LeBron James May Go Down As The Greatest Loser Ever

[Jplaya2023]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/lebron-james-may-go-down-as-the-greatest-loser-ever/

LeBron James’s Cleveland Cavaliers might be trailing the Golden State Warriors 3-2 in the NBA Finals. The Cavs might, as their Vegas odds suggest, have a mere 12 percent chance of winning the NBA championship. But according to just about every statistical measurement available, the self-proclaimed “best player in the world” is having a series for the ages.

Get more complex — using, say, a points above replacement (PAR) estimator based on the single-game version of Daniel Myers’s Box Plus/Minus2 — and James ranks sixth among all NBA Finals participants since 1985.3

So at either pole of the complexity spectrum, James has been the top player of these finals. (Neil Greenberg of the Washington Post and ESPN Insider’s Kevin Pelton came to similar conclusions using a few more metrics of varying intricacy.) And from a historical perspective, output of this level usually leads to winning the NBA Finals and the NBA Finals MVP: Every player near James’s combined total of points, rebounds and assists ended up garnering MVP honors.

In a vacuum, then, James’s performance has been so historically strong that it would be a shame for him not to win the award.

 

[MJ Truth]

Another useful LeBron thread.

 

[Brozay]

Why do you have it out for Bron so much @Jplaya2023 ?

 

[DarrynCobretti]

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Seum is gon be dat pure uncut juice once dese finals are ova.

nikkas got tabs fulla unpublished threads on deck dat dey havent x'd out of & been keepin open since January ready to be unleashed.

Lol Get ready.

 

[Da King]

Seum is gon be dat pure uncut juice once dese finals are ova.

nikkas got tabs fulla unpublished threads on deck dat dey havent x'd out of & been keepin open since January ready to be unleashed.

Lol Get ready.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

It's comin.

 

[Jplaya2023]

Why do you have it out for Bron so much @Jplaya2023 ?

I don't just posting an article. Wanted to see what people thought

Lebron is great.

 

[Remote]

They hating on Lebron because he isn't winning titles like Bill Russell.

But Jim Kelly gets cheers for taking 4 straight L's.

Maybe Lebron should have been a white guy.

 

[Regular_P]

Why do you have it out for Bron so much @Jplaya2023 ?

What he posted is actually very complimentary but has a sensationalist title.

 

[Da King]

They hating on Lebron because he isn't winning titles like Bill Russell.

But Jim Kelly gets cheers for taking 4 straight L's.

Maybe Lebron should have been a white guy.

Jim Kelly got screwed by his FG kicker, wasn't really the favorites in most those losses, and he's a nice guy by all accounts so he's viewed in a different light

 

[Brozay]

I don't just posting an article. Wanted to see what people thought

Lebron is great.

Thread title threw me off @Regular_P

 

[William F. Russell]

Seum is gon be dat pure uncut juice once dese finals are ova.

nikkas got tabs fulla unpublished threads on deck dat dey havent x'd out of & been keepin open since January ready to be unleashed.

Lol Get ready.

Breh, I'm not a Bron stan by any stretch of the imagination. But it's been downright embarrassing how quickly some of these posters have threads ready THE SECOND things go badly for LeBron.These dudes salivate like Pavlovian dogs for every opportunity to make Bron-bashing threads in hopes of getting featured/platinum threads.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of these posters have tabs of unpublished threads that haven't been x'd out since August.

 

[William F. Russell]

They hating on Lebron because he isn't winning titles like Bill Russell.

But Jim Kelly gets cheers for taking 4 straight L's.

Maybe Lebron should have been a white guy.

Who celebrates Jim Kelly though? Maybe some cacs but generally, nobody's checking for dude.

 

[RammerJammer]

Seum is gon be dat pure uncut juice once dese finals are ova.

nikkas got tabs fulla unpublished threads on deck dat dey havent x'd out of & been keepin open since January ready to be unleashed.

Lol Get ready.

Gonna be a record number of bushes threads, if GS wins tonight, Coli postgame gone be