I'm beating a dead horse, but LeBron James is proving his critics so irrefutably wrong, I can't ignore it.
You want clutch? You got clutch. You've gotten clutch in every Cavs win since coming back from last month's West Coast trip, where B.J. Armstrong and his legion of fellow jocks-turned-talking-heads first made the assertion that LeBron is not a clutch player.
In last night's 97-91 win in Minnesota, LeBron scored 12 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter, outscoring and outdueling none other than Kevin Garnett, who finished with 21 points and 1-for-5 shooting in the fourth quarter.
The Timberwolves were breathing down Cleveland's neck with 36 second to go, as a 6-0 run drew Minnesota to within 90-88. Much like he did against Milwaukee on Monday, LeBron took the ball on the ensuing possession and blew past the entire defense for the winning bucket, swooping to the basket for a don't-even-try-to-contest-this left-handed layup to make it 92-88.
The basket forced the Timberwolves to foul on each possession thereafter. Zydrunas Ilgauskas and James cashed the game out with four consecutive free throws.
Maybe that isn't clutch enough for Armstrong, a former barnacle on the butt of Michael Jordan. But that's why Armstrong's career was basically over after 1994, when Jordan began his baseball hiatus.
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