I Used Data To Find The Closest Player To LeBron In The Entire NBA 

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Brah 💀

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He kinda looks like him also, wild

yes genetically 💀💀

Brian Scalabrine is the only undisputed and universally praised goat

one of the coldest lines ever

bro why I was watching the video and looked on the comment thing I saw jimmy butler stop spoiling it

Who is closer, white mamba or goatnasis

​@@King_Editz-w4lbrother why would you look at the comments before watching a video like this? That's on you ngl

For sure!!!

its from an NBA ad on TV

I was impressed as well.

@@angelobush2394damn bro had to kill his shine😂😂im sure he but the camera noises in there

My thoughts exactly at the start of the video

My guess too. Pure bucket

Right? I said that right off the bat. His play style is pretty similar overall and his defense is better than some of the other comparable guys.

I said the same thing.

Jimmy lacks the durability, the desire (look how little he cares about regular season) and the playmaking

James Harden is left handed though, is he just a great actor? 😭

@@Matt-xo8ijshhhh🤫 they dont know

@@Matt-xo8ijbetter actor than king James

Beards give you power of the NBA dominance... I'm shaved.

Nobody would believe how hard I laughed for the entire duration of that graphic being up

Every damn video 🤣

He needs a podcast at this point

Like, bruhh 😂

Answering every question that nobody asked

@@MrE_ yet

Unlike Others who have been promising for millennia!😅

@@angelg2638Coryxkenshin

Haha. Nailed it✝️

I'm so hype for this

Pulled a reverse Aang

Wsg mcdeezy

Facts

It must be such a cosmic slap in the face that you have Lebron’s physical dna as your father but only end up Bronny’s height. It’s like having a 20 in blackjack but still losing to the dealer

U wild for that

So basicaly Kawhi ressemble Jordan too much too ressemble LeBron, but Jimmy ressemble more LeBron than he ressemble Jordan after all LeBron ressemble more Jordan than Jimmy ressemble Jordan everythind seems allright

​@@lejournaldepercival sorry bro but this comment is aneurysm-inducing

@@nanashi7779 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@lejournaldepercival😦

Not Kobe??

Was bouta comment this

sad times

i don’t think it was a mistake 😂

James Barden

sorry i cant like your comment it currently has 69 likes

Rare L

Nobody would believe how hard I laughed for the entire duration of that graphic being up

@@Wake_Up_JacobI’m laughing rn😭

Lebrons defense has been well below average for his position the last 3 years

​@@thuggwaffle8825 bruh is 40 years old, you expect him to get better?

@@LendolphEpson not necessarily but this guy is suggesting that Lebron is currently a good defender

Son?

@@thuggwaffle8825when lebron actually tries he's a great defender tbh i wouldn't be putting effort into defense either being 40 years old i'll pick & choose when to try 😂

Jimmy butler was basically a poor man's LeBron

@@thinkinginsideout4053in those finals he was basically lebron without help. Bro had how two best team mates out for half the series while he was dropping 40 point triple doubles just to get a win

And the 2020 Finals were the 9th Finals Bron had been to in 10 years (2011-2020). Jimmy ran out of gas in game 7 in 2020.

@@quinngerlinger7347 what I said was a compliment to butler. no hate here.

Except to win. Yes

“Your greatest enemy is yourself” ahh scenario

I'm not sure though he's pretty close sure but the problem with High roller is gets to focused on stats and treats the NBA as a video game not real-life, data sheets don't play a part of outcomes in real life through a series of yes and no rng stat generators, next week the worst player in the NBA could drop 300 and a penta double or luka could chose he never wants to hit 3's again or Labron becomes a UFC fighter or a man with down syndrome could become the new goat, humans exist in real life where there are no rng codes that generate outcomes but merely by straight no rules physics and biology where if it's possible it will happen eventually given enough time and space. Labron James is nearly the perfect player he's the real NBA robot but has a few flaws; like being the main charter of the show but rarely being the main charter of the season, being a mixed team player, getting everything handed to him by the front, he plays for outcomes not sport and playing white collar basketball. Jimmy Butler has been the most misused NBA goat maybe ever the front everywhere he goes the front all but on paper actively prevents him from winning, he's skinny not wide or dense ( I mean just compare their head thinness to get an idea how much smaller jimmy is to Labron I mean luka is closer in size Labron) so he's a small scraper player not small mountain player, he plays blue collar basketball, he plays for sport not outcome and is never the main charter even though he's a goat. If anything, Ben Simions or Zion or ja Morant or another bust with bad stats drafted first round is the closest to Labron if not a guy like Sabonis when he hits his prime or Jokic if he try's. High roller just avoids context and facts to make a narrative out of data sheets, Labron's current closet doesn't have to be a successful American black man, Shaq's was Greg oden till a few years ago, let alone claim it's the real modern Jordan because of stats with no context and he doesn't want to admit it was a bad question. High roller always asks the wrong questions and gets bad results, if the answer sounds wrong it's because you are and asked the wrong question, yet he stands on the hill and gets proven wrong all the time, if Jeff Bazos can admit he makes bad questions and get off the hill then high roller surely can.

Jimmy was way better in the 23 Bucks series.

​@@Evan-i4e The main thing is that stats are completely unbiased and 100% objective. What else are you supposed to use? Data and statistics are the best way to answer these types of odd, but fun, questions.

@@Evan-i4ewhat kind of rambling nonsense is this

Dana would choose JBJ over his mom

@@jasonugwu8326 danas mom hates him. Look up the video 😂☠️

Nah, Dana’s mom is beating the shit out of Jon Jones

He walks out of all rooms

@@YRG-sb2wfain’t no party like a diddy party

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nah obviously its bronny hes literally his son

Bro spoilers?!?!

Thanasty

MJ fans are robotic

no one gives Scottie the respect he deserves :(

I came here for this.. that was cold as ice

keep sleeping on scottie him and the raptors will shock the world one day i know it

A lot of people scored higher…why would anyone but raptors fans care that Scottie’s name wasn’t mentioned?

@tdaniels151 because he specifically made a point about these "younger guys" like Senguen and Banchero but Scottie just didn't get mentioned LOL, ain't that deep just found it funny

my guesses were JB and KD it just seemed like the same pick

literally predicted butler or bridges

I know I was too, I’m like Durant has to be, but then Jimmy came to like after a second. And I felt Giannis was pretty good but too dissimilar to be the closest. Luka felt like he would give the closest statistically but when he said athleticism and play style matter it pushed him below KD and Jimmy

​@@kenocartierr Y'all are both such cap and it's so weird 😂 no one at all was gonna say JB. Cuz he's not the closest player to LeBron

🧢’n Crunch over here. I’m SURE u had Butler in mind. Riiiiiight. 👌🏽

He even missed him at the end when he said the closet younger guy was Cade followed by Paolo and so on, he skipped Scottie lmaoo

my tip creamin

i noticed that too, i was looking for him in every list lol

Almost like there's a publication ban on anything Raptors

Scottie play more like a big man in my opinion… Cade and Paolo can push the ball up the court faster and easier 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Scottie’s a great player though

I just commented the same thing it was insane

Perfection!!

hell yeah! Top shelf...

pretty sure it's not his editing. Its from an NBA video/ad. still cool tho

also editing it from lebron to butler is just crazy foreshadowing

Pretty close though. My first guess was Giannis as well.

Anthony Edwards?

I cant believe Cade cunningham wasnt higher on the list. Eye test puts him closer to lebron than CP3 or Harden.

True w.o a Jumpshot or passing ability

It’s luka or Tatum giannis doesn’t facilitate like bron

Exactly, Lebron is the best transition player ever, and Giannis is the 2nd, they are unstoppable freight train in transition, elite finisher at the rim and they can make the most explosive chasedown block, Giannis can also pass very well for a big and he is a swiss army knife on defense with the ability to guard 1-5 like Lebron… And Luka has the passing, post game, shooting, finishing and slow methodical approach of the game like Lebron. If Ben Simmons had a jumpshot he would easily be the most similar, or maybe if Zion lost 20-30 pounds and was around 260-270 like Lebron in the 2010’s, and if he also play point forward and just be in a better shape grabbing more rebounds and being a better defender he would also be very similar to him … But yeah Giannis was so obvious for me, same for Luka, Giannis is more like young Lebron and Luka like old Lebron.

@@Anthonydu01630it’s a bot bro

​@Anthonydu01630 yeah, cause being a big freight train that bodies people like football while driving to the basket is definitely high skill basketball.

😂😂😂

​@@Deeone282 body control, it is

Underrated

This isnt an experiment and nothing is ever the most accurate assessment possible. I'd also say the goal here is to provide insight, not explain the world. There's too many confounding factors to draw any causal conclusions. For example, lebron surrounds himself with shooters every season, so his passing numbers are way inflated compared to players who don't have that luxury

Not that I disagree with much of your comment, but being a freshman Data Science major does not give you an ounce of credibility in statistics or data analytics 😭

I agree

since lebron james is pretty much the player with the longest career. you can just compare however many years a player has played for with lebron's performance during the same period of his career.

​@@rishabhsharma2940to be fair he wasn't asking for credibility

Still plenty of assumptions and biases to go around. Jimmy was one of my top picks from the start, but idk if I’d say he’s actually the closest.

​@@dantesmith9153 I agree, I actually think Jimmy missed an important factor in his final calculation. From what he said, it sounded like he just took the average of each category score as the similarity score. This is, in my opinion, a flawed approach. The way to calculate the final similarity score should be to take the difference from Lebron in each category (100 - the percentages he showed), and square them. Then add these together for each player, and the player with the lowest total is the most similar to Lebron. The reason for doing this, is that it puts more emphasis on being similar to Lebron in all categories. This would prevent let's say a hypothetical Nate Robinson type player from having the highest similarity score to Lebron because the height category difference squared would become way bigger, and you would get the more accurate end result of players like Jimmy Butler and Paul George rising to the top of the list.

@@ogbmt I like this and would like to see it. Nice thought process/work!

Best believe that killer instinct helped increase the ring count. Also, this only shows(flawed or not) how close players are to Lebron, not who the best ever is.

@@ciresolsticebecause that debate is already settled, it is WIDELY agreed on that MJ is 1 and lebron is 2.

What's so funny about ending

I too burst out laughing fr.

Even funnier when the 2 runner-ups are kd and Giannis

@@russellwestbrookyellingatw9381 Look at my pfp

Lol same

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Preach

Not all hero’s wear capes

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Da realest

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Play on playa

Jimmy Butler is a poor man's LeBron

​​@@thinkinginsideout4053he's similar to both MJ and LeBron according to Jimmy; which makes sense since they all fit in the same archetype (Kobe, D-Wade, MJ, Butler & LeBron; maybe even Durant)

Zion + Luka might just be the best combination of players to produce Lebron. Zion is the Athletic post dominant side and Luka is the more IQ playmaker/scorer side

Before watching the video. I thought it was gonna be either Luka or Tatum since they are 27-7-7 consistent

@@user-lp2yy4iu3s I’m sorry but I totally disagree while Zion CAN be an unstoppable force, he is reckless and lacks the control and finesse LeBron has. Giannis on the other hand is very dominant without sacrificing as much in those areas.

Nobody would believe how hard I laughed for the entire duration of that graphic being up

@@Wake_Up_Jacobnobody gives a single fook buddy

My goat jimmy butler>>

Who???

He ain’t got the longevity of LeBron

​@@Hosae-v4cOnly thing he has in common with LeBron is hair colour 😂😂

Can we petition for this or something like, fr get this man in the 2k studios lol he'd fix the game

@@halosins9347 nothing can fix greed

I call CAP on James Harden being That close!😂

Whoopsie doodles

@@alyke9008casual detected

I was gonna say… did he just miss him right under Cade? I’d be interested to see what this list looks like in a few years with more data on the young guys in that range. Scottie is gonna be the next with the Lebron 25-8-8 type stat line

Well the point of the video was to use the stats, and Scottie scored 19th overall. So not really relevant to this conversation although he can become more relevant as he hits his prime

He can’t shoot

''isn't known'' yes by the casuals he isn't known .... Durant wasn't a playmaker but he gradually improved his passing , Butler too , Kawhi too , George too , Tatum too .....

Yea. I tend to say he’s made the league a lot more positionless. PF and SG and is going extinct. Seems to be a bigger emphasis on shot efficiency as well.

​@@ivblizzard3616wait... You're giving LeBron the credit for combo players existing? They existed before he made the league.

@@JT-km6th Giving him credit for the league trending more that way. No one is saying he was the first.

"Steph change how teams play. Lebron might change how the best ones play." That describes it pretty much perfectly...

The moment the raps build some chemistry and make a playoff run people are gonna know. I keep seeing people saying shit like Paolo has a better offensive game than Scottie and all that. I sometimes wonder if a lot of people with all these opinions even watch basketball... just watching your team ain't it.

Agreed, that box creation is in a league of its own.

Stats used wrong lead to bad conclusion. He was one of worst #1 players on teams. No surprise team near bottom with other worst #1 options.

@@xavierb9061calling wemby worst star on teams is insane cope, if u were to count only last season, he’s alr a an all star calibre player and a lock in for DPOY, how Tf u call a rookie who’s an all star and a DPOY candidate the worst #1, his already better than most all stars we’ve seen now imagine what will happen once he gets used to the league, such a bad take wish jimmy makes a video of it😭😭

Yes, in my opinion very reliable because it shows really who is way better than rest of the league rn. 🃏🃏

small sample size, plus some established players are way past their prime, so this was expected.

@@xavierb9061Casual, if Wemby was drafted by the Thunders they would be the reigning champion right now, or even if he played for the Lakers, by the end of last season Wemby was already better than AD at almost everything but playing bully ball in the post or guarding the perimeter 🤷🏾‍♂️

Nobody would believe how hard I laughed for the entire duration of that graphic being up

Didn't even notice what was wrong until I did a double take.

Its Giannis and i can tell you why, because all categories dont hold the same weight..the 2 categories Butler lacks are probably the most important..Giannis graph is a perfect circle and its only 1% under him, also for some reason, I was rooting for him the whole video..intuitive maybe hehe..weight percentage always make statistics a lot better and more useful as well as uniformity of data 😊

@@Shadow-Scorp1on I second that

@@Shadow-Scorp1onagreed, there were quite a few biases in this video that everybody is glossing over, the weighting being the glaringly obvious one.

@@Shadow-Scorp1on Disagree heavily. Stature/Playstyle are more important in this context which Jimmy is near identical in. Versatility/Playmaking and shooting too. What he lacked in was the usage category which was basically all guards.

@@thatdude5983 its just 1 percent difference mate......nothing holds weight in this graph..you need a reasoning brhind..for example passing cant hold much weight..doesnt make someone Lebron style player neither a legend or unique..Giannis graph is identical..

Its Giannis and i can tell you why, because all categories dont hold the same weight..the 2 categories Butler lacks are probably the most important..Giannis graph is a perfect circle and its only 1% under him, also for some reason, I was rooting for him the whole video..intuitive maybe hehe..weight percentage always make statistics a lot better and more useful as well as uniformity of data 😊

He’s the answer if you have the eye

My first thought was KD. But then I saw the layup in traffic at 0:24 and immediately thought Jimmy Butler. LETS GOOO

Paolo plays nothing like LeBron

Paolo has a similar build he can post up and all that but if you watch the magic you'll realize he's more of a pullup midrange and fadeaway shooter rather than someone who drives as much like lebron one they get better spacing maybe he'll be better in that regard

That’s what I thought when I saw the video

😂😂

Yeah, but LeBron hasn't done a duet with Lady Gaga yet

black? they all are

Who would you pick?

Tatum or Giannis would be my picks

I mean it do make sense🤷‍♂️

@@92483 yeah that's the point, him saying Butler doesn't come to mind when compared to LeBron is ridiculous like does he actually even watch the NBA

@@ejro3063 When you think of butler you think all around 2 way all star vs when you think of lebron you think of a big all around generational slashing point guard

Wemby will be the next on that list, Wemby is basically a 7’5 AD (Defense+ rebounding+lob treat), who can shoot pull up 3’s like Curry and pass like Jokic, and both AD and Curry are also loved by the advanced stats so just imagine what Wemby will do just next season if Cp3 still got a little bit of fire in him they could seriously be contender, that’s how good he is and we saw how elite and versatile rim protector can impact the game even more in the Playoffs (AD, Gobert, Chet, Mobley, Porzingis ect), some of them had playoffs serie or even run averaging over 4 or 5 block per game, even tough they never average over 2.5 in the regular season, or they had battles with elite bigs like Jokic and if you have a player who can just make life harder for Jokic i think that’s the minimum you need to beat him because at this point Jokic is a Lebron, MJ, Curry, KD level offensive player who can score his 30pts triple double almost every game no matter what you throw at him in the Playoffs, the Wolves needed 3 physical bigs+ elite perimeter defense+ Jamal Murray no show to beat him in 7 games … So yeah i think Wemby will destroy the analytics stats, he could become a Lebron, MJ, Jokic level offensive player with Bill Russel defense .. Insane prospect

Its Giannis and i can tell you why, because all categories dont hold the same weight..the 2 categories Butler lacks are probably the most important..Giannis graph is a perfect circle and its only 1% under him, also for some reason, I was rooting for him the whole video..intuitive maybe hehe..weight percentage always make statistics a lot better and more useful as well as uniformity of data 😊

Did u somehow schedule this comment😂 your so fast

Gobel warning been changing that

Fun fact I’m hard af right now

@@the_sports_nerd I mean because of global warming that number may never be beaten

MOAR

We've never seen nothing like it before, dude came in hot then just gave up lol

yes

That was for a Michael Jordan comparison

i got the right guess on butler and 7th for kawhi. lol! they're the most probable answer based on metrics on finding the most similar to michael jordan on this channel as well. the most similar that time was kawhi first, lebron second and butler third. so most likely the same to lebron is kawhi and butler. hahahaha

That was for Michael Jordan

⁠@@wendyforde9303And that makes so much more sense. Lockdown defender, elite midrange shooter, not quite the same play making as Bron.

I was thinking more luka especially how dominant he’s been since his rookie season

Lebron is more athletic than giannis.. giannis is just long..

@@gameday1479😏

What about Giannis Shot Selection Like Jimmy Said Shot Selection is a Big part of Bron's Game and the Way he gets his Shot too... Watching Butler in the 2 Playoffs Run and how He controlled the Game Reminds me of Both Bron and MJ... watching Giannis in the 2021 playoffs Run did not remind me of Bron a Bit

I believe in the draft combine Giannis has 40 inch vertical but some source also say 35 inch vertical