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Former NBA veteran and current analyst Brian Scalabrine explains why he thinks the projected number one overall pick in Wednesday’s NBA Draft has a lot of similar attributes to a former top selection in the 2003 draft.
Lebron James.
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He’s just not an F1 racer.
LeBron is 260 fast, 4440 head above the rim.
Cooper Flag is not a bad athlete, he’s a good he’s a great athlete.
LeBron’s a super athlete, but they process the same.
I know it’s unfair, but I’ll, I’ll eventually be right.
People will know like 3 years from now, they’ll be like, yeah, Scal said it.
If he has the same longevity.
That’s, that’s, that’s, I’m just giving you a comparison of what he could be, but not, you can’t look at 50,000 points in championships and any of that stuff.
There’s, there’s some variable to that.
But they, LeBron has scored 50,000 points, doesn’t have a go to shot.
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I’m not sure he has a go to shot.
It’s just a basketball player that makes things happen.
LeBron’s a freak of nature defensively.
He’s a freak of nature defensively.
LeBron can run point, he can run point.
68 point guards, 6’8 point guard.
Like, like he, he trends like that more than.
A shooting guard or a Qui Leonard or anything like that.
And it’s just, he doesn’t want to say it, but that’s what it’s gonna be.
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