If the Heat win game six, Dirk would still have the reputation of choking in big games.
Dirk in '06 vs. the Spurs was pretty clutch. In 06 vs. the Heat, not clutch.
In '07 vs. the Warriors, not clutch. In 11 vs. the heat, clutch (but really only because he won).
Clutchness in sports is so vastly overrated and forgotten how poorly people were when people win. Lebron has been vastly so clutch in just about every series excluding the NBA finals and the year he figured out that he didn't want to stay in Ohio. Yes, Lebron hasn't done well in the Finals. These are supposed to be the best two teams in the finals, so not really all that surprising (and the Spurs were so much better than a one man team the first time around).
But somehow Dirk now has a ring and he'll forever be remembered as Mr. 4th quarter as opposed to the choker that he was before. If D. Wade makes the 2nd free throws in the 4th game, perhaps Lebron will now forever be remembered as the best of all time, and perhaps Dirk will be this era's Charles Barkley. But his free throw rimmed out and now all these experts are waying in how much Lebron sucks and how much Dirk is a god.
The greatness of a person in sports is so heavily weighted by some minute percentage point it is ridiculous.
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