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LeBron James and Miami Heat are champions
“He’s just focused, you know, just like the rest of this team,” Wade said. “He has a goal, and he wants to reach that goal, and he doesn’t want nothing to stand in his way, and he doesn’t want himself to stand in his way. He wants to make sure once you leave the game or you leave the series, you can say, I gave it my all. I don’t know if we all could have said that last season.”
They couldn’t.
That’s why James made a slew of changes after the 2011 finals.
He worked out harder. He said he was getting rid of the anger that he played with last season, something he did in an effort to prove people wrong. This year, he said he played with joy again, and figured out that the best way to win wasn’t to prove detractors wrong, but to pro”
“He’s made some changes, obviously, to his game and more importantly, to his approach, how he views it and how he prepares for a game,” Heat forward Juwan Howard said. “I commend him for some of the decisions that he made, looking at himself in the mirror and saying ‘I want to make some changes.’ A lot of players won’t do that. Obviously, it shows he’s very bright and that he’s humble. He wants to get better.”
But first, he had to address not being happy.
His family, then-girlfriend, now-fiancee Savannah Brinson, and the couple’s two sons — spent long stretches of last season in Ohio. James confided to those in his close circle last year that at times he felt isolated. When Brinson and their kids moved to Miami full-time, things changed in a hurry. James asked Brinson to marry him. The nuptials are next summer.
