Jason

And then lastly, because of his size, because of his IQ, because of his ability to impact the game in a variety of ways as a rebounder, as a transition threat, as a guy who can post up mismatches, as a guy who can run inverted action at the top of the key, as a guy who was able to do all the off-ball stuff that he did when he was playing alongside Austin and Luca.

LeBron has such a high floor every single night when he's playing hard.

that when it comes to big games, he's still one of the most dependably great players in the NBA.

Now, LeBron doesn't have the motor to play as hard as he needs to play to be great for 82 regular season games.

And so no one's going to argue that LeBron's a top 10 regular season player anymore.

I think that'd be absurd.

He's going to mail it in 30, 40 times a year.

But when it comes to the playoffs, when it comes to looking at a two-month stretch where every game matters and there's guaranteed rest in between every single game, I still think LeBron is one of the top 10 guys in the league that I would take.

Is he as reliable as a shot creator as he was back in 2020, 2021?

No.

He's declined too much in terms of his first-step quickness.

But the truth is, is there's like, how many guys in the league are dependable shot creators?

Like, I can count on this guy to create great shots for me all night.

There might be five or six of them in the entire NBA.

Once you get off of that top tier, even among the athletic guards, they could have nights where they just aren't hitting their pull-up or nights where they just aren't processing well and are making bad decisions and shooting stupid shots.

They're all inconsistent once you get off that top five or six offensive players in the league.

So yeah, is LeBron inconsistent as an offensive player at this point?

Yeah.

So is every other star.

Once you get off of that top five or six guys, except for in every big game, you can count on him to be relatively healthy.