Former Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James reminisced about a missed call involving then-Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant that he believes could have “changed the trajectory” of the 2017 NBA Finals.

“I look at, I believe it was 2017 — 2017, Game 1 in Golden State,” James said regarding one of his several NBA Finals matchups against the Warriors. “We had an opportunity to win that Game 1. I remember one play that still burns — it burns me inside is I read Kevin Durant with his right-to-left crossover, and I’m able to step over and get a charge. The referees went to go look at it. I still got — still got some hurt feelings about that. And they went over and looked at it and called it a block. A block — a block charge, and that game didn’t go the way it went as way we wanted to. But that could change the trajectory of a series.”

James’ Cavaliers lost Game 1 by 22 points and mustered only 91 points as a team. Cleveland received little scoring production from its supporting cast in the defeat, considering no player outside of James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love reached double digits in scoring.

Conversely, Durant scored a game-high 38 points and converted 14 of his 26 shot attempts from the field, including half of his six tries from 3-point range.

The Cavaliers’ Game 1 loss was a microcosm of how the championship series played out. Cleveland lost the best-of-seven series against Durant, Stephen Curry and the Warriors in convincing fashion, as three of the team’s four losses came by 19 points or more.

Cleveland’s lone win of the series came in Game 4, and it took an incredible collective offensive performance from the Cavaliers to earn a victory.

Led by Irving’s 40 points on 15-of-27 shooting from the field, the Cavaliers put 137 points on the board. James also chipped in 31 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists and one steal.

Following Cleveland’s impressive Game 4 victory, the Cavaliers’ season came to an end soon after, as the team lost Game 5 by nine points. Durant — who averaged 35.2 points per contest on 55.6 percent accuracy from the floor and 47.4 percent from deep in the championship series — won the Finals MVP award.

While Durant’s Warriors got the better of James’ Cavaliers in the 2017 NBA Finals, the 39-year-old has the edge over Durant in terms of NBA titles won. Durant has two titles to his name — both of which came during his time in Golden State — while James is a four-time champion, with his most recent title coming with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020.

Though James’ argument that a single moment can change the trajectory of a series is well founded, considering how the series in question played out, it’s difficult to imagine that the Cavaliers would have won the 2017 NBA Finals even if Durant was called for a charge.