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LeBron has had some great series in his career but he has some bad series

Rank your bottom 5 LeBron series

#1 being the worst

2011 mavs
2007 spurs
2021 suns
2008 and 2010 celtics
2015 Bulls

2011 Mavs
2007 Spurs
2008 Celtics
2021 Suns
2010 Celtics

To this day I'm very curious what happened in that 2010 series as I don't think how he played in that series was representative of his actual ability as a player at that point. It felt like Lebron and his skillset/experience was good enough that he had mostly figured out the Celtics unlike 2008.

LeBron has some bad games but only a handful not so great series. Besides the clear top 2 the rest aren't really that bad.

2011 Mavs
2007 Spurs
2008 Celtics
2021 Suns
2006 Pistons

Always found it interesting that LeBron actually had a positive +/- in that Suns series. Not that that excludes it from being a bottom 5 series, he was hurt and not at normal LeBron levels, but I found it impressive that he still had a +10 +/- in a series where he didn't look the same (and had a game where the team lost by 30) and overall point differential in the series was -39.

In a tiny sample size of 65 minutes, the Lakers had a net/rating of -35.6 without LeBron on the floor in the 2021 playoffs versus +1.0 in the 223 minutes he did play.

LeBron shot 18/48 (37.5%) from three versus 41/149 (27.5%) for the rest of the team.

Dutchball97 wrote:LeBron has some bad games but only a handful not so great series. Besides the clear top 2 the rest aren't really that bad.

2011 Mavs
2007 Spurs
2008 Celtics
2021 Suns
2006 Pistons

Pretty sure I agree with these as is but I'd need to double check whether I'd leave 08 and 21 as is or swap them, and I'd have to rewind and check out the 06 Pistons series... can't remember much of that... probably telling tbh haha.

i am judging on a curve to how good lebron was rather than raw impact

1-2011 finals
2-2021 vs suns
3- 2007 vs spurs
4-2015 vs bulls
5- dunno, maybe 2008 vs celtics but he did a lot of atuff well besides scoring, i think 2010 vs celtics is overhated

PistolPeteJR wrote:

Dutchball97 wrote:LeBron has some bad games but only a handful not so great series. Besides the clear top 2 the rest aren't really that bad.

2011 Mavs
2007 Spurs
2008 Celtics
2021 Suns
2006 Pistons

Pretty sure I agree with these as is but I'd need to double check whether I'd leave 08 and 21 as is or swap them, and I'd have to rewind and check out the 06 Pistons series... can't remember much of that... probably telling tbh haha.

2008 Celtics series has bigger ups and downs, while the Suns series is more meh across the board. It depends how much you value consistency I guess.

1. 2010 Celtics
2. 2011 Mavs
3. 2014 Heat
4. 2015 Bulls
5. 2021 Suns

HM: 2006 Pistons

People are way too conservative on his 2007 finals performance. Sure, Cavs were outmatched but James was absolutely horrible in that series, especially in the first two games.

2011 Finals
2007 Finals
2010 Boston
2008 Boston
2006 Detroit