An 82-game regular season has been the norm in the NBA for the better part of 5 decades now. In a regular season where action takes place every night, even the most dramatic of moments can be fleeting, especially in today’s age of social media where it’s all about clicks and impressions before our brains starve for the next piece of content. Rightfully and fairly so, the greatest NBA moments belong to the Finals and the postseason, where herculean heroes duke it out for eternal glory in the lore of this beautiful game.

In today’s episode we continue our series of Random Game Rewind, where we hope in the NBA time machine and take a visit to some of the forgotten games from regular season history, and analyze how they’ve gone on to affect the grand scheme of things. Pack  your winter gear, bundle up, and join me as we take a short trip back to a cold February night in Cleveland just 5 ½ years ago.

Two years before LeBron James and Jimmy Butler would square off in the 2020 NBA Finals, they put on a big time show, specifically LeBron James, in a random regular season game just two years prior to their championship tilt.