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Daily Dime: LeBron shows his range

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

PORTLAND -- LeBron James had no high-flying dunks, no highlight-film finishes and no crowd-pleasing rejections. What he did have was 34 points and 14 assists in Cleveland's 104-98 win over the Trail Blazers, and for that reason the rest of the league should be very, very afraid. Instead of dunking and driving, James put on a jump-shooting clinic on a stunned Blazer defense that did everything right and still ended up being burned. Portland closed off the lane to his drives right from the opening tip, when James blew past Nicolas Batum along the left baseline and went up for a rim-rattler, only to be met up high by Greg Oden and swatted.

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