LeBron becomes 1st player to average triple-double in Finals series
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His Cleveland Cavaliers didn't win, but no one can blame LeBron James for losing in this year's Finals.
With his monster performance in Monday's Game 5 defeat to the Warriors, The King became the first player to average a triple-double in a Finals series. The three-time champion was once again sensational, finishing with 41 points, 13 rebounds, eight assists, two steals, and a block in Cleveland's 129-120 loss.
The four-time MVP accounted for more than half of the Cavaliers' points on Monday, scoring or assisting on 62 of Cleveland's 120.
Unsurprisingly, Cleveland struggled mightily without LeBron in the Finals, entering Game 5 with a minus-31 point differential in the 26 minutes James sat.