. Stop it.

Anthony Thomas bruh that lakers team was fucking cold you tripping all stars or not the lakers were by far better than than Boston

Yup

GunR just like when Jordan lost to bird and stacked Celtics and he dropped like 60 and lost

Jon moonie Jordan dickriders bringing up Jordan for no reason again. The Bulls actually had a functioning front office and responded by getting Jordan hall of fame help and a hall of fame coach. The cavs responded by getting crusty old Shaq and keeping Mike Brown.

Donald Sanders #FreeLiangelo when Jordan got to the Bulls they had a shitty front office and lucked out with Scottie and Phil Jackson

X02Overdose you can’t win 6 championships in 8 years with a shitty front office

Did you watch this whole game because he had some key turnovers at the end.

+Matthew Tuccaro I know for a fact you didn’t just say that the 2007 cavs roster carried LeBron.

@Matthew Tuccaro He had a terrible FG% because he had to take shot after shot. Why? Cause his teammates were bums. How does he get carried offensively when no one else on his team even put up more than 12 PPG? He also had the most steals and blocks than both teams, so he was contributing on the defensive end too. You sound like another idiot Bron hater.

Matthew Tuccaro at least he got them to a close game seven and not blown out by 42 in game 6 like Kobe 😂😂😂😂

@Matthew Tuccaro Also, for the first 2 rounds, the Celtics couldn't buy a road win. They also got taken to 7 games in the 1st by the 8-seeded Hawks.

his athleticism and explosiveness was insane

@@Nicolas815 It was, but not as quick as Derrick Rose

It’s because they took the L this game unfortunately

@@kash1586 true

or rather the Celtics were too good

It was too late then

+zerogeass21 he don't have help

He did what he could, the Celtics just had a better team. They even beat the Lakers and MVP Kobe who did kinda choke against Boston.

sonofaballer96 Kobes 2008 performance was a bigger choke job then lebron in 2011. fucking got blown out by 40pts in an elimination game 6 lmao lebron would never let that happen. His the GOAT in elimination games.

I think it was 2010 when Dan Gilbert said that

the celtics were playing down to their competition that year, the hawks took them 7 also lol

+realitities2 boston with three hall of famers, Cavs second best player? Delonte West, average NBA starter, nothing more.

Simon Kleinschmidt im a celtics fan and i can never understand the lebron disrespect after some of the things lebron has done against boston

Rondo wasn't really an allstar yet, but he was a pretty good point guard. But I see your point.

+Simon Kleinschmidt second best player was mo Williams

Lebron then Jordan

@@willfrazier8485 nope MJ still goat though

DeGenz lol c'mon bro, 2008 cavs were no top 2 defense

AVC 623 top 2 defense lol no.. this game proves it it as celtics making ez shots and lebron carrying on the other end every possesion ive watch in live on tv.. haha every posession is around lebron cause they had nothing hahahhaha

The Cavs really overachieved in this series. This '08 Celtics team was definitely better than the '07 Pistons team that LeBron and the Cavs beat to get the Finals. The Cs just had a bit too much for LeBron this time. I liked the way the Cavs competed this series as the underdog much better than the way they seemed to lay down against Boston in '10 when Cleveland was the #1 seed.

whats crazy was that this was an ugly low scoring defensive battle but lebron still dropped 45 here my god. Lebron = the goat of elimination games

DeGenz Its 2000s Most of teams barely scored 100pts. Youre lucky if you score 90. Boston was one of the best defensive teams that time with DPOY garnet. Lebron take it to 7 games. But stacked lakers take it to 6 games.

Waaaay different percentages dude... 45 is not just 45. Its a matter of effectivity. Now its understandable that he shot low % as a one man cleveland team but it still makes a big difference on the result of the game.

Because he actually had a team around him with Miami.

Jose Rivero His Miami team in 2012 was great because of Wade and Bosh. Bosh stretched the floor and hit threes while Wade basically just followed Lebron and tore open their D.

sonofaballer96 What’s your point? LeBron’s (key word) LeBron’s team is better when he has (key word) all stars to spread the floor.

nineseven y’all overrate the hell out that “ all star” bull shit

MJ put up better numbers against a better Celtics team at the same age.

​@@Mikeaj-un6mf MJ still got swept hard and he only was able to score 63 points because of refs giving him phantom fouls and overtime. MJ only scored 63 points during game 2 because that Celtics team played _horrible_ defense that game. Once the Celtics fully adjusted and started using actual defense, they put MJ on a chokehold with double-triple teams and restricted MJ to only 17 points... Meanwhile LBJ forced this Celtics Superteam to Game 7 with an underwhelming roster...

@@TiagoGomez-hb9te MJ still averaged over 40 points for the entire series, against the same team who won 3 titles in 5 years, LeBron was mediocre in this series all the way up until game 7.

@@Mikeaj-un6mf Don't pretend as if this Celtics Team wasn't a Superteam with an all-time great defense. MJ can still score all he wants like Kobe, but he's still going to lose the game. What matters most in basketball are winning games, not points. MJ couldn't win a single game against the Celtics, while LBJ forced a game 7 against the Celtics in the *Easter Conference Finals.*

Wow, your reading comprehension is atrocious...

+Marc Saenz there are 100 better ways to say that the cavs did not have a good supporting cast. You are talking about a lineup that just had people subbed in players with minimal points, like Wally s. Just mentioning that Wally was on the team would have been good enough, instead, some obscure reference about the lineup on the floor at a certain point in the game

+Marc Saenz actually you weren't right. The original comment said "double the points of the rest of the team combined" and you tried to change it to "lineup" to cover yourself. It's an obscure reference, it's easier to just say "Lebron scored nearly half of the team's points" instead of "double the lineup at one point in the game after substitutions."

Guys no need to get all crazy over a comment I myself made.

+Marc Saenz you are obsessed with trying to recover. You backed a comment that was wrong, which used the word "team." Let's just move on, technicalities.

actually the lakers brought kobe for shaq, seriously how old are you?? LOL

My name's stephen and i love blowing 3-1 leads same with kobe kobe should have more rings if fucking jerry west gave him more good players.... lebron and kobe played with gibson as a pg, smush parker as pg hahhaa trash

Luckymag 2016 Kobe was drafted as a Laker while Shaq was already dominating in Orlando. You're welcome

Scottie came along after 6 years of MJ having nobody, only difference is MJ didn't leave like a bitch..

Jesus Christ Cavs were never gonna draft him a Scottie pippen

Cavs defence = ISO, Celtics defence = LeBron James

Nah. He flopper. He won’t survive in tough 80s and 90s era.

@@batman9418 Bron was drafted in 2003. A few years removed from the 90s LOL

@@batman9418most overrated eras ever

I don't like Cleveland but those jerseys were bomb af lol

X02Overdose your right

Those looked sick. The cavs jersey now are kinda ugly

+John Lewis n yellow

Glad someone else saw that. I wish they would have kept them. Don't fix somthing that's not broken

Pierce still had 43

​@@albertdaley9093and LeBron had 45.

@@Wyndamn and lost

Crazy shit man. Been watching him since I was 8 and now I am 25. Still amazed

anima099 It wasn't hard to me tbh. Because He was so much fun to watch back then and I understood why he didn't win. Now he's wiser but definitely has lost a lot of explosiveness/athleticism. Less fun to watch but better end results (rings)

Yeah and always get called a crownless king... We felt that but the moment he starts winning they hatng again for having a great teammates hahahaha

The Orlando series was depressing but after this game i wasn't even mad he put in work regardless of the outcome

it was amazing 🤣

it was fun watching lebron just be happy without a care in the world and dominate while getting better every year, sucks social media grew in his era (youtube 07, twitter 08, vine ?, instagram 12) and the beginnings of stephen a/skip would put all of their attention towards the king even at a young age which is crazy to even think about still this day. the funny courtside/pregame antics and the chemistry really helped this team through out those years. seeing him win championships puts a smile on my face, i couldnt ask for anything more, he is the chosen one, he is the king, he is the goat and this years championship will prove it when he once again, back to back wins the chip, fmvp, 5 x nba champ OL GOAT JAMES.

I was LITERALLY thinking this in my head while watching the video lol. James gave Pierce that work as a 23 year old

How much did pierce score and how well did lebron guard pierce =

Technically, Pierce and Lebron is rivalry because of how many times they face in the playoffs so... People said Kobe is Lebron's Rival but nope it's Pierce because of how many times they face each other in the playoffs

+rod2467 Pierce and the celtics beat lebron in 2008 and 2010. then lebron beat them in 2011 and 2012 so they had battles bro

And in 2013 when pierce went to nets

Samuel Parker yes almost, true great player

Samuel Parker lebron> better than all celtics

Facts

Lebron is one of only 5 players who at the age of 23 was the best player on the floor against a championship team.

Before game 7 he avg 23 points on 33% shooting... harden averages more points than that on a higher percentage vs Golden state year after year(who are light years better than the Celtics) yet harden is deemed “choker” and LeBron is praised for “almost beating them” ............. wow

45 pts on 73% fg 2012 game 6 ecf vs boston at the garden facing elimination 3-2, that's his greatest game ever

Holy shit

Zip lol

Imagine if the NBA let him join the NBA draft in 2002 when he tried to do that....

did he win MVP? No but D Rose did at 22

Tyler McGee Did he reach the finals? No

Ameen Moqbel well too bad so sad. you don't know what Jordan could have done. it doesn't work that way you can't flip flop players

duckeradin13 My point is Lebron makes players around him better, whereas Jordan doesn't. Lebron is a modern day Magic Johnson but with a better offensive game. People forget when Jordan retired the Bulls still won 55 games with Pippen as their leader and went deep in the playoffs. Just saying

Facts

duckeradin13 Jordan didn't pass the first round til pip came. He wasn't making it to the ecf with those bum teams before pip Kerr rodman

duckeradin13 The 2009-2010 season with Lebron, the Cavs went 61-21 and had the best record in the East. The season right after Lebron left for Miami (2010-11 season ) , the Cavs went 19-63 and were the 15th seed in the east. The 1992-93 season, the Bulls with Jordan won 57 games ( they did three peat), the 1993-94 season without Jordan, the Bulls won 55 games and took the Knicks to 7 games in the Eastern conference Semi-Finals... you tell me who had a better team and who meant more to a franchise.

Kobe and MJ wouldn't carry this Cavs to finals.

@@HamoodiClash Difference between them is LeBron plays like a team, while the so called killer instincts excel at 1v1s

​@@KacciVAL yall love shitting on jordan. But that celtics team was basically like the GSW with KD at the time.

Kobe beat the Celtcs before goofy

@@HamoodiClash wipe nut off ur mouth stop the cap

Not close to the 04 Pistons fr

Bro would average 44 points a game especially no one plays defense anymore

And he was 23

Insane, and for how many years he begged to get some help. They gave him Jamison, Wallace and Squad on their last leg smhhhh

@Dats a paddlin yeah he bugging but this comment was 2 years ago

Miami was his prime

@@yungelplaga9538 nigga whole career is his prime. Been playing mvp caliber since his 2nd year

his iq is way much higher today

Lebron is more athletic than Westbrook too

Notice no flop then

I know lebron really had no choice but to leave

+alfonso White lebron haters: "He should've stuck it out", "he just admitted to being not one of the greatest by leaving to join the heat" lol I knew lebron was never going to be cut slack when people said "he had shaq" lmfao

In LeBron's 3 wins against the 2008 Celtics he had 24.7 ppg 7.7 rpg 9.0 apg on 35.6% and 4.7 TOpg, very sub-par for his standards. LeBron shot under 40% in all 3 of the Cavalier wins. For the series, LeBron's teammates shot 149/344 (43.3%) whereas LeBron shot 55/155 (35.5%). LeBron had more than enough help to get the job done in this series, especially with the Celtics scoring under 100 in all 7 games (84 ppg for the series) after averaging 100 for the season, but still failed.

First of all, LeBron was 23 years old in 2008 and had been in the league for 5 years. Which player drafted in 2010 would be able to beat the 2008 Celtics five years into the league and without a talented team? Heck, even Durant/Westbrook/Ibaka today wouldn't be able to beat that 2008 Celtics squad, and they are in their primes and have been playing together since they started. Second, the entire series was defense-oriented. Five out of the seven games, the Celtics shot 42% or less, and that's a team with three all-stars. The Cavs had LBJ. No one said the series would come down to Delonte West or Wally Szczerbiak. While 35.5% for 26.7/7.6/6.4 isn't great, if you consider PP shot 40% and Ray Allen shot 33%, it isn't disastrous either. Again, list the top players from the best teams in 2008, including the Cavaliers. Which team would trade their second or third option for the guys on the Cavaliers? This is not very hard to do. Unless you're saying that LBJ doesn't need good teammates because he almost won without good teammates. Is that the argument you're making?

you are going off of name value and not production. production wise LeBron had enough help to win the series from his team as a whole, the sum being greater than the individual parts as single pieces dont always define a supporting cast he even shot under 40% in all 3 of the Cavs wins. this notion that he had absolutely no help and carried the team by himself against the Celtics is false. even in Game 1 Lebron shot 2/18 with 10 turnovers and still had a chance to send it to OT but missed the game-tying shot. that would not be possible if he didnt have help from the team as a collective unit Ben Wallace was also huge off the bench on defense in the series, especially his defense in Game 7 which is on youtube and was a big reason they stayed in the series. 35.5% with 5+ TOpg is definitely disastrous, as is Ray Allen and Pierce's prodcuton going agaisnt the Cavs defense which kept LeBron in the series many people would have been able to beat the Celtics in those shoes, especially considering the Celtics went 7 games with a 37-win Hawks team in the previous round and LeBron only beat one 50-win team in his entire first run in Cleveland, the 2007 Pistons with no 4x DPOY Ben Wallace and no Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown. Every other team he beat had under 50 wins so LeBron never beat an elite playoff team with his first Cleveland team, making his supposed ability to carry Cleveland a false perception, as he only beat weak playoff teams with them and lost to all the elite playoff teams he played. the best team he beat pre-Miami was a washed up Pistons team without 2 of their key pieces

Watching the 2007 Finals was crazier. Prime Spurs dedicating 2 or 3 of the best defenders in the league to be on a 22 yo Lebron. He's been the most feared player in the league for a LONG time. No matter what Steph or KD think of themselves, Lebron is just that dude.

@@geordiejones5618 always has been, always will be. 17 years later still the best in the world.

@@geordiejones5618 it’s not about about what kd or steph think of themselves , it what nba coaches who game-plans against them thinks.

@@jawick5150 they put draymond on lebron, the dpoy and lebron dropped 41 on him

Casey Baker I doubt it his teammates sucked ass

@@tylerangel4073 nah LeBron turned into LeGM. That's why he has 3 rings

I bet if Mike had to play with marbles he would have retired 5 times

@@yeatdagoat173 and Mike had a dream team that's why he won he had help all around him to beat Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp... bron would have swept those dudes by himself

And wats that not having a fourth quarter

Lebron shot 35% FG and 21% 3pt

@@NothingElseMattersJM 21% from 3 in 2008? Pretty standard, 3s weren't as important as they are today.

@@NothingElseMattersJM James was getting doubled and tripled teamed constantly.

LeBron 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

This was actually around the time I started watching basketeball

+Ledong Zeng Bron better than kobe since 07

+Danilo Gallinari Kobe is still a Legend.

Omg Kobe 5/7 finals and Lebron 2/6

***** yeah because they're the only players on the team

+Not Your Average Citizens omg brons career aint over

Me

Bro pierce straight up dropped 41 on lebron here too

Paul had a super team that year

Joe Vaughn I don’t know if you were alive or watching basketball but I watched every lebron game live and I remember this game Paul went off picks the whole game cause lebron was on his ass the whole game I’ll say he gave bron like 20 points out of that 41 other than that lebron defensively was locked in

@@lilcobe829 Pierce also dropped 50 on lebron in 06. LeBron had 43.

Dan cause LeBron was very young lol and crazy he dropped 43 points

HHGB - DeGenz who won the series doe?

Same

Kap

Lebron shot terrible this series

@@NothingElseMattersJM nah. They win on a GAME 7 where Bron scored 45, 97 to 92. And he proudly saying the three of them broke him.

They dont want to hear it bro.

LBJ's that crazy

Easy chip

Lebron shot 35% FG against the Celtics lol

@@NothingElseMattersJM So was Kobe.

franchisejr15 it changed again after 2009 too thats when he got like a tank

Ped's

Daniel Flores naw

AVC 623 Lmfao yes man whether you believe it or not

Daniel Flores its not that i dont believe it. Its just not true at all lol

there 2007 team was worse

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Connor Mcgregor amazing right?

i know where that reference comes from. that dunk was pretty nasty

I thought he was 6’9 250?

@@NothingElseMattersJM So? Rules are rules.

He had Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and lost to Dirk