LBJ's Amazing Career So Far!
There isn't anything that LeBron James hasn't accomplished in professional basketball. He is a four-time league MVP, one of the only five players in NBA history to win league MVP award four times. He is the only player to win the league MVP award at least two times with two different teams. LeBron James has taken his teams to NBA Finals eight times in his career, including seven straight for the past seven years. He has won three NBA Finals, along with three finals MVPS. Besides winning championships and league MVPs, LBJ has been an NBA All-Star fourteen times. Eleven times in his career, he's been a member of All NBA First team. Five times he has been a member of All NBA defensive team. He once won scoring champion in 2008, even though he doesn't play as a scorer. For his career, he averages over twenty-seven points, seven rebounds, and seven assists per game. That's some amazing stat line. LBJ's finals record isn't perfect, as it is 3-5 in eight attempts, but if people just focus on his stat line and career accomplishments so far, they would think that he is at the very top of the NBA mountain, or pretty close to being there. I will have you all see LeBron James' stats and accomplishments in a very different way.
LeBron James is considered to be one of the most unselfish players in the game. How exactly is he unselfish?
Players when they play around LeBron James, they tend to play at a higher level than they did before they came to LeBron's team, or before LeBron came to their team. LeBron makes everyone around him better, as he is always willing to pass them the ball when they are open, or at their sweet spots in the game. Players who get to play with LeBron, don't get to stand still and watch LeBron try to do all the scoring by himself. LBJ might not do all the scoring by himself, but he always wants to be the reason for his teammates to be able to put up points in the game. Scoring and putting the ball in the hole isn't the only way to make your numbers look good. I don't understand why a player pilling up his assists numbers, isn't considered selfish. Yes, you are giving up the ball to another player to score or hit the big shot in the game, but you will get the credit for the assist, and people will point out that it was because of your assist, why the team won. People have been bragging about assists since day one. NBA experts and fans appreciate triple-doubles and give high remarks to players who are able to post triple-doubles in games. How does the player get a triple-double in the game? Usually, a player gets triple-double in the game with points, rebounds, and games. Last year in the NBA Finals, LeBron's team, Cleveland Cavaliers got destroyed by the Golden State Warriors. LeBron and his team lost 4-1 in five games, but Mike Breen of ESPN, who does NBA Finals every year alongside Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, kept bringing up the obvious, that LeBron James posted a triple-double in the NBA Finals. Blind lovers of LeBron James kept using his stat line of the NBA Finals to defend him and made excuses for him, such as him not having enough help to beat the Warriors. Some very smart sports' writers also said the same thing that LeBron posted a triple-double, there was nothing else he could have done to win the Finals. Why posting a triple-double and having an impressive stat line, so important to people? As in, some fans wouldn't mind their team getting swept in the NBA Finals, as long as the best player on their team put up a triple-double. Do people know that players could pile up stats in garbage time? Or the best player could also pile up stats early in the game, but ends up struggling with making baskets and necessary plays when the game gets tight? I can' tell you how many times ESPN showed LeBron's stats during all five games, halftimes, or at the conclusion of those games in the 2017 NBA Finals. How could anyone be satisfied with LeBron's stats when he and his team were getting smoked by the Warriors? Seriously, do people want to win a competitive game, or have a triple-double in a blowout loss? LeBron certainly wants triple-doubles, because he knows it would get people to talk about him more than they normally do.
Going after statistics isn't the only thing which makes LBJ selfish. His business decisions are strangely all about him too. LeBron going to Miami Heat, to play with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh was understandable. His plan was to win NBA titles that he couldn't do in Cleveland from 2003-2010, because of the bad management and not having enough help over there. Fine, no problem with him going to Miami to win NBA titles. In four seasons with the Miami Heat, LeBron James went to four finals and ended up winning two rings. In 2012 and 2013, the years when LeBron won back to back titles with the Heat, it felt like him and his new team was going to dominate the NBA for a long time. Then 2014 NBA Finals happened! After beating the San Antonio Spurs in a hard fought seven game series to win the Finals in 2013, LeBron and Heat got to play them again in 2014. Most of us expected another good series, and Heat to win again. However, a beat-down took place. The Spurs absolutely destroyed LeBron's Heat in five games. Many good teams have been beaten in five games of a playoff series before, but nothing compared to this. For the entire series, the Spurs outscored LeBron's Heat by an average point differential of fourteen points, which is the largest for any Finals' series. Not many put any blame on LeBron, as he averaged over twenty-eight points, close to eight rebounds, and four assists per game. Even though LBJ's team lost by a record margin, LeBron's loyalists praised the numbers he put up in the Finals. Anyways, after LeBron and the Heat lost the Finals, one would think him and his team would come back more motivated and stronger than they did a year earlier, so then they could prove the world that they are still the top dog. However, LeBron James had some other plans. He didn't want to avenge the loss the Spurs handed to him and his Heat. He decided to go back to Cleveland. LeBron realized that the Heat roster was getting old and slow. In Cleveland, Kyrie Irving had emerged as a number one option and was balling out while showing flashes of superstardom. Plus, the Cleveland Cavaliers had won the number one pick in the draft lottery and were in a position to become a contender in the eastern conference. LeBron James probably thought to himself that he would have a better chance of winning the East and the NBA Finals in Cleveland than he would in Miami. He also figured that if he gets emotional and says he misses his home, wants to return, and wants to help the young core win big games, people in Cleveland would accept him with open arms. Guess what? His master plan worked to perfection. Everyone believed that he was coming back to Cleveland because he really missed home. Not even a single analyst mentioned the fact that LeBron was leaving Miami and coming to Cleveland because he feared he would never win a title again with a broken Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh who was washed up! Also, NBA experts failed to bring up the fact that LeBron, gave up on all of his brothers and teammates in Miami! LeBron quit on all those guys, who helped him get to the mountaintop, where he never made it with his former team. He left Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem, and others when they needed him the most!
NBA is all drama now, thanks to LeBron James!
Professional basketball was always fun. It is still fun to watch, but there is a lot of drama now. Most of the drama started with LeBron James making the 'decision' to go to Miami Heat and then claiming to bring 'not one, not two, not three, not four....' titles for his new team. Then he did the returning of home thing in 2014. After he came back to Cleveland, he took shots indirectly at Kevin Love on Twitter, by telling him to find ways to fit into the team. LBJ didn't mention Kevin Love's name, but he did say use the term 'you' on his fit in and fit out tweet. That was right around the time when he took a picture with all of his teammates, except for Kevin Love, and then posted it on one of his social media profile. Two years later or a year after he helped the Cavaliers win their first NBA Title, and end the fifty-two-year drought since the city of Cleveland last won a professional sports championship, he got Kyrie Irving involved in some drama. Just a month or so after LeBron and the Cavs lost the 2017 NBA Finals to the Golden State Warriors, Kyrie Irving asked the general manager of the Cavs to trade him. Kyrie asked for the trade couple days after he found out, that LeBron was trying to get him traded for Chris Paul, who is one of LeBron's best buddies. LeBron and his camp stated, that such a trade plan was just a false rumor. LeBron, could you please explain to all of us why Kyrie asked for a trade after three straight Finals appearances, which included one championship? Oh because Kyrie Irving wants his own team or a team where he could be the number one option? So Kyrie wants to give up the chance of going to fourth straight Finals with you, and possibly winning it because he wants to be the alpha dog again? Right, it makes perfect sense. Okay fine, even if we buy that he wants to be his own man, but that can't be the only reason. Another good reason, besides of getting traded for Chris Paul, could be that he couldn't deal with people giving all the credit to LeBron, when the team won, and giving all the blame to Kyrie and others when the team lost. Yes, when Kyrie Irving hit the shot to give the Cavs the lead late in game seven of the 2016 NBA Finals, it was pretty much overshadowed by an amazing block LeBron made seconds later, and by the stats, LeBron put up in that series to win it! I believe stuff like that certainly bugged Kyrie Irving, and he just couldn't take it. I'm pretty sure Kyrie thinks to himself almost every other day, about how LeBron could possibly think about trading him for someone else when it was Kyrie who helped LBJ big time to help him win his third ring. Well, only LeBron could trade a championship teammate of his for a good friend, who has never sniffed the NBA Finals!
Why is LeBron considered way better than Kobe?
Some of the NBA experts have already put LeBron James to the top of the mountain, or pretty close to it. According to those NBA experts, Kobe Bryant is way below LBJ's standards. They along with LeBron's loyalist, believe that the way LeBron plays is by far, the best way to play and win NBA titles, and Kobe's way was a recipe for disaster. Some people today who I believe started watching NBA from 2012, think Kobe Bryant was all about jacking up shots to score twenty-five to thirty points a game. However, no matter what they believe or say, Kobe Bryant and his way won him two more rings than LeBron has so far and got him less failure in the Finals than LeBron already has. LeBron on the court has a great vision of where everybody is, makes great decisions of passing the ball (which again gives him assists for stats), and can also score the ball when he chooses to. However, there are times when he fails to put up points when his team needs him the most. Kobe Bryant, on the other hand, doesn't pass the ball too much because he wants to score against the person who is guarding him. He wants to make the defender uneasy and let him know that, no matter what he tries, he won't be able to stop him. Such an attitude brings fear in the hearts of players who, go up against Kobe. It didn't always help him and his teammates win, but it made Kobe and his team dangerous in the final crucial stages of the game.
LeBron James is considered to be one of the most unselfish players in the game. How exactly is he unselfish?
Players when they play around LeBron James, they tend to play at a higher level than they did before they came to LeBron's team, or before LeBron came to their team. LeBron makes everyone around him better, as he is always willing to pass them the ball when they are open, or at their sweet spots in the game. Players who get to play with LeBron, don't get to stand still and watch LeBron try to do all the scoring by himself. LBJ might not do all the scoring by himself, but he always wants to be the reason for his teammates to be able to put up points in the game. Scoring and putting the ball in the hole isn't the only way to make your numbers look good. I don't understand why a player pilling up his assists numbers, isn't considered selfish. Yes, you are giving up the ball to another player to score or hit the big shot in the game, but you will get the credit for the assist, and people will point out that it was because of your assist, why the team won. People have been bragging about assists since day one. NBA experts and fans appreciate triple-doubles and give high remarks to players who are able to post triple-doubles in games. How does the player get a triple-double in the game? Usually, a player gets triple-double in the game with points, rebounds, and games. Last year in the NBA Finals, LeBron's team, Cleveland Cavaliers got destroyed by the Golden State Warriors. LeBron and his team lost 4-1 in five games, but Mike Breen of ESPN, who does NBA Finals every year alongside Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, kept bringing up the obvious, that LeBron James posted a triple-double in the NBA Finals. Blind lovers of LeBron James kept using his stat line of the NBA Finals to defend him and made excuses for him, such as him not having enough help to beat the Warriors. Some very smart sports' writers also said the same thing that LeBron posted a triple-double, there was nothing else he could have done to win the Finals. Why posting a triple-double and having an impressive stat line, so important to people? As in, some fans wouldn't mind their team getting swept in the NBA Finals, as long as the best player on their team put up a triple-double. Do people know that players could pile up stats in garbage time? Or the best player could also pile up stats early in the game, but ends up struggling with making baskets and necessary plays when the game gets tight? I can' tell you how many times ESPN showed LeBron's stats during all five games, halftimes, or at the conclusion of those games in the 2017 NBA Finals. How could anyone be satisfied with LeBron's stats when he and his team were getting smoked by the Warriors? Seriously, do people want to win a competitive game, or have a triple-double in a blowout loss? LeBron certainly wants triple-doubles, because he knows it would get people to talk about him more than they normally do.
NBA is all drama now, thanks to LeBron James!
Professional basketball was always fun. It is still fun to watch, but there is a lot of drama now. Most of the drama started with LeBron James making the 'decision' to go to Miami Heat and then claiming to bring 'not one, not two, not three, not four....' titles for his new team. Then he did the returning of home thing in 2014. After he came back to Cleveland, he took shots indirectly at Kevin Love on Twitter, by telling him to find ways to fit into the team. LBJ didn't mention Kevin Love's name, but he did say use the term 'you' on his fit in and fit out tweet. That was right around the time when he took a picture with all of his teammates, except for Kevin Love, and then posted it on one of his social media profile. Two years later or a year after he helped the Cavaliers win their first NBA Title, and end the fifty-two-year drought since the city of Cleveland last won a professional sports championship, he got Kyrie Irving involved in some drama. Just a month or so after LeBron and the Cavs lost the 2017 NBA Finals to the Golden State Warriors, Kyrie Irving asked the general manager of the Cavs to trade him. Kyrie asked for the trade couple days after he found out, that LeBron was trying to get him traded for Chris Paul, who is one of LeBron's best buddies. LeBron and his camp stated, that such a trade plan was just a false rumor. LeBron, could you please explain to all of us why Kyrie asked for a trade after three straight Finals appearances, which included one championship? Oh because Kyrie Irving wants his own team or a team where he could be the number one option? So Kyrie wants to give up the chance of going to fourth straight Finals with you, and possibly winning it because he wants to be the alpha dog again? Right, it makes perfect sense. Okay fine, even if we buy that he wants to be his own man, but that can't be the only reason. Another good reason, besides of getting traded for Chris Paul, could be that he couldn't deal with people giving all the credit to LeBron, when the team won, and giving all the blame to Kyrie and others when the team lost. Yes, when Kyrie Irving hit the shot to give the Cavs the lead late in game seven of the 2016 NBA Finals, it was pretty much overshadowed by an amazing block LeBron made seconds later, and by the stats, LeBron put up in that series to win it! I believe stuff like that certainly bugged Kyrie Irving, and he just couldn't take it. I'm pretty sure Kyrie thinks to himself almost every other day, about how LeBron could possibly think about trading him for someone else when it was Kyrie who helped LBJ big time to help him win his third ring. Well, only LeBron could trade a championship teammate of his for a good friend, who has never sniffed the NBA Finals!
Why is LeBron considered way better than Kobe?
Some of the NBA experts have already put LeBron James to the top of the mountain, or pretty close to it. According to those NBA experts, Kobe Bryant is way below LBJ's standards. They along with LeBron's loyalist, believe that the way LeBron plays is by far, the best way to play and win NBA titles, and Kobe's way was a recipe for disaster. Some people today who I believe started watching NBA from 2012, think Kobe Bryant was all about jacking up shots to score twenty-five to thirty points a game. However, no matter what they believe or say, Kobe Bryant and his way won him two more rings than LeBron has so far and got him less failure in the Finals than LeBron already has. LeBron on the court has a great vision of where everybody is, makes great decisions of passing the ball (which again gives him assists for stats), and can also score the ball when he chooses to. However, there are times when he fails to put up points when his team needs him the most. Kobe Bryant, on the other hand, doesn't pass the ball too much because he wants to score against the person who is guarding him. He wants to make the defender uneasy and let him know that, no matter what he tries, he won't be able to stop him. Such an attitude brings fear in the hearts of players who, go up against Kobe. It didn't always help him and his teammates win, but it made Kobe and his team dangerous in the final crucial stages of the game.
Times when Kobe and his team struggled too much for too long, never broke him. He had his fair share of drama, but not as much as LeBron has. Kobe Bryant for his entire twenty-year career stayed with the Los Angeles Lakers. He never left his franchise, his teammates, or his city to join forces with the other elite players, to win titles. Kobe Bryant never gave up on anybody! Oh wait, there was a time when he said he would leave for the LA Clippers if his team doesn't make few moves to change the roster. He did say that, but at the end of the day, Kobe was doing his best to convince the management to make the team better! What's so wrong about that? I mean, who wouldn't want a better team, if the current team isn't doing so good? Kobe's demand was granted by his management when they brought in better players, and then the team finally started to compete for championships. There is no comparison of LeBron's drama and Kobe's drama. Kobe asked to bring in championship players, not to trade away his championship teammates (such as Kyrie Irving) to play with his buddies. Another thing which separates LeBron James from Kobe Bryant is how the two players bounce back from getting humiliated in the NBA Finals. LeBron James left Miami Heat right after him and his team lost the NBA Finals by a record margin to the San Antonio Spurs. In 2008, Kobe Bryant and his Lakers lost the NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics in a very cruel way. What did Kobe do then? Did he go to Miami to play with Dwayne Wade? Did he go to Phoenix Suns to play in a face-paced offense, led by Steve Nash? Or did Kobe go to the New York Knicks to play for the big market in the East? He did none of that! Instead, he stayed with the LA Lakers and led them to back to back championships in 2009 and 2010. In 2010, Kobe got his revenge from the Boston Celtics by beating them 4-3 in the NBA Finals.
Comparing Kobe Bryant's shooting percentage with LeBron's is very stupid. LeBron James is more of an inside player, and Kobe was more of a mid-range jump shooter. Besides shooting more jumpers than layups or dunks, Kobe almost always had two people guarding him and his jumpers. There were times late in games when he was triple covered, and he still was able to make shots against them. Kobe Bryant does have the record for the most missed shots in NBA history. If someone has been playing for more than twenty years and mostly attempts contested mid-range and three-point jumpers, then yes he is going to miss a lot of shots. Taking the last shot and looking to score to win games, doesn't make the player selfish! It means that the player has the heart and guts to be responsible for his team to win or to lose. When the game is on the line, only winners give all their blood and sweat, and they don't shy away from the big moment! Just ask yourself. Do you want a competitor who would score at will? Or do you want a player who is ultra-talented, but who would give up on his team when things go sour? LeBron James might be the best player in terms of statistics, but when it comes to taking over the game and winning it, Kobe Bryant is the better player.
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