2006 Finals Wade vs 2016 Finals Lebron

[coined]

Wade: 34.7 ppg, 7.8 rebound per game, 3.8 assist per game, 2.7 steals per game, 1.0 block per game 47% shooting

Lebron: 29.7 ppg, 11.3 rebound per game, 8.9 assist per game, 2.6 steals per game, 2.3 blocks per game 50% shooting


5 more points for Wade. But Lebron makes the gap in grabbing more rebounds, more assists, and coming up with big defensive players with blocks and steals.


I am going Lebron by far for the all around play.

[ImKobe]

thanks for letting us know.

[inclinerator]

And 10 more fta per game

[Dray n Klay]

Lebron was clearly better



Better playmaker, rebounder, defender, and scored only 4 points less on better efficiency


Plus he didnt rely on FT's





LeBrons 2015, 2016 >> Wades 2006


Wades 2006 is closer to Lebrons 2012

[raprap]

Lebron

[Im Still Ballin]

Easily LeBron

That's no disrespect to Wade though

[Mr Feeny]

I think this might be the single greatest finals performance of all time considering the stakes and the deficit they were facing, not to mention the opponent.

[Im Still Ballin]

I think this might be the single greatest finals performance of all time considering the stakes and the deficit they were facing, not to mention the opponent.
Yep

And he was literally playing defense at a GOAT level

[francesco totti]

Lebron, and its not disrespect to Wade who had great finals in 2006. But Lebron performance was out of this world.He basically led both teams in every category.He did everything on court.

[pastis]

Wades finals 06 were great, but he faced an exhausted mavs team, who just came out of a 7 game series against the spurs and literally just had dirk nowtizki as a weapon.


lebron faced 73-9 team with the UMVP plus klay and dray and very good "role players"


with klay, dray and curry, lebron faced 3x AS, 3 All-NBA players (1x All-nba first, 1x second and 1x third team) and in green also an all defensive fist team member

especially iguodala is easily more than a role player. he is an all-defense team lock if he would start at goldens tate

[feyki]

Lebron . Only 01 Shaq and 03 Duncan were better than him since millenium .

[swagga]

thanks for letting us know.

first kobe retired after years of missing the playoffs and then lebron put the undisputed GOAT finals performance and surpassed kobe in rings as the man.
I feel you pain son :( :( , it's like I'm witnessing kobe fams funeral tbh. :roll:

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Lebron . Only 01 Shaq and 03 Duncan were better than him since millenium .

This. 03 Duncan was playing out of his mind those playoffs.

[Im Still Ballin]

Duncan and Shaq didn't go against a 73 win team and come from 3-1 down in the finals

This finals performance by LeBron is on the greatest of great tiers

Nothing is above it

[swagga]

Lebron . Only 01 Shaq and 03 Duncan were better than him since millenium .

respectfully disagree, you might be right in raw stats but you have to take into account the competition. Lebron did it by coming from 3-1 against a 73 win team with a load of great/DPOY level defenders while duncan and shaq feasted on the weak sides, with absolutely no pressure, as overwhelming favorites.

[Im Still Ballin]

The more context you factor in, the greater LeBron's performance becomes

[DCL]

stats don't describe context.

lebron performed in 3 straight DO OR DIE games.

down 1-3... no team has ever come back from that deep of a deficit in the nba finals before. basically the whole world other than cleveland and his hardcore stans had written them off at that point. but then lebron drops back-to-back 41 points in game 5 & 6 and a triple double in game 7 to shut everyone's asses up.

and wade's run was relatively stress-free. nobody was talking about how wade's legacy was on the line or that stuff. the expectations for him to perform were a lot lower. so he had a lot less pressure. but lebron? the whole sports world was waiting for him to die so they could clown on him mercilessly after game 4. but then he just played MVP ball and shut everybody the fk up.

and lebron lead in every major statistical category for both teams in the series. that's fking nuts. you can't even easily do that in a video game.

[masonanddixon]

lol Wade was the best Finals performance of all time. lebron only had like 3-4 good games this series against a pretty overrated Warriors team that should have lost to OKC.

[PJR]

As a big Heat fan, I'll give LeBron the edge here for the all around play, along with the additional context(73 win team)

But Wade's was much more of a one man wrecking crew. He virtually took and made all the daggers. He didn't have another teammate performing great offensivly that series like Irving. Shaq was nothing but a decoy, and Antoine Walker was his next leading scorer.

Regardless, respect to two Heat legends. :applause:

[masonanddixon]

As a big Heat fan, I'll give LeBron the edge here for the all around play along with the additional context(73 win team)

But Wade's was much more of a one man wrecking crew. He virtually took and made all the daggers. He didn't have another teammate performing great offensivly that series like Irving. Shaq was nothing but a decoy, and Antoine Walker was his next leading scorer.

Regardless, respect to two Heat legends. :applause:

lol and the Mavs won like 64 games that season and beat a Spurs team that would have destroyed the Warriors and Cavs.

Wade completely dominated that series. We will never see a performance like that again.