Top 10 Scoring Performances by LeBron James in a Cavs Uniform

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1. LeBron’s 48 at the Palace

This remains one of the greatest playoff efforts in NBA history, much less the Cavaliers’ history. On May 31, 2007, James scored the team’s final 25 points and 29 of its last 30 in the 109-107 double overtime win over the Detroit Pistons in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Two nights later, the team clinched the series, sending the franchise to its first-ever NBA Finals appearance.

With his career at its peak, there’s still plenty of time for James to knock some of these games off the list.

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Brad Sullivan is a lead writer for Cavaliers Nation. He has spent much of life in the Cleveland, Ohio area, and has remained a Cavalier fan from their 1970 beginnings through the return of LeBron James. While that fandom was sorely tested during the Reign of Error known simply by one word, Stepien, that overall historical perspective will be part of his writing for Cavaliers Nation in the months ahead.