This thread goes out to all the biased morons who hate on lebron.

A guy on another forum put it best -

This is what makes sports fun - hating opponents for whatever goddamm reason you please. I don't think you have to rationalize it.

 

What are we if we just don't care either way?

Oh, I know:

Spoiler

NORMAL

 

True. It's just how they went about it. "The Decision", regardless of how many people hated it.. they still went on and rubbed it in with the intro ceremony. Rockets or Celts didn't do that and the heat over did it with having 2 x top 5 players and a top 15 player joining together.

 

will always enjoy the skills.

dislike the guy now after having liked him. now asking me to re-like him? not going to happen anytime soon.

 

Eh, still hate him. What are you going to do about it?

 

LerBron Sucks, Herp Derp!

another DJ Steve Porter classic

 

In terms of pure stats there are two players you can compare him with, wilt and MJ. That puts him in rarefied air.

Is he a top 10 player maybe not yet, but his career trajectory points that way.

 

Calling out people who don't like him vs. calling out people who said he'd never win, wasn't clutch, couldn't co-exist with Dwade, break up the Heat etc etc are two very very different things. I hope you see that.

 

Lebron this past year had 27/8/6, and he's in his prime.

Prime Barkley had 28/12/4
Prime Bird had 28/9/8
Prime Oscar had 30/6/10

Those are just 3 players that rolled the top of my head as guys who generally fill out stats. I'm sure there are plenty of others too. Just so you know, Lebron is not the 2nd player in history behind MJ to know how to score, rebound, and pass. Even if ESPN makes it seem that way.

 

I'm pretty sure none of those guys you've mentioned have averaged what LBJ has done the past two years.

I can understand why people don't root for LBJ, as other posters have said he's an egotistical jackass. But the thing is, these same posters slobber over MJ and Kobe, and those two aren't exactly saints. In fact, they're even worse, MJ pulled strings to get Isiah Thomas booted out of the Dream team, and Kobe got charged with rape. LBJ's greatest offense? Hosting the "Decision", which incidentally raised 1 million dollars for charity.

@meh you forgot the 2 steals, mind-boggling 54% FG and lockdown defense. That's just the regular season stats though.

Playoff season stats: 30/10/6 on 0.500% FG with the same lockdown D.

 

You have to adjust that for pace, points scored, field goal percentage of time, etc. That is why I like using PER because it does that for you. If you look at that lebron is 2nd all time and nearly one point better than shaq.

 

Prime Wilton 39.5/24.9/3.9 and had some D too.

Yeah different time but....damn.

 

I dont HATE LeBron, i actually like his game

 

Who's lebron James? Is he that guy with 6 rings from the 90's? Must of been on the bench.

 

LeBron has already passed Scottie Pippen... :0

 

I just wanted to say excellent thread this is certainly a new take on the Lebron James experience.

 

Also Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Dwight Howard, Yao Ming, Nash, CP3, Dirk, Brian Scalabrine.