LeBron had a field day last decade in the eastern conference

We will never see nothing like that ever again lol

makes sense since the thunder are led by the best player in the world for the last 2 years

And for the first time shai didn’t sleepwalk through the first series.

Well the Lakers and Bulls did it when the first round series was only best three out of five. So the Cavs and OKC are the only teams to do it when it was best 4 of 7 in the first round (since 2003).

Michael

as though Kareem was the better player, it could easily be argued that Magic was the leader of that team.

Kareem was the better player all time, arguably. But at this point, Magic was by far the best player on the team.

But it is also the Tragic Johnson era.

It’s the refs.

How many championships did LeBron and the Cavs win during that time?

It’s impressive but context matters a lot here. Those Lakers Bulls Cavs teams were finals or title locks. OKC keeps running through flawed lower seeds then running into a wall later.

If Shai really wants to sit at that table he’s gotta turn one of these into a finals run at least. Regularly smoking first round teams is cool but no one remembers those sweeps without banners.