TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Two Basketball Greats 4 Chapter 1 The Road to the NBA 8 Chapter 2 Greatest Moments 16 Chapter 3 Taking Home the Trophy 20 Chapter 4 And the Winner Is 24 Smackdown Breakdown 28 Glossary 30 Index 31
INTRODUCTION TWO BASKETBALL GREATS It was the sixth game of the 1998 National Basketball Association NBA Finals The Chicago Bulls had won three games in the seven-match series But Chicago trailed the Utah Jazz near the end of Game 6 That's when Michael Jordan took over Michael Jordan FAST FACTS Michael Jordan won five NBA Most Valuable Player MVP awards Jordan was an NBA Finals MVP six times LeBron James was the first player to score at least 10 points in 1,000 NBA games in a row James has won the NBA championship with three different teams
Jordan beat the Jazz defense and scored tying the game 85-85 As Utah tried to score Jordan took the ball from them With five seconds left he scored a jump shot The Bulls were the series champions and Jordan was the NBA Finals MVP Eighteen years later LeBron James led the Cleveland Cavaliers to victory and became a new basketball hero Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals between the Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors would decide the champion The score was tied with less than two minutes left LeBron James
