Jason

Even banged up.

LeBron is out there doing things on defense and rebounding.

He can guard his position.

He can guard on the back line.

He can defensive rebound.

He brings that transition value in his playmaking talent, makes them relatively high floor as an offensive player over the course of any sort of big game.

So like, yeah,

there's this theoretical, what if old man LeBron gets hurt and yeah, he's been banged up and maybe less than a hundred percent in some of these situations, but LeBron is lacing them up and playing in every big game.

And in most of the regular season games, even into his early forties.

And when it comes to any sort of playoff environment, he's still like the eighth, ninth, 10th best player in the league.

I said this on my Twitter feed the other day.

If you swapped LeBron James and Donovan Mitchell right now, do you think the Cavs have any sort of decrease in their chances to win the title?

I'd argue their shots actually go up a little bit.

And as long as we're talking about the floor part of it, do you think Donovan Mitchell is going to suddenly turn this Lakers team into a contender?

When you're dealing with that bottom half of the top 10, there is a lot of inconsistency.

There is a lot of like small flawed guards.

And I just think weirdly enough, LeBron is still kind of underrated at this point in his career.

Here he is the one guy who's actually ready to go for the Lakers.

And like you look at this series against Houston and do I think I'd rank Katie over LeBron right now?

Probably.