Their mission since Day 1 has been to bring a championship to Cleveland, and that goal is four wins from reality. And although the Cavaliers are neophytes in the finals, Brown isn't worried about them either being scared or satisfied with just making them.

"This team has been focused the entire year and they've really taken to heart the one-day-one-game-at-a-time theory," he said. "And I believe if they understand that each game is its own separate entity, it doesn't matter what people are saying or doing, we've got a chance to win.

"We're in it to win a championship, and everybody understands that."

James took some lumps early in the Detroit series, and then delivered late. He scored 48 points in Game 5 and finished the six-game series averaging 25.7 points, 9.2 rebounds and 8.5 assists ¡ª numbers only matched in a conference finals by Oscar Robertson (1963), John Havlicek (1968) and Larry Bird (1986).

Beating Detroit was monumental. Beating San Antonio would surpass it.

"That's a very great team, they're very experienced, they've been to the finals before and they know how to handle adversity," James said. "We have to just attack, attack, attack. That has to be our mind-set and we give ourselves a chance to win."

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