LeBron James is the most dominant player in the NBA. But is he also the best athlete the league has ever seen?
Before we investigate, it is imperative to first establish what separates one player from the next in an Association filled with the world's best athletes.
In this article, James is being specifically compared to a list of legendary athletes who possessed the rarest combinations of size, speed and leaping ability while also dominating multiple phases of the game.
Meaning—besides rising up and dunking on the heads of their defenders—this list is reserved for those athletes who also excelled in the ability to dribble, pass and shoot.
As a 6'8" point guard, for example, Magic Johnson was a great athlete. But despite the long list of things that Johnson could do, he was never a great leaper.
Shawn Kemp—on the other hand—was one of the NBA's greatest leapers ever in his prime. While Kemp excelled as a scorer and rebounder, however, he never averaged more than 2.6 assists in any season.
Johnson, Kemp and others of the like were omitted from the list of comparable athletes below for th ...
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Is LeBron James the Best Athlete the NBA Has Ever Seen?
March 16th, 2013 by Brendan Bowers Leave a reply »
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