And look, he's made three title defenses as best player in the world, and I talk about it.

K d won the M v P right in LeBron's prime.

I thought, Oh, no.

One and he deserved it.

That was the difference.

There were dudes who won the M V P in Jordan's prime because people were just tired of giving Jordan the award, but they were never better than Jordan.

But I watched.

Katie was like, You know what?

He had a better year than LeBron.

Maybe he's better than LeBron.

Nope, playoffs came around.

Nope, he's not.

Same thing happened with Steph.

Same thing happened with cool because LeBron was hurt.

I got fooled at least a couple of those times.

And then by the end, when all when the dust settled, LeBron was left standing and he's done it by changing his game as he's gotten older.

Miami.

He was at his physical best, right?

Ah, brilliant offensive players shooting the three, the whole thing, complete player and a great intense defensive player all year.

And as he got older in Cleveland, he realized I can't play that level defense all the time and do what I do on the.

He took his foot off the gas so he could win championships and compete in the playoffs.

And now what I saw last couple of years, Stephen A is a D, challenging him to play defense.

And he has.

The Lakers are a top five efficiency defensive and offensive team.

LeBron plays defense again, even in the regular season.

And offensively, in order to do all that, he's shooting the Three Mawr often and better than ever before.

He's shooting 67 threes a game, and he's hitting him 37 38 maybe 40% of the time.

After last night, 39 when he granted up to 40.

It's 40 40% of time shooting 67 threes a game.

I mean, he's doing the thing Yanis hasn't been able to do yet.

Yanis needs to shoot the three better and he's incrementally getting better to his credit, but not good enough.

LeBron is making the very adjustment that Yannis has to do and he's doing it in order to be the best player in the world.

Still, he sent that message again last night, but I tried to educate you about Max Kellerman is that Yannis is never going to be able to make that adjustment.

If you look at how he plays, he LeBron has.

Even though LeBron is incredibly powerful.

He's always had a finesse game because he's always been pretty much a perimeter player who is capable of using his physique, his muscular, his muscles, etcetera and really making things happen.

But that's not his game.

Yannis is entirely the opposite.

Yannis is a dude, even though he was really thin and he's put on £57 of muscle at least as of last year from the time he came into the league.

The bottom line is he plays a power game.

That's who he is.

So him stepping out on the perimeter and making that adjustment is not as natural of a transition for him as it was, as it is for LeBron.

LeBron is not a transition for LeBron.

This is just a one thing I had to shoot.

Honestly, he's been on the wing.

That's not who Yannis is, John.

This is a big and my point and what and he really is a big he needs another guy as good as him, who is not a big to succeed as almost every big ever needed.

That's not LeBron, but Yannis is now shooting five threes a game, hitting 31% of the time, which is the most he's ever shot it.

And at the best clip, he's making the improvement incrementally that LeBron has already made.

And the fact that you, the fact, is the MBA needs an M V P Award for the entire season.

It's ridiculous that have regular season finals and nothing in between.

You know that you need an MPP for everything.

No, no, no.

The regular season needs to be separate from the postseason because the regular season needs to matter to some degree.

When you're charging the paying customer the watch 82 games a year in this case, 72 for this doesn't matter.

You're seated in the playoffs.

I'm just saying that's number one number two, And more importantly, just remember something.

When you talk about Yanis, don't just look at the numbers that's analytically speaking.

You're looking at the number.

Look at the actual game, Yonas in the flow of the game.

Those shots don't come naturally to him.

They come next.

He has to be more wide open than LeBron.

He's not going to get it himself the same way, but because he's a big, he's not a perimeter player.

That's why I said he's a very versatile big.

He's not a wing.

LeBron is now glad you finally learned his 16 and five LeBron career against Yana.

So not close.

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