Answer the ____ question.
If you wouldn't leave out current players, would you choose LeBron?Try to be honest. If your life depended on a win would you replace any of the above 5 with LeBron (I don't care about position)?
Not sure who I would replace either Duncan or Bird by position or Magic since Lebron essentially plays PG but yes I would put Lebron in my 5 if using current players.
Wait, what? If for some reason the other 4 spots were locked down, there's a scenario where you'd pick Magic over Lebron? Or Bird over Lebron?
If you had to pick by position and each player was locked into the position that he played most of his career then yeah I would pick Magic as PG
Lebron plays mostly small forward so if we are by position then he would be picked at SF.
This is where the problem comes in. We talking five best or the best team?
If you're letting Lebron qualify for the same spot as Magic, he's getting that spot over Magic. If you're letting him qualifiy for the same spot as Bird, he's getting that spot over Bird. Not sure what you're getting at.
if using current players then Lebron is obviously picked but if we are doing by position then it changes whose spot he is taking
LBJ is a small forward? In that case if we include current players Bird would be gone but then I would be a racist.
He is getting at Magic is a better point guard.
Nah. Pick 4 other guys, then have Magic run that team as the "PG" and Lebron run that team as the "PG". It's Lebron all day. I'm not even that high on Lebron, but there's just no case to say you're better off with Magic in that spot.
I guess what you are saying is take the top five GOAT and that will be the GOAT team?
Definitely not. In fact, I can see an argument for a 'regular' pg over Lebron - just not Magic.
Talk about letting them play. I guess no blood no foul.
Most damningly, he has also been dubbed “Porcelain Mamba” for his efforts to draw fouls despite being hardly touched. In Chinese, “bumping porcelain” (碰瓷) is a euphemism for faking traffic accidents in order to fraudulently collect compensation. The expression dates to the Qing Dynasty, when scam artists would carry a fake porcelain vase and purposely bump into a rickshaw and drop the vase, causing it to shatter. They would then claim the shattered vase was a valuable antique and demand compensation. The implication here is that Harden is a master scam artist who draws fouls he doesn’t deserve.
https://deadspin.com/sprout-god-porcelain-mamba-and-six-step-lebron-the-s-1825949113