Draft hypothetical

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Shaq and LeBron are both in their prime in the same draft. Knowing what you know about their careers now, which would you take to start your team?
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Starting my team for one season? Shaq. Shaq in his prime was more unstoppable than anyone else in their prime, Michael Jordan included.

In their primes, but rostered for multiple years, LeBron.
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James for sure.
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I tend to agree with the Shaq for one season, LeBron for longer answer.
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Head Ninja In Charge said:

Starting my team for one season? Shaq. Shaq in his prime was more unstoppable than anyone else in their prime, Michael Jordan included.

In their primes, but rostered for multiple years, LeBron.
Agree with that. Also, Bron was a better teammate and could help elevate the games of other people.


I think also might depend on the time period of your game. 80s or 90s might be Shaq, but 00s or 10s would be Bron.
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With today's rules I'd take LeBron pretty easily.
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Forum Troll said:

With today's rules I'd take LeBron pretty easily.
Agree, but the fact that no teams really have centers that could guard Shaq would give me pause. DJ and who else? Everyone is getting smaller/faster, so maybe the alternate is to get bigger and stronger because smaller and faster players today could not touch 2000 Shaq.
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To win in the playoffs you have to be able to make free throws and shaq is a complete liability in that area. Without kobe or wade to draw fouls and make free throws late in games shaq might be titleless. Lebron clearly needs help as well, but you can confidently give him the ball down by 2 with less than a minute to go.

I'd hack the crap out of shaq the minute he caught it.
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Shaq won four titles in spite of his FT shooting. You can only hack him so many times.
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They are both great players. FT shooting is really important so in my opinion lebron gets the nod based on that discrepancy. If shaq could just consistently average 60% from the ft line I'd pick him by a mile.




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