Was LeBron's 2018 Playoffs The BEST He's Ever Been? 

Damn.

👑for a reason

king of king

How is he not the GOAT of the sport.

@@user-to5sq4bk6k cause he’s a finals choke artist and he can’t win with some of the best players ever?

When Lebron left they had the worst record 😂

@@soleaye4523 Now the Cavs are playoff contenders, but i dont see them going anywhere past the 2nd round

But they always say Kevin Love is a superstar

And they argue that the cavs are a superteam😂

@@ineedsomemilk6610 the fact that any team lebron is on no matter how ass the supporting cast can be it is expected for him to go to the finals is crazy. It can literally can be lebron and the kings ppl would shit on him if he doesn’t drag em to the finals cuz that’s the standard he has been challenged to meet since he was in hs. This just goes to show just how great he is cuz he actually met the standard and surpassed it. It’s just sad ppl don’t realize his greatness and choose to hate on him cuz they salty he has a good argument to be the goat. Ppl don’t want him to be the 🐐 over mj so they bring him down as much as they can instead of respecting his accomplishments and enjoying his last seasons as the best player in the world.

And still people hate him because he did not win.... to win a championship team effort is also needed...he did not have a decent support from his team after kyrie left ..

I think that If LeBron played this way and kyrie was there Cavs would won in 2018 I personaly Will never know why they trade kirye to Boston with player like cp3/west/booker on the table

@@victorbarbosa9701 No they wouldn't have. Kyrie still isn't enough to overtake Steph, KD, Dray, Klay, and then you got goddamn Boogie off the bench. That team was just LOADED as shit.

LeBron played against 5 allstar caliber player by himself, not winning is expected, but people hating on him not winning is really dumbfounding.

@heronanashi5351 ikr it's so sad. Dude had washed k-love as his 2nd option... wtf was bro gonna do 🤣🤣

High level defense?

@@matthieusaade3616 yes

@@matthieusaade3616 Yes

@@matthieusaade3616 yes you clown 🤡

Lmaooo high level defense

Same

bro i’m a point guard averaging like 3 blocks 5 steals and like 35 ppg

@@pandathelegend5095 that means ur the goat😎

@@thefrenchfryguy9959 That means 2k is trash kid.

@@SolusFather kid🤡

Averaged 34 9 and 9 on 53 percent field goal percentage that entire playoffs. One point and rebounds shy of averaging a triple double for the playoffs

@@sportstalkonly1442 a 30 point triple double at that

@@sportstalkonly1442 he probably wouldve done it too if the cavs could hit their shots. One more player who was slightly better than a role player would've been all he needed

And the rest of the Cavs were like a trash can combined with a bigger trash can.

True

The debate for GOAT center still rages on to this day, even though Kareem is firmly ahead of the others in individual accolades and rings. Wilt and Hakeem only have 2 rings, Shaq has 4. Is Shaq better than Wilt and Hakeem? There's no reason for the other debates to be so one-sided.

@@poly_g6068 I agree with you Kareem is the GOAT of all centers that is facts backed up by accolades and records. Shaq is the strongest Center( If shaq had Kobe's work ethic he would have been the goat of the centers but he's lazy after winning 3 ). Hakeem is the most skilled Center. Wilt is the most record breaking center. While Russell is the winningest center. The Goat debate overall is subjective people needs to stop forcing their own opinions on others thats why I never try arguing with player fans because both sides will never agree.

true.. but the bar is set so high on lebron james, anything short of a championship is a bust.

Imo criteria for s tier player is to have at least 5 playoff runs to the conf finals or finals where they were the best player. Jordan has 8 of those, Lebron has 10. But those two were also the best player in all those playoffs other than maybe Bron in 07 (feel like him and Kobe were fairly even in terms of value in 09 but Kobe had the better team)

@@geordiejones5618 Lebron was way better than Kobe in 2009, Lebron set the record for highest PER in playoffs history (37 PER), he averaged 38/8/8 while playing DPOY defense against the Magic, but his team was just trash, imagine averaging nearly a 40pts triple double and losing … Kobe averaged 32.4ppg, 7.4 assists and 5.6 rebounds against the Magic in the Finals, Lebron was better he just had the worst team, like most of the time.

i completely agree

Very true. I actually don’t know y i never heard of that

I still can't believe he got this team out of the first round let alone to the Finals. They had 5 guys in rotation who'd only been there since the trade deadline. I knew the Raptors were fucked right after that trade frenzy. Cavs played them in Toronto with 8 guys on the bench and overcame a 20 point deficit in the 2nd half bc of Lebron. Never expected the sweep tho.

@@geordiejones5618 LeBronto is a real thing lmao. But same. His second best player Love wasn’t even that good

if kyrie wasnt a baby they mightve won lmfao

2007? He had one of the best games ever against the Pistons but overall he's had many better playoff runs just himself. I get that it was awesome for him to take that Cavs team to the Finals but he didn't really play at an all time level apart from that one game. He averaged about 25, 7, and 7 on like 41% shooting over the course of those playoffs.

And 2020 paulgeorge the best playoff run ever

Don't forget Dirk's 2011 run

@@morganlee2806 he was like 22 or 23 years old with a worse team then the cavs in 2018... 2007 easily a top 5 playoff run for lebron. I'd even say top 15 all time playoff performance from an individual player.

D-Wade in 06 was crazy

2018/2013 LBJ & 1968 Wilt are in the top 3 greatest players ever in my opinion

@@sosaraycharles358 88/89 jordan is up there to

@@amdude1015 oh yea without a doubt

@@amdude1015 93 jordan as well, 41pt finals average

W

LBJ 2018 is the best NBA player I've ever seen

@@sergiopinto766 gotta be the best in history. He was dominating with a bad team and went to the finals inspite of the entire team being traded at the deadline pretty much and the starting lineup only playing a total of 5 minutes before the playoffs started. 🐐 dare I say.

2011 mavs

@@raid6862 I meant by a single player. Dirks was amazing. But 2018 was better

Lol very funny.

@@poojiith2361 how in any world? Dirks is the best run

@@BA-hl8dh dirk had a team around him, lebron didnt. its as simply as that.

I mean it wouldn’t matter anyway

@@imsleep6706 it would have given them a real belief, that can take you a long way. Would have still been unlikely as lebron would have had to average 40+ but he could have. How they lost game 1 just drained the life out of them

@@imsleep6706 they think game 1 would save their clown ass

@@imsleep6706 a broken hand doesn't matter i guess

on god! first thing i'd do with a time machine is remind jr the score LMFAO

You say you know it like its a fact 😂

@@user-on7hg3cy1k so who’s the 2 greatest in your opinion?

@@burgermane1364 he’s just saying that there are many players that you can make a debate for having a better career than lebron. Especially because of how bad lebron failed in 2011.

@@deshawnman3790 I understand that 😂 it’s just known at this time Jordan & Bron or vice versa for majority. Expect for Kobe fans

@@burgermane1364 I think that’s just media narrative to try to promote lebron as that so the nba would get more views. It’s pretty blatant lebron is not on Jordan’s level at all. He did not have a better career then Kareem, Magic, or Bill Russel. Lebron is in the top 5 though no doubt. But I think that can change if Giannis keeps winning mvps and and a couple more rings.

Almost 4 years now

4 years wow

5

5 now bout to be 6

Year 15?

@@21dxminic13 yeah, he was 33 in Year 15.

Them roids

@@21dxminic13 yeah.

Experience

Just madness.

Pretty sure him and Jordan played the most games as starters ever in one year. Bron with 104 and Jordan with 103.

His stamina is just so damn insane he did that at 35 too insanity my goat

@@nolimitmatthew211 33, he was 35 in 2020

He is the goat

@@couragecrusader7649 exactly

the most dominant player in basketball history throughout the playoffs

Same

This was Lebron’s Final Form. Kevin Love was the 2nd best scorer with 19 a game on 40% shooting and their third best scorer was JR Smith 9.5 a game on 32% shooting. No one ever could drag this team to the finals. Maybe only Jordan

but it felt like he was averaging 60 20 20

@@powerhardy1 with a little bit better teammates he'd average 20 assists lmaooo

That’s crazy, damn near 35 point triple doubles he was averaging on crazy efficiency. Mind you in the regular season he carried them to 50 wins and average 28 9 and 9. Goated season and he should have won MVP imo.

Reverse charge call on Durant was the biggest bs I ever seen.

Big facts

nah harden gets MVP this year still but hes definitely second, he did get robbed of like 4 other mvps tho lmfao

MVP should account for playoffs as well imo.

​@@livingrentfree9596 Why? It's regular season MVP. And there are awards like ECF/WCF finals MVP & also NBA Finals MVP.

if he actually did that he would have been the goat undoubtedly

You ain't deserving anything infornt of the legendary warriors team!

Too bad KD was on the other team. Flanked by the Splash Bros, a DPOY, and an FMVP.

Imagine if the Cavaliers won 2018 and Lebron still chose to leave. They would’ve been left in an awkward position.

5 LeBrons Would win it all

@@maxistewens5996 5 LeBron's would have about 10 or more championships. Most teams can't handle 1 LeBron.

@@persistentlypathetic6820 True The lebrons could pass score rebound and play defense

Agreed. 5 LeBrons wouldn't even fight over the ball, since LeBron 4 and 5 can just play defense in the frontcourt while LeBron 1 and 3 handle the playmaking with LeBron 2 shooting everywhere.

@@idkpls18if I wanted to be the perfect basketball player I’d pick LeBron. Only thing I’d need to work on is my free throw shooting which is 74%

U got this 👑

It was too much to ask for a 37 year old LeBron in his 19th season

Team project

We need to accept reality bruh Father time is unbeatable. Bron can still have 40+points but not on a consistent basis anymore. AD was suppose to be the option 1 but he's made of glass sadly.

@@GetdonkedOn he averaged 30 ppg, he can probably still keep going but id like him to win a ring at 40, that would be literally insane

I was at that game. As a Raptors fan I was demoralized but as a basketball and LeGoat fan I was going crazy! Legit witnessed him take the game over while he was hotter than a burning house. That game is forever a great memory for me personally.

W

💯

Fax

he isn't but he's one of them.

nah he aint

Exactly, LeBron deserved 2018 and then harden had to get 2019 not giannis

Idk because harden was dropping 50+ every other game

@@jahniers.7835 Bro the only reason to justify his MVP award is the standings LeBron was dominant as always

Harden was winning games🤷‍♂️

@@larellinton1429 with a better team CP3, better shooters, better defenders, better play makers, better staff, etc

2013 Lebron was the best overall

some people dont regard it as one of LeBrons best season. I think he meant the regular season was underrated as it's forgotten due to the fact he didn't win mvp

among my colleagues, 2018 is only remembered as the time Lebron got swept in the finals and how the East was weak at the time. I guess that's how socmed affects people's perception

@@abdulbook It wouldve been a travesty if he won MVP that year. Glad they made the right choice.

it's underrated, many try to discredit that run because it's lebron lol

It’s always used against him.

It was something to watch man it was basically 2012 bron with a developed game crazy

Still wouldn't have mattered if Cavs won game 1. He was no way taking 3 games after that from the legendary Warriors team. Steph, Klay, Durant, Green they're just too much to handle!

@@redeyexxx1841 they could have done it, psychology. By winning game 1 away, they proved that their enemy is human and bleeds. Also goinf back home with a tied series puts no pressure on you. By losing game 1 in a stupid manner after Lebron dropped a godly performance, you go back deflated af, game 2 was another huge hill to climb but with less motivation and going back home down 2-0 with pressure to somehow beat an unbeatable team is too much for some, that's why after game 1, the Cavs were not the same and Lebron played with less fire. It was noticeable

@@Justinian43 I really don't believe they could have won the series. They could have won 2 games at best. Curry, Thompson, KD even if one has an off night it's still doesn't matter because rest will cover it up. Cavs it's just LeBron who has to play great every single game and yet no surety of wheather they'll win or not. GSW was just a mountain in 2017-18 which you ain't overcoming.

@@redeyexxx1841 crazier things have happened, nobody gave the raptors a shot and then 2 people went down with injuries. That game 1 victory opens a lot of possibilities, maybe Lebron becomes unstoppable and inspired and the shooters by his side actually have spacing to keep pace while Lebron is doubled or tripled. Also with all of Cleveland behind their back at the Q in games 3 and 4, they had a chance to go up 3-1 even. But the way game 1 ended was so ridiculous that even in overtime, the Cavs and Lebron totally fizzled out

This season ?

@@mrboombastic63 Well it's tho

@@mrboombastic63 Yeah, if he just play the most of the games, he would be on the mvp and also if they won most of the games. Westbrick whose salary is 30+ million dollars putting up a below average role player stats. We can see the 2018 lebron in 2021-2022 reg season lakers.

He very literally _couldn't take a break._

Jordan’s stats

He really isn't

LeBron snitches. Jordan simply plays with anger .

Lmao stop

@@durRealBills Jorbum snitched to get Isaiah Thomas off the dream team🤣

Nah man - that hand wasn’t broke

@@fatboy5926 it clearly was if you watched the games.

@@sharifbrown3567 How did he play ?

@@MakaveliDior because he didn't give AF.

@@sharifbrown3567 yeah nah. There’s so many clips of Lebron doing all kinds of shit between after game 1 and the end of game 4. No way was it broken

Imagine comparing finals APPEARANCES to someone else's actual titles.

Cavs were straight up ass

And dropped 51 on golden state game 1 and wasn’t for JR would’ve got the win

Definitely a beast season. But the roster construction is on Lebron. He ran Kyrie off and brought in his washed boys who couldn't play defense. The Cavs then tried to trade for youth which obviously didn't help either. Very similar to the Lakers this season.

I wouldn't call it underrated in the slightest. The fact that people are seriously arguing whether or not this is his best season of LeBron's career (or the best version of any player ever) makes me believe it's the most overrated individual season ever. The only season that may be as overrated is 1962 Wilt.

@@cuiveirwin how is it overrated? Tell me the player that averaged 34 9 and 9 for an entire playoff run. Had one player outside of himself average double digits for an entire playoff run, got their team traded at the deadline and starting lineup only playing a total of 5 minutes together before the playoffs, and still get them to finals? Take your hating 4ss on somewhere.

@@sportstalkonly1442 because people look at the basic box score, personnel around LeBron and the end result of the Cavs’ run without adding any context to it whatsoever.

The mavs are questionable? For actually playing as a unit against a 3 headed heat

The mavs swept the 2x times lakers then beat OKC in 5 with harden, Westbrook, Durant ibaka, they surely where near a super team that season

Refs sold at the end. Cavs would’ve won

@@leultrainstinct406 true

Maybe jr sold him for few bottles of beers😆😆😆

@@edmarbundoc4998 oh, and the george hill's missed free throw.

That game still went to OT, Bron jus quit, coulda been avoided had he not gave up the ball with Curry on him

@@TreWimsical If LeBron did have a historically dominant performance the Cavs never have a chance in Game 1. You guys have no idea how utterly helpless his supporting cast was that season.

@@the757general2 That’s what he gets for trading away half the team.

Kind of like the Lakers this year...