[Miles]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

I’d prefer he stay in Toronto as well if only for the chance to win more championships. And I agree that the league definitely is more interesting when you don’t know who is going to win.

But to me, LeBron’s legacy as the greatest player ever is already secure and has been for a while now. He either has all the individual records right now or will have them by the time he ends his career. His numbers are unquestionably better than his only real competition for that title, Michael Jordan. The only argument against him is the championship count (an obviously fallacious argument with all kinds of issues but an argument nonetheless). If he adds more titles (and he will do so with Kawhi and AD at his side), that argument falls. And sure, the MJ fans might say that the titles don’t mean anything or mean less than they did when MJ won them, but that effectively shows just how silly the championship count argument was in the first place. Championships are a team accomplishment, not an individual accomplishment. They always have been. Some great individual players have never won one and yet they are still acknowledged as undeniably better than many who have. At this point, LeBron is the best basketball player ever regardless of how many titles that he racks up by the end but I’m certainly going to enjoy that one last argument being rendered as the nonsense it very obviously is.

And let’s be clear, LeBron would still be the best player on such a team until sufficiently proven otherwise. The guy was basically the same player he’s been for the past 4-5 years last season. That may not be the case for much longer, but he’s no #3 on the Lakers under any scenario right now.

Think it was proven otherwise last year. Would Lebron be the worst of the big three if that happens?