When 22 Yr-OLD LeBron James BECAME A LEGEND! 48 Points EPIC Highlights vs Pistons | Game 5, 2007
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- LeBron James 48 points, last 25 Points - Full Game Highlights | Cleveland Cavaliers vs Detroit Pistons | May 31, Game 5 - 2007 NBA Playoffs
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then Rasheed Wallace has the nerve to say " Lebron wouldn't have been a monster back in my days" nigga is that not you I'm seeing on that court??
Lmao
He and his buddies got played like kids on broad daylight lmao. That overtime barrage of shots from Lebron is ridiculous.
Got me crying 😂 I can't.
😂😂
Dude was so traumatized he has no recollection of this event
Young Bron was really a GOAT in his own right.
You been on yt a decade
Lebeautiful 😂😂😂
Lesexy
@Gerald Taylor 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Basically, YB better
20 seasons later still going strong. Appreciate greatness.
20 seasons later??? bruh this was 2007 lmaooooo
@@ballerboi4980how many seasons has LeBron played
@@electiontime5758 15 since this
Still getting carried by multiple all-star teammates and bronsexual retarded refs.
Lame
Skip Bayless avoids this video like the plague
This the Orlando Magic, taken out Jordan's Bulls in the playoffs! That doesn't exist either!
Skip Bayless avoids this video like his Cowboys avoid playoff success.
The game when he became the best player in the world. 14 years later and he still is.
He wasn’t better than kobe bruh
He was top 3 from 2006 forward, but he wasn't the best until 2010ish
exactly nobody wanted to see 06 kobe
@@terancemann2668 Cry more!
@@wo4488 he was clearly best player in the league
When LeBron’s jumper is ON, it’s over
Detroit fan here. I watched Vinnie hit the shot for the back to back. I watched MJ own the Pistons for half a decade. I watched Ben change the course of Shaq's career in 5 games. I dont think I've ever seen such dominance from end to end for such an extended period of time. This Detroit squad was only a couple season removed from putting up the most statistically dominate defensive stretch in NBA history. Absolutely thrilling.
You forgot to mention that the Pistons no longer had Ben Wallace. Remember that DPOY guy. He might've had something to do with their defensive dominance.
@@depannist the previous year they had Ben Wallace and lebron took them 7. So save that excuse.
After the "decision" the media tried to make everyone have amnesia about Lebron's career. Lebron has been a beast many many many times!!! Dude was literally doing everything in that series. GOAT!!!
i know this is when the jordan fans started to get in their feelings and run with this soft narrative when he played in one of the greatest defensive eras ever and was still dominating offensively . hell i think statistically the 2000s era was the greatest era was the best era not the 90s
@@ryanr20091 From 2002-2006 was probably the toughest span to score in history of league. In old days, they just couldn't shoot but got up tons of good looks, just sucked.
80s and 90s were far more physical but the Flagrant rule changes helping offense and restrictions on handchecking came in the 90s not the 2000s. 2002 when they removed the illegal defense call is when league went into Hall of Fame difficulty for a few years. Guys like Ben Wallace just absolutely destroyed offensive systems with the lurking defender role that was now allowed
@@ryanr20091 Yeah they say 90s has the greatest defense but in reality that was just a narrative by the old heads. The only physical in the 90s is their fights and fouls.
@@Michael-vn2jj dayum!!!!!!!!!!! so if a 40 year old geezer scored 20+ in that era, that would be kind of impressive then eh?
@@jarekkowalewski if they were a playoff team it would be.
If you are referencing MJ, LOL it's very obvious by his numbers and efficiency that MJ struggled to adapt to these changes. The usage percentage of a 40 year old geezer in that era, is a perfect example of why they missed playoffs both years lol 😂
No one can match prime lebron!!!!!
Im here coz of his 39 pt game at his year 19 OT in Indiana. 2021 still the GOAT
Jordan and Kobe would shiii on this dude. Both these goats are defensive legends as well. Lmao they wuda shut that SHII down prime for prime.
Bruh I can match prime lebron
very true.. he could have reached the finals so much earlier if only the management spent more money.
MICHAEL JORDAN over lbj
*prime lebron getting swept? thats real prime right there*
Damn bron really loved Kobe he did his cool down celebration when he hit that clutch shot in 2OT
@Troy Stephens yeah I was sharp to that one. I saw not to long ago Kobe gave bron those crazy 8s that he played against melo in when he was in high school
Kobe, like every single thing in his career, got that from Mike Lolol it’s funny your generation has no clue Kobe jocked everything Mike did. Bron is mimicking Mike
@@ballafasho332 bro everyone knows Kobe got everything mike.
Bron fav player is Kobe
same thing kobe did in the finals vs the pacers fun fact kobe got that from nick van exel
This would’ve been his ROOKIE SEASON if he had stayed in college for three years and his THIRD YEAR if he was a one and done. LeBron is insane.
He was too good for college, lol it would have been too easy
Never stopped to think about it lmao GOAT BRO
If he went to college it would be too easy. It’s like putting an NBA Superstar in college.
Would’ve been easy chips he could’ve added to his legacy
seeing LeBron how he played right now makes me forget how athletic he is way back,.
First NBA game I ever teared up in. That's how impress I was.
It is one of the best performances of all times.
Even though he coaches the Warriors, Steve Kerr loves LeBron's game. He called his performance "Jordanesque," which is something he saw quite a bit when he was teammates with Jordan.
He also said if lebrons bout to break the all time scoring record he’d ditch whatever game he is coaching if he had a game and ran to lebron, imagine if it was warriors Vs lakers
The crazy thing is the Pistons are actually playing good defense on LeBron, it just doesn't matter. He was in the zone that night.
Yup, I remember watching this live. Unbelievable. This was the game that truly convinced me of LeBron’s greatness. I know he was a mega star before this but this performance made him reach another level in my eyes.
Same. I knew he was “one of them ones” after this I remember watching in middle school at the beach with my fam
Please take it out your mouth and get up from your knees.
This shows how LBJ could easily dominate the Jordan era. The physicality was there. Hard fouls on LBJ couldn’t get the calls from the ref...
This is when the Pistons gave up...they played against Bird, Magic, Barkley, Shaq, Hakeem, and Jordan...BUT NEVER SAW ANYONE PLAY LIKE LBJ. It must have been a very enlightning series for the Pistons back then. Imagine witnessing that speed, athleticism, talent and size unfolding before them.
The Pistons were still a playoff team years later:..
@@YER3721 they were never the same after that + losing ben wallace
@@jalenlthomas Because their best players were old LMAO? 😂😂 This isn’t a fairytale
@@YER3721 These Bronsexuals are weird bro. It's ok, just ignore them
@@YER3721 07 Chauncey 31 Hamilton 29 Wallace 33 Prince same class as lebron. The Pistons weren't old bro lol They went right back to Conference finals the next year.
probably the most 1v9 basketball game I will ever see from one player. Definition of a player putting the team on his back
I never forget I was 13 years old when I witness this goat performance by the King...crazy he was only 22 and did this to a still tier level 1-2 team in the Pistons....they may have been missing Big Ben but they should have never lost to a team like Cleveland no matter how much Lebron killed them...thats what makes this performance so legendary
You're gonna remember even when your a old man, I seen the flu game live , I seen MJ score on Craig elo love, I also seen when Mike went up with the right hand and finished with the left, but when I seen this, it's like time stood still!
The 09-10 Bron still my favorite..he didn't "think" back in them days he just attacked
The most simple minded comment ever
@@daelin9759 no you just not an athlete to understand lol
@@Hova-dw5sw you want to try that again in English?
Back then, he was just hooping. When he got to Miami, he started to really think the game, and that’s when he really became a monster
@@infinitymixtapes9562 yh agreed.
15 year olds will tell you that Luka is better at 22 than Lebron 😂😂
Yes
Luka wouldn't survive against that Pistons defense without being ejected for crying about every contact he gets.
He will get block every jumpshot because his ass is slow
Wrong look at luka winging for the most basic fouls of luka did that sht Rasheed would fk him up
@@abdiaden7049 what's funny is Luka already won the mvp in the euro league with much more aggressive defense. He just adjusted just like all the nba players.
This [2007] vs. DET
2012 Game 6 verses Boston..
And 2016 Comeback versus Warrior's..
The shit G.O.A.Ts are made of.
🐐 👑
Watch this game and tell me he isn’t one of the greatest players to ever play. Not many players did something like this. Just look at who he is playing with. He carried that team to the Finals but no one seems to remember this.
Everyone remembers homie, but they hate on it and add zero context. Wtf was he supposed to do against the Spurs with this team
@@michaeltroy2587 I agree. Spurs especially at that time is very well rounded team, they got all the playstyle, rotation, shooting and ball movement thanks to Gregg Popovich. Unlike in Cavs, as I saw in their game perspective, LeBron only makes the other players better by passing them the ball then shoot but there's no other player in Cavs with a PG same skill as him or a big man with aggressiveness like Duncan. If ever that Cavs management team is only that smart as Celtics always does when LeBron was still at his early years.
Honesty he wasnt meant to beat then. Pistons vs spurs would be 7 games. He overachieved
@@michaeltroy2587 Lebron fans also hate on Jordan for no reason as if Jordan didnt do equally of more impressive things. Jordan dropped 63 on Celtics coming of foot injury for most of season yet people seem to forget that huh?
This was the King James coming out party! LBJ at his absolute best! No mercy on the Pistons. Chauncey Billups had no shot at slowing down LBJ much less stopping him.
Naw he was already out and balling this was a statement game to let people know he was the best
Young LeBron was a different breed
Much less efficient, terrible clutch shooter, not as efficient shooting
@@westbrookthegoat576 sounds like westbrooks whole career
@@westbrookthegoat576 Ironic coming from a Westbrook fan lol
@@westbrookthegoat576 dude he was 22 yrs old 4 yrs from high school 😂😂
@@shawswervoo Russ can buy your whole family tree
YOUNG KING IS UNREAL ATLETICS
Young Bron was really COLD! 🔥🔥
That Dunk in front of Prince will always be top 3 Lebron dunks for me...the crossover on Maxey and just the way Tayshaun cowardly glides away from the hoop is a picture I will never forget. He was an all-nba defense player and regarded as one of the best defenders in the league and one of those "lebron stoppers" but he looked like he didn't belong in the nba in this game
LMAO! Mad true!
He cant stop kobe like players who are inches shorter than him but he cant take a fcking power forward running through him
@@levibondjr4650 lol yup
@@FireAngelChris You already know bro! 🙏🏽
@@levibondjr4650 Absolutely 🙏🏽
This was the best defense in the league. An all time great defense. And he was just imposing his will on them.
No they weren’t lol. Ben Wallace left the Pistons this season
@@NikoBellic20080 that doesn’t change what I said. That’s one guy that does nothing to affect the perimeter defense and one of the best perimeter defenders getting cooked all night. The best guard defender. One of the best rim protectors off the bench.
Lmao and yet when asked who would u rather face LEBRON or Kobe they continued to say LEBRON. Too predictable
This was definitely one of the best defensive teams in the league that yr and he jus had his way against them man this performance was legendary by a 22 yr old🔥🔥🔥🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
@@NikoBellic20080 cut the crap lol predictable fans like you always say this..2006 Bron's first playoff appearance and still went 7 games with a 64 win Piston team with Ben Wallace and Bron was still going to the basket
This game put lebron in superstar category that year absolutely amazing performance
Bro was a a superstar his 2nd season in the league😂
Legendary Performance.
This was against one of the better defensive teams in the NBA too
Lol wrong. Championship caliber team was gone, old, and Ben Wallace was gone..
@@timwilliams9075 pistons were 7th in defensive rating that year. Try again
@@timwilliams9075 He almost beat Pistons with Ben Wallace the previous year... ( 2006 )
@@timwilliams9075 5th in Defense and 4th in Offense.
Keep on hatin'. We know that you know LeBron is a really great player. Don't fool yourself just because you idolize some other player.
@@timwilliams9075 you don’t know anything about basketball
Damn I forgot about this game. He was cooking the PISTONS 🔥🔥🔥
Bron was in attack mode from the very beginning of this game. And finished it, in attack mode. Dude is special. 🐐
This My all time favorite version of Bron when he was fearless with the fresh legs 🔋💯💯
That’s his peak. 2007 against Pistons
@@uropy maybe his best performance, but Miami Lebron was Jordanesque (besides 2011 Finals) for 4 straight years
He was on top of the world.
Became a fan of basketball in the late 90s, huge kings fan. When I started seeing highlights of high school LeBron James around late 2001, early 2002, I knew he was special even as a little kid. Followed him closely reading the sports illustrated issue with him on it because my older brother had a subscription. When they started televising his games and showing him in tournament games and exhibition games I knew then he was the one. From the moment he was drafted up until this game I was expecting nothing but greatness from him. watching this game live as a 13 year old, just felt like confirmation of my admiration of LeBron. Then his stretch from 2008-2010 cemented him as a top 5 player all time in my eyes. 2011-2014 put him top 2. 2015-2018 just about even with Jordan. 2019-2023 stayed on par with Jordan, has the chance to eclipse Jordan totally in my eyes. Mind you as a child and teen I've had the privilege of studying most of the all time legends because my uncle had tons of games recorded from the 80s and 90s and I would watch entire playoff runs of certain stars including Jordan. So with that being said Jordan is 1A LeBron is 1B rn. We'll see how it pans out though.
Why do you still have MJ above Bron?
Man I remember watching this game live, bron was on demon time. Prolly the first time I realized of his greatness to come. Arguably carried the worst team (or A.I’s 2001 sixers) ever to the finals at the age of 22.
So wild how different the game was back then, low scoring and it’s wild too see how they threw Chauncey, tayshawn, rip all at him
Less points more value per possession makes for more intense games imo
They were allowed to defend. No open shots every basket was earned.
When i look back at this game i see how much Lebron improved after this. But even here hes already the best in the world.
Top 5 post season performance I can remember.
This is arguably his best Performance to date. Imo. I remember watching this on TV completely amazed.
I remember being a kid this is the first time my parents told me to tune in and watch this new phenom called LeBron James on our cavs. Since this day, I have been an avid basketball fan watching every season. And I don’t even care that much for sports. Legendary.
If Jordan was black Jesus this is the Archangel Micheal Uriel or Gabriel it's unbelievable how good he was and still is the crazier thing is he got so much better he evolved his post game with Hakeem in 2011 off-season and his shooting every year
Lmao naw bro y’all funny with the knee pads. Not gone let Anybody just put this dude above Kobe. I don’t see many NBA PLAYERS CHOOSING LEBRON OVER KOBE. SO WHO CARE WHAT A FAN THINK. CLOWN
@@dootscoot1444 you just a fan too, so what you talking for?
OG bron hard dribble, left hand drives to the rim. Reminds me of bird/magic days, then he pulls up on some OG baylor 1 on 5 HIGH KEY bron downhill incoming action. For that nasty Road OT layp. This was when people leaguewide really realized how much they had to RESPECT LBJ game or block a lane directly to the rim. He reminds me of those OGS bc when you watch these games its like he had it locked from the tip like some of the greats had their epic playoff games. To think kareem has the hook. But BRON downhill in the half court will be a good tape when its all said and done
I’ll never forget this moment I was a big Wade/Ai/Kobe n Shaq fan but LeBron in the 2006 Playoffs against the Wizards n piston impressed me n made him my 2nd fav player after Wade until this very game where I believe LeBron became the best individual player n the face league
can we get 2000-2001 lakers vs 76ers game Kobe and Shaq vs AI a lot of great moves plus Kobe had the dunk of the year with that alley oop from brian shaw and he said “what…..they can’t f**k with me”
classic
Ole Goat James 😁😁😁
I’m from the uk so I didn’t get a hold of basketball until covid. I have been watching lots of highlights of legends of basketball buts young lebron was brilliant
This was one of the first NBA games I've ever watched
lebron most complete nba player ever
No.
Most def
@@MilkyWayGalaxyy Any other players comparable to him in terms of versatility?
@@kylekylelam2757 He only played defense when he played in the East. So he doesn't play defense anymore and he STILL can't shoot.
I would take players who can shoot lights out from anywhere including free throws like KD, Steph, Klay, Kyrie over LeBron anyday. LeBron is a liability in the last 2 minutes and in the clutch. He doesn't want the ball and he doesn't want to get fouled.
Give me MJ over LeBron. Forget the "complete player" title. You can have that. I want to win. And great offense always beats great defense. Who is stopping KD?
@@MilkyWayGalaxyy still hating and it's a dam shame. If you truly watch or basketball head you will appreciate his greatness. This was 22 years of age and still going to 37 sustaining greatness.
and rasheed wallace called lebron soft.
He is. Idk what happened to him a year or two after this but he became such a wuss
@@robertw174 he's just adopting the rules and the new playstayle of this gen no wonder why he become like that now
@@jeffchristianc.tabigue7351 he's a coddled mamas boy. He's the worst thing to ever happen to the nba.
Rasheed must been having flashback nightmares from 2007...because he coundnt contain lebron😃😃😃😃😃
@@bolocabrera7358 Why didn’t Lebron do that when Ben Wallace was on the team ?
I watched this game with a friend of mines , my heart almost came out of my chest , i was waiting on him to tire out or just give up , but he just kept getting stronger, the whole arena was quiet and stunned!
This is when he became the best player in the league no debating in only his 4th season this was unreal and that last play was the worst defense I ever seen I mean nobody stepped up and contested the man lay up that was sad🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
Those cavs jerseys were cold
GOAT.
People really think Luka could do this 😂😂😂
He can
Nobody thinks that
@@kian_23 if he goes another year getting bounced in the first round he just not built for it
@@geordiejones5618 🌝Luka played a far better Clippers team in the first round. Remember This is the Pistons WITHOUT Ben Wallace in case you were wondering. When the played the cavs in the playoffs the year before with Ben Wallace, Lebron as on lockdown in the paint 🔒
@@NikoBellic20080 the previous season LeBron took the Piston with Ben Wallace to 7 games
I remember it like it was yesterday. He was absolutely insane, I was a Pistons fan back then, and I was yelling at the TV saying “STOP HIM”.
Pistons were stubborn this game. I remember an interview with Richard Hamilton, the coaching staff refused to give Bron respect and force him to give the ball up. What a performance by the Kang!!
1v1 with Chauncey was just disrespectful, to Bron and Chauncey. He had no chance at stopping a dude that big and fast.
this game is a black hole and lebron is just the singularity at the end of time
In his carreer Lebron flamed out against the Mavs, Celtics . This game is proof that it wasnt those teams that stopped him, Lebron stopped Lebron. Nobody could stop a determined Lebron.
"Mr Big Shot" Billups missed twice to either win or send it to another OT. Unusual
Prime bron was a problem. That young energy with explosive athleticism was an unguardable force.
I just know opponents hate to deal with him best bet to beat the teammates forget taking out lebron you’re not stopping him
He was 22 that was not even his prime.
The commentator said "this is Jordanesque" but let's be honnest, MJ did have his legendary performances obviously but he he never done it in that fashion. Jordan was getting bullied agaisnt the pistons in his 1st try when he had no help but Lebron was bulliyng them in that game. Going 1v3 and even 1v4 for on many plays, taking multiple contact and still going at the rim.
Nobody has ever done what he did that night
Found the bronsexual
He's on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥...,. Detroit had no idea wut to do against dis lebron, took dey hearts and soul
that was epic battle
The greatest
Third greater. Jordan and Kobe come before
What amazes me is how much more fouls would have been called if this game happened in 2021.
Exactly what I was thinking and no flop in site
Yet they will say Lebron would be average in the 90S
@@marionartey1121 Exactly Lebron would have dominated the 90s he would have destroyed Jordan! The Pistons were a very good defensive team and they couldn't do sht to stop LeBron. The game was a lot tougher similar to the 90s in the early 2000s so anyone that thinks LeBron couldn't be a beast in the 90s era are delusional. Lets not forget LeBron has adapted his game to the softer era that they play in now which isn't easy to do Hes the GOAT no questions!
@@marionartey1121 Anyone who says that is either delusional or they just don't know crap about bball
Where GREATNESS started.....he took over the league after this....win or loss , he was the best of the best.
And the Pistons had a great team at this time🤯
This is how aggressive Ben Simmons should be.
This version of Lebron James is the only hope of the Lakers right now.
This LeBron would’ve more than have the Lakers as the number team in the NBA. Young Bron is too elite for these new players
🤣
@@youngrich718 yes , but he clearly no where near as cerebral as is he is.. he just needs better teammates
Basketball is a team sport by the way,
This Cavs team was horrendous, LA has AD . LOL .
Rewatching that first cavs run it’s evident he’s the GOAT and we just don’t appreciate how he’s had to re create his career he hit so many jumpers then he had a bad year in 2011
But this time from 2004-2009 was magical maybe it was just because it was my childhood but the game was magical
Jordan scored 63 in a playoff game against the greatest Celtics team ever in just his second season, go look up those highlights.
Still doing it @39 is crayyyyyyyyy
Clutch too... ask @GSW 😂
Great series from lebron but what wasn’t talked about enough from this series was Daniel gibsons game 6 performance that made the Cavs go to the finals. 31 points I beleive
Fax
Yup and lefraud only scored like 10points 😂
How many of those 31 points were assisted by LeBron
You guys are pathetic i swear
@@nikitastojanovski5841 it was only 8 points, two 3’s and a 2.
You want to give LBJ credit for Gibson getting the other 23 points without him too?
this is one of the things you have to see at least once every year....Lebron James GOAT
Jordan
1:52 that guy made the best decision getting out of the way cause he knew he’d be sent to the ER if he tried to block LeBron
the look on the faces of the guys on the bench 4:48 tells you everything you need to know about how special this night was
The best to ever do it hands down 💪🏿
Skip will never bring up this game he will always talk about the 2011 finals
Still going strong. Peeps who didnt watch bron from the start never knew it started from day 1
Smh I remember watching this lol this was when the Pistons were Monsters in the East and they were a problem. I was hurt when Bron did this lol
27.2 PPG 7.2 APG 2.2 SPG at age 19-20
He was meant to be a legend
Not to mention 7rbs & a block
Greatest Player Of All Time
He in the discussion
Him at this age is as good as anybody there’s ever been. 💯
22 is crazy
He really was on the brink of winning his first ring at 22 4 years into his career wow Lebron is special
When the KING went into the PALACE and DESTROYED the PRINCE 1:52 2:15 👑
lebron james should lose more weight. when he was skinny lebron. seems like he played better and faster. but i heard he loves to eat unhealthy. so i do not think that a possiblity.
Tyshawn Prince gave Kobe fits in those finals the Pistons won, but Prince was seeing visions against James, just saying... and I loved KB, I am a laker fan since Showtime days.
This guy taught me how to take my game to the nex level
The best player to ever touch a basketball.
Is Michael Jordan
@@AD-ur1fk actually Lebron
Jalen Daniel's but yet a 6'3 185lb. shooter would have done better! The disrespect bron gets us crazy.
Here after watching Rasheed Wallace’s statement over lebron 🤡
They were picking up. Bron at 90 ft, full court press. Bro was exhausted, getting hard fouled etc. This performance is forever goateed 👑🐐
A lot of people talk about MIA bron or 16-18 Cavs bron but young bron was so different… he was shifty and fast asf
Back when Lebron actually got the whistle
Everyone took a turn trying to slow this man down with zero luck. He truly became the king on this night and in year 19 is still the best player in the league.
I miss this style of ball
Easily Lebrons best performance.
Back then I thought for sure he was going to pass Jordan
When Lebron got the midrange going you can just call it a night
The goat since 22 lol