Sad News: LeBron James wiped for not winning an NBA awards…
LeBron James has one close miss in his vocation that actually eats at him. During the latest episode of his HBO show “The Shop,” the Los Angeles Lakers star uncovered that he is as yet unglued about not truly winning the NBA Guarded Player of the Year Grant. James additionally said he believes he ought to have won it in 2013.
James is referencing then-Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol, his future Lakers teammate. Gasol was the DPOY that year but finished on the All-Defensive Second Team behind Tyson Chandler, Joakim Noah and Serge Ibaka in the frontcourt.
But that may have been more so because of a flawed voting system since Gasol definitely deserved the honor as the anchor of a conference-best Grizzlies defense (at the peak of their “grit and grind” era).
In any case, James, who made the All-Guarded First Group himself that year, could have been the association’s most unique and flexible safeguard at that point. At his athletic pinnacle with the Miami Intensity, James sneaked the passing paths like a hyena, drew extreme on-one tasks on everyone from Tony Parker to Paul George and, surprisingly, gave edge security off guarded revolutions on bigs like Roy Hibbert and Tim Duncan.In the end, James will just have to settle for five career All-Defensive First Team selections. But though he is now well past his window to win DPOY, James still has a chance to achieve this feat that he has never done before.