The most Natural talented player ever?

[SamuraiSWISH]

LeBron is definitely most gifted all around. He was most likely a legit NBA player as a sophomore in high school. That's ridiculous.

[jayfan]

Rasheed Wallace

The game came too easily to him.

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[bizil]

For perimeter guys who were great scorers, great passers (for their position), great rebounders (for their position), great defenders, and freakish athletes in an epic total package:

MJ
Bron
Kobe
Wade
G Hill (I think Hill reached this level in Detroit right before he got seriously hurt)

For bigs, KG, Wilt, and Admiral combined these facets the best in my opinion.

[Kool Boy]

Grant Hill

[jstern]

Natural talent, as in best suited to just walk into basketball and be really good at it, without having developed or practiced specific basketball skills. I would have to say Lebron. Larry Bird is a candidate because of his feel for the game. I mean, they both still have to work hard to get at the level they're in.

[CuterThanRubio]

anyone naming a big man , all their skills were 100% developed.

Even though the best natural players had some form or another development , natural means can pass, shoot , dribble and rebound.

That means someone that is a wing player.

Lebron was coveted at the highschool level , so that is pretty bare bones.

But I like Pistol Pete.... He had a feel for the game that can't be taught , and he like Bird , Jordan , Majic and Lebron all have it.

They are also well versed in the history of the game.
Zeke could be added , but he was a head case.

Did anyone else notice this?

Pistol Pete was forced into basketball by his father at a young age and had him running drills nonstop since childhood, he was naturally talented to a certain extent but he was rigorously training long before a lot of guys even thought about getting into the game....you want to talk about developing skills?

Terrible choice

[Gougou]

Think have to go with Allen Iverson in this one.

LeBron is the most physically gifted player ever in NBA, but in natural talent I think its AI.

[Milbuck]

Quickness and the ability to change directions are huge assets in bball, something LeBron lacked.

I mean I get it, dude was a freak and in a vacuum, he might've been the GOAT bball athlete but he lacked certain traits that could've made him even better. So he wasn't "perfect".

No one is perfect. Why I said "checks off the most boxes", not all of them. Kinda like how MJ wasn't 6'8" 260+ with PF/C strength like Lebron.

In any case, Lebron is still the quickest and best at changing directions at his size/strength level ever, and far above average across his position even against substantially lighter players.