Leah Still visits LeBron James and inspires motivation

Miami won its third consecutive game. However, James was simply unstoppable in the first three periods, and Irving more than picked up the slack in the fourth, dropping 19 in just those 12 minutes.

“He’s much more than an All-Star”, James said.

“He’s much better than an All-Star”, said James, who had 20 points and seven assists in 31 minutes.

Irving looked like an All-Star on Monday night, scoring 25 points, grabbing six rebounds and dishing out six assists in Cleveland’s 122-100 win over Toronto. “It’s only reasonable to expect that he’s going to go through a process and still have days when he’s better and days when he’s going to have some effect of the many months that he was out”. “Tonight it just looked like the old Kyrie”.

Kyrie Irving stepped into a 3-pointer from 30 feet away and sank it. Later, he spun past two defenders and Euro-stepped his way to the basket early in the fourth quarter.

His fourth-quarter performance certainly caught the attention of his teammates, who see how much Irving is improving in the weeks since he returned.

The first few games were just being able to solidify myself back in the league and being an elite athlete and get around guards.

“We stopped moving the ball”, coach Randy Wittman said after the Wizards fell to 5-14 when they fail to total 25 assists.

“From that point, we became good friends with Devon”. “Overall, not enough stops to win”.

LeBron James and company would blitz to an 18-point lead in the third quarter, but the Wizards weren’t fazed and found their offensive stride. The Wizards are hoping the two full days off between games will allow them to get one or two of their injured players back, with Gary Neal (back), DeJuan Blair (leg) and Drew Gooden (calf) the closest to returning. With an NBA Finals berth seeming like a foregone conclusion this season, Irving’s journey to becoming a superstar really might be the only thing fans have to be invested in during the regular season this year, and possibly for the next couple years. As good as the point guard is playing, Blatt continues to temper expectations. “That wasn’t an easy game”. “He wants to get back, but it’s just tough right now”.

First off, I think it’s important to note that from the tone, it seems pretty clear that this was a amusing, awkward gym-locker-room moment and not a creepy, after-school-special moment.

Typically, to get in the conversation, you don’t necessarily need to be the best player in the game, but the best player on a contender.

“He’s getting there”, Blatt said.

LeBron James scored 35 points, with Kyrie Irving adding 32, as the Cavaliers saw off a late fightback from the Wizards. Thompson proved an athletic big who can move his feet on the perimeter defensively, be an elite rebounder and make an open shot in the paint can make big money on the free agent market.

It was a weakened Portland side the Clippers beat after a clerical error cost the home team guard C.J McCollum, who was accidentally left off the team sheet.