re: LeBron James ranked 10th, Kobe Bryant outside Kenny Smith’s all-time top ten

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Look, I can’t stand LeBron. Can’t stand his whining and flopping around like a child on the court. But it’s hard to ignore his accomplishments. He’s definitely Top 5. I’ll give him that. But Duncan THAT far above LeBron in this overall list?

Crazy.

5 rings though

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And Fundamental was always the perfect teammate, never whined, never threw coaches and teammates under the bus, never manufactured drama, he just played basketball at a consistently high level for a very long time and it translated to titles, the guiding light of those Spurs teams who, outside of the Ray Allen shot in 2013, never appeared to get rattled, Duncan's definitely above LeBron at least at this point in time