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I agree lebron is a better leader. He gets his teammates Involved. But kobe has carried his team a few times though. Maybe not this year but he has.
I love lebron's Unselfishness and how he plays. Kobe is just a attack first pass maybe kind of player. But I respect both styles of play.
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Kobe has performed well under pressure many times, but carrying a team requires you to boost the other players and bring them with you both performance wise and morale wise...he's quick to start dogging on his team mates when things arn't going quite so good, and he's quick to take responsibility when his team is firing on all cylinders. Kobe is an amazing basketball player, there's no argument from me there, he has shown this and certainly will be a hall of fame player in the future...but he lacks a leader's quality, he's too selfish (for lack of better term).
An example of the kind of leadership I'm talking about uses Lebron as a good example, last year when Wade was struggling, Lebron was sacrificing his own scoring numbers (AND the teams success) to try and get him back into the swing of things, passing him the ball when Lebron had a good look, giving up the unmanned fast break to give Wade some time to get points up. People were actually criticizing Lebron for doing this, but he was trying to get his team back in order, and Wade was the key to that.
And when they finally figured out how to mesh again, they went to the championship.