Lebron James

Lebron James, the only basketball player to have won the NBA championship in three different teams. Known for his excellent numbers in the court, Lebron James, also known as King James, is a definitely a basketball personality everyone knows.

Lebron James carrier has always been solid from the start. In just two years of playing the sport, at the age of 22 Lebron became the youngest player in the NBA to score their first 5000 points. What made coaches love Lebron other than his performance was also his flexibility. Lebron can be put anywhere on the court and he will play that position like if he is the best at it.

He wasn’t just born with all this talent however, he really started working hard on his basketball skills starting in elementary school. By the time he got to high school, he was given the title of Ohio’s Mr. Basketball for winning the high school player of the year three times! In 2003, his senior year in high school, he got drafted into Cleveland Cavalier. His talent was quite noticeable as he got a $90 million from Nike before he even started playing professionally.

His athleticism and his well built body made it incredibly difficult for defenders to stop him. As he continued to play in the NBA, his game kept on getting better. Cleveland Cavalier started to be in the spotlight because of Lebron James effort in encouraging his team mates and having a goal in his mind to bring the team up instead of just himself (which he has been seen doing throughout his carrier. In 2006 and 2007 Cavaliers got to the finals for the first time, for which many people give credit to Lebron James for. In 2008-09, James won two of the league’s MVP awards scoring and average of 30 points per game. In 2009-10 when James contract with the Cavaliers expired and he became the most sort out player by teams in that season. He finally settled with the Miami Heats. 

With Lebron James in the team, Miami got to finals the year he joined them. In 2011-12, James won another MVP award playing for Miami Heats. In the same year and the year after, he got Heats their championship. In 2013, Lebron left the Heats and joined Cavaliers again. In Cavaliers, James was setting new records again. In 2016-17 he had one of his best seasons. He was breaking records on records. Lebron broke Michael Jordan’s record of all time scorings and he became the first player to average a triple-double over the course of finals. In this year, Lebron James won his third championship with Cavaliers. 

After getting a championship with Cavaliers, Lebron James switched to Lakers. When he was with the Lakers, he got himself injured. During his injury, Laker’s performance reduced drastically, but after Covid when things got back to normal, Lebron and Lakers sky rocketed. Lakers won their championship in 2020 and that became Lebron’s 4th NBA championship.

Lebron has been a player for the team who adapts according to the teams need. Lebrons stats are high in all three areas, points, rebounds, and assists, for this very reason. Lebron in a way is the opposite of Shaq who plays solo, but eventually learned to play with the team. Every time Lebron won a championship under a team, he gave credit for it equally to the whole team even if his stats would be way higher than other players.

Lakers faced a lot of back lash from the media for their performance before this season. These were his words after Laker’s 2020 championship victory: “We just want our respect. (Lakers general manager) Rob (Pelinka) wants his respect. Coach Vogel wants his respect. The organization wants its respect. Laker Nation wants its respect. And I want my damn respect too.”

Lebron stands for the team, not just for himself, his words, work, and carrier is a highlight of that.

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