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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