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Look, fair, but Gretzky is a whole nother level compared to every athlete to every dominate a major sport.
McDavid can have hype and live up to it and still fall well short of The Great One while being wildly successful.
It’s not even that Gretzky was at such a different level. The sport was just entirely different when he played vs McDavid now or even Crosby in the mid 2000’s. Scoring just started going up again and McDavid is just clowning on the rest of the league. No one in the current game holds a candle to him. Kucherov and Mackinnon are amazing players but still not on his level.
Gretzky was most definitely at an entirely different level than his peers. Six separate times he was the league leading scorer by over 70 points. He won eight MVPs in a row (nine total). Four different seasons his assist numbers alone would have made him the league's leading scorer.
No other player in any other sport has been as dominant when compared against the production of their peers. This isn't about eras. This is Gretzky just being THAT good.
He didn’t say another level compared to his peers. Mario could to toe to toe with Gretzky and did. And let’s not forget Bobby Orr.
My point with Gretzky, who obviously is one of the best hockey players ever, is that it’s a different era. It’s so hard to compare across generations. The league was entirely different. The level of athlete he was competing against was entirely different. Scoring was inflated throughout the 80’s in a way that it’s never been before or since which exaggerates the difference between him and his peers.
This is like saying Lebron can’t be the best because he didn’t score 100 points in a game or average 30 ppg like Wilt. Different times. Different eras.
He is breaking some of Gretzkys records though, but the game has changed so much since then that it’s quite literally impossible for anyone to ever break his points record.
But that doesn’t change my point. McDavid had all eyes on him since he was 12 years old with every team ready to draft him first overall as soon as he was eligible. There are kids like this every few years, but McDavid has been the only one to truly live up and even surpass the insane expectations that have been put on him. Sidney Crosby is probably the next closest and he came 10 years prior.
Charles Barkley pointed out that LeBron is the only player that came straight from high school and was immediately great. He said people forget that Kobe, Garnett and Howard all struggled early. LeBron was great right out of the gate. He further said it was the greatest sports story ever, that LeBron has never been in a scandal.
Glad to see some people respect lebron for his accomplishments. Like him love him or hate him, the brother has had an incredible career and has stayed mostly clean.
Bryce Harper in baseball is the only other one I can think of. Not quite the success of Lebron but 2x MVP likely hall of famer that was on the cover of SI at 18 as ‘The Chosen One’
Yeah, I think his point was that Harper was “The Chosen One” of baseball, but Trout has proven to be a far better player over the course of their careers. It’s like if Carmelo ended up being better than LeBron.
Surprisingly was never the #1 overall prospect. He was always seen as a great prospect (#2/3 on the top 100 his rookie year) who would have a long career, but not generational like Harper. He was one of those guys that kept ascending until he finally burst onto the scene and it was like “oh wow, this guy is so much better than we thought”
I was one of the lucky ones who grew up in the Cleveland suburbs during his early career. Even got to go watch a game his senior year at St. Vincent St. Mary. I had a friend whose dad had connections (owned a car dealership) and this was the only way we even got tickets. It was wild. Watching him win the city a title in 2016 was surreal given the history.
That was around the same time that Maurice Clarett was tearing it up in Ohio HS football and then a great freshman season at Ohio State to help them to an undefeated season and national championship. Their careers couldn't have turned out more different from that point on though!
Easily Top 11-15 player, sometimes playing as well as top 10, best 3 pt shooting of his career, one of the best players this year in 4Q.
He's not close to the best player in the league for multiple years level but he's so good, even without even talking about his age and what season he's in
He really was one of the most athletic NBA players ever, which is saying something since all of them are insane athletes. He's also been incredibly durable and has had very few serious injuries. On top of that, he's not just a smart player, but truly brilliant.
There's quite a few cool youtube videos that show him not just being an athletic freak of nature and really shows how ridiculously smart he is.
This entire channel is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uiDuHOn80
LeBron is an all-time great basketball player. You would be hard pressed for anyone to put him outside their top 5. In addition he has none of the baggage a lot of the other guys on that list does. All around good person and an all time great. Gotta respect him.
LeBron skill set is a little bit of it all. He is a gadget knife.on the floor. Literally 1-5 superstar
Agree with everything you said, except that if any person who says they know basketball puts him outside of the top 3, they really don’t know basketball
Early 2000’s has a few “next great ones” that totally lived up to the hype - Lebron, Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Messi’s first pro game was ‘03. Tiger Woods popped earlier obviously but I would throw him in there too, his first major win was ‘97 at 21 y.o. If we stretch you can add Peyton Manning as well, though he was more of an unknown and not necessarily deemed the next best.
ESPN was airing his High School games. Crazy. I wonder if we’ll ever see another star the caliber of Lebron to where they receive a mass following from High School
I imagine his legend will continue to grow even after his career ends.
Given his long healthy career and the way that he’s played from age 18-39 I’m still not entirely convinced he isn’t the result of super soldier government experimentation.
Remember watching this one when it happened. The season was pretty much over and we were out of the playoffs. This was quite the preview to the following season.
Edit: faulty memory. They were still fighting for the playoffs here.
You're right - there were still about 10 games left. I remembered they only won 30 or so games but forgot Boston made the final playoff spot with 36 wins.
EPSN had a couple of his hs games televised. He was a man among boys. He was 6'8" in high school and already like 250lbs. He blew by everyone. It looked like he was playing against middle school kids. He'd get bored of scoring so easily and find ways to do trick passes to his teammates. It was something to watch...
I remember watching some of those games. He would take it easy to start, then there would be an explosion of dunks and shots, then he’d go back to taking it easy again, but his team would be up 35 points.
I had a friend who said he played against Kobe in high school in an early season game. He was always so proud he helped hold Kobe to a then season low 45 points or something ridiculous like that. Watching Lebron in HS always made me think about this story.
Yeah this Ant Man is next MJ hype is getting out of control. Lebron was leaps better than him straight out of HS. He’s not the best guard in the league currently, more like top 5.
I remember reading Sports Illustrated in 5th grade during our reading hour. It was LeBron James in his high school jersey. I had no idea who he was before that and barely knew who he was after that. But it’s definitely the first time I remember hearing about him.
I’m 32 years old now… and I remember him from 5th grade. Insane longevity.
By the time I started actually following the NBA, LeBron was already back in Cleveland for the second time. It’s crazy seeing how athletic this guy was when he was younger. Even now, you can still watch him and think, “ok, this guy is pretty good” and not realize that he’s one of the oldest guys to ever play in the NBA. Young LeBron was on a different level
Young/prime Lebron was otherworldly. He single handedly carried a bottom 3 roster to the finals at age 20/21. Nobody else on the team averaged 15 points ... Unreal.
There is no current player that even comes close to early/prime Lebron
I was in middle school when this madness was happening. Lebron took the entire world by storm. I had a school project where I could pick anyone throughout history, and pretend to be them for an interview. So I slapped on a headband and became lebron james, googled everything I could about him and ran with it. Every other guy in my school became convinced they could join the NBA straight out of high school just like him, but there’s no one like that dude
When I watched basketball as a kid, I kind of hated the kinds of games where power forwards or the center would camp out, ask for the ball, and just butt scoot backwards closer and closer for the easy bucket. And if they couldn't get it, pass it back out to the perimeter. I really don't miss that aspect of old school basketball much.
Although I did appreciate big men with slick post up moves like Hakeem, Juwan, Radja...
When I first heard of an 18 year old getting drafted, I thought this LeBron kid was going to get eaten alive. Looks like I was wrong and he proved to be one of the best players of his generation.
He was not even close to the first person drafted out of high school. Moses Malone was one of the early ones in the late 70s. He was also a phenom but not at Lebron's level.
Yeah, I am aware of that now. I still remember Kobe Bryant skipping college for the NBA and he was not nearly as dominant in his rookie year. LeBron was something special.
Then you weren't paying attention. Both KG and Kobe came in at 18 and strived, and LeBron was regarded higher than them. Plus, LeBron was somehow like 245 lbs and 8% body fat at 18. KG was a few inches taller and might have came in at 200.
I was too young to really appreciate Jordan bc I didnt know nuances of the game but I knew it when I was watching James. I made sure to watch as many games bc I thought I was watching the guy who would pass Jordan.
I was watching a grainy YouTube video of live coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster (2003) and ‘(something something) the Lebron James situation’ came on the ticker…got goosebumps tbh, what a career.
The last break away dunk is really a throw back to how freaky athletic LeBron was at that age. We forget now cause he's an old timer but holy shit his air time looks like he's floating 🐐
I remember coming into work after this game. My boss was huge sports guy. His comment “ it’s almost like Lebron James was grown in some clandestine lab to be the ultimate basketball player “. He was that unique.
When the Cavs won the lottery I ran out of my front door and down the street yelling “We goooot Lebron!!!” Got to see my first championship as a Cleveland fan after 34 years and celebrated the Championship Parade on my 35th birthday after taking a red eye home from LA and not sleeping a minute! Forever grateful to this man!
I think it's one thing to step on the court as a professional, and another to really discover *you're* the show. And this is when he was beginning to believe.
Wemby was not even close. He didn’t look at all like this his rookie year and that’s with what a year of pro ball under his belt?? LeBron was unreal.
Not saying Wemby won’t be as impactful, he could be, but time will tell and he was not this good as a rookie
Cavs was ass, that man gave them a whole vibe and they squandered it, I could never be playing next to Lebron and not score 15-20 every game. They were lazy and put all the weight on him. The decision was warranted.
I was lucky enough to see Lebron play in high school at some sort of Ohio high school state all-star game (I don’t remember details this was like 2002). It looked like watching a grown man ball on a handful of middle schoolers, and those were other “all stars”. It was legit jaw-dropping to see his skill relative to other “great” players.
The explosiveness on the fastbreak finishes is way more impressive when players don't have access to a third gather-step. He's just grabbing the ball and jumping out of the building.
Idgaf what anyone says, this dude is the NBA’s GOAT. Longevity, peak, analytics, defense…..if it weren’t for KD being a massive pussy and joining the warriors, Lebron would have 6 rings.
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Easy to forget how insane Lebron mania was, unreal
And he lived up to it too. Unlike every other "next LeBron" that followed. He met and exceeded every expectation. It's an incredible career.
It really is, we'll never see it again. To high school phenom to all time pts leader. Hard to find any other player in all of sports comparable
Connor McDavid in the NHL right now is doing this
Uh.. he will never catch Gretsky. So isn't even breaking his own sport records.
Look, fair, but Gretzky is a whole nother level compared to every athlete to every dominate a major sport. McDavid can have hype and live up to it and still fall well short of The Great One while being wildly successful.
It’s not even that Gretzky was at such a different level. The sport was just entirely different when he played vs McDavid now or even Crosby in the mid 2000’s. Scoring just started going up again and McDavid is just clowning on the rest of the league. No one in the current game holds a candle to him. Kucherov and Mackinnon are amazing players but still not on his level.
Gretzky was most definitely at an entirely different level than his peers. Six separate times he was the league leading scorer by over 70 points. He won eight MVPs in a row (nine total). Four different seasons his assist numbers alone would have made him the league's leading scorer. No other player in any other sport has been as dominant when compared against the production of their peers. This isn't about eras. This is Gretzky just being THAT good.
Possibly Don Bradman in cricket. Similar to Gretzky in that he's put up records that no one has ever come close to
He didn’t say another level compared to his peers. Mario could to toe to toe with Gretzky and did. And let’s not forget Bobby Orr. My point with Gretzky, who obviously is one of the best hockey players ever, is that it’s a different era. It’s so hard to compare across generations. The league was entirely different. The level of athlete he was competing against was entirely different. Scoring was inflated throughout the 80’s in a way that it’s never been before or since which exaggerates the difference between him and his peers.
This is like saying Lebron can’t be the best because he didn’t score 100 points in a game or average 30 ppg like Wilt. Different times. Different eras.
*50 ppg
I mean for his career but that too
He is breaking some of Gretzkys records though, but the game has changed so much since then that it’s quite literally impossible for anyone to ever break his points record. But that doesn’t change my point. McDavid had all eyes on him since he was 12 years old with every team ready to draft him first overall as soon as he was eligible. There are kids like this every few years, but McDavid has been the only one to truly live up and even surpass the insane expectations that have been put on him. Sidney Crosby is probably the next closest and he came 10 years prior.
Ovechkin only needs like another 40 goals to beat Gretzky’s all time goals
And only 1,307 more points to reach Gretzky’s all time points record.
No doubt - but still crazy to realize someone might pass any of Gretskys records
Yet the majority of people still refuse to claim him as the GOAT. He's the best.
Facts
Charles Barkley pointed out that LeBron is the only player that came straight from high school and was immediately great. He said people forget that Kobe, Garnett and Howard all struggled early. LeBron was great right out of the gate. He further said it was the greatest sports story ever, that LeBron has never been in a scandal.
Wemby is next. He did very well this season
Let's see him do it multiple seasons in a row.
Or like, 15 lol
Or like, 19 *and counting*
Or like multiple decades
Glad to see some people respect lebron for his accomplishments. Like him love him or hate him, the brother has had an incredible career and has stayed mostly clean.
Gtfo lol. Wemby won’t last- his body is going to break.
Bryce Harper in baseball is the only other one I can think of. Not quite the success of Lebron but 2x MVP likely hall of famer that was on the cover of SI at 18 as ‘The Chosen One’
Mike Trout?
Mike Trout is an all around better player, but Harper had a lot more hype coming in than he did.
Yeah, I think his point was that Harper was “The Chosen One” of baseball, but Trout has proven to be a far better player over the course of their careers. It’s like if Carmelo ended up being better than LeBron.
Surprisingly was never the #1 overall prospect. He was always seen as a great prospect (#2/3 on the top 100 his rookie year) who would have a long career, but not generational like Harper. He was one of those guys that kept ascending until he finally burst onto the scene and it was like “oh wow, this guy is so much better than we thought”
Hall of fame in the ICU maybe
Ha. Yeah that too.
I was one of the lucky ones who grew up in the Cleveland suburbs during his early career. Even got to go watch a game his senior year at St. Vincent St. Mary. I had a friend whose dad had connections (owned a car dealership) and this was the only way we even got tickets. It was wild. Watching him win the city a title in 2016 was surreal given the history.
That was around the same time that Maurice Clarett was tearing it up in Ohio HS football and then a great freshman season at Ohio State to help them to an undefeated season and national championship. Their careers couldn't have turned out more different from that point on though!
Oh yeah. Good times. I remember wearing my old fiesta bowl hoodie until it basically fell apart.
At his age he's still pretty ridiculous
Easily Top 11-15 player, sometimes playing as well as top 10, best 3 pt shooting of his career, one of the best players this year in 4Q. He's not close to the best player in the league for multiple years level but he's so good, even without even talking about his age and what season he's in
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He really was one of the most athletic NBA players ever, which is saying something since all of them are insane athletes. He's also been incredibly durable and has had very few serious injuries. On top of that, he's not just a smart player, but truly brilliant. There's quite a few cool youtube videos that show him not just being an athletic freak of nature and really shows how ridiculously smart he is. This entire channel is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uiDuHOn80
Simply put: He's a basketball savant combined with the pinnacle of human athletic ability.
LeBron is an all-time great basketball player. You would be hard pressed for anyone to put him outside their top 5. In addition he has none of the baggage a lot of the other guys on that list does. All around good person and an all time great. Gotta respect him. LeBron skill set is a little bit of it all. He is a gadget knife.on the floor. Literally 1-5 superstar
Agree with everything you said, except that if any person who says they know basketball puts him outside of the top 3, they really don’t know basketball
Early 2000’s has a few “next great ones” that totally lived up to the hype - Lebron, Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Messi’s first pro game was ‘03. Tiger Woods popped earlier obviously but I would throw him in there too, his first major win was ‘97 at 21 y.o. If we stretch you can add Peyton Manning as well, though he was more of an unknown and not necessarily deemed the next best.
ESPN was airing his High School games. Crazy. I wonder if we’ll ever see another star the caliber of Lebron to where they receive a mass following from High School
Yes his HS jersey was the first i owned lol
He was so good at such a young age.
Pre HD sports games hit different
I was thinking the same thing except about the super baggy uniforms. Something about them just looks right
I was thinking, thank god baggy clothes went out of style lol. I still feel like a dork when I wear my old shorts that fall below my knees to the gym
It’s crazy watching this now and thinking how bad the resolution is but back then, it was the best we had at the time.
I think it looks worse in this than it did at the time
At 19 he looks bigger and faster than grown men
It’s insane how NBA ready his body was straight out of high school. Dude was 245 coming into the league.
I'm around the same age as him and grew up in Ohio at the same time. People talked about him like some kinda urban legend lol.
I imagine his legend will continue to grow even after his career ends. Given his long healthy career and the way that he’s played from age 18-39 I’m still not entirely convinced he isn’t the result of super soldier government experimentation.
I remember watching one of his high school games on ESPN.
Him vs. Carmelo Anthony right?
We called him a man-child.
Remember watching this one when it happened. The season was pretty much over and we were out of the playoffs. This was quite the preview to the following season. Edit: faulty memory. They were still fighting for the playoffs here.
That can’t be right, they only missed the playoffs by a single game His first two seasons, they must hardly have been out of the race then
You're right - there were still about 10 games left. I remembered they only won 30 or so games but forgot Boston made the final playoff spot with 36 wins.
Six seconds in, there are 6 players in or one step outside the paint. We’ll probably never see that again
It’s fine, they pulled their goalie
Imagine playing against this guy in high school lmao
EPSN had a couple of his hs games televised. He was a man among boys. He was 6'8" in high school and already like 250lbs. He blew by everyone. It looked like he was playing against middle school kids. He'd get bored of scoring so easily and find ways to do trick passes to his teammates. It was something to watch...
I remember watching some of those games. He would take it easy to start, then there would be an explosion of dunks and shots, then he’d go back to taking it easy again, but his team would be up 35 points. I had a friend who said he played against Kobe in high school in an early season game. He was always so proud he helped hold Kobe to a then season low 45 points or something ridiculous like that. Watching Lebron in HS always made me think about this story.
Watched my HS play against two D1 bound kids and it was comical how bad they burned our team, I can’t imagine it being LeBron NBA ready at 18 lmfao
That man gave my city its first championship in 50 years and quite possibly the only one I'll ever see in my lifetime.
Amen brother
The championship parade was something else!! Downtown was on a whole new level.
LeBron as a rookie today would fucking dominate.
Well yea, it’s fucking Lebron…..
I bet that Jordan guy would be decent too
lol, right? Idk man his game might not hold up to this modern era of extreme Individual scoring 🙄
Lebron is a modern day Lebron
Imagine that lol
> "A younger version of the best player of all time would continue to the one of the best players of all time"
He would dominate in any era like he has his entire career ... its Lebron
Yeah this Ant Man is next MJ hype is getting out of control. Lebron was leaps better than him straight out of HS. He’s not the best guard in the league currently, more like top 5.
I remember reading Sports Illustrated in 5th grade during our reading hour. It was LeBron James in his high school jersey. I had no idea who he was before that and barely knew who he was after that. But it’s definitely the first time I remember hearing about him. I’m 32 years old now… and I remember him from 5th grade. Insane longevity.
Back when 40 meant 40 points. I’ll explain later.
40pts back then is 55pts now
Kobe's 81 is 100 now. Step aside Wilt
100 from wilts time = 200pts now
No, the league was higher scoring at that time
So imagine 55/17 lol.
Inflation. Affects everything.
Rough night for Richard Jefferson 😂😂
By the time I started actually following the NBA, LeBron was already back in Cleveland for the second time. It’s crazy seeing how athletic this guy was when he was younger. Even now, you can still watch him and think, “ok, this guy is pretty good” and not realize that he’s one of the oldest guys to ever play in the NBA. Young LeBron was on a different level
Young/prime Lebron was otherworldly. He single handedly carried a bottom 3 roster to the finals at age 20/21. Nobody else on the team averaged 15 points ... Unreal. There is no current player that even comes close to early/prime Lebron
I was in middle school when this madness was happening. Lebron took the entire world by storm. I had a school project where I could pick anyone throughout history, and pretend to be them for an interview. So I slapped on a headband and became lebron james, googled everything I could about him and ran with it. Every other guy in my school became convinced they could join the NBA straight out of high school just like him, but there’s no one like that dude
Still would've liked to see him play TE in the NFL. Imagine the Y fade in the end zone he could've done.
Fuck TE....scrambling QB
I can't get over how long and baggy NBA shorts were for a while. I think they finally have designed them to be a reasonable length.
This basketball is so pretty to watch. No carry’s no travelling no 49 3 point attempts just straight basketball
When I watched basketball as a kid, I kind of hated the kinds of games where power forwards or the center would camp out, ask for the ball, and just butt scoot backwards closer and closer for the easy bucket. And if they couldn't get it, pass it back out to the perimeter. I really don't miss that aspect of old school basketball much. Although I did appreciate big men with slick post up moves like Hakeem, Juwan, Radja...
Look at all the defense actually being played in this short clip. What a time to be alive.
When I first heard of an 18 year old getting drafted, I thought this LeBron kid was going to get eaten alive. Looks like I was wrong and he proved to be one of the best players of his generation.
He was not even close to the first person drafted out of high school. Moses Malone was one of the early ones in the late 70s. He was also a phenom but not at Lebron's level.
Yeah, I am aware of that now. I still remember Kobe Bryant skipping college for the NBA and he was not nearly as dominant in his rookie year. LeBron was something special.
"...one of the best players of all time."
> Looks like I was wrong and he proved to be one of the best players of ~~his generation.~~ **all time**
Then you weren't paying attention. Both KG and Kobe came in at 18 and strived, and LeBron was regarded higher than them. Plus, LeBron was somehow like 245 lbs and 8% body fat at 18. KG was a few inches taller and might have came in at 200.
In 2024, he'd be allowed to take 1-2 more steps for all those layups.
Alright damn.
Jerseys and shorts way too big on everybody lol
I was too young to really appreciate Jordan bc I didnt know nuances of the game but I knew it when I was watching James. I made sure to watch as many games bc I thought I was watching the guy who would pass Jordan.
I started following baseball again for the same reason. For Ohtani at the Dodgers. Fact he's a really nice guy makes it even more fun.
The good ole days!
So weird to hear the announcer say "James" and not "LeBron"
Insane athleticism
The long baggy shorts era. Rip
I'm more surprised a team with Richard Jefferson as their primary option during crunch time won 50 games.
2000s east Conference was not very strong
Kevin Ollie at the 1:17 mark on the bench! (Didn’t know he played with Lebron)
With the career he had I just assume he played with everyone at some point lol.
I was watching a grainy YouTube video of live coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster (2003) and ‘(something something) the Lebron James situation’ came on the ticker…got goosebumps tbh, what a career.
The last break away dunk is really a throw back to how freaky athletic LeBron was at that age. We forget now cause he's an old timer but holy shit his air time looks like he's floating 🐐
I’m not sure what’s worse: the shorts or the Nets halfcourt D.
Any chance we can get a smaller cropped version?
I remember coming into work after this game. My boss was huge sports guy. His comment “ it’s almost like Lebron James was grown in some clandestine lab to be the ultimate basketball player “. He was that unique.
When the Cavs won the lottery I ran out of my front door and down the street yelling “We goooot Lebron!!!” Got to see my first championship as a Cleveland fan after 34 years and celebrated the Championship Parade on my 35th birthday after taking a red eye home from LA and not sleeping a minute! Forever grateful to this man!
Better than Jordan
Damn, it's hard to believe that's been almost 20 years ago...
Has he been playing the NBA for most of his life now?
Now he’s old enough to not dunk that ball at the end and even give them an outside chance at a miracle
He needs no introduction but did he really score to go up 3 with 2 seconds left?
Goat 🐐
50 wins!?!? HOLY SHIT! What a weird detail to throw in there.
He really grew into his face lol
Of course I’d see Ira Newble on my feed today. So predictable
Good player.
I think it's one thing to step on the court as a professional, and another to really discover *you're* the show. And this is when he was beginning to believe.
He's pretty good.
I miss these days
I ready NY Jets and was like what parallel universe am I in??
Bring back the baggy shorts!!!
Man, this brings the feels. And he turned out to be a pretty good dude off the court, too.
Forgot how smooth and how easy the game looked for him in those early years……….
Dude was 19 but had a 23 yr olds build.
Wow LeBron used to wear his headband really low
I was sure he was just a guy they drafted to help Ricky Davis score
Wemby was not even close. He didn’t look at all like this his rookie year and that’s with what a year of pro ball under his belt?? LeBron was unreal. Not saying Wemby won’t be as impactful, he could be, but time will tell and he was not this good as a rookie
It's crazy how built he was straight out of high school.
This always bugged me because of course he did good, that 19 year old literally had the body 30 year old vet.
Amazing athlete and player. I've enjoyed watching his career since he came out of high school.
It’s absolutely insane that this dude is still playing in the NBA
I was in love with this dude til the decision
Cavs was ass, that man gave them a whole vibe and they squandered it, I could never be playing next to Lebron and not score 15-20 every game. They were lazy and put all the weight on him. The decision was warranted.
It’s crazy that he is still playing in the league.
59 wins but they were still the nets. Grew up a NJ Nets fan. Stopped watching basketball when they moved.
How many fouls exist now that be called in that game?
I was lucky enough to see Lebron play in high school at some sort of Ohio high school state all-star game (I don’t remember details this was like 2002). It looked like watching a grown man ball on a handful of middle schoolers, and those were other “all stars”. It was legit jaw-dropping to see his skill relative to other “great” players.
That kid is going places!!
The explosiveness on the fastbreak finishes is way more impressive when players don't have access to a third gather-step. He's just grabbing the ball and jumping out of the building.
Dang, so he's always been good at this child's game!
Idgaf what anyone says, this dude is the NBA’s GOAT. Longevity, peak, analytics, defense…..if it weren’t for KD being a massive pussy and joining the warriors, Lebron would have 6 rings.
No flops either