LeBron James is one of the most cerebral minds we’ve ever seen in the game of basketball.
He can recall very specific and intricate moments of games down to the second. He’ll routinely recall plays that won and lost his team games in postgame press conferences and he’ll accurately describe them down to the most specific detail.
So it’s absolutely no surprise that he’d know his opponent’s playbook in and out in a playoff series. But what is surprising is that James could tell a player what play they were running when they were about to run it and what that player was supposed to do.
That’s apparently what happened in the 2016 Eastern Conference Finals against the Raptors, according to DeMar DeRozan.
DeRozan jumped on JJ Reddick’s podcast “The Old Man and the Three” and was explaining just how great James was. This was the moment that came to mind.
Warning: There is some NSFW language included in the following video
On LEBRON In the playoffs. @demar_derozan @jj_redick @talter pic.twitter.com/7gly000usQ
— TheOldMan&TheThree (@OldManAndThree) October 9, 2020
“I remember it was a play we were trying to run and one of our teammates forgot the play. And Bron told him the play. Like, it was some crazy s***. It was some crazy stuff. We’re calling a play, he was like ‘What?’ and Bron told him what our play was. That just shows you how locked in that dude be when it comes to winning time.”
Man. How are you supposed to beat that? That’s all-time great stuff. But nothing less should be expected from an all-time great.
LeBron is just that good.
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