It's no secret that LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers is widely regarded as one of the best players to have ever played in the NBA, with many people picking between either him or Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan.

James has once again proved it this season as, despite everything which they have been through, whether it be the departure of Kyrie Irving last summer to the numerous trades made on trade deadline day, he's stepped up his game and has lead the team to another Eastern Conference Finals appearance.

The Cavaliers will be appearing in the Conference Finals for the fourth consecutive year on Sunday, but LeBron himself has been to the NBA Finals in each of the past six seasons. Speaking on the recent Bill Simmons podcast, ex-Cavs general manager David Griffin talked about how he has never seen any player with as much basketball intelligence that LeBron has.

He said, via The Ringer: "There’s literally nothing you can show him that he can’t do. There’s no play you’ll run against him he can’t name, and then go out there and teach your players how to do it better than anyone else."

Griffin told a story about when he was watching the Cavaliers play against the Toronto Raptors back in 2017 while he was working out in the gym, and how amazed he was by how easy James was able to read the Raptors formation and instruct them on where they should be despite them being his opponents.

"I was in the gym when I watched him on the floor against Toronto [in 2017] tell Patrick Paterson where he was supposed to go on the play they had called out of a timeout late in the fourth quarter. He was like ‘no Pat, you’re supposed to stand over there and set a pin down [pick] for Demar over here.’"

LeBron has now knocked the Raptors out of the postseason in each of the last three seasons, including this year when the Raptors were the number one seed. It's fair to say that Toronto will be hoping that if LeBron does become a free agent this summer, he moves to the Western Conference.

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