Shaquille O'Neal & Gary Payton vs Lebron James Battle Highlights 2004.02.04 Lakers at Cavaliers
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Lebron James - 32 Pts
Shaquille O'Neal - 37 Pts, 12 Reb
Gary Payton - 30 Pts,
Shaquille O'Neal had nothing to complain or curse about. O'Neal returned from a one-game suspension and scored a season-high 37 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 111-106 overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night. Gary Payton added a season-high 30 points as the Lakers improved to 2-1 on a seven-game road trip -- the club's longest since 1992. O'Neal was back after serving a one-game NBA suspension for profanely criticizing officials during a live TV interview following a win at Toronto on Sunday. O'Neal finished 9-of-20 from the line, and the rest of the Lakers weren't much better, making just 26-of-40 (62 percent). LeBron James scored 32 points -- including three 3-pointers in OT -- but shot an airball from 21 feet with a chance to win it at the end of regulation.
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I forgot LeBron was in the league when Shaq was with the Lakers. LBJ is not that young...
Ugh no? Lmao hes going into his 14th season lol
armin38822 rookie LeBron 😎
He’s 34
LeBron was a teenage rookie and Shaq was playing his last year as a Laker.
He came into the NBA from highschool
Wow. A 19 year old Lebron against the 3 time champion Lakers and he kept the Cavs competitive
A Young KING
Batman Wayne umm they wasn't defending champs the spurs won 2003... lakers won 2000-2002 ..
James Harris I said 3 time champion.... I didn't say defending
Batman Wayne I see 3 time defending champs on my end I was just commenting
Lakers beat them in their own stadium without Kobe
Crazy how LeBron was playing at the time when Karl Malone was still in the league! 😮
That's what i was thinking. He played at the same time when Karl Malone and Scottie Pippen were still in the league. That's mind boggling to me.
@@sonymangames felt the same way when kobe bryant was playing as a rookie when robert parish was still in the league and won a ring
@@carbuncle1977 Kobe didn’t win as a rookie
@@noobrou5857 im talking about kobe bryant playing when robert parish was still in the league.
@@carbuncle1977 you said “and won a ring"
LeBron 2003-2010 was literally the PERFECT combination of being agile, skillful, and powerful. His physical peak. He was like an early MJ + Dominique Wilkins + with prime Derrick Rose type of explosiveness.
Couldn’t shoot
@@thekxckup3854 true but he was a pure slasher
@@P-van 2-way playmaking slash
Can’t forget to splice some magic Johnson in there after all that’s who they compared him to when he first came into the league
He was nothing like Jordan
this shit looks like it was shot in the 80s
With a potato from 1978
Welcome to 2004 quality
Lmao right ? 😂🤣
@@GoldenHoopsProduction wsp golden hoops your vids are amazing bro
😂😂😂😂
Age doesn't matter in the NBA....if you can play you can play.... the fact that people think a 19 year old kid SHOULD be destroying a 34 year hall of famer speaks volume of Lebron James.
chitownkidd33 Just like it speaks volumes that a 22 year old role player outplayed prime LeBron on both ends of the floor in Games 3-4-5 of the 2014 Finals .... lolololol Games (3-4-5) of 2014 Finals- Lebron allowed 13 ppg Kawhi Leonard to average 23.7 ppg on 69% in Games 3-4-5 of Finals - Lebron also got out rebounded by Leonard 9.3 rpg to 7.7 rpg in those 3 games - Leonard also outstole Lebron in those 3 games 2.0 spg to 1.7 spg - Leonard also outblocked Lebron in those 3 games 2.0 bpg to 0.7 bpg - LeBron also had more than twice as many turnovers as Leonard (3.7 to 1.7) In those last 3 games, Leonard outrebounded, outblocked, outstole Lebron, scored MUCH more efficiently (14% FG higher than Lebron), and Leonard was playing 7 less minutes and Lebron committed more than twice as many turnovers. And while Lebron could never guard Leonard, Leonard held Lebron to 1-6 shooting in Game 5 when he guarded him. In Game 5 Lebron had 1 FG in the 2nd quarter (2:30 mark) to bring the Heat within 5, and never scored again until the Spurs were up 21 with 4:40 left in the 3rd - definition of stat padding and not delivering when it mattered. No need to mention LeBron's stats... in the 4 losses he scored 51 of his 106 points (48% of them) after already being down 15+... just the small forward version of Wilt Chamberlain - another stat padder what a pathetic excuse for a supposedly all time great. Showed up by role players in 2 different NBA Finals
This copy and paste argument is getting old. The heat threw the finals, they didn't show up, I've never seen a team allow another team wide open 3 after wide open 3, there effort level was not there. It wouldn't be the first time though. Not even the first time for the heat since Lebron gave up in 2011 in games 4,5,6 so Wade wouldn't win FMVP. Same reason Kobe threw the finals in 2004 so Shaq can get traded and not have 4 FMVPs. Lebron James and WIlt Chamberlain are top 10 players regardless of circumstance.
Anon Ymous Leonard is the future of that franchise and defensive player of the year candidate nearly every year for the next 7 minimum. And as I remember correctly Lebron was the only Heat player in the 2014 Finals to actually be awake. You haters talk more about him than his fans do...
Lucas Muijrers lol "Lebron was the only player to actually be awake" So true
chitownkidd33 Age doesn't matter? You're a moron.
Clearly shows that talk trash doesn't effect LeBron. GP was talking so much crap throughout the game and LeBron still finished with 32.
he was 18 years old and he should've had 62 points? You haters are insane. It's still a bit funny that even the haters expect a kid to score 60 on legends lol.
Adrian Flores dumbass
@Adrian Flores the fact that he dropped a 30 ball on an all time great defender in GP as a 18 year old rookie is highly impressive stop hatin
@@dntgshot1236 Agreed, GP actually had 103 DRTG in this season, he had 111 DRTG prior (2002-03) and had 109 DRTG after this season (2004-05), GP's defense declined but somehow in this very season he had a great defensive rating again, last time he had a 103 DRTG was on the season 1997-98.
@@KingEDZKY better teammates
Forgot that Payton had this much juice left in a Laker uniform. Dude was doing everything.
danielgalea naaa, he wasnt in the playoffs. he couldnt play the pg position well then. if Derek Fisher had more minutes in the 2003-2004 finals vs the pistons, the Lakers wouldve won that series. fisher could shoot and was also a good defender. payton was confused alot.
@@zarateciddkast9329EVEN if Fisher started over Payton, the Lakers STILL would’ve lost to the Pistons. Malone and Payton was old, washed up, Kobe and Shaq beef was at an all time high and the Lakers bench was absolute trash that year. They were a top heavy team just like 2003.
i always forget that lebron already played when shaq was still on the lakers. the shaq-lakers seem like such a different era than lebron that it's awkward to see the connection.
staxstix because people like to sugar coat it so lebron can seem more dominant.
@@jamesdawny1855 He was a rookie and still had 30 pts
James Dawny what are you saying lol
@@jamesdawny1855 I'm trying to understand what your saying but I have no idea what you are talking about
@@damianpresha5155 yeah he was a puppy in that year and then the haters said he played on the softest era how disappointing
Boozer should've never fleeced the Cavs. Lebron would've showed him what the Finals felt like
Lbj would of been perfect for a prime shaq. He would of averaged like 15 assists a game easily with a prime shaq.
Quick trivia: LeBron is still the only active player in this video. 😮
Right that's crazy his longevity is something to marvel
He might play against GP III in the future
1:02 underrated dunk. hes floating sideways.
If social media was more prevalent back then, that would be an all-time dunk.
Facts
Haters be like : " Wow !! look at all the help LeBron had in Cleveland for 7 years !!"
Lebron didn't wait for the players wanted to play with him, off to miami lol
joel ballesteros LoL u clown...Nobody wanted to go to Cleveland..
***** Larry WHO ? lucious WHO ? Eric WHO ? Ira WHO ? The best players LeBron ever had was Big Z and Varejao.
jimmy6700 he's joking you idiot. And that's sad that you don't know those players. Watch basketball please before you talk.
Lmao^
It’s crazy how LeBron played during the Kobe and Shaq duo! Ik it was the last year for them together but still! And LeBron played when Karl Malone was playing! But he was injured and obviously didn’t play this game but that’s crazy how LeBron has been in the league for that long! Especially the fact about Karl Malone and LeBron playing in the same season shocks me!
wat r you 15
@@Ash-iy3xc Why are you guessing my age? Why does it matter?
@@Ash-iy3xc kind of random to say that
@@doa_824 bc only a kid would think it's "crazy" seeing lebron play kobe and Shaq
@@Ash-iy3xc I’ve seen a video of someone saying that LeBron played with Karl Malone and other players that retired around LeBron’s first years and everyone in the comments thought it was crazy that he played against those players. Maybe you’re in a bad mood or something 😂
2:14 Gary Payton did a move on young LeBron. Its crazy to see because he's using that same on youngsters in his 20th season. All Time Scoring Leader!! 👑
Bron kept this game competitive. 19 years old, going up against two hall of famers, and holding his own. Shaq and GP gave the Cavs all they could handle.
Lol Kobe wasn’t playing that’s why it was competitive
😂😂 dog you watching highlights go watch the full game and see if it was just him alone making it competitive yall kill me
@@wowthatsinteresting8951lol..so your saying prime shaq,payton,grant and fox is not enough to stop 19y/o lebron?this is superteam lakers..😂😂
@@EdgarJayTayson Shaq a liability down the stretch , fox is not an offensive threat, gray Payton towards the end of career not much of offensive or defensive threat , don’t get me start with grant lol that was last yr he literally a non factor in any game that year played.
I love seeing games like these where past greats play with the future stars.
its weird...but Lebron was actually a better jump shooter when he was younger
He wasn't they only show the ones he made...if you watch full game clips you'll see.. his form was worse and he had a lower field goal percentage...but now his jumper nice
good points
Dude, I TOTALLY agree. I have a theory: after LeBron packed on weight, and got bigger, he started chucking the ball too far, therefore instigating the clusterfuck of three-point misses in Game 5 of last year's finals. I need to forgive him for screwing over the team that I have followed and loved since 2004. I still believe to this day that Dwyane Wade is the best player to play for Miami.
luke bryce i agree
Frank Assnot what a fucking idiot. This is a highlight video only showing made shots.
i love this. Bill Walton makes it that much more classic. he called him "lebron jermaine" at half time haha
The cavs shoulda kept those jerseys and that home floor
Lebron: 3x NBA champion 3x finals MVP 4x league MVP 10x NBA all first team 12x NBA All Star 2x All Star MVP Rookie of the Year Scoring champion cover of Sports illustrated AP Athlete of the Year how could anyone hate this guy?
Big FLOPPER that's why damnit KOBE ALL the way !!!
+Chris George Redfield LBJ >>>>NBA History Faxxxxx
Swagg_ Kidd HELL NO that's your opinion bud may i need to mention MJ hell KOBE ways way better in his prime dude !!!!
you can flop your way to 4 mvps? Why hasn't every Duke player won an MVP then?
+Chris George Redfield Half the damn league flops. The only difference is, LeBron is the most successful player in the league.
1:00 one of my all time fav lebron dunks, effortless fullspeed reverse dunk
Same. One of his most underrated dunks and definitely better than his signature one hand tomahawk dunks.
Crazy how they just acted like it was normal. That was amazing
Teammates on the bench didn’t even stand up for him smh
He even made it so effortless. 😅
Poor Z. Never had a chance against shaq.
because he was a bum
@@ryanr20091 Nah, he, whatever was left of him, was the only bright (in any way, and that is enough) spot of the early dumpster Cavaliers days.
@@ryanr20091 he was a 2 time all star in that era,how about you actually educate yourself on the sport you watch before making half ass assumptions
@@jumbostorm887 he was a fucking bum
geez, lot of guys hating on him. but look at that kid in the video. hungry for a championship since day 1. glad he won his 3rd. that was the sweetest of them all. beating a 73 win team. overcoming a 1-3 record. and silencing those cocky golden shitrors
Would you look kobe team, had 3 Allstars.. Not to mentions his 2013 bust team with a whole new set of 3 Allstars But lebron is the guy with all the help, people forget no matter how good kobe is, don't forget the luxury of being apart of a great franchise, your whole career
BINGO.
Steve Nash: debilitated. Howard: almost debilitated Payton: old and lost in the offense Malone: 40 years old. Lebron invented the "prime collision".
Kobes teams always got worse with multiple all stars tho. Hes always had more success with good role players
brizzy308 SO not true...like at all. The only example you can make is Steve Nash and Dwight...other than that, Kobe's never won a playoff series without an all star, and has missed the playoffs without an all star..with all stars, he's won 5 rings...so try again
nikosvault LOL Like Prime Shaq and Kobe didnt win 3 rings. Lol you Kobe fans are hilarious.
Not just a rookie but STRAIGHT OUTTA HS….that’s craziness!!!💯👑
Yeah Andrew wiggins isn't playing like this lol😂
Neither will Ben Simmons lol, we will see a lot of "Next LeBron" players coming up in the future but none will come close to LBJ's level.
Jay Jay people act as if his body is common
Username Loading it looked like he didn’t want to play basketball. And he was more athletic than Bron too! He could revive his career especially with the Warriors. He has definitely improved🙅🏾♂️🧢
@@famousxji1852 more athletic? nah i dont think so
@@famousxji1852 I wouldn't say more athletic
omg payton in this is smooth
Anyone peep the Ricky Rubio news in the bottom line about him trying to enter the draft lol?
payton was damn good
Now Bron is playing against GP’s son and namesake. Talk about longevity
Exactly
it feels like im watching an alternate universe of basketball where kobe did not play for lakers, and lebron james battle shaquille o'neal's lakers
Bruh Kobe was just injured for this game he obviously was still on the team
@@zackarmstrong.3089 smh lol
@4:11 Shaq destroyed Boozer lmao !
mckinneyanthony250 Anyone would destroy Boozer he was a trash defender.
Lebron is from another generation of ball players compared to the players of the 2010s and 2020s. He's one of the last of the 2000s era, among a small handful who are still playing. I remember when the NBA was constantly wanting a prime Kobe vs. prime Lebron finals all throughout the 00s. It almost happened in '09, could've happened in '08. That was a better time for the NBA, imo. The players these days are soft, the NBA is soft
I'm trying to think who else is left? Melo just retired. Haslem?
Udonis retired this season. Lebron is the last from his class. Dwight is like 2 years later I think.
Haslem was fun to watch back in the '00s. Dwight is '04...who knows what'll happen to him now. He just left Taiwan. Iguoudala is '04, but I think he's retiring this year. Not many players are around from that late 90s/early '00s era. Late 90s players are gone obviously...Vince Carter being the last to go in the 2020s. If we want to stretch it further, we've got the gray area mid-00s players we could maybe add to that era, depending on your perspective. Chris Paul and Kyle Lowry are from '05 and '06, I believe. PJ Tucker, '06 class. There are some others, maybe...?
Chris Paul it's probably the only guy I can think of from that early era that's still around
@@jessesteele7269Paul millsap is still hanging around. I believe he was 06
Was at this game, completely forgot about this Lakers superteam. LeBron's possible game winning shot was on point, he just didn't have the strength during that rookie year. Crazy to think he was 19 and scoring like crazy!
Shhh people wanna say Lakers wasn't a superteam yet they cruised to the finals yet suddenly they was old when they choked
@@Bigedub101They got extremely lucky getting passed the Spurs in 2004, I admit as a fan. If Fisher misses that 0.4 shot in game 5, it’s a repeat of 2003.
led the finals in points reb assists blocks and steals both teams 2016 r u kidding me.
That's easy when your entire team is built to pad your stats! His teammates know to let LeBron grab every defensive rebound, bring the ball up court, they know that if LeBron passes it to them they better shoot so he can get his assist, and they know that he's going to take 23 shots a game the rest of the time! LeBron is the most obvious stat padder in history even worse than Wilt!
He's the goat
@@armandodelossantos736 shut up hater. Bron led both teams. Cavs beat warriors.
@@armandodelossantos736 He plays the game the right way. The warriors are stat padders and needed 3 all time scorers.
@SunamiKilla lol typical non basketball player comment
I worked at the Gund arena and got to watch them play that year. I will never forget how big Shaq is compared to the other player's it was a man amongst boys
Old payton guarding young lebron he's a true defensive player! The only guard who won defensive player of the yr MJ and Payton!
Alvin roberertson
Sidney Moncrief
And now Marcus Smart
Lol the cavs fans were like this dude is going to be here forever lol 😂
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Wtf how come he carried his team and dominated everybody in 2004, and is still doing the same thing 2022. Almost leading the league in scoring. WTF?
That's personlly what I believe makes him the greatest of all time. MJ was very slightly better than LBJ for most of his career but LBJ is sustaining his exelence for far, far longer. It's like comparing a flame that burns brightly for a short amount of time and a flame that burns 97% as bright but lasts far longer
@@viksoply6404well said! 💯
@@viksoply6404dont forget kobe 5-2 vs mj head to head..and lebron 16-6 against kobe...
Hgh
Shaq man…just unstoppable
Watching this video now September 22,2022.and this Bron still in the league.
I wish this era could have stayed around forever😢
Lebron wouldn't survive in the 90's. Literally played against some 90's players when he was still young. 😂
baby rookie bron had no problem against 90s players . now just imagine Miami Lebron or even back to Clevland Bron the second they could do nothing against prime bron
I remember this game this was when I was in middle School Man and I miss these times of basketball and Gary Payton and Shaq was giving him the business 😆😆 those was the days boy if you weren't around this basketball man you missed out man I miss that era
A 19 year old who couldn’t guard Shaq so Shaq dominated his matchup. Right! 🍪
Shaq,payton,grant,fox vs 19y/o lebron Put lebron in that team..and your saying lebron build the superteam😂😂😂😂
GP looking like mini-Shaq. I was literally waiting for him to start mumbling through that halftime interview 😂
I been watching Lebron since 6th grade, I’m 32 now and he’s the ONLY player in this video currently still active, crazy how time flies
Aye GD u think u can upload some more LeBron highlights from his rookie year bro?
Lebrons shot looks so much more fluid back then
GODDAMN i forgot how baggy them cavs uniforms used to be 😭, lebron collar looked like he jumped into a pool with it by the second half
2004.. almost 20 years ago.. thats crazy
Bill Walton was one of the absolutely detractors of LeBron wanted him to fail so bad but LeBron not only lived up to the hype but crushed the hype
Amazing how back in the day teams were able to limit lebron to strictly jump shots. I wonder how the lebron would have turned out, if he had continued to play pg for the rest of his career. Really nice performance by payton. Thanks for the upload!
well I think he was 18 at this point so it's not like he had the frame he had today.
***** Glory Claimer yea I know. That's why I'm implying that lebron has come a long way from being a kid/rookie, who could already produce and hold his own, but not necessarily play towards his true strengths, to a guy, who has made it his priority to get efficient shots at the rim
He settled for jump shots...cuz if he wanted to drive he could have ..little 6'2'' 100something pound Gary Payton couldn't stop him ever tho he was a amazing defender
@@RugbyCardigan he was 19 in 2003 december so 19 I believe.
@@micahwilliams8848 7 years ago but nah. Gary Payton jobs was lead him into other players or force the jump shot. The entire defense was focused on bron mostly.0
Can you guys upload the other one game beween the Lakers and Cavs from that season too? I think that's where Kobe got injured? I would really like to see what happened after that..
19yrs old rookie lebron superstar caliber
@4:21 Shaq even had to pause on that LBJ alley-oop dunk...nice...
lebron bulked up significantly within 2 years of this
@T Dillinger Zion is pure muscle not fat
Damian Presha he is muscular but not pure muscle
@@damianpresha5155 nah he fat
@@damianpresha5155 he’s muscular and fat lol. He’s got some real fucking muscle but it is under a looot of fat
@@user-hw9kf6fp8z he's only 9% body fat
Gary said it himself"He is making a lot of shots, we hope he miss some" too bad He missed that one!
Damn this is unreal.. 19 year-old LeBron held cavs vs the shaq lakers
That reverse dunk by Lebron no one was doing it like that back in the day
U must be 10 vince,mcgrady,Jason richardson
@cheetahturner4576 they was doing it but not like LeBron flying backwards like that quit playin
back wen his hairline made sense
Ali. Triple salute for the 04 LeBron footage. 👑👏👏👏
Now he’s in year 21!!! 🐐
Back when LeBron was playing in his original position as PG. Miss those days.
skvetny doesn't he still play PG
bjsw534 Irving is the starting PG for the CAVS, no?
He was actually playing sg
5:25 OMG. Lebron Jermaine? the commentator said Lebron Jermaine? who the f**k is Lebron Jermaine? LOL.
Uncle G.P. was doing work😲👑👏👏
The fact 36 year old Payton held his own on Bron and put up 30 points is wild.
36 isnt old payton was still a vet Bron was a rookie with limited nba experience at that point. Bron at 19 wasn't even at his full man strength yet hadn't bulked up to his natural position . I think this is the only year bron played ''shooting guard'' lol. this was a baby sized bron
@@ryanr20091 you gotta give old man Payton some props though, I’m not taking anything away from young lebron, I’m just saying you got a athletic 6’8 SF and a 6’4 36 year old way past his prime Payton made him shoot that air ball 3 for the win lol.
Lebron been doing this for 20 years!! My life was so different 20 years ago lol
Bill Walton is the worst commentator ever
Garbage
Which is why we don't see him anymore.
Manni Live The worst ever!
Manni Live lmao he's not that bad
Nah he’s the best you bugging
Its crazy how many versions of lebron we've been able to see over the years.
Who has more haters Lebron James or the Cowboys????
throw cam Newton in there too
+Talynn Lucas He isn't on their level of hate...
Lebron James because he actually wins championships lol
dgraves718 Dallas having a good year this year
Antbeast23 true but the giants looking good this year also
1:02 wft?!
what's up with that LeBron defense though... Payton was just getting free layups
Rookie year
Also u gotta help off ur man bro. He’s literally playing against SHAQ!!! Do y’all not understand how that works? Lmao
NBA Street Frobe hit different
The king 🤴🏿 vs the glove 🧤 🔥🔥
Hard to believe LeBron has been playing since the L.A. Shaq days.
Damn .. Payton was that good!
I use to think old school couldn't compete with new school but I believe they could.
Shaq and Kobe together were unstoppable.
watching young lebron is fun, his energy, his love of hooping, i really use to root for him
LeBron won all his finals MVPs. Kobe didn't even win more than 2 mvps out of his so called 5 rings. SHAQ won all of the finals MVPs. And even won a regular season MVP. While he was with the Lakers. So that's enuff proof SHAQ was the best on the Lakers. And kobe was just his side kick. SHAQ=Jordan. Kobe=pippen
lol this is dumbassery at its finest. Kobe was no pippen fool. Kobe and Shaq were perfect 1a and 1b. MVP voting is irrelevant. Shaq has said multiple times that kobe was the best in the game when playing together. Lets not forget Kobe was able to actually beat the spurs in the playoffs ;)
LeBron game 7 vrs SPURS. LeBron 37 points finals MVP. Enuff said
John Riddler There was never a 1a and 1b. Shaq was always the no. 1 option, he just happened to be triple teamed most of the time so he had to kick it out to Kobe.
***** 2000 finals doesn't count. He was 21, playing in a talented team and injured most of the series. In 2001 playoffs he had 29 points 7,5 rebounds and 6 assists. Not to mention 33/7/7 against the Spurs. He averaged 26/6/6 against New Jersey in 2002 Finals. He was not a sidekick.
Without wade,allen and bosh, no rings
Lol back when Boozer had hair lmao I was like lmao
kush patel Lol lmao like lmao hair lol
Its JoeMama Like lmao after lol b/c of lmao lol
We still boo him
Wtf is this lmfao
+ChromaticTempest OMG LMFAO TTYL LOLOLOLOL
imagine u played both gary payton and gary payton jr 😮
GREATNESS
Year 17 still looking great
The fact that we can argue that 2020 Lebron is the best version of Lebron is astonishing.
Lakers won without Kobe.. Shaq was a BEAST in his prime
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Ricky Moss so Kobe dont start. shaq 0 rings. Kobe starts in 99. establishes his game in 2000 , and they go on a 4 year final run. shaq says Kobe the best in the world . you implying Kobe wasnt the dude back then, what you talkin about? go watch the playoff games from 2000-2003. most series from round 1- round 4 (finals) are on youtube. check your facts .
@John Zada III The difference is Shaq was clearly the #1 on the team. Everyone knows this except the Kobetards. Shaq led the team in scoring, win shares and VORP all 3 years. The 3 peat Lakers were Shaq's team. Period.
Magic's team. 3 Finals MVP's compared to 1 for Kareem and 1 for Worthy. You can argue Kareem got robbed in 1980 but the fact is Magic played every game that series and Kareem did not. There is no argument whatsoever for the 3 peat Lakers being Kobe's team.
@John Zada III Strawman example. Bird had clearly established the Celtics as his team and Steph had clearly established the Warriors as his team. Kobe had done no such thing with the Lakers and did not until Shaq left.
Lakers Super Team but let the media tell it Lebron started it 😂😂😂
And they said lebron can't survived 90s era😂😂😂..look whos players in that..they are 90s players and lebron is 19 in that year😂😂😂
damn payton got his hand right on james at 8:44 you can see ....i like that its a no call, but nowadays all these guards in the nba would get that call everytime..*steph curry
Vcarter15range game was more physical back then. Handchecking rule change came around 05.
Thought I was the only one that saw that, no wonder he airballed it
wow seeing that reminds me of how luck todays NBA is if that was considered normal perimeter defense
Forgot Payton was on the lakers
samelol
The 2003-04 Cavs when they had Lebron and Boozer, I forgot that Boozer played with Lebron. I think it was the only year and then Boozer went into free agency. If Boozer was resigned, the Cavs could of done more in the playoffs with Lebron's first stint with the Cavs, but we will never know.
💯% Bron and Boozer would of made big time noise Boozer ended up with the Bulls if only he stayed with Cavs who knows what could of been
Young Lebron was a way better shooter than people give him credit for. The Zion and Ben Simmons comparisons were just disrespectful, he was way more polished than those guys.
What if Shaq left for Cleveland after this season instead . I think he would’ve stayed with Lebron longer
@G D they wouldn’t even need it. Mid Prime ShaQ & growing Bron. It’s OVER. For years to come!
@joceja23 They’ve already played together tho Shaq was already out of his prime.
Fabulous performance by 19 year old Lebron. If they had the 32 year old Lebron, they would have won.
lol Lakers won without Kobe... Shaq was a BEAST!!
32 yr old lebron just lost to the worst team in the nba without their superstar....... no you might want to think again
when he has a super team l0lllllllllllllllll
Meh. Maybe. Mid-season slump. Lebron had a triple double on 70% shooting. I see it as a team mental funk, not a reflection on his skills.
NO.. NO.. and NO.. no lebron team would stand a chance against that Laker team if Kobe was playing
and now he's playing against Gary Payton II
This just proves a lot proves he’s the goat
Lakers weren’t that good without Kobe
the only reason why lebron is hated by so many is because of the LeBron vs Chicago🔥beef if you take away the beef with Chicago he's the greatest individual in NBA history next to Jordan who is also a former Chicago bull. its freighting to know that Jordan has an equal but people just need to come to grips with the fact that LeBron is clearly by far the most talented person in NBA history as to date. just look at his resume #idontevenlikelebron#🐂fan4life
many dont remember a game like this is because after michael jordan retired many fans like myself who watched jordan retire didnt mind the nba anymore.
Crazy how Lebron’s shooting form as a rookie looks so much smoother than it did later in his career.
4:39 lebron mocking Shaqs dunk celebration walk