Hear me out...LeBron James is still 'King'

The factors that led to Golden State's collapse in the NBA Finals are as follows Draymond Green's suspension in Game 5, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson's ice cold shooting, owner Joe Lacob's overly confident/slightly delusional remarks all season long and the team that prided themselves on ball movement regressed to playing 'hero-ball'.

The most important factor in the Warriors collapse was LeBron James; he was the harbinger of their destruction.

Through Games 1-4 LeBron was not LeBron, he was playing nowhere near the level he was in last season's Finals when a depleted Cavaliers pushed the Warriors to six games. During the first four games of the 2016 Finals, he shot 48 percent from the field, 31 percent from the 3, scored a total of 99 points, with 33 assists and 23 turnovers.

Then the man, who was dubbed 'The Chosen One' as a high schooler, awoke in Game 5, forever altering the legacies of himself, Curry, the Cavaliers, and the Warriors. From that game on LeBron was in control as much as everyone tried to deny it, myself included. In those final three games, LeBron went to another level, scoring 109 points, shooting 50 percent from the field and 42 percent from 3, while dishing out 29 assists and committing only eight turnovers.

While Curry is the two-time MVP and first unanimous selection these Finals proved, yet again, LeBron is the best player on the planet. (Just a note, the unanimous MVP selection is more of an indictment on those voting. The fact that Michael Jordan was never a unanimous MVP should be an embarrassment to those voters.)

Curry had a serious hold on the 'best player in the world belt' and the tug-of-war between him and LeBron would be decided in this year's Finals. However, Curry could not get it going, and LeBron hit another gear to pull off an incredible comeback ripping the belt back from Curry.

Even if the Warriors were to win Curry was not going to be Finals MVP that would have gone to Draymond Green. It is the second Finals in a row the MVP wasn't the best player on the court. It's now fair to ask 'why does Curry's play drop off in the Finals?'

Back to LeBron, this Finals win permanently cements him among the top five of the NBA's all-time greats and puts him on the trajectory to be the second greatest player of all-time. During his 13 seasons in the NBA, he's accumulated, three titles, four MVPs, three Finals MVPs, made six straight Finals appearances and been selected to the All-NBA first team nine seasons running.

As of now the NBA's five greatest players sits like so, Jordan, Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, LeBron and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

LeBron has earned the fourth spot; he brought a title to one of the most depressing cities in America and lifted their miserable sports culture. He very well could be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

The Warriors will bounce back; there's no need to make significant changes but if they can get Kevin Durant they need to pull that trigger. Alternatively, even adding Dwight Howard would instill the fear they just lost.

Correction, the one major change the Warriors need to make is keeping Lacob away from the microphones. For being "light years ahead" of everyone else he sure kept growing that target on his team's back.

Lacob should take a page from the Spurs owner; you know what I am not even sure who the Spurs owner is, let me do a quick Google search ... Peter Holt. I've been following the NBA for as long as I can remember, and I haven't heard that name once. However, it proves my point; Mr. Lacob be like your cohort Mr. Holt by keeping quiet and writing checks. The NBA is tough enough there' no need to bring added scrutiny to your team when they already have a giant target on their back.

It was no secret I was pulling for the Warriors. I love their team first focus, and I love watching history but has the confetti rained down on LeBron and his team I couldn't help but be appreciative of what just happened. He took a downtrodden franchise, with the most emotionally broken fans in sports, a ridiculous owner (Dan Gilbert) and delivered a title to them, as he promised two years earlier. Even after they burnt his jersey or wrote sad vengeful notes in comic sans font for the entire world to see. He still brought them a title, and while his passive-aggressiveness was annoying this season, a tip of the hat is due. He's one of the greatest to play the game, and here's to hoping this championship inspires another franchise, the team-who-must-not-be-named, who hasn't won in over a century to grab their first title.