No One Can Actually Believe That LeBron Spectacularly Blew A Wide Open Dunk

We’ve seen this play out a few times this postseason. Someone on the team the Cleveland Cavaliers are going up against misses a jumper. The second this happens and LeBron James sees Kevin Love is in position to grab the rebound, he breaks to the opposite rim. Love grabs the board, looks up, sees LeBron is behind the defense, and drops a full-court dime into King James. LeBron then gets a wide open dunk in transition and either ignites the crowd in Cleveland or silences the fans on the road.

It looked like we were going to get this again during Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals between Cleveland and Boston. Love did his part – he was hounded by Al Horford threw maybe his most impressive outlet pass of the postseason to LeBron. Shockingly, the best basketball player on earth didn’t follow up on his end of the bargain. Instead, this happened.

LeBron James does not do this, especially when the crowd is on the verge of becoming unglued and he is so wide open. So as you can guess, everyone on the internet reacted with disbelief.

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The most logical theory for why LeBron missed came from the folks over at SB Nation, who thought LeBron was just blown away by that pass.

One person even made the joke that this alone proves that Boston had a great year.

It’s still a close game between the two sides, and either team can end up winning at this point. If Cleveland loses by one point, or if this one goes to overtime and the Cavs fall, you can bet that people will remember this moment. Even if neither of those things happen, this is the kind of thing that’s so rare that you’ll remember it for a while.