Overall, LeBron is clutch. By some metrics, as clutch as Jordan.
You can pull a very narrow set of circumstances under which he's not quite as clutch, on shots with less than five seconds to go to win the game (which are generally going to be bad shots and LeBron isn't a great bad shot maker).
If you expand clutch beyond just the last five seconds, LeBron moves up the list.
But in the playoffs, the clutchiest of all clutch situations? LeBron is the most clutch player of this generation.
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This narrative should have been dead years ago. Lebron might actually be the most clutch dude in the league. Clutch doesn't just mean hero shots as the clock expires, it also refers to the last 4 minutes of big games, and Lebron has been showing up in those moments for years now.