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Saturday, March 11, 2017
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AUBURN HILLS – When LeBron James stepped onto the court at the Palace of Auburn Hills Thursday morning and started firing up shots at set spots beyond the arc, he said, “This is my second home.”
If Thursday night turns out to be his farewell to the Palace, where 10 years ago he turned in perhaps his greatest performance, James put on another show.
It wasn’t a phenomenal scoring display like the one seen May 31, 2007. Instead, at age 32, James awed the crowd with a thunderous display of power, one of his rim-rattling dunks drawing a technical foul.
Coming off a game when James and Kyrie Irving both scored 30, the two continued their dynamic duo routine. But James and Irving needed more help in a 106-101 loss to the Detroit Pistons.
Again showing a maddening tendency to let average opponents hang around, even a 12-point third quarter from Channing Frye wasn’t enough to put away the Pistons.
The Cavs lost their third in a row and fell to 1-4 in March, with their lone win Friday in Atlanta, after going a league-best 9-2 in February.
Part of James’ feeling about the Pistons’ home for the last 30 years comes from what is arguably his signature night, Game 5 of the 2007 Eastern Conference Finals. James scored 48 points, including the Cavs’ final 25, in a 109-107 double overtime victory.
James said he still has memorabilia from that game, when he played 50 minutes and shot 18-of-33 from the field, 2-of-3 from 3-point range a
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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James gestures after dunking during the first half of his team’s clash against the Detroit Pistons on Thursday in Auburn Hills, Michigan. AP
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