[zaga_fan]

Kobe has never been as good as Lebron is right now. Not even close.

Here is a pretty good synopsis of the two players' careers, although the gap has widened even more over the past two seasons.

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I predict that despite self-diagnosing his ankle sprain as the worst he has suffered in his career, Kobe has a scoring title to win and will manage to drag himself back onto the court very soon.

It's a pretty good synopsis of one facet of their game over their careers...
but YES - Lebron shoots a better percentage than Kobe does.

Kobe is the ONLY one of his contemporaries that is still playing at an elite level.

Lebron hasn't been at it as long as Kobe has, he hasn't scored as many points, won as many games or won as many rings. Lebron hasn't lived up to the nickname of "King" just yet. No matter how much you want to disrespect Kobe - it's hard to justify that Lebron has accomplished more. No matter how good Lebron is playing right now with a super-team, I won't judge him at the end of his career by how good he is right now. I'll put everything he's done up to what Kobe and Michael did. Not saying that he won't get there eventually, but let's look back on their careers in a few years and see what we think.