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No, not\u00a0this GOAT<\/a>, but the acronym\u00a0Greatest Of All-Time.\u00a0<\/em>Could LeBron James become that guy?<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s so easy for me to write about basketball sometimes, considering I generally don\u2019t care about the NBA like I once used to.\u00a0 It\u2019s safe to say that I don\u2019t even watching NBA basketball, much less any basketball on television these days, but still, the occasional news snippets I see about the happenings in the NBA still occasionally pique my interest, and sometimes inspire words to be written.<\/span><\/p>\n But I read\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0about how LeBron James star-struck the hell out of a Special Olympics teenager, simply by approaching and showing a little bit of love, respect and admiration for the young basketball fan.\u00a0 It\u2019s stuff like this that restores faith in professional athletes, and the world as a whole, especially when the media really loves to talk about when people, namely professional athletes, do shitty things like commit various crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019ll be the first to point out that throughout the duration of his career, I\u2019ve said and\/or written plenty of things that have disparaged LeBron James.\u00a0 That he\u2019s overrated,\u00a0The Decision<\/em>\u00a0was shitty, he was a tool for teaming up with Wade and Bosh to gravy-train his way to championships, he\u2019ll never be as good as Jordan, or even Kobe, etc, etc.\u00a0 However lately, my attitude towards King James has been changing somewhat, and it\u2019s probably on account of seeing things like this story\u00a0among other great stories<\/a>, and seeing that the guy is capable of being pretty funny, in\u00a0Trainwreck.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n And it got me thinking, that with a pretty positive public image, could LeBron James really ascend to the ranks of being the GOAT?<\/span><\/p>\n Hear me out on this one; naturally whenever people talk about basketball\u2019s GOAT, usually Michael Jordan\u2019s name is at the top of the list.\u00a0 Older people, and\/or bean counters love to counter with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, because he is the all-time leader in points scored, on top of having the same number of championship rings as MJ.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s always the presence of Kobe Bryant, whom I\u2019ve often gone out of the way to praise his general Jordanesque killer instinct and drive to be the greatest.<\/span><\/p>\n But here\u2019s the thing; all those guys have some serious red flags on their personal lives that affect their overall images.\u00a0 MJ is a bitter, resentful retired basketball player who has had a tremendous history of gambling addiction, adultery, and some pretty abusive behavior.\u00a0 Kareem is this politico-wannabe douchebag who resents that his fame stems from basketball, and refuses to talk about basketball to the public, not to mention he was 10 feet tall in an era when opponents were all 6\u20192, using an OP skyhook to basically make everything a layup.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s Kobe who has that whole rape allegation thing that will forever stick with him for the rest of his life.<\/span><\/p>\n When the day is over, LeBron James might not catch any of them in terms of points scored or championship rings.\u00a0 But in terms of general likability, a fairly clean image, and creating a career legacy, I think LeBron is on a pretty smooth track right now, where he could basically be the GOAT.<\/span><\/p>\n He\u2019s already notched two championships in his career, and has made it to the Finals six total times;\u00a0 there\u2019s a pretty decent chance that he might win another title or two in his career.\u00a0 He\u2019s already cracked the top-20 in all-time points, and there\u2019s a realistic chance that he could very well surpass all aforementioned greats, if he can maintain his general average for the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n But the bigger variables are if he can maintain his generally clean image, and keep doing the things he\u2019s doing aside from basketball to maintain his general public image.\u00a0 There will always be question of if his actions are genuine, or at the behest or some intricate PR team, but like in the case of the Special Olympian he greeted, he was already on the floor, and there was nobody chirping in his ear to go greet the kid; that was all LeBron, because he wanted to.\u00a0 It\u2019s irrelevant whether he did it because he genuinely wanted to, or if he systematically calculated that it would improve his image, because he still did it, and made the kid\u2019s night, all captured on camera.<\/span><\/p>\n If\u00a0The Decision<\/em>\u00a0is the biggest ding against his whole career so far, then I think he\u2019s in a pretty advantageous position over guys like MJ and Kobe, and as long as he can keep his mouth shut about politics or other things that he\u2019s not qualified to speak on, then there\u2019s a really good chance he\u2019ll always be fondly remembered over Abdul-Jabbar.<\/span><\/p>\n As far as I\u2019m concerned, I think if LeBron James continues to play basketball as he\u2019s done throughout his whole career, and continues to use his celebrity status to the betterment of others, it\u2019s pretty undeniable that he can pretty easily become the GOAT.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, not\u00a0this GOAT, but the acronym\u00a0Greatest Of All-Time.\u00a0Could LeBron James become that guy? I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s so easy for me to write about basketball sometimes, considering I generally don\u2019t care about the NBA like I once used to.\u00a0 It\u2019s safe to say that I don\u2019t even watching NBA basketball, much less any basketball … Continue reading Could LeBron become the GOAT?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,83,15],"class_list":["post-42040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-observations","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42042,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040\/revisions\/42042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}