MVS

Yes, in the end, the Warriors had too much for everyone.

Too much Steph. Too much KD. Too much Draymond and Klay and anyone else you want to name.

And so , yes, they blew out the Cavaliers -- a much inferior team save the obvious one guy -- by 23 to complete the NBA Finals sweep, and cradled the Big Trophy again for the third time in four years. And, yes, Kevin Durant was the MVP again.

What he wasn't was the MVS -- i.e., "Most Valuable Superhero."

That of course would  be the aforementioned Obvious One Guy, aka LeBron James, who did things in these playoffs that astounded even lost-in-the-nostalgia-fog geezers like myself. Even though his team was swept in the Finals, he averaged nearly a triple-double: 34 points (on 52.7 percent shooting), 10 assists and 8.5 rebounds. And he never played fewer than 41 minutes in the four games after two months of playing virtually every minute of every game.

Oh, and then there's this: He did all that playing the last three games with a broken shooting hand.

In those three games, he played 44, 47 and 41 minutes, respectively.

In those three games, he averaged 28.3 points, 10.6 assists and 8.6 rebounds.

In those three games, no one -- fans, media, people watching on TV -- knew his hand was broken. It happened after Game 1, and LeBron did it to himself, punching a whiteboard in the locker room in understandable frustration over the ridiculous reversal of an obvious charge by Durant that turned the game.

Of course, the narrative for some will now be whether you can actually consider him the GOAT, or even GOAT 1A, if you get swept in the Finals and have a 3-6 lifetime record there.

The Blob, on the other hand, will dismiss that as the nonsense it is. And wonder instead when, in 40 years covering basketball as a professional sportswriter, he's ever seen anything like what LeBron James did in the 2018 playoffs.

"Never." That's the word you're looking for.