LeBron won't ever be the greatest. He has no chance of passing Jordan, Kareem or Russell. I don't think he'll be the G.O.A.T., I think most people realized that already he's already declining. To me he'll retire in the 4-10 range though.
LeBron left the Cavaliers because he had no help, do you watch these games dude was putting the Cavs on his back night after night on a team where Mo Williams was his second option. He was going up against loaded Celtics teams that were historically good defensively, and had four All-Stars. The team in LA had one of the leagues dynamic duos with Kobe and Gasol. See LBJ realized that you don't win NBA history without others around you. Jordan had Pippen and Rodman, Kobe played with another top 10 player in Shaq, and later Gasol, Bird had multiple HoFers, Magic played with Kareem, Worthy, Scott, etc., Russell had several HoFers. The Cavs weren't bringing in that second guy for LeBron they blew a trade for Amar'e Stoudemire because they didn't want to part ways with JJ Hickson. LeBron did what he had to do, and what's been done through NBA history. Miss me with that.
He isn't a choke artist, he did choke in the 11 Finals other than that his playoffs performance is fantastic, he was ridiculous in the '09 Playoffs averaged 35 per game hitting gamewinners and all, game 5 vs. Detroit in '07, game 6 vs. Boston in '12 these are some of he greatest performances ever. The whole '12 Playoffs were great. LeBron underperforms in big games?You do realize he's one of the most dominant closeout/game 7 per performers ever comparable to JORDAN and OSCAR ROBERTSON.
You bring up Ray Allen's three but forget LeBron scored 18 points in the 4Q, scored or assisted on 16 consecutive Miami points, hit a clutch three right before Allen's, held Tony Parker to 6 of 23 shooting and had a huge block on Tim Duncan in the 4Q. You also ignore that there was a complete overtime period after that.
Also, you ignore Larry Hughes injury in '07 and how he was alone against those Spurs at 22 year old and how Eric Snow was bench in favor of a rookie. Or last year how the Heat defense was atrocious and got throttled when LeBron sat and how LBJ was the only one producing offensively, how Wade was BURNED out. Circumstances understand em, my nikka.
All in all LeBron's skillset, accomplishments (4 MVP's, 2 championships), and his statistical dominance do make him one of the G.O.A.T.'s anyone with credibility in basketball like Bill Simmons, and ex players like Scottie Pippen, Bill Laimbeer, Magic Johnson rank him highly. Really hard to find players matching his resume at 30 years old.
But this the booth y'all
Pac is in my top 5, I don't believe in consensus G.O.A.T.'s this is music it's subjective. You from LA probably grew up on Pac, Rock is from Brooklyn he's a older dude. It differs for person to person.