'12 LeBron James - The Greatest Season of All Time?

[mehyaM24]

- wins regular season mvp
- goes 75% of the postseason without his 3rd best player
- has one of the greatest elimination game performances of all time
- beats the second best player in the finals/leading scorer in the league
- has one the greatest playoff/finals ever by all objective measures and data
- wins finals mvp
- leads Team USA to gold via Olympics
- Wins Male Athlete of the Year award via ESPYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvgkwOcuIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-VzBeOrdAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNbKGDqQyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgMRrclOLI

RS: 27/8/7 on 53%FG & 31 PER
Playoffs: 30/10/6 on 51%FG & 30 PER

^checkout these numbers ( at the double-double in the postseason). if not the greatest season, its gotta be #1 in the modern era.

[JohnFreeman]

Certainly up there

[NBAplayoffs2001]

- wins regular season mvp
- goes 75% of the postseason without his 3rd best player
- has one of the greatest elimination game performances of all time
- beats the second best player in the finals/leading scorer in the league
- has one the greatest playoff/finals ever by all objective measures and data
- wins finals mvp
- leads Team USA to gold via Olympics
- Wins Male Athlete of the Year award via ESPYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvgkwOcuIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-VzBeOrdAg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNbKGDqQyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgMRrclOLI

RS: 27/8/7 on 53%FG & 31 PER
Playoffs: 30/10/6 on 51%FG & 30.3 PER

^checkout these numbers ( at the double-double in the postseason). if not the greatest season, its gotta be #1 in the modern era.

MJ 1991 destroys this...

[Warfan]

Definitely great, but certainly not the greatest...

[J Shuttlesworth]

No Christmas MVP, no care.

[mehyaM24]

MJ 1991 destroys this...

jordan's 91 season MIGHT be comparble, but he certainly doesn't "destroy this". by any measure. jordan did not win a gold medal nor lead his team in the olympics in 91.

[3ball]

We now know how inexperienced and basically bad at basketball the Thunder were at that time, despite their young talent.

[KBaller33]

One of the greatest, but 2000 Shaq or any Jordan season from 88-93 would top it or be close.

[SouBeachTalents]

We now know how inexperienced and basically bad at basketball the Thunder were at that time, despite their young talent.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

jordan's 91 season MIGHT be comparble, but he certainly doesn't "destroy this". by any measure. jordan did not win a gold medal nor lead his team in the olympics in 91.

Yeah because the olympics wasn't that year . Tell me when LeBron the great "passer" averages 10+ assists in the finals and is one missed game winner from sweeping the Lakers.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Top 10 maybe. Definitely the best since PEAK Shaq.

We now know how inexperienced and basically bad at basketball the Thunder were at that time, despite their young talent.

Dumb post. Bad at basketball? Really? Durant, Westbrook and Harden, individually, were/are franchise level players. Not only that, but they beat a heavily favored Spurs team on their way to the finals.

[T_L_P]

What data suggests it was even one of the five greatest Finals performances?

It's obviously up there (whole season), but the Finals was not one of the greatest, depending on what you view as the "greatest".

[NBAplayoffs2001]

What data suggests it was even one of the five greatest Finals performances?

The OP's love for LeBron.

[JT123]

What data suggests it was even one of the five greatest Finals performances?

It's obviously up there (whole season), but the Finals was not one of the greatest, depending on what you view as the "greatest".

hater alert.
Duncan will never have a signature playoff performance like Lebron did in Boston. You mad?

[T_L_P]

hater alert.
Duncan will never have a signature playoff performance like Lebron did in Boston. You mad?

So...how exactly was his Finals one of the greatest?

None of the numbers back up that claim. And one of your jacked up posts do, either.

Also, who cares about it being a signature performance? Duncan has had better series than LeBron's against Boston.