It truly does not make sense that LeBron James is still doing this. In his age-41 campaign, he just averaged 20.9 points, 7.2 assists, 6.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals.
With every year that he adds to his ridiculously long resume, several of his NBA records become closer to legitimately untouchable.
LeBron is first all-time in career wins over replacement player (regular season and playoffs), third in BPM (behind Nikola Jokić and Michael Jordan), first in points, fourth in assists, sixth in steals, sixth in threes and fifth in defensive rebounds.
And everywhere he’s gone, he’s had a massive impact.
His net-rating swing has been over 10.0 in 10 of his 23 seasons. Over the course of his career, his teams are plus-6.2 points per 100 possessions with him on the floor and minus-3.7 with him off.
That impact has translated into plenty of accolades. On top of 22 All-Star appearances, 21 All-NBA selections, four MVPs and four Finals MVPs, LeBron is also first all-time in career MVP shares.
Breaking his production down to a game-by-game level offers perhaps the most striking example of LeBron’s dominance and longevity.
Over the course of his career, in both the regular season and playoffs, LeBron has 1,179 games with at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists. Oscar Robertson’s 650 such games rank second. The distance between those two is the same as the distance between Robertson and 86th-place John Wall.
Formula or not, LeBron was the obvious answer at the top of these rankings.