finishes close to the bottom of the East. This Atlanta team was a good team and to close them out in four games without Kevin Love and without Irving, for the most part, was impressive. You have a sense they could surround Lebron with a bunch of JC players and he'd turn it into a competitive NBA squad. He used to get compared a lot to Carmelo Anthony early in their careers, but Carmelo for all his supposed talents has never elevated his own team. I don't think Lebron has the killer competitive instincts of Jordan or Kobe, but I'm not sure anyone has ever been better at making his teammates better.