James, on the other hand, has spent far, far more possessions creating for others where he might have otherwise looked to get his. LeBron and Co. were saved by the iconic 3-pointer by Ray Allen in Game 6, before going on to become the first team to win back-to-back titles since the Lakers in the early 2000s. So, I had to completely redo all of this because there was a bug in the script I wrote to do this. One of six players in NBA history to win consecutive Finals MVP Awards.

Chauncey Billups is the answer to a trivia question that involves three of the NBA’s best players of all time.Billups, who played for seven teams over his 17-season career, is the only NBA player who has a winning record against Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.Billups had a 6-4 record versus Jordan, 24-21 versus Bryant and 22-17 versus James, according to ESPN.

But the overall body of work speaks for itself: When your season is on the line and "clutch" is required, LeBron is truly The King. You can also find detailed information about the NBA teams like championships won, history, Hall of Famers, retired jerseys, year by year records and results in the Regular Season and Playoffs and more. was to shoot first, and ask questions later. Only one player in NBA history has a winning record against Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant: Chauncey Billups Billups' record throughout his career was 6-4 vs Michael Jordan, 24-21 vs Kobe Bryant, and 22-17 vs LeBron James. LeBron is just 9-13 all-time against Denver. By the time Cleveland took him 1st overall in 2003, the NBA was 16 additional players and almost a full decade deeper into the straight-from-high-school experiment. * Second, James simply takes better shots, and a lot more of them. The other is Russell Westbrook.

Off the court, however, is a different story altogether as fans have been debating their respective places in the game for years.

Also note that the records are for regular season games only.

For example, wouldn't it be more interesting to examine how players performed, say, in elimination playoff games? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 35.56: 5. The team is now 12-7 against teams with winning records, which is also the best in the Western Conference. At the age of 40, Michael Jordan played the last game of his Hall of Fame career on April 16, 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.The next day, Jordan announced that he was retiring for the third and final time with six championships, five MVP awards and 14 All-Star selections to his name. Please check the opt-in box to acknowledge that you would like to subscribe.

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They'll argue to the death that there's no such thing, that the ability to consistently raise one's performance in important, end-of-game moments is largely a myth conjured around random outcomes over incredibly small sample sizes.

Indeed, going by raw stats, there's no "arguably" about it: James has both the highest per-game assist average (7.4, 24th) and assist percentage (36.3, 20th overall) among those who didn't play the "1.

As far as volume scorers go, Bryant was frequently a very willing and able passer, forming devastating tandems with O'Neal (at least when they weren't trying to kill each other) and later Pau Gasol en route to a total of five championships.It's just that far more often than not, Bryant's clear m.o.

But LeBron, counters the other, is just better.