Ohio native LeBron James leads the Los Angeles Lakers to win the 2020 NBA championship title over the Miami Heat as the Lakers dedicate the win to the late Lakers star and NBA legend Kobe Bryant....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio
LOS ANGELES, California-The Los Angeles Lakers, led by megastar LeBron James, the series MVP, defeated the Miami Heat Sunday night to win Game 6 of the NBA Finals, taking home a championship title for the first time in a decade.
Under the leadership of head coach Frank Vogel, the Lakers won last night's Finals game106-93, and the series 4-2.
The series played out inside an NBA Bubble in Orlando, Florida as the coronavirus pandemic plagues the nation, the U.S. with over 213, 000 deaths from the deadly virus since it hit with a vengeance in early March.
The team dedicated its win to the late Kobe Bryant, the former Lakers star and NBA great who died in January in a helicopter crash along side his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.
"I know Vanessa is proud of us, " James said of Kobe's wife in telling reporters that it was only fitting that the team would dedicate its victory Sunday to Kobe, who spent his entire NBA career with the Lakers.
It was James' fourth Finals MVP win and the Lakers' 17th franchise title, tying them with the Boston Celtics.
The greatest player ever in the NBA by some standards and an Akron, Ohio native who began his career in 2003 out of high school with the Cleveland, Cavaliers, James, 35, can now claim four team championship titles, his first two with the Miami Heat, the first in 2012, and the second in 2013, the team he left Cleveland for in 2010 as a free agent, and amid angry fans who hated to see him leave
They even set bonfires in the city and burned his No. 23 jersey.
The two-time Olympic Gold medalist who holds the NBA's all time record for playoff points and four NBA Most Valuable Player awards, James returned to Cleveland in 2014 after his contract with Miami expired, and in 2016, he led the Cleveland franchise to its first NBA championship title in 52 years.
Also a philanthropist and married father of three who regularly gives back to the community through the LeBron James Family Foundation that in 2015 pledged up to 42 million to provide college scholarships to 1,100 underserved kids in his hometown of Akron, he left Cleveland for the Los Angeles in 2018 as a free agent, the Lakers handing him a whopping four-year $153 million deal.
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