When you are one of the best at something, you are held to a higher standard than everyone else.
When your are THE BEST, then that standard is even higher.
LeBron is the best basketball player in the world, he averaged a triple double in the NBA Finals while scoring 33 points a game, that is insane, but he is so good those type of numbers aren’t surprising.
LeBron has reached a level where every year it is championship or bust.
I always ask the hypothetical question would LeBron be perceived differently if he only went to 3 Finals and went 3-0 as opposed to going to 8 and going 3-5.
It is one of those questions that doesn’t have a good answer but what we do know is that Jordan’s 6-0 is frankly the only thing that stops a lot of people from declaring LeBron the GOAT.
How great is LeBron?
People think Kevin Durant signed with Warriors because he thought OKC couldn’t beat them, but the reality is he knew it was the only way he could beat LeBron.
The 2nd best player in the world needed to go to a 73 team win team to guarantee he could take out the best player in the world. Smart move by Kd, but a big problem for LeBron.
The Warriors specifically draymond Green knew they needed more to beat LeBron. The entire league knows that to stop LeBron you need more firepower than the NBA has ever seen.
To his critics it won’t matter, but to anyone who appreciates the game of basketball they know what they are witnessing, no pun intended.
LeBron will reload and assess what went wrong next year, he knows he will need more to compete with this current Warriors team.
They made some flawed decisions bringing in deron williams, Kyle Korver an overpaying for JR Smith and Tristan Thompson, but nothing they can do about that now.
The bar has been set for LeBron and he understands when you are being mentioned as the GOAT, nothing but rings matter, not even being the best player on the floor in a series that likely will have 8 players in Hall of Fame.
In the end, LeBron is going to be in 10+ Finals, his legacy will be how many can he win when the entire league is working to stop his ascension to the GOAT throne.