LeBron’s team looks totally different now—but it’s a lot more like his finals teams.
The first is the constant presence of James: LeBron played in at least 84 percent of his team’s games each season, from his debut in 2003 through 2018, the final year of his second go-round with Cleveland in which he played all 82 games for the first time ever. The second is elite offense: Between 2008-09 and 2017-18, James’s teams ranked inside the top six in offensive rating every season, per NBA.com.
The 2018-19 Los Angeles Lakers had precisely none of these qualities nor achieved any of these results, which might explain why they spent this offseason essentially tearing down the house and rebuilding the roster from scratch. The wheels started coming off on Christmas Day, when James suffered the first long-term injury of his career, and as a result ended up playing only 55 of 82 games — a career-low 67 percent of his team’s total. The Lakers finished the year with the NBA’s 24th-ranked offense, thanks in large part to his absence, but the 109.6 points per 100 possessions they scored
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