Lebron James (Los Angeles Lakers)

[Mike80]

It took LeBron 726 games to reach 20,000 points.

It took Wilt 499.

Jordan, Oscar Robertson, Kareem, Elgin Baylor, Iverson and Jerry West all did it in fewer games too. (And it took Shaq one more game at 727.)

http://www.interbasket.net/news/10335/2013/01/the-38-fastest-players-to-score-20000-points-nba/

Just thinking about it too, if Shaq wasn't a 45% FT shooter early on in his career, he would almost certainly do it faster than LeBrick did as well....

I think the entire "Kobe or Lebron" argument is silly, but it's all about hype. LeBrick isn't nearly as dominant as Kobe was in his prime, but at the same time, Kobe in his prime doesn't hold a candle to Jordan, especially on defense. Lebron and Kobe are good for their era and that's about it.

 

[Buckeneye]

Hypocrite .. if you believed this, you'd still be a Cav

Yet still.... a biotch.

 

[ysubuck]

I just seriously hope that the Cavs don't make a run at LeBitch in 2014. I could see him being sufficiently vague about his intentions and leaking blurbs about wanting to finish what he started in Cleveland and then twisting the knife again and heading to LA.

I just hope that the Cavs simply ignore his free agency completely.

 

[Buckeneye]

My mindset is "Fuck em"... let's offer him a max deal, pull it out from under him, then go win a title.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

"That's his own opinion," James said of Michael Jordan's recent statement that he would pick Kobe Bryant over James on the basis of the Lakers guard's five championships.
"At the end of the day, rings [don't] always define someone's career....

It doesn’t matter to me. I play for my family, I play for my teammates, I play for our coaching staff and I play for our fans, that’s it.”

The hypocrisy has no end

 

[Bucky32]

So this is pretty sick.

LeBron James's pregame warmup dunk was better than anything in the dunk contest - Deadspin

 

[exhawg]

So this is pretty sick.

LeBron James's pregame warmup dunk was better than anything in the dunk contest - Deadspin

If only he wasn't too much of coward to be in the dunk contest.

 

[WolverineMike]

If only he wasn't too much of coward to be in the dunk contest.

There's about 20 names on that list.......

 

[matcar]

So this is pretty sick.

LeBron James's pregame warmup dunk was better than anything in the dunk contest - Deadspin

That is pretty cool.

 

[ysubuck]

There's about 20 names on that list.......

Premier player in the game so the other 19 don't really matter.

The fact remains that LeBron isn't HALF the competitor that Michael or Kobe is. They both know it. That's why Michael picked Kobe. He knows a competitor when he sees one.

And fuck LeBron.

 

[WolverineMike]

It is a shame he's never done it at least once.

 

[OH10]

It is a shame he's never done it at least once.

No other explanation than he's just not sure he'd win. With dunks like that, he would - but that was under no pressure.

 

[buchtelgrad04]

He's been doing that in pregame for years now.

 

[Bucky32]

No other explanation than he's just not sure he'd win. With dunks like that, he would - but that was under no pressure.

That's just it. He can't go out there and lose to a 3rd stringer. He (and Nike) knows that. It's not worth the risk.

 

[billmac91]

That's just it. He can't go out there and lose to a 3rd stringer. He (and Nike) knows that. It's not worth the risk.

Which is LBJ in a nutshell, and its sad. The guy is truly an athletic phenomenon, a once an era type guy, and he just plays it safe always. Sad.