'LeBron makes his MVP case every time he steps on the floor' — Shannon Sharpe | NBA | UNDISPUTED

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on the court he gives you a virtuoso. You think Picasso, Rembrandt or Monet didn't churn out masterpieces

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that man is on the court? He is a virtuoso. It is a masterpiece. How many Mona? Lisa there are a few Sistine Chapels there is one, but every time this man enters the court he is painting a masterpiece, what did he think? He painted the walls in Memphis on Saturday night, he painted the walls, it was like whitewash and you know what he said. I heard him I don't know if it's true or not that when he calls me and at the end of the game he says like my uncle Shannon says it's not your turn yet I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know what the truth of that is, but anyway, Look at Bayliss, he's doing this on the road during the week.

I guess the Pelicans the Pelicans are a good team, they play off phonetic lines. I still don't know if they take I'll skip I almost lost my guys screaming a TV broke I may not have how much time I'll get the ball out and I'll be there on the court a couple of times yeah come on Lakers mmm but go with James. Everyone thinks we're going to be on national television and I'm going to let Skip Bayless be able to come here and gloat and tell someone to take the creak off his throne, not on my watch, because I know that's what you wanted.

I know that's what you wanted to happen, but you know what happens, I don't normally ask for things like this, but this is just a little snippet, a little snippet of what happened. Lambert disqualifies that and asks for something at every show, even though he doesn't. I don't know, but I want you to let us skip our DJ because he was out of town so I had to call him. You know, our brother blew it up. He vomits very badly. I said I need this package. Can you hurry up? for me and he did it, so let's take a look at some of what LeBron was doing.

Jump, this is amazing. I mean, he's 17 years old, 35 years old, he's not 19, no, oh, look at this skill here. Hey, all that. a of this house that foreshadows strange that it is before the destruction of something that will come skill leaders right here oh don't go my boy 40 feet you dive oh my God it's iron oh oh oh you want to be the key you want to be the King, but this Night you're going to be the gesture of everything I want you to see, look, it's here, do it, do it, what's up with hell? No, aah, look at this, look at this, now you know what it feels like, you saw it. last week I think you just said wait a second what you just said captain and Tennille yes you did it you just showed that he is disqualified captain and Tennille they have to be preaching here baby you told me last night to skip the line and He tells me all the time Oh, LeBron, you need to rest in the fourth quarter, this game was ahead, why are you playing now?

If I'm not mistaken LeBron James Flint finished +22 when he was on the court, he is plus 22 when he left the court. minus 14 that's neither here nor there in the fourth quarter they were down at the beginning LeBron James 13 points five rebounds three assists now he could have had 50 pieces but he says you know what he had 19 in the half Jenny had it going Well buddy , you know what I'm going to need my guys to come in, so I'm going to make a conscious effort in the third quarter. I won't worry about scoring because they didn't shoot until six.

Minutes left in the third he says, I'm looking at everyone else involved and done, but then in the fourth quarter he says saved, we should gasp, we ain't got none, bro, really bring us the home run, bring us home, bro . Ok, shot, hit by Kuzma, that's the most important shot in the game, how could the guy you wanted come out right? The better question is who passes away, Bran, but then he started dealing, you started dealing, jump, look every time the man is on the court, it's a performance worthy of MVP and to do this with our ad there are five on the same page with our ad skip they would be on a 59 winning pace without ad with a detail or 64 winning pace with skip bayless bet me five

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s or if you did that you wouldn't get 56 now that we have way home yeah you know what happens Baby, and it won't be long, but you know, jump, you know what you saw, I saw it.

LeBron had a very good game, nothing, they're great, not a very good game last night and LeBron, I said it on Friday. Now I'm going to cement it. LeBron got the MVP last night on national television without commercials. It's all about the narrative. He is doing it in year 17 at an amazing level. I leave it and give it to you because the media needs a textbook story. line and this is it, it is here on a silver platter at the expense of poor Yanis, injustice, poor Yanis again, he did himself no favors last Friday when he shot James Harden again or Viceroy James did it in a back and forth, but they come back, but this is the point I want everyone to understand that LeBron is going to win the MVP even though Jonas has an all-time record.

Never in the history of professional basketball has anyone had a PE of 32.4, LeBron is in 11th place. On that list he is not bad, but not that good. I'm going to point out that Yanis is number one in defensive efficiency, so he's the best offensive player and the best defensive player on by far the best team, because the group right now is five and a half. games better than your Lakers, yeah, so wouldn't that all add up to MVP? Okay, so they're in the East, so let's rule them out, yes, yesterday, by the way, before we completely rule out Yanis.

He had a game of forty, twenty-five assists, so that's 40, you were 40 120 and six assists, okay, and that's fine, but that was the fewest minutes those numbers were reached in just thirty, it was 35 minutes, I think so, 35 minutes, so that's the fewest people in the The history of this game has ever done that against Charlotte, okay, yeah, I'll give you that, but the point is it's only the third player in the last 30 seasons to do that, so he even did it yesterday with LeBron, just one up. on Sunday night and I said, look at this because I'm on national television and I'm going to do this.

Now let's put LeBron back into perspective. He's showing off all those three-point shots. He has now made 35% of his three-point shots. he's a high-volume shooter, so out of the 29 players, think about this, 29 players have made three hundred and fifty or more three-point shots this year out of those 29. LeBron is 23rd in percentage, okay, so it's 23rd of 29 high-volume shooters. he's not that good not exactly what you'd call an MVP number his free throw percentage is still stuck at 69% you bet me five

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s it would be 75 or better you already lost that game by playing no you'll never get there i'd have to go like 154 150 to win this, seventy-four point eight after winning, well, of the 23 players who have attempted 300 or more free throws, LeBron is ranked 19th and the percentage is 69%, so "we're going to be MVP MVP, yes, and Yanis is saying, huh, what?, and LeBron James leads this league in assists as we speak and that's really great in year 17, yes, but in assists and turnover rate he ranks the 34th place, so he's also fourth and in turnovers, so he's high turnovers and I'll give him that because, like you always say, you're going to try a lot of things well, a lot of things, he had six turnovers last night.

Unfortunately, Zion also had six because they weren't turnover passes for Zion, he was just trying to do too much with the basketball, what did we see last night from MVP LeBron? We saw him score 34 points, 21 shots in 36 minutes, while a 19-year-old on the same court scored 35 points, one more on 16 shots, five less in 33 minutes, three less, so which line was better? I don't know kid that's 35 on 16 shots but that's priestly here all he did was score who else to want to get involved okay that's the difference between LeBron and everyone else good boy if he said LeBron tonight for the next two weeks, all we want you to do is score, okay, don't worry about rebounding, don't worry about helping the basketball, what do you think LeBron could do?

Well, I'll leave you back to my man Alvin Gentry. I've known him forever and he really let me down in the last two games against LeBron James because I don't know what he's thinking. We've seen LeBron go into attack mode twice this year. I'm talking about the whole low post, give me the basketball. and clear attack mode, and I love LeBron in that mode because he wishes we could have seen more of that throughout his career. He is the best basketball driver of all time. How many times have I said that on this show, but it's not true?

He doesn't use it enough, especially in the fourth quarter, because he fears the free throw line at the end of the game, except against New Orleans, because now we've seen back-to-back games, we've actually seen all four, except back-to-backs. Back, he just came out good, big scoring games, boy, how did he do it? How did he do it? Give me the ball because what does Alvin want to do for a while? He had Brandon Ingram with him for almost two-thirds of the game. it's too light but at least it's long enough to keep

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from getting to the rim and i ended up off the glass so turn to josh hart listed at 65 doesn't look like six five to me but whatever is right and he doesn't had no chance, so LeBron, seriously, I'm going to turn around and I'm going to negotiate with you, just jump to the end, look, it seems to me that Alvin Gentry wanted to go because he remembers that the other night was a real party. -against one and then last night he finally went back to the break and wait three, I was expecting the kind of double team, but it jumps, you see someone probably said: "You know Zions, you're not completely silent, yeah, you need someone they have ". some because if LeBron can double dribble and the double team doesn't come, he'll take three four and get to the paint, he'll spend it, that's what's going to happen, turn and leave, Josh.

Hart is a tenacious defender, but he

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him small, his vacations are great, but he is too small. Ingram is long enough, but he didn't have enough bricks in his back pocket, yeah, and he finally went hard on him and got it. to the free throw line and they were high enough, he made both free throws well. I'll grant you that if I were Alvin, I'd say we're going to put his big you-know-what at the free throw line. every time now he could foul out in the half we do we probably fouled him enough because I mean think about it he jumps Zion made more free throws than we attempted mmm now we gotta go James we handled the ball because you saw LeBron fouled out acting last night chuckling crossed the ball without a limit that was a file you found it I saw it it was just a cheeky trick how they call you tied up mm-hmm look what you see what you're seeing jump I don't think people really at all because even when grace when they were doing what Koski was writing this new thing that can console with painting at the time they were doing it, no one thought they were cool, no one thought they were years and years and years, all of a sudden, works of art appearing. for four hundred million three hundred million two hundred and fifty million now wow in fifteen years you'll look back it's like I witnessed it first hand thanks for watching you can subscribe here to get the latest from the show and be sure to watch more of the best clips from

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