Is This LeBron James' Best Team Ever? 76ers Debate

I believe this is the best team LeBron James ever been on. You said that. I went through a couple of the teams that he was on just to kind of give it the surface idea of what it actually looks like. Hey, there you go. But you've got a, all these guys are high lottery pick, if not the number one pick. Joel Embiid, number one pick. LeBron, the number one pick. I think V. J. Adkins was the number three pick. Tyrese Maxey was a high lottery pick. And you had, and Jalen Brown was a lottery pick. Jalen Brown's a Finals MVP and an NBA champion. Joel's a regular season MVP. Tyrese Maxey is, I think, his third team All-NBA. If not, he was an All-Star. Like, there has not been an NBA team that LeBron James has walked onto better than this. And I'm telling you, I'm including that Miami Heat team on there because they had Dwyane Wade, who was a champion and a Finals MVP. But Jalen Brown has that. They didn't have an MVP on it. Tim, good to see you. You got everything figured out. How you doing, man? Yes, what's up, guys? Man, you guys said a lot in that first 10 minutes. I'm chomping at the bit. Number one, it is obvious what's going on in Philly. This is a clutch sports production. They are clearly making Tyrese Maxey the man. LeBron is going to feed him. I looked at the box score because I was watching the game. I was like, oh, you don't really know how many points these guys have. You just think how they play together. And I'm like, Maxey is far ahead in minutes, shot attempts, points. It is obvious that the clutch machine is like, Maxey's the guy. I believe, because John said a few minutes ago, Embiid was the best player. By the end of the year, it's going to be, okay, A1 is Tyrese Maxey. Now, how is Jalen Brown going to deal with that? He already had that issue in Boston. Now he comes to this situation, and he's already A-2. You know what I'm saying? That's problem number one that might strike down the road. But, Tim, didn't you say – go ahead, John. I know. Go ahead. But here's the problem. If they're going to allow Clutch to pretty much maneuver the minutes on this roster, you're going to have a mutiny between Jalen Brown and Joel Embiid. You're going to fracture this locker room. And I hope that's not the situation because that's the only thing that can take this team down injury and locker room drama. Because if you do that, you know, Jalen Brown's not going to hold his tongue about what's happening. And you know, Joel Embiid, once he's got somebody on his side, he will absolutely throw a wrench in the, in the plan. Well, Joel Embiid doesn't have the leg to stand on as we saw tonight. Like he's, he's standing on Brown at this point. Well, yeah, absolutely. Jalen Brown would be the key to this in terms of that team chemistry thing. Yeah. So, Tim, what else you got for us? You said you had a bunch of stuff. LeBron's debut. You had Jalen Brown. You had beating the Knicks at MSG. That was a big win for the Sixers. And it's a high-spirited win for Philadelphia. Because you don't want to start out with a thud. Even though it's one game, to win this game and to do it succinctly. The offense looks succinct. I thought that it looks like a LeBron team. He does what he does. But I think the big thing, going back to Embiid, the fact that he still had a decent stat line, despite him looking like a 70-year-old man, breeds great dividends for the Sixers moving forward. And I think they need to monitor his minutes this year. Sometimes, like I said, I personally think he should only play in home games and national TV games and you sit him for the rest, you don't need him out there every night and also you really don't need him for a regular season because the that inside game that you were talking about John throwing it inside, you don't need that to the postseason because the regular season is really run and gun, I completely disagree with you that he has that stat line, okay four for 15 and two from seven from three against an undersized Philly team, okay, you only have four free throws, so again this is that they have a hammer, only one other team in the league has the Nuggets have this hammer, the 76ers have this hammer, if you just let him shoot threes going two for seven, well, well he, he was, he looked lazy, he was jacking up stuff from 30, 33 feet for no reason because he's lazy, well he looked lazy, I should not call the man lazy but he looked bad, he looked Remember in the fourth quarter, he was bending down like this after a boxing class, bro. He looked terrible. He looked out of shape in this game one. That's a serious. And Tim, the stuff coming from the offseason at camp is like, oh, look at all this weight he shed. He's down his rookie weight. And it still looks like the same Joel Embiid.