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James certainly remembers painful loss

Much has been made of LeBron James returning to the NBA Finals to face the San Antonio Spurs.It seemed like a lifetime ago, but it's only been six years since the Spurs won their last title, dispatching James and his misfit cast of Cleveland Cavaliers in four games.The sweep was painful, but predictable.James assuredly remembers the defeat."It's been a while since I've seen the series," James said on Wednesday. "It was tough. We ran against a team that was more superior, more experienced, more better -- that's not even a word -- better than we were at the time."I have something in me that they took in '07; beat us on our home floor, celebrated on our home floor. I won't forget that."Comparing the 2007 Cleveland Cavaliers and the 2013 Miami Heat is like comparing pineapples and pine cones.Cleveland started James, Daniel Gibson, Drew Gooden, Sasha Pavlovic and Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Miami features Hall of Famers-in-wait in Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, alongside Mario Chalmers and Udonis Hasl...

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