Friday, October 26th, 2012 at 7:00 pm  |  89 responses

LeBron James Wants to Be ‘the Best of All Time’


As the game’s best player enters his 10th NBA season, LeBron James has only one goal in mind now that he’s finally become a champion: to reach G.O.A.T. status. From the AP: “I want to be the best of all-time,’ James said. ‘It’s that simple.’ He expressed similar sentiment last year, and the year before that, and probably all the way back to high school in Akron, Ohio. He always wondered if a championship would change that perspective. He now has his answer. ‘Not really, honestly,’ James said. ‘I haven’t had much time to really just think about what actually happened. At the end of the day, there’s still going to be people that say, well, he’s not going to be able to win two. He’s not going to be able to do it again.’ [...] The Heat are generally considered favorites to win another title this season, though the external expectation does little to faze James. At this point, he knows championships will define whether it was a good year or not, much as it was for the stars before him like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, some of the few on whom the spotlight has shone brightest. ‘The target, that doesn’t change for me,’ James said. ‘I’ve had a target, champion or not champion, since probably `05. And now that we’ve won one, the target, it’s no different for me.’”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/qcollingwood Interdico Scriptor

    Doesn’t yr keyboard have spellcheck

  • http://www.facebook.com/qcollingwood Interdico Scriptor

    Um… what about going to the NBa finals v SAS ??? TParker ate his ass for f**ks sake!

  • http://www.facebook.com/qcollingwood Interdico Scriptor

    Um… ate his ass doesn’t read quite like I meant.. well u know what I mean

  • http://www.facebook.com/qcollingwood Interdico Scriptor

    kill yrself.. save humanity

  • Matt

    Typical close minded laker fan

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Did you watch the Bulls and Celtics series 2 seasons ago? Or the Pistons series in 07? Or the Orlando series in 09? There are more examples of him coming through than there are of him failing.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    That Orlando series in 09 wasn’t on him. He played his behind off. His teammates let him down. He averaged 35, 9 and 7 that season in the playoffs. Nothing more he could have done.

  • Trueballer4life

    Lbj is on his way to become the greatest! The mountain top is huge but I think he can do it”

  • Robert Salazar

    This guy sucks he is the biggest cheater of all time no wonder he didn’t go to college

  • http://www.facebook.com/Bishop.SeanMagicJuan Sean MagicJuan

    As of right now
    1. Jordan
    2. Wilt
    3. Magic
    4. Kareem
    5. Bron

    If you have any one of these players in their prime, they should take your team to the Finals.

  • pposse

    its nice to know lebron is still the same ole same ole…still immature. As much of a step forward he took last year, he takes one back with his mouth this year. Dude should have reserved those comments after taking 3 rings. You win one and now you are talkin about being the best of all time? cmon now, your skeptics already have soo much fuel for their arguments against you…lost twice in the finals, team up with two top ten players for your ring etc etc. just stop talking you are vying for second best of all time

  • Dymez

    No. Not every player has to win 6 championships to be in the discussion for best of all-time. You can win 3 or 4. But it’s not JUST championships that makes someone great. Jordan has done a lot to get the nod; MVPs, scoring titles, DPOY, steals titles, the list goes on and on. No other player has dominated across the board like that. LeBron can do some of these things in the time he has left, and if he does pick up 1 more league MVP and wins 4 more championships, that will put him in a room that not a lot of people are in.

  • Slick Ric

    …You fools saying MJ had no competition, don’t you know Great centers are more valuable to winning championships than any other position? Ewing, Robinson, Hakeem, Shaq, Alonzo was his competition. You ask for perimeter players? KJ, Tim hardaway, Penny, Grant hill, Stockton, Payton, Clyde Drexler, Reggie miller, Dominique Wilkins, mark price, steve smith. We already know about Barkley, Malone etc…

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Truth.

  • pops

    Bron isn’t top 5 yet close to top 10 though.

  • Rainman

    Good luck, bud.

  • axel

    where is Kobe at? He is Top 5 over Lebron at this point.

  • Drig

    Wilt was an athlete far ahead of his time. And he sure as hell could’ve held his own against anyone. Shaq included. Hakeem included.

  • aod

    no no no lmao who in their right mind would put kobe top 5 all time ridiculous

    1.jordan
    2.wilt
    3.russell
    4.magic
    5.kareem
    6.bird
    7.shaq
    8.duncan
    9.kobe
    10.olajuwon

  • Drig

    Jordan was not better than them till ’90. Hell, an aging Magic toyed with MJ in game 1 of the ’91 Finals. Toyed with him. Phil realized that and put Pippen on him and turned the tide of the series man. And Bird was his equal in every regard but slowed down more once his back started giving up.

    You’re probably the only guy I’ve met so far who think Shaq was a rival and was at his peak when Jordan was in the L lol. He was a behemoth no doubt but by the time he got a title contender squad after he got to LA, Jordan was already out. They met once in the POs.

    So Gary Payton can check, Westbrook, DRose etc. without handchecking……. something which no other more athletic PGs were unable to do……Fine.

    Scotty Pippen can make Durant cry at best as much as LeBron did vs Durant in the Finals…….which isn’t much.

    Kidd is as much from MJ’s time as Grant Hill is from LeBron’s time……..i.e. not even close.

    Kevin Johnson, Penny, Stockton, Mitch etc. were all second level stars and not superstar level players. No disrespect.

    Without handchecking, locking down a superstar is almost impossible. And 90s guys ain’t gonna change that.

  • Christian Dereks

    lebron is my guy, he’s the main reason i still tune in to the NBA. However just like kobe he’ll never be considered G.O.A.T .MJ because of his influence on the game still to this day,the players,how they play,the shoes,pro game,college and international.mike is basketball without him the NBA would not be where it is today.

  • Drig

    Why exactly is Russell 3rd above Shaq and Hakeem? If it is because of the rings + stats+longevity, why is Kobe below Shaq and Bird??

  • RKJ92

    Thats a joke right? Lol…

  • aod

    the finals MVP is named after Russell for a reason , and hakeem only has 2 rings

    Shaq – 3 finals mvps

    Bird – 3 mvps and 2 finals mvps

  • justin05

    Because I want them to win? lol. No, just a real Lakers fan.

  • justin05

    Leave this website and save everyone else. I assume most of us don’t like immature comments like that one.

  • Dagger

    Yes. The league wasn’t exactly devoid of talent in the 90s.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/officialjohng John Gustanar

    #Tellem

  • http://twitter.com/SafeOnTheTrack Safe

    True dat

  • http://twitter.com/SafeOnTheTrack Safe

    Everyone forgets that he has bosh and wade on his team, he doesn’t need to put in 35+ every night, if the team needs him to, he’ll do so. Or did u forget game 4 of the Pacers series?

  • pposse

    cause MJ never went against an LA Laker team with Magic Johnson?!

  • pposse

    preach on ramzi let em kno!

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    Once. That’s not a rivalry. They played once when Magic’s run was coming to an end.

  • ByAnyMeansNecessary

    LeBron doesn’t have intangibles? He came into the league passing like Magic Johnson. 45, 15 and 5 in Game 6 against Boston. 40, 18 and 9 against the Pacers in Game 6. 30, 10 and 6 throughout last season’s playoffs. If he’s going to keep playing like that in the playoffs and his team wins more championships, Kobe will be moved out of the way pretty quickly. Larry rebounded better. But LeBron has a higher FG%. A couple more seasons like this past one or his other MVP seasons and he’ll eventually be known as the best SF to ever play.

  • blackthought

    its fair 4 him 2 say he wants 2 b considerd the goat. but he needs to win 6 2 b in the conversation, and the loss 2 dallas realy hurt the record. and jordan was a trendsetter in many ways (mvp/def. player – marketing – never lost in the finals – game 7 (whats that?)). so lebron needs to surpase the feats of jordan (just because mj did it first) – but handsdown the best player of his generation.

  • http://twitter.com/gbustamante11 Gil Bustamante

    Not to hate on Lebron, he’s no doubt going to be one of the greatest ever but not the greatest ever. Kenny Smith said best (On “Open Court”) that Michael is in a class of his own simply for the fact that he didn’t have the luxury that Lebron or Kobe had. He was the only one on his team that would be double teamed all the time. He carried that offensive burden his entire career and still managed to be all defensive first team, I think pretty much every year he was in the league. It was different era back then (hand checking allowed). Michael changed the game, they placed rules so that he didn’t have an advantage (illegal offense).

  • JustAFan

    Lebron James is probably one of the most physically gifted player in history, if not the most. But to be “Greatest of All-Time?”. Just when you thought he’s learned his lesson from the whole “Decision” fiasco, choking against the Mavs, he once again opens his big mouth. James is back to his old self, talking about being the best. Easy to pat his own back now that he has a ring on his finger. But did he forget that he left Cleveland high and dry to go running, looking for teammates to cover his behind? Better send more than a thank you note to Mr. Wade and Mr. Bosh Lebron, because without them, that ring you have on could have easily been an early 1st round exit. Lebron might have to be reminded by names like, Wilt, Bill, Magic and Larry. And yes, the actual Greatest of All-Time, Mr. Michael Jordan. And there’s this guy who could very well be in the same breathe as His Airness, The Black Mamba himself, Kobe Bryant. You could argue that he had Shaq, but Bryant fought hard to be the number 1 guy. He deserved the 3 rings he had with Shaq and he earned the next 2 he got. Lebron may very well have the edge on Jordan and Bryant with respect to physical gifts. But Lebron is no where near their heart and mental toughness. Jordan and Bryant are assassins on the court, killer instincts that no other player posses. You don’t get to be the greatest when your standing on the shoulders of others. Lebron’s talent is off the charts, I couldn’t agree more. But it takes more than talent to be The Greatest of All-Time Mr. James.

  • JustAFan

    True, we all witnessed something special, how could we not when you put 3 franchise players on 1 team. Greatest of All-Time? I just find that like a slap on Magic, Bird, Kobe and Jordan’s face.

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