Jerry West Lebron James has surpassed Kobe Bryant and has a chance to go down as the greatest player to ever play the game.

Russell Westbrook and one vs LeBron James in game 2 of the 2012 NBA finals

37-year-old Kobe Bryant scores 6 times on LeBron James in their final duel with replays 3102016

Gordon Hayward reminisces about the night he outplayed LeBron James the media drama that pissed LeBron off and credits Kobe Bryant for helping take his game to another level

Tracy McGrady says Russell Westbrook's 20 20 20 game is the greatest individual performance hes ever seen I know Kobe had 81 Bam had 83 I seen Luka hit 70 I seen Donovan Mitchell hit 70 I seen Book hit 70 20 20 20 to me probably the greatest individual performance Ive seen

graphsketball LeBron is at most 8 degrees away from every player in history there are only 8 players who are a maximum of 8 degrees away from LeBron all of them played in the League's first season 1946-1947 and then never again

Laker Legend Byron Scott Kobe Bean Bryant said a long time ago and he said this about James Harden at the time and I think its almost fitting that it fits Luka as well He said you cannot win a championship playing that style of basketball Luka is the same player