LeBron James is not full

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James got his ticket to his 10^e NBA Finals by defeating the Denver Nuggets 117-107 in Game 5 of the Association Finals in Orlando.

The Californian team must now wait until the end of the duel between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat before knowing their ultimate opponent to obtain the Larry O’Brien trophy.

“Right now, it doesn’t mean anything unless you finish the job,” James told ESPN after the victory of his people on Saturday, before tempering his words.

“We will take advantage of it tonight [vendredi], as we should, because it’s not something you do every year, he added. There are only two teams that can reach the final each year. Which means that only about thirty players reach the final. We will take advantage of it, but we have an even bigger goal. ”

By reaching this stage of the playoffs for the 10^e James once established himself for third in NBA history for most appearances in this series by a player, tied with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Bill Russell dominates this ranking with 12 appearances in the final.

If he wins the final, his fourth career triumph, he will achieve it in the same place where former Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, who died in a plane crash in January, won his fourth NBA title, at Orlando.

Moreover, if he were to win the championship and the title of MVP in the final, he would become the first player in history to jointly obtain these two trophies with three different teams.

“I want to do my own journey, because it’s my journey,” said James. I appreciated everything that presented itself to me during this journey. I mean all the ups and downs, the ups and the downs on the court, the downs on the court, wins and losses. But as Frank Sinatra would say: “I did it my way” [“I did it my way”]. “

The Lakers could know their final opponent on Sunday, as the Heat look to take out the Celtics in Game 6. In the event of a Celtics victory, the second team to bear the brunt of the final will be known on Tuesday.