LeBron James came home to Ohio to deliver a championship to Cleveland.
He did that and then some Sunday, earning his third NBA Finals MVP trophy after leading the Cavaliers to a 93-89 win over Golden State in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, improbably becoming the first team in history to erase a 3-1 deficit to win a championship series.
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James' dominant Finals performance culminated in Game 7 with a triple-double of 27 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists. And it came on the heels of back-to-back 41-point showings in Games 5 and 6 to send the series into a decisive winner-take-all grudge match.
"Everyone counted us out," James told ESPN as he accepted the Finals MVP award. "But that's when we strived the most and that's definitely when I strived the most, when everyone counted me out."
He averaged 29.7 points, 11.3 rebounds, 8.9 assists, 2.6 steals, 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.4 percent from field en route to his third NBA title.
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James joins Michael Jordan, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the fourth player in NBA history to have three titles and four regular-season MVP awards.
The win for James and the Cavs also ends a 52-year championship drought for the city of Cleveland.
"I'm home, this is what I came back for," James said. "I'm at a loss for words. This is unbelievable. It doesn't feel real right now."