Cleveland ? His team was trailing by 19 points, the home crowd was booing and there was only a quarter left for LeBron James to make things right.

As he sat on Cleveland’s bench, James knew exactly what he needed to do — take over.

“He told me, ‘Hey, we’re going to get this done’,” Cavaliers coach Paul Silas said Thursday. “I said, ‘OK,’ and lo and behold he did go to work and got it done.”

Making plays similar to another player who wore No. 23 — Michael Jordan — James single-handedly rallied Cleveland to a 114-109 overtime win Wednesday night over the Phoenix Suns, who left the arena bewildered and with their first loss.

In 12 amazing minutes, the 19-year-old James shined brighter than at any other time since he jumped straight from Ohio high school lore to the NBA.

On his broad shoulders, James carried the Cavaliers.

He scored a season-high 38 points, 17 in the fourth quarter when he outscored the Suns by three and led the Cavaliers to their largest fourth-quarter comeback in franchise history.

James made layups and short jumpers. He rocked the backboard with a monstrous dunk in the final minute. He drained a clutch three-pointer and all his free throws, hitting a pair with 34 seconds remaining to bring Cleveland within a point.

Then, with the Cavaliers down three, James made the night’s headiest play.

After catching the inbounds pass on the right side, James drew a double-team before passing to center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who drained his fourth career three from the top of the key with 3.6 seconds left.

“I just let it fly,” Ilgauskas said.

That’s when James did something as remarkable as anything next to his name in the box score.

As his teammates mobbed Ilgauskas during a timeout, James remained cool. He quickly reminded the Cavaliers there was still time left for Phoenix to hit a buzzer beater and they’d better be ready to play defense.

Just like Jordan would have told the Bulls.

James added 10 rebounds, six assists, three steals and three blocks in 48 minutes. Nice numbers made more remarkable because he didn’t have a field goal for 15 minutes and he posted them one night after playing 48 minutes in a win at Atlanta.

The big night also vaulted James’ scoring average to 28.6 — the league’s best.

“I just felt I had to make something happen,” James said. “I’m a leader, that’s how I look at it.”

James’ maturity is apparent on and off the floor. The experience of playing on the U.S. Olympic team this summer has improved his overall game, especially on defense. He’s also a new father.

Silas has noticed a difference in James, who went out of his way to share the ball and spotlight with his teammates last season.

“It’s an inner confidence that he has now that he didn’t have last year because it was all new to him,” Silas said. “But he understands that he can take over a game and win it for you. It’s all mental now.

“The physical was there last year, but the mental is the most important thing, where he knows that ‘Give me the ball and I can get it done for you’ and he goes out and does that.”

There’s not much he isn’t doing. Along with his scoring average being up nearly eight points from a year ago, he’s averaging 7.6 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 2.40 assists.

He’s also leading the league in minutes played, averaging 46.2 per game.

That’s not a concern to Silas.

“I’m not really worried about LeBron burning out,” he said. “The fact is we’re just not nearly as good when he is on the bench and we have to win games.”

With James, the Cavaliers will win a lot more of them.

As he walked onto the floor for the start of overtime, Cleveland’s young standout looked at the scorer’s table, raised his hands and gave a what-can-I-say? shrug.

Just like Jordan once did.