Guiding the Cleveland Cavaliers to the 2016 NBA championship over the Golden State Warriors was viewed by many as the crowning achievement of LeBron James' legendary career.

As it turns out, he basically feels the same way — and even contends the victory sealed his place as the greatest NBA player of all time.

"That one right there made me the greatest player of all time," James said in a segment released by ESPN from their streaming show More Than An Athlete.

"I was super, super ecstatic to win one for Cleveland because of the 52-year (title) drought," James said, adding the emotion he displayed following the final buzzer was for everything the city's sports fans had gone through since the Browns won the 1964 NFL championship.

"And then after I stopped, I was like ... that one right there made you the greatest player of all time," James reiterated.

That championship, the Cavaliers' first and the third in James' career, came against the record-breaking 73-9 Warriors. In that series, the Cavs overcame a 3-1 deficit and saw James score 41 points in Game 5, 41 points in Game 6 and a 27-11-11 triple-double in Game 7. He won another Finals MVP by averaging 29.7 points, 11.3 rebounds and 8.9 assists in the series.

"Everybody was talking about how they were the greatest team of all time, they were the greatest team ever assembled, and for us to come back, the way we came back in that fashion, I was like ... you did something special," James said.

"That's probably one of the only times in my career I felt like, 'Oh (expletive), you did something special.' I haven't had time to really sit back and think but that ... that was a moment."