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rank the best players he played against in the ECF from 2012-2018
I think a part of the reason that the West had so much more star talent at this time was because players did not want to go to the East to try to build a team that could compete with Lebron's; they'd rather take their chances in the wild west. So while there are other factors, you could argue that Lebron's competition in the East was weak BECAUSE of how good he was.
It really felt like as soon as lebron went to the west , all of a sudden there was an influx of star talent to the east. Lebron had the east Gm’s thinking it was pointless to take big risks because he was gonna smoke them anyways so they waited him out .
The GMs in the East were probably hesitant to make risky win-now moves. I’m not convinced that the players themselves were especially concerned.
which players do you honestly think thought about going to the East, but then stopped because of Bron?
To be fair the East went almost 10 years without a true superstar being drafted after the 03 draft class. After wade and Lebron it wasn’t until Embid or Giannis that a true superstar developed in the East. If Rose had lasted longer I think Lebron would not have had such an easy time getting to the finals every year.
Dwight was drafted in '04
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