[r377Participant]

 Lebron enters his 16th season in the league, he will be 34 soon.

He has had a great career. I have read he spends $1mill per year on nutrition/fitness with his hyper chamber etc.

There are only a handful of players now from that 2003 draft still in the NBA today.

He has been durable, but when will age and miles catch up with him ?

 

 

[CynthiaParticipant]

Lebron has a hyperbolic time chamber!? Now it all makes sense…

 

[HitsterParticipant]

 It’s hard to say really – thinking back about other top playes – Kobe was still putting up 27.3ppg the season just after he turned 34 but then had injury issues. MJ lead the Bulls to his last title at 35 but hadn’t the mileage LBJ had. Kareem was putting up stellar numbers into his late 30’s but was a different position in a different era.

LBJ will slow down towards the end of his Laker deal but he can refine his game and play with his basketball IQ plus be managed during regular season so he can go all out in the play offs.

 

[BeastMode716Participant]

 broken the mold as far as Durability – it’s truly Remarkable 

Lebron entered the NBA – a grown men’s League – & Lebron has been a physical marvel since day one – he’s Never avoided contact or shied away from contact 

No matter how anyone feels about Lebron (fan or not) there is No one who deny that he is the closet thing to an indescructible "Super Man" that we have seen in American Pro Sports since Jim Brown – who for many years was regarded as the greatest football player who has ever lived. 

You look at old film or Brown playing & against opponents he looks like a man playing against Children. Wilt Chamberlain was the same way. And both these men – Wilt & Jim Brown were absolute freaks of nature who seemed WAY ahead of their time. 

But Lebron is doing this against Modern athletes & it’s mind boggling that we have really gotten so used to it that no one even talks about it. 

Father Time is undefeated as Charles Barkley always says & Lebron will eventually slow down but I honestly don’t see it happening in these next 4 years which is the length of his Lakers contract

 

 

 

 

 

[OhCanada-Participant]

 Passes the eye test looks as good as ever. This wont be a topic during this contract. Likely next contract he will begin to decline but all signs point towards career average type productivity for the near future.

[MopgrassParticipant]

 They tracked him last year: he ran fewer miles than anyone in the NBA per minute. However, that doesn’t count all the upper body strength he had to use: which is actually more taxing. I honestly think he’s being smart: he knows when he has to run and when he doesn’t. 

The problem for me is: this Laker team was built to run. Yet, LA promises his role will eventually be posting up. What? That slows the game down. Is he going to literally slow the Lakers down? This is LeBrons game. People will go the speed he wants to play at.  

 

[HeroescantdieParticipant]

 Well, as far as physical freak, i used to watch charles barkley and he said one of the rarest things he’d seen was shaq not getting injured in his prime years, with that height and weight stayed healthy enough to be on the hall of fame with his playing style an dominance that uses brute force and bounce. Well, I think that’s LBJ’s crown now, given the fact LBJ’s physicality bounce playing style and agression on contact, he’s built like a tank, with those weight giving him like an armor, well, he is pretty huge in mass, but that is all muscle, add that with his incredible athletecism and work ethic I think it’s one of rarest anomalies in sport, if not the most

[HitsterParticipant]

LBJ has missed 71 games I think across a 15 season career so has great durability. The most games he missed in any season was 13 otherwise he’s there 90% plus of the time.

His size does help him and most of the guys marking him aren’t any bigger than him before you consider his natural strength. If he does play more frontcourt even talk he may play some C this season in Nellie Ball type line then he may be up against bigger stronger guys directly marking him for the first time. But his speed and shooting ability should compensate for that.

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