Is LeBron James a Top 10 Player? The Experts are Debating!
You may remember at the start of quarantine when we spent a month straight debating Michael Jordan or LeBron James as the best player of all time? Well, that was a million things ago. The Last Dance ended and went the way of the Tiger King, but the world kept moving. Things kept changing. Including LeBron James' place in basketball history while he stayed home, plotting Taco Tuesdays, one week at a time.
Earlier this week Kenny Smith appeared on the Load Management podcast and proclaimed LeBron the 10th-best player ever. Behind Nate "Tiny" Archibald and Shaquille O'Neal and ahead of Kobe Bryant. Unsurprisingly, this opinion made its way to the hot-take circuit and today two of the biggest names in Takedom used Smith's comment for content.
"LeBron is in my top 10 (of all-time) BUT he's No. 10... Kobe is not in my top 10." @TheJetOnTNT isn't putting LeBron or Kobe anywhere near the top of the all-time list.
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) July 7, 2020
Episode: https://t.co/gq3yj65s1U pic.twitter.com/GIHmXIakni
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Colin Cowherd dismissed Smith and just went in on the perception that it's easier to score in the modern NBA. Cowherd apparently still believes in LeBron as one of the best ever.
Is it harder now than ever to succeed in the NBA?@ColinCowherd reacts to Kenny Smith ranking LeBron 10th all-time: pic.twitter.com/VtsipJbW8O
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) July 9, 2020
Skip Bayless also took a shot at Smith's rankings, saying that he's actually pretty close. Skip has LeBron as the ninth-best player. Truly another remarkable performance that surely caused Shannon Sharpe to die inside for the 900th consecutive day.
.@RealSkipBayless ranks his Top 10 NBA players of all time after Kenny Smith says LeBron is only the 10th-best:
— UNDISPUTED (@undisputed) July 9, 2020
1. Jordan
2. Magic
3. Shaq
4. Kareem
5. Duncan
6. Russell
7. Kobe
8. Bird
9. LeBron
10. Wilt pic.twitter.com/uyP7fyffm5
Let's just hope the NBA restart actually happens or we're going to have people shouting about LeBron's place in the top 50 by September. Unless he's signed on to fight Mike Tyson by then.