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On January 26, Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna Bryant, and seven other people were killed in a world-shaking helicopter crash. Two days later, LeBron James made a promise to pass on Bryant’s legacy on the Lakers jersey, last night he made that promise well when he secured the Lakers’ 17th title.
With 28 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists, James was the big player when the Lakers finally dropped their former team Miami Heat in the final sixth game.
– Winning for a historic team like the Lakers is not something to be compared to. You always know what you are doing this for. I am proud to be a “Laker,” says James.
After a four and a half month break from the season, the season was decided at Disneyland in Orlando. Since July 22, players have stayed in the “bubble”, where they have had to stay away from family and friends. That made this year’s season very special, explains James.
– All titles are special and have something special. This year’s season, both on and off the field, has been different, but that doesn’t make it any less valuable. “I think we are all living in this moment where we reach the goal that we have set ourselves,” James said at the post-game press conference.
Historical
17 years after James entered the league as the most covered freshman player with the highest expectations ever, he lifted his fourth NBA title, with his third team.
Along with his teammate Danny Green, he is the first to win with three different NBA teams.
There’s a lot of talk on American sports shows about whether he’s better than Michael Jordan in his day and then the greatest player of all time.
Jordan has multiple titles with six, while James has the most points in the playoffs and reached the final multiple times with ten trips so far in his career.
The arguments go on indefinitely, even if it seems they don’t care that much, at least in public.
Unique LeBron
James joined the league in 2003 along with other superstars such as Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and Carmelo Anthony. Of the three, only Anthony still plays in the league, but only as a reserve off the bench for the Portland Trail Blazers.
The rest have retired, and in recent years none of them came close to maintaining the same level of superstar as they were in their 20s.
James, for his part, was voted number two in the selection of the best player in the league this season, so he was very unhappy, and both won the NBA title and were voted the most important player in the final.
The physique of the 35-year-old is unique. He is over six feet tall and weighs over 200 pounds, but still has rare speed and flexibility. But it’s not just pure genetics that has kept athlete LeBron James on top of the world in his profession for so long.
It is reported that every year he spends millions of crowns on his health. The money goes, among other things, to treatments such as cryotherapy.