Bill Simmons of Grantland.com said during the NBA Finals that it was like link if you want to see exactly how the formula works. It essentially takes everything that happens on the court in a single game and combines it all into one cohesive stat. As a result, it’s more reflective than single-game +/- in determining a player’s production.

In this year’s Finals, LeBron posted a Game Score of 22.5 over the five games played. Chris Bosh was at 10.6 and Dwyane Wade was third with 7.9 rating.

In 2007, the second-best player was Drew Gooden with a 9.0 Game Score, while Daniel Gibson was third with an 8.5 rating.

What if we took the average Game Score of each player (excluding LeBron, of course) in both series to determine how much help LeBron was getting from his teammates?

2007 Cleveland Cavaliers: 3.53
2014 Miami Heat: 3.38

Win Shares

Looking at the win share numbers for both the 2007 Cavaliers and 2014 Heat will probably come close to blinding you. It's ugly.

It won't surprise you that LeBron and Kawhi Leonard had the two highest win share total in the NBA Finals. But let's look at the rest of the list.

3. Tim Duncan - 0.60 WS
4. Manu Ginobili - 0.57 WS
5. Patty Mills - 0.48 WS
6. Tony Parker - 0.44 WS
7. Danny Green - 0.43 WS
8. Boris Diaw - 0.41 WS
9. Tiago Splitter - 0.39 WS
10. Chris Bosh - 0.28 WS
...17 (last). Dwyane Wade - -0.33 WS

We almost had to go through the entire Spurs roster until we hit the second Miami Heat player, Chris Bosh, who had the 10th-most win shares in the series. That's, umm, not very good.

And let's not even talk about Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers.

In the end, LeBron James got zero help during the Finals. The West isn't getting any worse. The Heat will seriously have to rethink their roster if they want to beat the Spurs in the future.