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If it's management or as a teammate, the easy answer is LeBron. If you look at just basketball players, it's a close call. But I think you have to look at this debate from an organizational and social point of view. Those issues have to be included.

Kobe and LeBron are the two best players in the NBA and it's a huge gap between them and the rest of the league. They are that 'bad'. Both are match-up nightmares for anyone in the league. Two truly unique, talented, acrobatic and gifted showmen, but different types of basketball players.

Kobe is a special player with an extraordinary skill set. He just toys with other great players. In most circles he is considered the best and is at his peak as a basketball player. He is simply magnificent offensively, a show-stopper that can be a one-man-gang on any given night; he is unstoppable, especially when the game is on the line. Kobe is also a superior defender, one of the very best in the league. But, he does not elevate his team if they are ordinary in talent.

LeBron is also a special talent with an endless ceiling. He too has the 'wow factor' and is a handful offensively. He has an ever improving perimeter game which makes him almost as unstoppable as Kobe. He is also becoming a game closer in the Kobe mode. The way he's starting to finish off games looks pretty darn easy; he's right there...behind Kobe. LeBron is also a good defender, just not nearly as good as Kobe, he has improved, but has a lot of improving to do. No player has come directly from high school and made a bigger splash in the league than LeBron. Not Kobe. Not Kevin Garnet. Not Dwight Howard. These are not scrubs, these are three of the very best players in the league and are as good as any at their positions. LeBron James is that special. What he has done so soon after high school is the stuff that legends are made of. And he has a lot less talent players to play with. But he led one of the least talented teams in recent memory to the finals. And he makes those ordinary teammates weapons, because of great court vision and unselfishness. He makes basketball fun and easier for the 'little guys'.

In my opinion, if you switched Kobe from the Lakers to the Cavaliers the success would turn to failure. The Cavaliers would be a lottery team, Kobe wouldn't trust this group of Cavaliers to throw the ball inbounds. Kobe doesn't trust the 'little guys'. He doesn't trust Lamar Odoms all that much and he is a very talented player. If LeBron moved

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