Research Paper On Lebron James

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Have heard of conversions about who is the best basketball player of all time, and thought who is really the best? People may say that Jordan, Kobe, Wilt, and Kareem, are the best, but the G.O.A.T. of basketball is Lebron James. Standing 6’9 250 lbs, from Akron, Ohio. He has played for the Cavs, Heat, and the Lakers. He is a 4x NBA champion, 4x finals MVP, 4x MVP, 20x All-star, and a 13x NBA first team. Lebron is also the leading scorer in NBA history, he passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and is the first person to reach 40,000 points. His career average per game is 27.1 points, 7. 5 rebounds, 7.1 assists, and 1.5 steals per game. He has been in the NBA for 21 years, he is almost 40 years old and no one can stop him. First of all, LeBron James is the leading scorer in the NBA with 40,067 points in his regular season career and in the playoffs, he has scored 8,023 points. …show more content…
LeBron in his 21-year career is averaging 27 points. Lebron in the playoffs is averaging 28.7 points, 9 rebounds, and 8.7 assists per game. No one in the history of the NBA has scored 40,000 points in their career, until Lebron did. He is the best scorer in the history of the NBA. Another reason is that LeBron sits number 1 in playoff win shares at 57.9, which is miles ahead of Jordan who just sits at 39.8. He has also played 266 games in the playoffs and he has won 182 of those games. He might not have the most number of championships, but he is the winningest player in NBA history. No one has won more games than him. He has won close to 1,000 games. On the other hand, people may think that Jordan is the

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