The Big homie is amazing.
Lebron James has 3 NBA Championships in 15 seasons as a Cleveland Cavalier and Miami Heat forward. Micheal Jordan has 6 NBA Championships in 15 years as a Chicago Bull and Washington Wizard two guard. To be clear Jordan has 6 Championships in 6 attempts never having to play a game 7. Lebron has a way to go to catch the goat, three factors favor him in his pursuit.
One he played for Cleveland and won the first Championship for the City in over 50 years.
The second thing he did was take the worst roster in NBA history to the 2007 Finals. (4th year in the league) While Lebron is 3-5 in the Finals, 2007 series vs San Antonio should be thought of as a victory considering the rooster of the Cleveland team that year. (I'll show you later.)
The 3rd is his statistics will be outrageous when he decides to retire. James is going to The Basketball Hall of Fame with ease, but greatness is greedy. Lebron James wants to be considered as the greatest of all time.
There is one way he can be the undisputed 2nd best player in history (let's not forget about Kobe) and firmly in the conversation for the best ever.
Lebron must get Cleveland and himself another ring. Cleveland has a checkered sports past.
I will spare myself and other Clevelanders the pain of recounting the foul ups, bloopers, blunders and near misses of our teams coming close but not winning Championships.
Another well known fact is the Golden State Warriors are one of the greatest teams ever assembled.
Two Championships in three years as they added an MVP to a team which won a record amount of regular season games. The chances look bleak that the Cavs will be able to beat the Warriors in a seven game series. Oh by the way, I am not leaving out The Rockets, Thunder or the Spurs with a healthy Kawhi Leonard but the Warriors have 4 of the top 15 players in the NBA on their team.
In the upcoming off season Lebron James can opt out of his contract and become a free agent. Let's look at some options: If he goes to Philadelphia Joel Embid who's a stud, has played a little over a season worth of games in three years. The rookie of the year candidate Ben Simmons can't shoot and basically serves the same function as does Lebron.
If he goes to The Rockets or Warriors it will be considered as a ring chase. The other West teams will have to face such a gauntlet that he may not make the finals. Other than the city he'd potentially go to, no one really wants to see mercenary Lebron.
I don't blame him for going to Miami to eventually win two rings with Bosh and Wade, but look what he has morphed the NBA into.
Due to Lebron's success in Miami he's created the era of "Super teams." What Lebron has invented in fact is the Golden State Warriors Juggernaut that we currently are witnessing. (no pun)
If he stays and beats that juggernaut with Kevin Love and an athletic young team now you have three instances of Herculean efforts which carried three Cleveland Teams well beyond expectation.
He needs positive asterisks to be considered the greatest because he'll never out duel 6 Championships in 6 attempts.
2007 Eastern Conference Champions
SF Lebron James #
PG Daniel Gibson
C Zydrunas Illguskas
PF Drew Gooden
SG Sasaha Pavlovic
PF Anderson Varejao
SG Larry Hughes
SF Donyell Marshall
SG Damon Jones
PG Eric Snow
C Scott Pollard
# - The only player who was good on that Finals team
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