Not to mention his second stint in Cleveland with Kyrie. LeBron has always been a phenomenal off ball player. He has been out running, out cutting, out maneuvering, outsmarting defenses for at least 18 years, now.

People trying to put him the same camp as Russ, Harden and Melo, phenomenal, and all-world players with the ball, but notably below average players without it, are absolutely tripping.

Yeah. It’s more that he spent the first seven years of his career being the main option without a close second, and then his first five years with the Lakers doing the same because AD wanted to play forward and not center, where LeBron would have happily fed him 12 dimes a game, and he rarely wasn’t either holding the ball or preparing for the ball to get thrown back to him. That’s basically a decade of not playing off-ball.

He was brilliant with Wade and Bosh, and he was brilliant with Kyrie, two situations where he could maneuver himself without the ball to be right where he needed to be while the defense was paying attention to the other threat.

Yeah, Lebron has always been one of the best off-ball players ever. He just also happens to be one of the best on-ball players ever too, and that tends to be more valuable to a team.

He might…

I’m so deadass. We still don’t know if he’s from this planet. His longevity doesn’t make sense anymore, but that theory kinda does when you watch him fly at 40+