3. LeBron James gets flustered by Lance Stephenson and the Indiana Pacers
LeBron James and the Miami Heat took on the Indiana Pacers in the 2014 Eastern Conference Finals. While the Heat were heavy favorites over the Pacers, Indiana put together quite the series, stretching it all the way to seven games despite not having the same starpower.
This was a coming out party for Paul George, who was fantastic in this series against Miami. It may have been an absolute routing in Game 7, but it was still a great series to watch.
This was the same game that Lance Stephenson infamously blew in LeBron James’ ear. Stephenson was flustering LeBron throughout the series, proving to be a great provacteur for the Pacers.
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Luckily for LeBron, the ear-blowing incident will be remembered more than his poor showing in this game. This is the second-worst playoff game of his career in terms of game score as LeBron was only able to score seven points with four assits and two rebounds.
LeBron just was not attacking in this game. He only attepmted 10 shots, making two, and was not turning the ball over at a crazy rate with only three turnovers.
While awful, it is only the third-worst considering the series that it came in and the fact that the Heat went on to win the series in seven games.