Bill Russell
won eleven rings ... with the
Boston Celtics
.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
won seven rings ... with the
Milwaukee Bucks
and the
Los Angeles Lakers
.
Michael Jordan
won six rings ... With the
Chicago Bulls
.
Kobe Bryant
and
Magic Johnson
won five rings ... with the
Los Angeles Lakers
.
Tim Duncan
won five rings ... with the
San Antonio Spurs
.
Shaquille O'Neal
won four rings ... with the
Los Angeles Lakers
and the
Miami Heat
.
Larry Bird
won three rings ... with the
Boston Celtics
.
You're not a big NBA star if you don't lead a team to the ring.
This has been shown by the players who make up the
historical ranking of the league
.
The one that in theory dominates
Jordan
, with the famous double-triplet.
The one in which Bill Russell has a lot to say, sometimes undervalued despite the number of rings.
The one in which
Magic
appears
, due to the youth of his first title and the "what if ..." of his
illness
.
The one in which Kareem, long-time champion from 1971 to 1988, does not fail. The one for which Kobe fought, with an impressive 3 + 2.
The
arguments
will be many and varied to reach the top of the ranking.
Some will look at the number of championships, others at the range of years, teammates, rivals, coaches, points per game, MVPs ...
But there is one piece of information that only a player can claim as his own.
A statistic that would catapult anyone to the top of the list, with permission from Michael Jordan.
A circumstance that belongs to a man:
LeBron James
.
LeBron James has won
four rings
... with the
Miami Heat
, the
Cleveland Cavaliers
and the
Los Angeles Lakers
.
Being a
star, MVP and leader
of each of them.
Four Finals MVPs, breaking with Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan (3) and two from Jordan, who won his sixth at the same age as James' fourth.
It could be argued that
Robert Horry
lifted seven championships with the Rockets, Lakers and Spurs, but we will agree that the forward's presence in those titles cannot be compared to what James produced in his four victories.
Six defeats and records
The title with the Lakers completes the Ohio boy's spiral.
The one who has played
ten Finals
, only surpassed by Bill Russell (12) and Sam Jones (11) and who
has lost six
.
One with
23 years
leading some surprising Cavaliers who had no equipment for it.
Another with the Heat against the Mavericks, his worst performance.
Another with
Miami
against the Spurs of Duncan, Ginobili, Parker and Leonard and with Wade and Bosh already weighed down by an obvious physical downturn.
And
three with Cleveland against the Warriors
of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and then Kevin Durant, absolute dominators for part of the last decade, in an always unequal confrontation for a monstrous James, with
Love and Irving
injured in 2015 and without a level companion in the following attempts.
Bottom line: they'll
say he lost six Finals, but they'll say he was at least in those six Finals
.
LeBron James has played
55 games in the NBA Finals
.
He has scored
28.2 points
, distributed 7.8 assists and captured 10.1 rebounds.
Rick Barry scored 36.3, Michael Jordan 33.6, Jerry West 30.5, Kevin Durant 30.3 and Shaquille O'Neal 28.8.
But none of them overshadow him in the full statistics.
He is second in points, fourth in rebounds, second in assists and second in steals.
He has surpassed Derek Fisher with the highest number of games in the Playoffs, 260, the same ones he has played consecutively.
He is the one with the
most points
(7,423) and the most
minutes
(10,728) in the history of the fight for the ring, and only Magic surpasses him in
assists
(1,854).
A game over 50 points (51 points in Game 1 of the 2018 Finals against the Warriors) and 27 nights of Playoffs with 40 or more points, the last in the fifth game of this series against the Heat.
Danny Green's shot did not enter and could not close the ring there, but in the sixth he achieved the
fifth triple-double of these Playoffs
, the first in the final, the most important, the 28th in the postseason (second in history to two from Magic) and 11th in the Finals (overall leader).
Win with the Lakers
When in the
summer of 2018
LeBron got off his private plane and dialed the number of Rich Paul, his agent, to say "
call the Lakers
" he imagined something like this.
I imagined all that the phrase 'win with the Lakers' implies.
Because one thing is to get together with
two superstars in Miami
and win, or get the
first championship of 'your' Cavaliers in 52 years
, but quite another is to return the
lost greatness to some Lakers
who had not played the Playoffs for five years and who they now tie
17 rings
with the Celtics, their arch enemy.
The same greatness that Chamberlain, Kareem, Magic and Kobe had once given him.
"One thing I've learned here is that
the Lakers fan absolutely doesn't care what you've done before
. You have to do it with them," he explained this week.
Well that, 'win with the Lakers'.
"I told Jeannie (the owner) that I was going to bring the franchise back to where it should be," she said upon receiving the MVP.
"I don't care about the historical rankings, I leave that to you. I dedicate myself to my game, my teammates and my family. We have won and that's what it's all about."
LeBron
will turn 36
next December, so it is assumed that his number of titles will not grow much in the remainder of his career.
I repeat, it is assumed.
But for his legacy it remains that he has won with three teams, although he says he does not care: "I don't think about it much. The story will be told however you want to tell, but I don't live my life thinking about the legacy.
What I do is the track means so much more to me
. "
The social legacy of '23'
And that is where a large part of James' legacy resides.
The '
I Promise
' school, created for children who, like him, do not have the resources to access a quality education and in which LeBron has invested many of the millions he has earned in his career.
His foundation is behind this and several other projects, such as the 'I Promise Huddle' to turn into action the wishes for change of a large part of the citizenry, with special attention to
education, poverty and job opportunities
for women. most disadvantaged communities.
In turn, James, one of the athletes Donald Trump has attacked the most (that "
shut up and play
" of a FOX presenter
is iconic
after the player's criticism of the president) is one of the promoters of '
More than a vote
'(' More than a vote '), the project to give
access to the vote to millions of black citizens
in the
next elections to the presidency of the United States
.
Among some of the concrete actions is the conversion into an electoral college of the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium, in the same California where he has filmed '
Space Jam 2
', where his production company works and where he already had several properties to spend the summer before signing for the Lakers.
"
Basketball will pass away
. New kids will arrive who will shoulder this sport. So I don't worry about it. What I do, what I think, what I say, what I talk about and how I
try to inspire the next generation
is what That I care, "he declared this week, with a final message:" And if you like how I play, great.
And if you don't like it, great
. That's what it all comes down to. "
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