Not even M.J. could do what LeBron can

James played like he was on a trampoline. The signature shot of this game -- and these 2007 playoffs to date -- was his driving dunk on Rasheed Wallace, who stands 7 feet tall and jumped to block it and still needed a step-ladder to contest the shot. The dunk was so nasty that it humbled the bombastic Wallace. After a timeout a few minutes later, Wallace walked up to James and whispered something that had James nodding and saying, "I appreciate it."

That dunk was the kind of thing Michael Jordan used to do all the time. But LeBron unleashed a series of shots, of plays, that Jordan never did. For example, the two 3-pointers James hit in the fourth quarter. On both of them, James was guarded by Tayshaun Prince, who goes 6-foot-9 but has the reach of a 7-footer. James took a jab-step dribble inside the arc, then hopped backward and elevated for the shot and swished it. Jordan used to do that all the time ... from 18 feet. James did it from 24 feet twice in the fourth quarter of a game he described "the biggest of my life."

James also saw passes -- sees passes on a regular basis, in fact -- that Jordan never saw. James made one pass Sunday night that only two others in today's NBA would have seen, and then been able to execute. Those players: Jason Kidd and Steve Nash. The play: Twenty feet from the basket, dribbling near the top of the key, James spotted Sasha Pavlovic cutting on the baseline and shoved a one-handed bounce pass through traffic. The diagonal pass hit Pavlovic on the hands in stride, resulting in a dunk.

Jordan doesn't make that pass. Jordan doesn't see that pass.

Now then, some perspective. This was just one game. One incredible game. James wasn't incredible in Game 1 or Game 2 of this series, averaging 14.5 points on 35.3 percent shooting.

But here's some more perspective: Even with those two subpar games, James entered Sunday night as the only player in NBA history with at least 20 playoff games and career playoff averages topping 25 points, seven rebounds and six assists per game. And he's way over that, producing roughly 28 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in 26 postseason games.

We've never seen anyone like LeBron James, and in Cleveland they understand that. A building outside the Quicken Loans Arena has an enormous mural of James dunking against a black background. This thing is at least 15 stories tall, and the words that go with the picture are chilling:

We are all witnesses.

To something -- to someone -- the NBA has never seen.