Best ever?

Hello, I am back with my fourth installment in my blog series which is detailing the five basketball players that have given me a different outlook on the game of basketball. The fourth basketball player I will be talking about in this blog series will be an NBA soon to be Hall of Famer LeBron James. LeBron James right now is the best basketball player in the NBA and to some he is the best basketball player to ever play the game. In the 2003 NBA draft LeBron James was drafted number one overall by the Cleveland Cavilers straight out of high school. In the seven seasons he spent with the Cavilers LeBron led the Cavilers to the NBA Finals, and won two Most Valuable Player awards but could not win the championship. That was the one thing that was holding LeBron back from being considered one of the greatest players in the NBA history. Not just being one of the greatest players in the history players in the NBA, but being the best to ever do it. LeBron James is a freak of nature. At 6’8” 250 pounds LeBron is still one the fastest players in the NBA, he might be the best athlete regardless of sport. In the summer of 2010, LeBron James decided that he wanted to sign with the Miami Heat so he could win multiple championships with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Their first season they reached the NBA Finals nut could not finish the job with a NBA championship against the Dallas Mavericks. Heartbroken, LeBron James made it his mission to reach the NBA finals the next year and win it. He did exactly that with the win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games in the 2012 NBA Finals. LeBron was awarded the Most Valuable Player award and the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award as well. LeBron would go on to win this year’s MVP award, Finals MVP award and NBA Finals championship once again, but this time it was against the San Antonio Spurs in seven heart thrilling games. LeBron James will go down in history as one of the best players in NBA history, if not the best ever. He is one of my all-time favorites just because everything he can bring your team offensively and defensively. If he isn’t the best player to ever play the game of basketball he has to be a close second in my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo1yFIKxPfc

 

 

Bubba Chuck

 

 

Hello, I am back with my third installment in my blog series which is detailing the five basketball players that have given me a different outlook on the game of basketball. The third basketball player I will be talking about in this blog series will be an NBA soon to be Hall of Famer Allen “Bubba Chuck” Iverson. Growing up in Philadelphia as a young basketball fan the Sixers were automatically my favorite team. I remember watching the Sixers games as an adolescent and thinking to myself how can somebody so small in stature score points rapidly. Allen Iverson instantly gained my respect as a young basketball fan because he did not care who he was playing he would go at them. He gave everything he had in every basketball game he played. In 2001 Allen Iverson led the Philadelphia Sixers to the NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers and their two superstars Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal. Nobody expected the 2001 Sixers to even go as far as they did in the NBA playoffs. The Sixers even beat the Lakers on their home court in the first game of the Finals and Allen Iverson scored 48 points to help the Sixers outlast the Lakers in overtime. Mostly every season Iverson was with the Sixers he was the Sixers. He would carry that team everywhere he possibly could, he proved that when he to them to the NBA Finals and led them to a Game 1 victory. Throughout his entire career Allen Iverson had a reputation that he was a ball hog, quick tempered, and only cared about himself and not about what was best for the entire team. As a fan of basketball I, myself, love watching him play the game of basketball the way he does; however, on multiple occasions I wondered about his play, but I understand why he plays the way he does. Allen Iverson gave his blood, sweat, and tears to the NBA. Allen Iverson recently retired from the NBA before the Miami Heat vs. the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers and it brought every tears to all of his fans. Even though he has not played in the NBA since 2010, it was just a sad day to see one of the all-time NBA greats leave the NBA for good. Allen Iverson will always be one of my favorite NBA players that I had a chance to watch play, he changed the way basketball was played and called for that he’s one of my all-time favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OppxKDj44E