CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Sweat poured from LeBron's brow as he dribbled near midcourt.

He heaved one from about there -- it clanged off the rim at The Q but bounced back to him.

Two more dribbles, a stutter step, a few more dribbles and then a 3-pointer. From deep. Maybe 30-feet. Splash.

Nobody cheered, though.

Oh, wait, not that LeBron. LeBron James Jr., the 13-year old, who was on the court shooting with his buddies and brother Bryce not long after his dad stunned the world, again, with a buzzer beater to beat the Raptors 105-103 in Game 3.

"It's normal," Junior said when I asked what he thinks when James Sr. makes those career-defining shots.

What James (the big guy) did Saturday night isn't supposed to be normal, of course. The Cavs had just puked all over themselves, hacked up a 14-point fourth-quarter lead and were staring at a tied game with eight seconds left.

The Cavs called timeout but chose to dribble the length of the court instead of inbound it at the timeline, so they could keep their floor spacing and give James enough room to operate.

James beat an early double team and sprinted down the floor, dribbling the ball while OG Anunoby hounded him.

"That's way more time than I needed," James explained.

You know the rest. James was dribbling and fading left, and naturally lifted the ball with his right hand. It bounced off the glass and through the hoop as the buzzer sounded. Pandemonium ensued. James' legend grew.

It was a once-in-a lifetime play. James has two in the span of three home games. He beat the Pacers in Game 5 as he jumped and faded left for a 3-pointer near the top of the key as time ran out.

So for James, making these game winners is normal -- normal to him the same reason it's normal to his son. He practices these kinds of shots, just like Junior was doing in the quiet of an empty Quicken Loans Arena after 20,562 screaming fans had gone home, thrilled by what they had just witnessed.

"What you come to find out as his teammate and playing with him is that he practices those shots all the time and makes them all the time," Kevin Love said.

Love recalled a crazy shot James hit last season to send a regular-season game against the Wizards into overtime. Love threw it almost the full length of the court. James, posting up against his man as though he's a receiver bodying up a defensive back, caught it, spun outside the 3-point line and banked in a shot at the buzzer.

The play is called "touchdown."

"He practiced that (shot) that day, came into practice the next day and hit it a couple more times in a row," Love said. "You just see him do it every single day ... you almost do expect it to go in. He's been so great in this run and so great in all of our playoff runs."

Because, like we said, this just happened the other day, the Cavs' media relations staff dusted off and updated this gem of a stat with ease -- James now has five buzzer beaters for wins in the playoffs. One was a layup. The others were spinning, twisting jumpers and fadeaways.

"The level of difficulty of that is very difficult," James said of his latest. "Don't try it at home."

Kyle Korver, a professional marveler at James, asked rhetorically how James might "decide you want to shoot that shot.

"How do you decide with the game on the line, drive left, go off one foot, palm the ball, shoot it off the glass?" Korver said. "Incredible shot."

James said he doesn't always know which shot he's going to take until it's time to let it fly, but, "I trust every shot that I'm going to take because I work on every shot."

James finished with 38 points, six rebounds and seven assists Saturday. He shot 14-of-26 from the field, and scored 16 in the fourth. At one point he was 9-of-19.

The series is now for all intents and purposes over. The Cavs are up 3-0. You already know neither James nor the Cavs have ever blown such a lead. They've won nine in a row over the Raptors in the postseason.

But two games in this series could have gone either way. There was Cleveland's close call in Game 1, a 113-112 win in overtime, and of course Game 3.

And the Cavs needed all seven games to shake the Pacers. So if James' missed that shot at the end of regulation in Game 5, maybe Indiana finds a way to pull the game out in overtime and perhaps close out the series in Game 6?

"Lucky how?" coach Tyronn Lue shot back, when asked, well, if the Cavs were in fact lucky winning these games on James' last shots.

"You just get the ball to Bron at the end of the game, he has been producing for us all season, his whole career," Lue said. "If the game is tied or the game is on the line, we got a great person to go to down the stretch. I wouldn't say lucky."

Korver added: "I think we are expecting him to win the game in the end when it's close."

Then again, suggesting luck does imply that James doesn't mean to make these circus shots at the end of games. We know better. He works on them.

So does his son. In between halfcourt heaves late Saturday night, I asked Junior where he was sitting for Senior's latest game winner.

"Bronnie," as James Sr. calls him, pointed to his seat, somewhere in the area of the Cavs' bench.

I asked him what he did when the shot when through the hoop.

"I screamed a little," he said, before it was back to practicing trick shots of his own.

Just another normal night at The Q.