Leading a team to five finals in a row...

[iamgine]

This is a huge accomplishment of its own...has anyone in the modern era ever do this before?

[Lebron23]

With a different supporting casts.

[AintNoSunshine]

Lebron has done it too, but James Jones is unbelievable.

[Magic 32]

This is a huge accomplishment of its own...has anyone in the modern era ever do this before?

I don't.

Jason kidd made it to the finals back to back.

[gts]

James Jones finally got his own thread... congrats James Jones fans

[Genaro]

When you are the only superstar on you conference (except for the years the other superstar was on his own team :lol ) can't be that much hard.

[FLDFSU]

When you are the only superstar on you conference (except for the years the other superstar was on his own team :lol ) can't be that much hard.

I thought Wade and Bosh were superstars?

[PWB15]

This is a huge accomplishment of its own...has anyone in the modern era ever do this before?


When you had to jump ship twice to do it not much of an accomplishment

[Anfernee]

No one else, modern.

Bill Russell would have the longest streak I guess, but for modern players, Bird did it four times in a row.

[MP.Trey]

James Jones finally got his own thread... congrats James Jones fans
Beat me to it lol

[Rake2204]

It'll be hard for this not to come across as a criticism of LeBron James but... making the Finals with those Heat teams seems to be a little bit of a different situation, considering the base of that ballclub was three dream teamers grouping together in a random locale and building their entire team from scratch.

LeBron James is the best player I've seen since Michael Jordan, but not because he reached the finals numerous times with the Super Heat.

[Genaro]

I thought Wade and Bosh were superstars?
Wade isn't anymore, Bosh never was and he's out since January so it doesn't matter for this year analyses.

[Leftimage]

This is a huge accomplishment of its own...has anyone in the modern era ever do this before?

AND back-to-back finals with different franchises.

AND finals in the first year with two different squads with losing records the previous year.

AND a dismal record for his teams the year following his departure.

Lebron's impact is freaking off the charts.

[Xiengqichess]

He could be the one to lose 7 final games on the roll.

[Bigsmoke]

Wade isn't anymore, Bosh never was and he's out since January so it doesn't matter for this year analyses.

Taking a team that previously won 33 games into the Finals is impressive no matter how u look at it


STFU

[CavaliersFTW]

Yes Bill Russell has.

Yes he's modern era, according to me. :D

[3ball]

Lebron's 5 straight Finals is not impressive compared to the accomplishments of previous greats for 2 very simple reasons:

1) The current era plays a brand of basketball where offensive players face less defenders on the strongside (it's called spacing)..


This makes it easier for offensive players in comparison to previous eras.. Plain and simple.. Of course, there's the also the bans on hand-checking, physicality, and paint-camping, but these all pale in comparison to spacing and the resulting porous strongside defense.



2) It's the 2010's East Conference, ostensibly the weakest conference the NBA ever produced..


Consequently, Lebron has defeated only eight 50+ win teams in his playoff career, which shows how much weaker his competition is to a guy like Kobe, who has defeated 24 teams that won 50+ in RS.

[Shooter]

The only players to ever do it is Bron and Steph

Bron = 8
Curry = 5
KD = 3
MJ = 3
Kobe = 3

[Axe]

:lol