LeBron James may receive a lot of the credit sometimes when the Cleveland Cavaliers win, but the man himself knows when to heap the praise on another teammate when they deserve it too.

The Cavaliers defeated the Boston Celtics 111-102 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Monday night to keep their playoff hopes alive. James instigated the Cavs' win, as he finished with 44 points, five rebounds, three assists, and two steals, while also shooting 17-of-28 from the field.

The four-time MVP winner had a great outing on the court for the Cavaliers in their win, but he himself was impressed by the production of his teammate, Kyle Korver, who finished with 14 points and had a solid defensive performance on Celtics guard Jaylen Brown.

James said after the game, according to IBTimes: "I love Kyle ever since we made the trade to get him here. I had no idea how Griff [former Cavs GM David Griffin] was able to pull that off still to this day.

"He's just a true professional, there's not many of us '03 class guys still around and it feels like we're just cut from a different cloth because we've been around for so long and we have this work ethic.

"You see him every single day putting the work in, putting his mind, his body into it. It's not about his age, he's always just keeping his body in the right position especially in tonight's game.

"I mean he's guarding...how old is Jaylen Brown? 21? He's guarding Jaylen Brown, one of the most athletic wings that we have in our league is 21-years-old. Jaylen can probably fall on the ground 10 times and probably spring up like he never fell.

"I don't really like Kyle falling too much like that, I got to keep his body as fresh as possible but listen, he's doing whatever it takes to help us win with the blocks, the strips and obviously his shot-making is very key for our team as well but it's just the intangibles that he's doing for us defensively that has put him in another position to be on the floor."

LeBron will be hoping that Korver can replicate this performance in Game 5 later this week on Wednesday night at the TD Garden in Boston.

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