Kenyon Martin says lebron was never considered a lockdown defender at any point of his career

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Let’s go ahead and list the true “lockdown defenders” in recent memory.

Because people are using this term as if it doesn’t apply to a VERY select few.

And to be clear, being named to 1st team all defense, or even winning dpoy doesn’t make you a lockdown defender, necessarily.

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Since Jordan how many championship caliber superstar wings can you consider a lockdown defender? I’m not talking about the Paul Georges of the world I mean guys who can lead a team to a ring. I’ll wait. Some faq is gonna say Kawhi because he has an FMVP but imo the Spurs are a special and complicated case, it’s yet to be seen if Kawhi can lead a team to a ring himself he just happened to step up at the right time in that Finals.

And during the 13 game win streak earlier this year I saw Bron with my own two eyes lock up red hot Porzingis, Schroeder, Blake, in the 4th quarter.
 

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So we just gonna ignore him bullying prime d rose. Nikka we all daw that shyt, hulk bron aka HGH bron was step for step with him.
 

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To be fair, very few players are ever actually truly lock down defenders. Even guys like Chris Paul still get WORKED by the likes of Stephen curry.


Even Michael Jordan never actually guarded his oppenents best player (Larry bird, Isiah thomas, etc)
 

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No lies told. :francis:

LeBron was a good defender but not a lockdown defender. Tony Allen, Scottie Pippen, Avery Bradley and Gary Payton were/are lockdown defenders. I laughed when LeBron said he deserved DPOY over Marc Gasol that year

No he wasn't. Allen,gp,bradley I agree

pippen aint never lockdown nobody.Pippen strength was team defense passing lanes,weakside help,deflections not one on one defense
 

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Let’s go ahead and list the true “lockdown defenders” in recent memory.

Because people are using this term as if it doesn’t apply to a VERY select few.

And to be clear, being named to 1st team all defense, or even winning dpoy doesn’t make you a lockdown defender, necessarily.
yep this is why imo Kawahi>>>>Dray all day and should win award over him every year
 
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