KD vs LeBron-Who is a Better Scorer?

LeBron James and Kevin Durant. They can both score,
and everyone knows it.

Kevin Durant vs LeBron James. Who could wish for a better match up? Two freakishly talented forwards meet in the NBA Finals to clash. I sure loved watching them play against each other. But who is a more capable scorer?  It would probably be pretty easy to compare them, since they play the same position, they are both about the same height, and they are both amazingly athletic. They are possibly (and probably) the two best players in the NBA (you have to face the facts, Lakers fans, Kobe isn't young anymore). So lets figure out who is a better scorer.
Let's compare the average they score each game, for their careers (counting the playoffs). That's 27.2 points for KD and 28.9 for LeBron. However, Durant has been the scoring champion for three years in a row, and LeBron has only accomplished that once. And in the past three years, LeBron averaged 27.8 points a game and Durant averaged 28.6. LeBron, who has Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and now Ray Allen on the Heat, might not have as many opportunities to score as Kevin Durant, who pretty much only has Russell Westbrook to worry about.
Edge: Durant

LeBron James CAN Get It Done-When He Wants To

If the Heat want to win the Finals, they cannot mess around.

We have witnessed LeBron explode for 45 points in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, and we now know he can get the job done when he has a real desire to do so. The question is, does LeBron really want to win an NBA Championship? Does he really have a strong desire to go the distance? If he really does, he will. He might have just procrastinated his explosion to move to the Finals. But you can not procrastinate anything in a series against the Thunder. they will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let them. If LeBron James wants to win a championship though, he will definitely need some help from his teammates. Wade and Bosh stepped it up with LeBron in game 7, but they cannot be messing around during the Finals. Those are the three best keys for the Heat in the Finals: 1. They need to want it. 2. They can not procrastinate. 3. They cannot mess around. I wish the best luck for LeBron and the Heat in the Finals this year, but they still need a lot more to learn and have a long way to go before a championship happens.

Eastern Conference Finals-Year of Surprises

LeBron high-fives Haslem as the Heat beat the Celtics in Game 7 to advance to the NBA Finals.

Nobody expected the Boston Celtics to get to the Eastern Conference Finals. They could have easily gotten out in the first round to the Hawks. Nobody expected the Sixers to beat the Bulls in the first round just because of the Derrick Rose injury. This made it much easier to make it to the Eastern Conference Finals for the Boston Celtics. Nobody expected the Celtics to come back from being down 0-2 vs the Heat and take a 3-2 lead in the series. Nobody expected the Celtics to take the Heat to Game 7, and nobody expected LeBron to go off in Game 6. Nobody expected Linsanity. Nobody expected the NBA Lockout to end late and there to be a shortened season. Nobody expected a 7-footer to win the 3 point contest, or Jeremy Evans to win the dunk contest. Nobody expected the Indiana Pacers to get a 3rd seed in the Playoffs.Nobody expected the New Orleans Hornets to get the number one pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. Nobody expected the defending champs to get swept in the first round, or the Thunder to win four straight games against the Spurs after the Spurs' 20 game win streak. Nobody expected all of this to happen in one season, but this was the year of surprises. 

Nobody knows what will happen in the Finals. Can LeBron and the Heat step it up? Or will the young Thunder take it all? This is the year of surprises, so we can't expect anything.

The Western Conference Finals

Durant and the Thunder took care of the Spurs. But can they beat the Heat?

The Western Conference Finals are now over and were defindefinitely full of surprises. Let's take a look at them, see what happened, and enjoy the Finals.
The Western Conference Finals were  definitely a surprise. The Spurs had won 20 straight games, had a 2-0 lead, and looked unstoppable when suddenly, out of nowhere, Oklahoma City somehow won four straight to advance to the NBA Finals. I like the Spurs, don't get me wrong. They have so much experience in the Playoffs and so much young talent as well, with players like Kawhi Leonard, DeJuan Blair, and Danny Green. The only thing I have against them is that they swept my team, the Utah Jazz, in the first round. But KD, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, and the rest of the Thunder somehow miraculously stepped it up to advance. And believe me, their journey was not easy. They swept the defending champs in the first round, took care of the team that had gone to the finals three straight years before that in the second round, and pulled off a miracle in the Conference Finals. They beat the three best teams in the Western Conference and they are my favorite to win the Finals.

Intro

The NBA is my favorite thing to check, watch, and write about. This will be a blog where I write my opinions and analyze the NBA. Here is a video made by me.