![]() Bird used 27.5 percent of the Celtics’ possessions LeBron used 32.5 percent of Cleveland’s possessions. You’ll notice that LeBron’s output goes way up this is due to relative usage rate. So let’s shoot over to per 100 possessions and really put the nail in the coffin of this meme:īird: 33.6 pts/11.0 reb/9.2 ast/12.7-24.2 FGM-FGA 2014-15, while not played at the grinding snail’s pace of the late 1990s and early 2000s, was still massively slower than the Johnson/Bird/Young Jordan days. You’ll notice this was a big dropoff for Bird and hardly a move at all for LeBron that’s due to Bird playing 40.1 minutes per game in ’87 while Bron played 36.1 in ’15.Īnd, as if that weren’t enough, the 1986-87 season was one of the highest-flying, fastest-paced seasons the league’s ever seen. We begin by breaking down those stats per 36 minutes.īird: 24.9 pts/8.2 reb/6.8 ast/9.4-17.9 FGM-FGA Things fall apart in a hurry when you start into Advanced Stats 101. The moral of the story, such as it seems to be, is that Bird soundly beats LeBron, and if you go by counting stats, at age 30 that’s absolutely the case. In case that’s not showing up in detail on your mobile device:īird: 28.1 pts/9.2 reb/7.6 ast/52.2 FG%/26.4 PER. ![]() ![]() It’s a collection of cherry-picked counting stats without context about Larry Bird and LeBron James. This graphic has been making the rounds on Facebook. ![]()
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