LeBron James downplayed the G.O.A.T. conversation, and whether Tuesday night had won the debate in his favor for all time. “Barbershop talk,” he called the chatter we love so much in sports over who is the greatest ever.
Then he pretty much said he was.
It was OK. He earned the right to crow a little. To exhale. To reflect. To savor this moment that was all his, and the impossible life that has surrounded it.