Recently, when James led the Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA's first midseason championship, the topic of this naturally kept coming, during which Wolves King Garnett and Truth Pierce gave different opinions on the current ranking topic of James. Among them, Pierce thinks that James's ranking is like he can't step into the top five in the active team, and Garnett is very angry, thinking that James is still the top five, and even the first person level!
For this reason, such a topic will naturally have something to say for other NBA players, including Rondo and Cousins, who have recently given their own opinions on this, but their views are also the same as the truth and the Wolves! Cousins, on the other hand, is no different from Pierce, who believes that James is no longer a top-five player in the NBA today.
Kaoshen gave a statement, that is, James is no longer young, he is close to 39 years old, such an age certainly cannot make him comparable to young or peak players, so there is no him in the top five, because there are many excellent stars today, such as Embiid, Jokic, Tatum and Doncic, etc., which seems to be supported by strength and this season's data. To that end, we might as well use the numbers to see if James can be in the top five at the moment.
Data:
With a score of 25.3, it ranks 14th in the season
Rebounds averaged 7.5 per game and ranked outside the top 30
Assists per game is 6.7, ranking 13th in active players
Steals per game averaged 1.5 and ranked 13th in active flights
Blocks 0.7 per game outside of 30
Of course, a player's power ranking is not a simple data superposition, but it can give us a reference here, so do you think James, who is about to be 39 years old, can he be among the top five in terms of strength?