LeBron James

Lebron James is Better than Michael and Kobe

LeBron James is no doubt better than Kobe Bryant Period.  That is the reality.  You get many opinions.  How many Championship Jordan has won, or even Magic?  However pound for pound, when you measure the impact that James has on his team vs Jordan’s impact in his day you can say that both players had a tremendous impact on their respective teams. In fact Jordan probably had a more significant impact on his team, with his playing style and his ability to put himself on the line to win.

James on the other hand has more of a tendency to  get all his teammates involved.  He  is an unselfish player and does not in anyway feel that he has something to prove. So James is not filled with the “I told you so complex”.  No question, James is better than Kobe Bryant. This cannot be measured by championships.  Kobe had a much better supporting cast with the Lakers.  And you could hold the argument that the Lakers could have won their championships without Kobe  You cannot make that same argument with Jordan or with James.

So a player can be compared by championships particularly Jordan and James.  Simply because of their tremendous impact of their teams.  Kobe Bryant is by nature a gunner.  He is selfish and plays primarily for himself. Jordan play basically the same way.  James is a different breed.  If I had to vote I give my vote to LeBron James even with only one championship at this point.

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Will LeBron James Return To Cleveland

Joshua Gunter, The Plain Dealer
Could LeBron James and the Cavaliers be partners again someday? Would Cleveland fans like for that to happen?

CLEVELAND, Ohio — LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers as a free agent for the Miami Heat on July 8, 2010, announcing on ESPN’s infamous telecast of “The Decision” that “I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.”

Brian Windhorst, now with ESPN, was then The Plain Dealer’s Cavaliers beat writer. He wrote that night about Akron native James saying goodbye to northeast Ohio, at least as a basketball player.

Windhorst now covers the Heat, who host the Cavaliers tonight. In fact, Windhorst writes that James is close to Cleveland rookies Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson.

Those relationships may not matter all that much to Cavs fans. What might stir them is what Windhorst had to say on ESPN.com’s “Heat Index Live” on Monday.

About 51 minutes and 45 seconds into the show, Windhorst said:

I know people think this is crazy, but I think LeBron ends up playing for the Cavs before his career is over.

I’m not saying it’s happening in 2014, but before it’s all over, LeBron will play [for] Cleveland. He will get a statue; they just built a statue for Jim Thome and he stiffed Cleveland just as much as LeBron. In the end, he goes back to the Cavs and he’s remembered as a great player and not as a villain. I might be proven wrong, but that’s my read on the situation.

James can opt out of his contract with Miami at the end of the 2013-14 season.

Windhorst referred to Jim Thome, who, of course, played the first 12 seasons (1991-2002) of his career with the Cleveland Indians before leaving them to sign a free agent contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. Thome, Cleveland’s all-time home run leader and now age 41, was re-acquired by the Indians in a minor trade with the Minnesota Twins last Aug. 25. After finishing the season with Cleveland, he again — this time, minus the controversy — signed as a free agent with Philadelphia.

About 37 minutes into the “Heat Index Live” show, Windhorst said that James wanted then-Cavs coach Mike Brown to bench guards Mo Williams and Delonte West going into Game 6 of Cleveland’s Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Celtics. The game turned out to be a season-ending loss for the Cavs, and James’ final game with the team. It also followed his awful performance in Cleveland’s Game 5 blowout loss.

Windhorst also said James wanted the Cavs to sign center Eddie Curry to a long contract after the 2005 season. Curry, who has been injured most of the last several seasons, is now a backup center with Miami. Later, according to Curry, James thought that the Cavs would be better off acquiring forward Antawn Jamison — as they did in Feb., 2010 — instead of forward-center Amare Stoudemire, now with the New York Knicks.