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LeBron James. Image via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

If you\u2019re among those who believe we\u2019re witnessing a basketball revolution, you should be very interested in the LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. They\u2019re not shooting threes like their lives depend on it, and they\u2019re not using lineups that minimize size in favor of speed and skill. They\u2019re not part of the new orthodoxy of the unorthodox. They\u2019re a stay against the revolution. <\/p>\n

When I say \u201crevolution,\u201d I\u2019m thinking back to the summer of 2014, when LeBron James returned to Cleveland and Kevin Love arrived soon after, a raw, untested Cavalier roster suddenly became a veteran team, one with bona fide\u00a0championship aspirations. David Blatt, their coach, was expected not to screw up, but in the end, he was fired in spite of his team\u2019s 30\u201311 record. James made it publicly known that he wasn\u2019t responsible. Many have suspected that he was.<\/p>\n

But what if the real story here isn\u2019t the conflict between player and coach? When James signed again with Cleveland, he published a letter that named many of his soon-to-be teammates. Cleveland\u2019s Andrew Wiggins, the first overall pick of that year\u2019s draft, was not among them. Wiggins ended up being traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a package that brought Kevin Love to Cleveland. With that trade, the complexion of the team\u2019s aspirations changed. They now had three all-star players in James, Love, and Kyrie Irving. They\u2019re often called Cleveland\u2019s Big Three\u2014even by their new coach, Tyronn Lue. It\u2019s a term you don\u2019t hear much these days.<\/p>\n

A player of James\u2019s caliber doesn\u2019t make a decision in free agency without advanced knowledge of his team\u2019s plans to improve their roster. So you can glean two important things from Cleveland\u2019s Love signing. First, that James valued the idea of a roster anchored by a Big Three. And second, that he valued the idea of an elite \u201cstretch four\u201d\u2014a power forward who\u2019s a good enough shooter from the perimeter to force the opposition to defend out to twenty feet and beyond, stretching the defense.<\/p>\n

LeBron had just spent four years in Miami playing as part of a different Big Three, with Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade. They made it to four consecutive NBA finals, winning the second and third. The term \u201cBig Three\u201d was thrown around a lot in those years, but Miami had lifted the blueprint from the Boston Celtics, who in the summer of 2007 had signed and traded their way to a triumvirate of their own: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen, who won their team the 2007\u20132008 NBA Championship. It was a hard victory: in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, they\u2019d barely elbowed their way past Cleveland, winning by five points on their home floor in the deciding game. Absorbing an unreal amount of defensive attention and physical punishment, a twenty-three-year-old LeBron James averaged 26.7 points per game. The game plan for the Cavs at that point had only two components: LeBron and hope. When James lost to the Celtics again in 2010, still with little help from an inferior roster, he walked off the court and tossed away his Cavs jersey en route to the locker room.<\/p>\n

Those losses brought him to form his own Big Three, with Bosh and Wade, for the Heat. In 2010, at a poorly conceived, smoke-machine-assisted celebration of their new union, an ebullient LeBron famously needed two hands to count the number of championships he predicted his Big Three would bring to the Heat. In Bosh, James found as close a copy of Kevin Garnett as he could have hoped for; even if LeBron and Wade were the thunder and lightning, it was Bosh\u2019s physical gifts and his refined basketball mind that moved Miami\u2019s barometer. Teams then were increasingly dependent on the three-point shot, and Bosh delivered: the idea of a stretch four now supposed that the power forward had his kind of range. In short, James found in Bosh a player who could replicate the devastation he\u2019d endured himself in his recent past.<\/p>\n

A setback in their first year\u2014when they were played off the court by a more balanced Dallas Mavericks team with far less star power\u2014rightfully brought questions about the viability of the Big Three model. But they broke through the following season against the Oklahoma City Thunder, who insisted on pitting Kendrick Perkins, their massive starting center, against the Heat\u2019s newfound agility. Perkins is a renowned player, but over the years, slowly, quietly, the game had been changing around him, and by 2010 the philosophies that had made him such a critical piece for a championship were practically arcane. The Heat were playing small and fast at a time when their method hadn\u2019t yet swept the league off its feet; furthermore, its benefits for Miami may have been somewhat obscured by the blinding star power of their Big Three. This team had been forged to purge the ghosts of the Celtics\u2014it was an act of personal history with rippling effects on the game as a whole, proving that playing \u201csmall ball\u201d was not just sustainable but powerful. James was on the forefront of a revolution.<\/p>\n

The Heat, strangely, did not embrace its message. The following year, sure, they won again using the same formula, but in 2014 they met with defeat from the Spurs, who had also embraced small ball. Those Spurs had tweaked the formula: they used Boris Diaw as the power forward. Diaw is no stretch four; he\u2019s not a very good outside shooter at all. Instead of stretching the defense with long-range shooting, he\u2019d receive passes at spots far out on the floor and then drive to the basket like a guard. This tactic ruined Miami\u2019s lauded pick-and-roll defense, which couldn\u2019t account for the all of the movement. The Heat lost four of five games, and that summer, LeBron returned to Cleveland, marking the end of the Big Three and perhaps of Big Threes as we know them.<\/p>\n

LeBron had seen the Celtics Big Three come and go; he\u2019d seen his own come and go; he\u2019d seen the pick-and-roll defense come and go. He had been witness. This is why I find it so curious that LeBron signed off on the Cavaliers\u2019 choice to bring in Kevin Love, thus forming another<\/em> Big Three. To make matters worse, Love is nowhere near the defender Bosh is\u2014and the Cavs roster now has four centers and power forwards (Mozgov, Thompson, Varejao, and Love) who can do a pretty good Kendrick Perkins impersonation.<\/p>\n

Keep all this in mind when you think of the plight of LeBron James. Given what he\u2019s seen over the years as the game changed before his eyes, he easily could have become the playmaking four to end all playmaking fours; an ultra-supreme version of what Diaw and Green are now. But he doesn\u2019t envision himself as a Diaw or a Green, and he\u2019s earned the right not to. Just this week, he made it clear to the press in a corrective tone that he\u2019s a small forward and not a power forward\u2014that the power forward position is for when, eventually, he slows down<\/em>. It\u2019s as though the past two finals haven\u2019t happened for him. So off he goes into battle, with his limitless ability and his slow-footed stretch four, as the players around him increasingly shrink and speed up.<\/p>\n

We should assume that he\u2019s more than aware of this\u2014that this is the choice he\u2019s made. He is the king, after all, and kings don\u2019t lead revolutions. They rule wary of them.<\/p>\n

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the<\/em>\u00a0Daily\u2019s basketball columnist. His<\/em>\u00a0second book of poems,\u00a0<\/em>Heaven<\/a>,\u00a0was published earlier this year.\u00a0<\/em>He is the recipient of the 2013 PEN<\/small>\/Joyce Osterweil Award, a 2013 Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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