LeBron James shows off beautiful mind recalling series of plays in vivid detail

LeBron James is the best basketball player in the game today and he showed the mental aspect of the game is just as important as the physical.

The Cavs didn’t win Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics but after the game, all anyone wanted to talk about was Lebron James.

Naturally, this is the story whether his team wins or loses. Today, they lost,108-83 as James was limited to 15 points on 5-of-16 shooting and seven rebounds and nine assists. He was 0-5 from 3-point range as the shots just weren’t falling on a night three Celtics players scored 20 points or more.

It’s just one game and far too soon to panic if you’re a Cavs fan or get too high if you’re a Celtics fan. But one thing we can talk about it LeBron’s incredible recall after the game.

In his postgame interview with the assembled media, LeBron was asked about what happened during a second-half run when the Celtics took the game over.

LeBron quickly recalled everything with explicit detail as he retold what happened on each sequence, who the plays were drawn up for, who made or missed a shot and did it all without having to think about it.

Many professional athletes have a photographic mind and clearly, LeBron is one of them. In the chaos of a playoff game, it would be easy to get confused or forget about every last detail on a second-half possession that was drawn up for Jordan Clarkson. It just goes to show why LeBron is the best player in the game and has been for much of the last 15 years since entering the league.

Haters will point at this and say it’s nothing special and anyone could do it. My retort would be, why don’t we see other examples of this then?

LeBron has a beautiful game, but he’s also got a beautiful mind who could probably tell you what he had for lunch on May 11 of 2006 and give you the exact details of the food he ate, who he ate with, who prepared it and where he was when he shopped for the food or the trip to the restaurant where he ate.

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It’s incredible the steel trap he has for a brain and it’s obviously helped him in his study of his game and the opponent. This is what makes great players legendary players. It was nice to see it on display, albeit in a losing effort, and I bet if we asked LeBron, it’s easier to remember the losses than it is the wins.

Game 2 is Tuesday, May 15 at 8:30 p.m. ET.