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By the Numbers: The Whole Enchilada

As the city of Cleveland continues to soak in the Cavaliers' NBA Championship, here are some final figures on how they did it in "By the Numbers" presented by FanDuel.

100 … total Playoff victories that the Cavaliers have recorded over their 46-year history – appropriately hitting the century mark by winning the 2016 NBA Championship

29.7, 11.3, 8.9, 2.6, 2.3 … points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocked shots that LeBron James averaged in the 2016 Finals, leading both teams in each category and earning unanimous MVP honors

10 … double-doubles that Kevin Love posted in the 2016 Playoffs – (including the first eight games of the postseason) – while tallying five 20-10 games along the way

4 … teams that have won a Finals Game 7 on the road, the Cavaliers becoming the first since the Washington Bullets beat the Seattle SuperSonics in 1978

.565 … Channing Frye’s three-point percentage (26-for-46) in the 2016 Playoffs – tops among all players with at least 20 attempts

18 … games during the 2016 Playoffs in which Kyrie Irving topped the 20-point plateau – topping the 30-point mark six times and netting 41 in Game 5 of the Finals

.857 … Cavaliers’ winning percentage against Eastern Conference teams over the past two postseasons – compiling a 24-4 record, including a 13-1 mark at home

10.2, 11.5 … Tristan Thompson’s scoring and rebounding averages in 13 NBA Finals games against the Warriors – grabbing double-digit boards in 10 of those games, with seven double-doubles

5 … teammate duos -- now including LeBron and Kyrie – to each average at least 25.0 points in an NBA Finals

.516 … Richard Jefferson’s field goal percentage in the 2016 Finals

65 … three-pointers that J.R. Smith canned during the 2016 Playoffs – eclipsing his own franchise record of 51, set last season

6 … games during the 2016 Playoffs in which LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love all topped the 20-point mark

18,802 … days between the Browns winning the NFL Championship on December 27, 1964 and the Cavaliers winning the NBA title on June 19, 2016

12, 11 … blocked shots and steals that LeBron tallied over the final four games of the Finals

.383 … Golden State’s field goal percentage over the last three games of the 2016 Finals

2 … players in NBA Finals history to shoot at least 70 percent from the floor in a 40-point game – Kyrie Irving (Game 5 vs. GSW, 2016) and Wilt Chamberlain (Game 6 vs. NYK, 1970)

9-1 … Cavaliers’ record at The Q during the 2016 Playoffs, outscoring opponents by an average of 17.9 points – shooting .499 from the field, including .431 from long-range

7 … triple-doubles that LeBron James has recorded over his Finals career – including his 23-11-11 trifecta in Game 7 – placing him one shy of the all-time leader, Magic Johnson

.694 … Tyronn Lue’s winning percentage – (43-19) – regular and postseason as Cavaliers’ head coach

258 … three-pointers made by the Cavaliers in the 2016 Playoffs – second-most ever hit by a team in a single postseason, only trailing the team they topped in Game 7 last Sunday night

15-0 … Cavaliers’ record in the 2016 Playoffs when scoring more than 100 points

26 … consecutive Playoff series in which LeBron James has won at least one road game, the longest streak in NBA history

3 … teams in league history – the 1951 Knicks, 1966 Lakers and 2016 Cavaliers – to reach a seventh game after trailing, 3-1, in the Finals

1 … team in league history – the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers – to win an NBA title after trailing, 3-1, in the Finals