MIAMI – This was the transcendent NBA Finals moment everyone will always remember out of LeBron James, a fatal four-part sequence encapsulating the magnitude with which he controls everything on the court. Just over 22 years ago, Michael Jordan had charted his memorable tale in The Finals with a twisting, up and under layup in Game 2 of the Chicago Bulls’ first title. It was an immortalizing, peerless play.

These were different circumstances, different periods in the careers, but James captured his own memory to live on with the Jordans and Magic Johnsons. Everywhere inside the American Airlines Arena, people wondered where James’ aggression had gone on Sunday night, a game spiraling out of his hands as if it were 2011 all over again, and then LeBron did something he knows he failed to do in that Finals series: Make a play of significance, of impact when it matters most.

And then he did it again and again and again in the midst of a 33-5 run that lifted the Miami Heat from down one point to a 103-84 blowout win in Game 2 over the San Antonio Spurs.

To begin four plays summoned out of his all around brilliance, James stuffed Tiago Splitter – listed three inches taller – at the rim in the best block of this postseason. Tony Parker made a beautiful pass to Splitter, and the big man brought the ball way behind his head only for James to size him up and pack it with assault. Three seconds went by with his teammates running up court, and James simply stood in place, mesmerized about a block certain to live on and on.

“We’ll be seeing that over and over and over and over,” Chris Bosh said late Sunday. “It was an awesome block.”

After the rejection of a center, James slowly made his way back to the other end and accelerated once he noticed Mario Chalmers needed help creating space. James ran to set Chalmers a screen, received a pass and examined the floor as he always does. This time, Ray Allen was open in the corner and the ball was delivered to him in an instant, giving the Heat an insurmountable lead, 89-66.

People wanted to judge James on his scoring across Game 1 of The Finals, and still, he showed the vastness of his talent on those consecutive plays. From Parker to Splitter, James guards them all and covers so much ground. No matter the coverage on defense, he’ll destroy you by pounding the ball to the rim or finding his shooters. After the block and assist, James stole a pass thrown by Parker to Danny Green, Mike Miller lunged a pass ahead, and LeBron sprinted for the ball and dunked it with two hands.

His stat line – 17 points, eight rebounds, seven assists – reflected a star getting trapped, yet garnering attention that gave Chalmers (19 points), Allen (13) and Mike Miller (nine) a combined eight three-pointers.

Two seasons ago, James wasn’t this trusting of his shooters, and Miller recalled needing to let him know: We’re here for you, LeBron. We want to help. They’re proving it now and Sunday night was reminiscent of James’ supporting cast draining three-pointers, flying all over the court in that Game 5 Finals clincher a season ago.

“He understands now that we’re here to help him, here to make his job easier,” Miller said. “That’s the big difference, the growth from the first season together to now.”

Beyond James’ greatness, the contribution of Chalmers was unmistakable and he bailed out the Heat on plenty of dead possessions, plays lacking cohesion, with uncanny floaters. Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh were ordinary offensively, but Miami needed every one of Bosh’s 10 rebounds, the most he’s had in a month. Eventually, the savvy dominance of LeBron blankets all the Heat’s issues, all underperformances.

The Spurs have made clear so far that they won’t let James put up those soaring outputs in points, and Kawhi Leonard’s had a textbook effort against him. James is bound to put forth a breakout scoring game at some point in this series, but until he does, the Heat understand they can’t stagnate and allow San Antonio to limit his passing outlets.

“We can’t stand around, because this is the kind of series that the [Spurs] won’t let LeBron get going,” Bosh said. “We have to play our part.”

For the Heat, the play that broke them out of a lack of flow on offense Sunday was the pick and roll between Chalmers and James on the left elbow, a pick-your-poison finisher engraved in every opposing team’s scouting report. They ran it over and over, and why not? If the Spurs couldn’t stop it, keep going to it.

Gregg Popovich will make adjustments into Game 3, beginning three straight on the Spurs’ home court. Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili combined to miss 23 of 33 from the field, a pedestrian night out of a team that knows its big three is just as critical as the Heat’s.

Nothing was stopping James, but there had been a scare that he suffered a right knee injury. Instead, it was just a floor burn. Even so, James was irritated with the band-aid continuing to fall off the knee and used a timeout within the first few minutes of the first quarter to ask the Heat’s training staff to replace it with a wrap. Problem solved.

Jordan had his enduring up and under in ’91 late in the rout of Game 2 after a Bulls’ opening loss to Magic's Lakers, and there was James with a sequence of four plays that succinctly encapsulated his acumen on both ends, in a way no one ever has. In a league that has players shying away from block attempts in fear of ridicule, James went straight up to stuff Splitter, ready to live with celebration or humiliation. “That’s LeBron, though. He’s different, more athletic,” Allen said.

This was a transcendent memory for James in these Finals, a remembrance forever. It will be repeated over and over and over and over, Bosh said. As clutch as that shot with cramps was a year ago, this block, to assist, to steal, to dunk moment was a four-part masterpiece. As everyone wondered where the aggressiveness had gone, LeBron James reminded again the essence of his game: His dominating influence from one basket to the other.