MIAMI – Before reaching the top of basketball, LeBron James was run over by the San Antonio Spurs.
The Spurs swept James' Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2007 NBA Finals, so long ago that the winning game plan focused on exploiting James' weaknesses. Those are nearly impossible to find now, and James essentially warned the Spurs that they shouldn't bother looking.
The Spurs already know.
Coach Gregg Popovich says James will "be a lot more of a problem than he was in '07, that's for sure."
Tim Duncan told the beaten James minutes after that series that the league would someday belong to him, and he was right. The NBA's MVP guided Miami to last year's championship and the league's best record this season.
Now the Spurs will try to take it back.
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