Sports Illustrated has named LeBron James 2012 Sportsman of the Year

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Pat Riley stood in the mouth of the tunnel at Boston's TD Garden, between the court and the locker room, and waited for the Boat. That's what he calls LeBron James -- "You know," Riley explains, "best of all time" -- an acronym he conjured to remind the planet's preeminent basketball player of frontiers still to be conquered. "Hey, Boat," Riley will say. "How is the Boat doing today?" James will reflexively laugh and shake his head because he is not the Boat, at least not yet.

But on that sweaty night at the Garden, in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, facing yet another summer cast as the villain foiled, he delivered one of the Boat performances in NBA history. The image of James throughout the game, bent at the waist, staring skyward with pupils pushed to his eyelids, recalled predators of different breeds. "He was primal," Riley says. "He was a cobra, a leopard, a tiger hunched over his kill."

 

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truly one of the greatest human beings to ever live

STFU

 

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"LeBRON JAMES: You know how in school, around the classroom, there's always the alphabet? The capital A and lower case A has an apple. The capital B and lower case B has a ball. I always looked at the L, because of my name, and it had a lion. That's why I love lions. The look they're talking about is the look lions get when they're seeking prey and it's time to feast."

LeBron James: 2012 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year - Sportsman of the Year - SI.com

 

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Sportsman 2012: LeBron James Accepts Sportsman of the Year Award - Video - SI.com

 

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Savannah is looking right

 

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Savannah thickness

 

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Savannah is looking right

Better than Beyonce in those pics.