We are, right now, at Peak LeBron James.

It's a ridiculous thing my friend Tom started shouting as we were watching Game 1 of the Finals — yeah, imagine a bar full of people looking at grown man bellowing "Peak LeBron! Peak LeBron!" every time King James did a LeBron thing — but it's true.

LeBron turned 30 in December. He still has all the physical gifts to play with reckless abandon, but he also has the wisdom of acquired knowledge. He will never be as good as he is right now, in these NBA Finals. And he will never have a better chance to cement his legacy not just as one of the all-time greats in the NBA, put perhaps as the greatest.

The NBA has always been about Big Twos and Big Threes. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen. Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal were the duo in L.A. LeBron left Cleveland because he didn't have a partner in crime, then won two titles in Miami with a strong No. 2 (Dwyane Wade) and a capable No. 3 (Chris Bosh).

You might get by with one true superstar and a bunch of other very good players, which you could argue the Spurs have done with Tim Duncan and the likes of Tony Parker, Manu Ginóbili and co. (though you could also argue that underrates Parker and Ginobili).

The point is: nobody does it alone. But trailing 1-0 in the Finals, with the other two members of his Big Three (Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving) out with injuries, LeBron was about as alone as a player can get.

Matthew Dellavedova looks like a guy whose athletic peak was dominating his college rec league. But still, the Cavs are shorthanded enough that he played 42 minutes Sunday — and he might have been their second-most important player. Timofey Mozgov and Tristan Thompson are useful big men. Iman Shumpert, James Jones and J.R. Smith can shoot.

Six role players and LeBron.

James shot just 11-for-35 from the field and missed a potential game-winning layup. But Game 2 was not a game of efficiency. It was a throwback, grind-it-out NBA playoff game – in which LeBron played 50 minutes and his Cavaliers prevailed.

If Cleveland can squeeze out three more wins, the LeBron/Jordan talk will intensify. It's ridiculous in some ways to compare them because their games were so different. Jordan/Kobe was natural. LeBron is built like a transformer.

And if he can win this series, he could well be transformed into the greatest of all-time.

Michael Rand