{"id":3801,"date":"2023-02-02T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/draymond-green-reveals-why-lebron-james-is-the-greatest-nba-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T23:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:57:29","slug":"draymond-green-reveals-why-lebron-james-is-the-greatest-nba-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/draymond-green-reveals-why-lebron-james-is-the-greatest-nba-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green Reveals Why LeBron James Is the Greatest NBA Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-40082\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"LeBron Green Greatest\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LeBron-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>LeBron James was thrown into the spotlight at a young age and since then has been a model for the sport of basketball.<\/p>\n<p>He is now just 89 points away from surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the all-time scoring record.<\/p>\n<p>A feat accomplished by Abdul-Jabbar by playing 20 seasons from 1969 to 1989, including his last 14 seasons with LA. Fittingly, James is in his 20th season in the league this year.<\/p>\n<p>James has averaged at least 25 points in 19 of those seasons, including 30.2 in 41 games played this season.<\/p>\n<p>Draymond Green is someone who has had their fair share of on-court scandals, including this year punching his teammate Jordan Poole and he says James\u2019 career is intertwined with consistency, longevity and durability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at those three things, it\u2019s a testament to how he lives his life,\u201d Green told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/sports\/nba\/lakers\/2023\/02\/02\/lebron-james-chasing-kareem-abdul-jabbar-nba-scoring-title\/11091880002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA TODAY Sports<\/a>. \u201cI recently said he\u2019s the greatest face the NBA has ever had. Think about the day and age we live in \u2013 cameras, social media \u2013 he\u2019s never had a scandal. Never been arrested. Never photo\u2019d drunk. Those things go hand in hand with durability, longevity, consistency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green\u2019s on court dramas one day actually involved James, during the 2016 Finals which ended with Green swinging his arm and hitting James in the groin and Green getting suspended.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice to see that incident is just water under the bridge and Green has much respect for one of the best role models the NBA will ever see.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketballforever.com\/2023\/02\/02\/draymond-green-reveals-why-lebron-james-is-the-greatest-nba-endorsement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James was thrown into the spotlight at a young age and since then has been a model for the sport of basketball. He is now just 89 points away from surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the all-time scoring record. A feat accomplished by Abdul-Jabbar by playing 20 seasons from 1969 to 1989, including his last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}