2. Makes His Team Better
Let’s face it, players want to play with LeBron James. Even Bryant admitted to this in an interview in 2012 with Dave McMenamin of ESPN:
“I think that the player I would probably play with the most where the pieces would fit would be myself and LeBron [James], believe it or not, because he’s more of a facilitator and I’m more of a scorer. … He’s a modern version of what Oscar [Robertson] was. He just puts up genius numbers.”
James has been known to be a very willing passer, sometimes to a fault. However, the numbers don’t lie.
When James left the Cleveland Cavaliers in the summer of 2010, they proceeded to go 19-63 that year, amassing the worst record in the Eastern Conference. In addition, when James left the Miami Heat in 2014, the team failed to make the playoffs, after advancing to the NBA Finals just a year prior. These two examples show just how much of an impact the kid from Akron has had on his team.
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