DibsOnThatBooty | Cavaliers

43 | 4 hours ago

I cried at a bar on the north side of Columbus, Ohio when Kyrie hit that shot. It’s a core sports memory for me and my friends that were with me that night. I’ll always love this team.

LVRaiders2026

22 | 4 hours ago

Warriors fan here, I cried too

Swimmingpuzzled5200 | Knicks

3 | 3 hours ago

its cool to hear and see when sports affects people that much. I cried when the Knicks won and a lot of the people i was around didn’t understand the feeling

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

2 | 3 hours ago

Hard to hate this Knicks team, great group of guys.

Former_Island_4730 | Cavaliers

3 | 2 hours ago

I drove a couple hours to watch with my Dad…people sometimes forget this was on Father’s Day, which made it extra special for lifelong Cleveland sports sufferers. My dad was in his late 50’s in 2016 and was 6 the last time a Cleveland sports team had won a championship. One of the few times I’ve ever seen him cry.

One of the best few days of my life.

99GSRex

22 | 4 hours ago

Crazy how one game can freeze an entire era in people’s memories. The emotions from that night still feel fresh.

matlockga | CLE

6 | 4 hours ago

There’s a play called King James that covers two Cavs fans in 2003, 2011, 2014, and 2016. That 2016 bit hits every time.

99GSRex

4 | 4 hours ago

2016 really felt like the payoff to an entire generation of Cavs fans. Stuff like that is why sports hit so hard.

matlockga | CLE

2 | 4 hours ago

I had a Hot Rod Williams life size poster from Pizza Hut on my bedroom door when I was a kid. So I fully agree.

Tocoolforyall720 | Knicks

23 | 4 hours ago

A triple double in Game 7 of the finals. Probably the greatest performance in nba history

MoneyHungryOctopus | Spurs

-21 | 4 hours ago

It’s subjectively very impressive (that’s no disrespect to LeBron; only reason I’m not saying “objectively” is because that would be a blatant misuse of the word as things like this and how great they are are inherently subjective).

However I think this gets a boost due to the emotional arc of LeBron’s career and the fact that he had departed, returned, and been trying for 9 seasons (not counting the 4 years he spent in Miami) to win for Cleveland. Also the fact that LeBron was the hometown kid (and yes he’s not from Cleveland proper but you know what I mean.)

It’s still a very good performance, but if he played this game on the Heat or Lakers it wouldn’t be the same.

XxEpicMonkee | Lakers

21 | 4 hours ago

uhhh no i think it gets hype because he came back down 3-1 and completed the greatest comeback in nba history against the 73-9 warriors, coupled with leading the series in every stat there is. the rest is just bonus storybook material. not only is it impactful as a performance because its game 7 of a comeback, but he got a triple double and a game altering block (the best block of all time). this game is an all timer performance AND in a win

UncertainTeenager | Timberwolves

10 | 3 hours ago

This is not a good take lol. It was objectively very impressive as a neutral fan coming back 3-1 against the greatest regular season record team of all time.

MoneyHungryOctopus | Spurs

-6 | 3 hours ago

That is not what the word objective means.

You can find it impressive and you are well within your rights to hold that opinion. However others will disagree. That is what prevents it from being “objectively” impressive.

A statement like “LeBron made x amount of field goals” is objective.

Whether someone finds a performance “objectively” impressive is strictly a personal opinion. It can factor into how much you respect LeBron for his basketball abilities. It should not be stated as an objective truth. Finding it impressive is not a fact. It may be a consensus opinion. It’s like if I said LeBron was the GOAT. A whole lot of people may agree and make me feel confident in my assessment. But regardless of who your GOAT is or whether you subscribe to the debate, it’s not an objective fact, and the same thing goes when we talk about Jordan.

I could say Damian Lillard is “objectively” the GOAT if I truly believed it but it doesn’t mean that the belief can be verified as objectively true.

DeliriousPrecarious

7 | 3 hours ago

If you gotta have a long ass sentence explaining your word choice it’s probably the wrong word to use.

MoneyHungryOctopus | Spurs

-2 | 3 hours ago

That is not what the word objective means.

You can find it impressive and you are well within your rights to hold that opinion. However others will disagree. That is what prevents it from being “objectively” impressive.

A statement like “LeBron made x amount of field goals” is objective. Or “LeBron is 41 years old”. Those are unimpeachable facts because of how we as a society measure quantities and chronological age.

Whether someone finds a performance “objectively” impressive is strictly a personal opinion. It can factor into how much you respect LeBron for his basketball abilities. It should not be stated as an objective truth. Finding it impressive is not a fact. It may be a consensus opinion. It’s like if I said LeBron was the GOAT. A whole lot of people may agree and make me feel confident in my assessment. But regardless of who your GOAT is or whether you subscribe to the debate, it’s not an objective fact, and the same thing goes when we talk about Jordan.

I could say Damian Lillard is “objectively” the GOAT if I truly believed it but it doesn’t mean that the belief can be verified as objectively true.

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

4 | 3 hours ago

You gotta stop pasting this shit everywhere man.

DeliriousPrecarious

3 | an hour ago

If you need a multi paragraph post explaining your word choice it’s probably the wrong word to use.

You should just drop subjectively entirely. It’s obviously an opinion - you don’t need to state it’s subjective.

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

4 | 4 hours ago

I mean that’s why it’s objectively very impressive. Objectively the hometown hero doing this after all that works any way you look at it.

MoneyHungryOctopus | Spurs

-5 | 3 hours ago

That is not what the word objective means.

You can find it impressive and you are well within your rights to hold that opinion. However others will disagree. That is what prevents it from being “objectively” impressive.

A statement like “LeBron made x amount of field goals” is objective.

Whether someone finds a performance “objectively” impressive is strictly a personal opinion. It can factor into how much you respect LeBron for his basketball abilities. It should not be stated as an objective truth. Finding it impressive is not a fact. It may be a consensus opinion. It’s like if I said LeBron was the GOAT. A whole lot of people may agree and make me feel confident in my assessment. But regardless of who your GOAT is or whether you subscribe to the debate, it’s not an objective fact, and the same thing goes when we talk about Jordan.

I could say Damian Lillard is “objectively” the GOAT if I truly believed it but it doesn’t mean that the belief can be verified as objectively true.

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

3 | 3 hours ago

Tldr

MoneyHungryOctopus | Spurs

-5 | 3 hours ago

Stop being obtuse and look up the definition of the word objective in the dictionary.

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

6 | 2 hours ago

One of us is definitely being obtuse right now.

MoneyHungryOctopus | Spurs

-2 | 2 hours ago

Objectivity basically means something that can be proven as a plain, unimpeachable fact.

You can use LeBron’s performance to bolster your respect for him as a basketball player. However, it is an opinion. It should not be used to state an objective truth.

Someone could disagree with you. The performance being impressive may be a consensus and someone who genuinely disagrees would be considered unserious, perhaps. But they wouldn’t be “objective” either. It is impossible to be objective about whether his performance is impressive or not because it’s not a fact that can be proven. It is entirely and strictly up to the individuals personal interpretation of what they consider impressive.

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

3 | 2 hours ago

I don’t respect lebron at all. I dislike him for a million reasons. He’s still objectively the greatest of all time aside from MJ and objectively game 7 was the greatest comeback in the history of comebacks.

MoneyHungryOctopus | Spurs

-1 | 2 hours ago

And you can believe that, and I have no issue with you believing that. I didn’t come here to argue LeBron‘s all-time ranking or his abilities as a player.

However, you thinking he’s the second greatest basketball player of all time, and that his performance is the best comeback— those still aren’t facts. What you are saying is subjective and not objective. I don’t know how else to explain this.

I’m a bit of a stickler for grammar admittedly. But I just really don’t like when words are misused. It’s like when people say “literally” when they mean figuratively. I don’t know why or when it started but we have words for a reason and they should be used correctly.

Federal_Studio5935 | Cavaliers

17 | 4 hours ago

An experience I may never get to have again. I will never forget it, and it’s the reason lebron can do whatever the fuck he wants and I don’t care.

burntroy | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Was just rewatching yesterday

cirocobama93 [OP] | Pelicans

11 | 4 hours ago

On my deathbed I’ll still remember LeBron’s block on Iguodala, Kyrie’s final minute 3 in Curry’s face, and LeBron rattling in his last free throw

I was in college and vividly remember watching this at my ex’s place. She just got married last month. Wild how much can change in a decade

ShlodoDobbins

4 | 4 hours ago

For real. Would have been epic if LeBron daggers in that dunk though but what an all time block and 3pt and also Love guarding Curry

AdministrativeLaugh2

5 | 4 hours ago

This finished at like 3am UK time and I was dancing round the living room trying desperately not to wake my parents. What a night that was

MultiPass21

4 | 4 hours ago

I didn’t watch the final buzzer. It hurt too much at the time to see my team fall short of the immortality of being recognized as the single greatest team of all time.

All these years later and with the benefit of hindsight, this series doesn’t bother me in the slightest bit.

It does help they still wound up putting together the best team of all-time (even if not by record) the very next year.

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

7 | 4 hours ago

In a move that will forever cement KD as a bitch

MultiPass21

-2 | 3 hours ago

Yeah maybe. But if you just consider him a hired gun like I do, instead of trying to revere him as a “Forever [Team]” - he lived up to expectations for us - and that’s good enough for me.

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

3 | 3 hours ago

He did a lot of damage to the league, the CBA and his own reputation. I never hated the warriors or their fans, they weren’t the snakes in that agreement.

MultiPass21

1 | 3 hours ago

You’ll remember, of course, it was the NBAPA that voted against a smoothing of the cap increases in favor of the spike. Kent Bazemore, Allen Crabbe, and others benefited tremendously from that.

You take Kevin Durant out of that calculus, and it was really just a smart move by the NBAPA to get their constituents the money they had rightfully negotiated.

Kevin Durant being a FA in the same year was merely a coincidence, and Bob Myers deserves endless credit for having the foresight to construct his roster and salary cap moves in a way that made adding KD a possibility.

KD’s reputation is his own business to worry about. Not mine. Same guy that willingly walked away from Steph Curry for Kyrie Irving - so it’s fair to be critical of his decision-making.

ActivBowser9177 | Lakers

4 | 4 hours ago

I remember being so happy seeing my favorite player LeBron James and my then-second team in the Cleveland Cavaliers (I still like them today, but not as much as when LeBron was with them) pull off the 1-3 comeback to break Cleveland’s drought that I couldn’t sleep that night despite having school the next day. Good times.

JackC1126 | Cavaliers

4 | 4 hours ago

If you aren’t from Cleveland it’s hard to comprehend how much this meant to the city

financialthrowaw2020 | NBA

2 | 4 hours ago

That parade was one I’ll never forget. We broke records at the time

Greybinson | Cavaliers

3 | 3 hours ago

For a city of 300,000+, getting million people there is a quite a feat. Thank god I found the last room at the Hilton the night before.

sharvelwitz | San Diego Clippers

3 | 4 hours ago

Watched my dad on the couch and we were goin crazy. Gotta love how sports being people together like that. If LeBron made that dunk on draymond 😭😭

WinRare6588

1 | 4 hours ago

Would’ve been the most beautiful cap to the comeback 😭😭😭😭😭

ckaz1121 | Cavaliers

3 | 3 hours ago

As a Cleveland sports fans, this moment was euphoric and freeing. Do I still get invested? Sure. But deep down, I know I’ve experienced the best a sports fan could ever ask for.

Fuck I gotta go watch Game 7 again.

TableForGlasses24

2 | 4 hours ago

Still think it’s probably the most iconic NBA game/moment this century, though the Knicks certainly just made a few statements on that. Ray Allen’s shot, too. But this one stands above them all for me. Maybe it’s because it feels like the last memory I’ve got before we entered this dystopian timeline or something.

QuileGon-Jin | Thunder

2 | 3 hours ago

I’ve had this idea for a documentary for a bit. It’d follow the careers of LeBron, KD, and Steph and culminate in the 2016 playoff run. It’d work like The Last Dance where it’d be episodic and cut in and out between the 2016 playoffs and their careers up to that point. Working title is The King, The Reaper, and The Chef, lol

The doc would start with the first round of the playoffs in 2016 and LeBron coming into the league as the chosen one. High School phenom to Cleveland hometown hero. His first MVP, first Finals, move to the Heat, Mavs loss.

Enter KD: It would transition to the second round in 2016 and KD’s start in the league. Seattle, move to OKC, building the OK3, coming in 2nd to LeBron in MVP, and losing in 2011 to the Mavs. This ep would end with LeBron beating KD in the 2012 finals

Enter Steph: Moving to the Conference Finals with focus specifically on Warriors vs Thunder. You go through Steph’s career. Being an NBA player’s son, Davidson making it to the Elite 8, getting drafted to the Warriors, injuries, his and the Golden State’s ascent, winning MVP in 2015, and winning the championship in 2015. Ending when Steph beats Durant in the 2016 WCF in 7 games.

Final ep would focus completely on the Finals and the Steph vs. LeBron of it all. Maybe you do a Marvel style post-credits scene of a dramatization of Draymond calling Durant after game 7, lol

cirocobama93 [OP] | Pelicans

1 | 3 hours ago

I see the vision 🫡

nak214

1 | 4 hours ago

Amazing day. Paved the way for 3 more chips

UndeniableTruth-

3 | 4 hours ago

Saying it like it couldn’t have been 3 more anyway…y’all were up 3-1 and had the greatest regular season of all time. If I had to put money on it, Warriors were winning those chips without KD anyway, only maybe not back to back.

nak214

1 | 3 hours ago

Yeah probs. It all averages out

Wazflame

1 | 4 hours ago

Memories of The Roots intros to all the games

Believe, believe, believe

LiveLifeLikeCre | Knicks

1 | 3 hours ago

Makes sense because I haven’t seen the refs work so hard since that series

wave_action | GSW

1 | 3 hours ago

2016 was one of the greatest NBA seasons as a whole. I think this game cemented it. It would’ve been greater if the Dubs won it but I guess wasn’t meant to be.

Still, if I could change one outcome of a game, it would be the Dubs winning this one. I definitely give up all the KD rings for this. I still think the Dubs win at least one more with this group.

OrganicManners | Supersonics

-2 | 4 hours ago

I was rewatching the ending the other day. Am I completely out of line saying that the block is a bit overrated? Incredible gesture of course but just a few seconds later the Cavs miss the shot and the Warriors are back again on offense like it never happened. Arguably Curry’s airball is just as decisive

Today’s the 10 year anniversary of Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals (Cavs-Warriors)