Post by Rog on Jun 13, 2017 4:19:42 GMT
The 86th nominee of the NBN Hall of Famer is about as big of a lock as you can get, except maybe KD and Childress. He was elite at EVERYTHING you can do in basketball, just like his real life counterpart. Just because he wasn't quite Kevin Durant good, doesn't mean he wasn't amazing. So was he the third best player of all time, since thats what we are all playing for? Lets take a look.
Career Stats
37.9 MPG, 27.7 PPG, 7.6 RPG, 3.9 APG, 2.0 SPG, 1.0 BPG, 1.8 TOPG on 46.7% from the field, 85.0% from the line, and 42.6% from three
Best Season
Hawks(2014) - 31.6 PPG, 7.8 RPG, 4.4 APG, 2.1 SPG, 0.8 BPG, 1.6 TOPG on 49.6% from the field, 88.6% from the line, and 42.1% from three
Career Highs
Points: 59
Rebounds: 19
Assists: 15
Steals: 9
Blocks: 5
Achievements
Championships: 0
Player of the Game: 318
Player of the Week: 8
Player of the Month: 1
Double Doubles: 355
Triple Doubles: 8
Accolades
2005 - All-Star Rookie Game Participant
2005 - Rookie Game MVP
2005 - All-Star Game Participant
2005 - Rookie of the Year
2005 - All-Rookie Team
2006 - All-Star Game Participant
2006 - All-League First Team
2007 - All-League Second Team
2007 - All-Defensive Second Team
2008 - All-Star Game Participant
2008 - All-League Second Team
2008 - All-Defensive Team
2009 - All-Star Game Participant
2009 - All-League Second Team
2009 - All-Defensive Second Team
2010 - All-Star Game Participant
2010 - All-Star Game MVP
2010 - All-League Second Team
2010 - All-Defensive Second Team
2011 - All-Star Game Participant
2011 - All-League Second Team
2011 - All-Defensive Second Team
2012 - All-Star Game Participant
2012 - All-Defensive Second Team
2013 - All-Star Game Participant
2013 - All-League Second Team
2014 - All-Star Game Participant
2014 - All-League Third Team
2015 - All-Star Game Participant
2015 - All-League Third Team
2015 - All-Defensive Second Team
2016 - All-Star Game Participant
2016 - All-Star Game MVP
2016 - All-League Third Team
2017 - All-Star Game Participant
2017 - All-League Second Team
2018 - All-Star Game Participant
2019 - All-Star Game Participant
Arguments For Induction
- Lets all take a deep breath because this is going to take a little while. Okay, lets go. Starting with his rookie season, Lebron won Rookie of the Year as well as Rookie Game MVP. Starting out on top. He played in 14 All-Star Games in his 18 seasons, winning MVP of the All-Star game in two of those. He was also named to 6 All-Defensive second and 1 All-Defensive first team. And finally, Lebron was named to 3 All-League Third teams, 7 All-League Second Teams, and 1 All-League First team, in a season where he was better than Durant. I mean it happened to be Durant's rookie season, but we all gotta claim shit somewhere right?
- Lets just start from the top. He was an elite scorer. He averaged 27.7 points per game for his career. He finished 2nd All-Time in his career in points, behind Kevin Durant, another thing where Durant was better. He also shot the ball extremely well. Not quite Brandon Roy well, but his shooting line was pretty fantastic. He shot 46.7% from the field, 85% from the line, and 42.6% from three. Just incredible. One last thing about scoring, the first 15 seasons of his career(of 18) he scored 25 points or more, all while shooting well. Thats absolutely incredible.
- Lebron was one of the best all time at getting rebounds for non bigs. In fact, he is second all time in rebounds for a non big and 39th overall. He was second behind, you guessed it, Kevin Durant. He averaged 7.6 for his career, but was over 8 for five seasons. Just a fantastic rebounder overall.
- Lebron was one of the best defenders for a star of all time. He made 7 All-Defensive teams total. He averaged 3 stocks(2 steals, 1 block) for his career and carried an A rating for basically his entire career. Once again too, he had counting stats in his favor here as well, he was 5th All-Time in steals.
- I could talk about every aspect of basketball and Lebron was elite at it, so lets just end it here. He could score with the best of them, pass with the best of them which I didn't mention above with his 4 assists a game for his career and being over 4.5 several times, rebound as good as anyone not a big or Kevin Durant, all while not turning it over and shooting the ball at an elite clip. Just an incredible player that is without a doubt a Hall of Fame. In fact, the bigger questions are, was he the third best player of all time and what team should he be inducted as?
Arguments Against Induction
- Uh, only 11 years instead of 18 was he an All-League guy, this is the Hall of Fame, and Lebron was a slacker.
- Hmm, only 7 defensive awards? Not a great defender. Psh.
- No titles, even with All-Time great Steph Curry with him and all those 60 win Cavs teams. Only champs should be indcuted. Come on.
- I got nothing else.
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