u/InexorableWaffle did this post a year ago. So I figured I'd update it.

The methodology is simple: to make the club, you need at least half of LeBron’s current career totals in all five categories.

LeBron finished 2025-26 with 43,440 points, 12,016 assists, 12,095 rebounds, 2,417 steals, and 1,185 blocks, making the new Half-LeBron thresholds 21,720 points, 6,008 assists, 6,048 rebounds, 1,209 steals, and 593 blocks.

With that said, here’s the club:

Drexler is barely hanging on. His 22,195 career points are only 475 above the current threshold. Another 951 LeBron points would raise Half-LeBron above Drexler’s career total and kick him out of the club.

Kobe’s weak point is assists. He finished with 6,306, compared with the current Half-LeBron line of 6,008. LeBron would need another 597 assists to push the threshold past him.

Active players who could join

Jokić

He’s at 18,009 points, 8,977 rebounds, 6,080 assists, 1,041 steals, and 589 blocks.

That means he already clears the rebound and assist thresholds and is really close in blocks, four blocks short of Half-LeBron.

He needs another 3,711 points and 168 steals at the current thresholds, though obviously LeBron will continue raising both numbers this season.

Still, Jokić is only 31 and just averaged 28/13/11 assists last season. Of everyone outside the club, he looks by far the most likely to eventually get there.

Giannis

Giannis is closer in some categories than Jokić and much farther away in another.

He has 21,531 points, 8,882 rebounds, 4,484 assists, 995 steals, and 1,088 blocks.

He’s only 189 points short of the current scoring threshold and already annihilates the rebound and block requirements. But assists are a huge problem: he still needs 1,524 just to reach today’s Half-LeBron mark, plus another 214 steals.

So Giannis should clear four of the five eventually, but whether he can ever catch the assist line, especially while LeBron keeps raising it, is the real question.

KD

He has 32,597 points, 8,254 rebounds, 5,280 assists, 1,235 steals, and 1,344 blocks.

He clears literally everything except assists.

Unfortunately, he’s still 728 assists short of the current cutoff, and he’s 37. I don't see it happening tbh.

The “one stat away” club

There’s also a second group I find interesting: players who clear four of the five Half-LeBron thresholds and are excluded by exactly one category.

Missing points:
Scottie Pippen

Missing assists:
Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dominique Wilkins, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter, Charles Barkley, Robert Parish, Larry Bird

Missing rebounds:
None

Missing blocks:
Russell Westbrook

Missing steals:
Nobody

East

• Pistons: 50 - 66
• Celtics: 51 - 63
• Cavaliers: 50 - 57
• Knicks: 44 - 57
• Hawks: 39 - 54
• 76ers: 39 - 53
• Hornets: 41 - 50
• Raptors: 39 - 50
• Magic: 34 - 50
• Heat: 37 - 47
• Bucks: 26 - 38
• Bulls: 21 - 37
• Pacers: 12 - 25
• Nets: 18 - 24
• Wizards: 15 - 19

West

• Thunder: 59 - 70
• Spurs: 54 - 67
• Nuggets: 45 - 65
• Rockets: 47 - 61
• Lakers: 45 - 56
• Suns: 38 - 55
• Timberwolves: 43 - 53
• Clippers: 35 - 50
• Trail Blazers: 36 - 47
• Warriors: 32 - 43
• Mavericks: 21 - 33
• Pelicans: 24 - 31
• Grizzlies: 22 - 30
• Jazz: 17 - 30
• Kings: 19 - 26

The nuggets played a whopping 20 1-possession games, going 9-11. Cleveland played the least out of good teams, just 7 1-possession games.

LeBron took Cleveland to the NBA Finals in 2007.

Russell Westbrook wasn’t drafted until 2008.

Westbrook then had enough time to play 18 seasons, win MVP, become a 9x All-Star, break the career triple-double record, play for multiple generations of NBA teams, and retire.

And LeBron is still an active NBA player heading into 2026-27.

It’s one thing to say LeBron has played forever. It’s another to realize that players drafted after he had already made a Finals run have now completed full Hall of Fame careers and retired before him.

Furthermore, Dwight Howard is already actually in the Hall of Fame, and LeBron is still playing.

In this post earlier, u/z4guy made All-time starting 5s by Last Name Initial: https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1vlz3cm/best_alltime_starting_5_by_last_name_initial/

So, I decided to put the rosters together(10 players max), and ran a simulation in BBGM, 50 games, 1 home, 1 away against each since X can't field a team with everyone at the prime.

Standings

MVP + DPOY: Wilt Chamberlain: 25.3/11.6/3.4 BLK
Scoring leader: James Harden: 28.4 PPG
Assist leader: John Stockton: 12.7 APG
Blocks: Wemby: 4.1 BPG

W somehow had the best record, while a team with Kareem + Giannis went 28-22 and Shaq/Hakeem's O team went 23-27.

Then the playoffs restored order:

Semis: D 4-1 P, J 4-1 B
Finals: J 4-2 D

LeBron won Finals MVP.

23.0 PPG
5.7 RPG
5.8 APG

Yes team Z really went 0-50, poor Zubac.

Sim was ran on Basketball GM: https://play.basketball-gm.com/ by the GOAT u/dumbmatter

For me, Chris Paul never has the hamstring injury in 2018, Rockets beat Golden State then the Cavs in the Finals, world peace is achieved. Harden and CP3‘s legacy skyrockets

Some of my favorites:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1u6lulk/lebron_should_get_an_assist_for_every_shot_bronny/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1v4mb6z/lebron_james_should_brand_his_free_agency/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1vk6h2m/the_authoritative_ring_count/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1vintbb/i_reorganized_the_nba_into_25_teams_based_on_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1v63dn8/lebron_james_is_the_first_human_in_modern_history/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1uurhyt/can_owners_marry_the_players_to_circumvent_the/

they went 73-9 in the regular season and 15-9 in the playoffs.

R1 - Beat Harden Rockets 4-1

WCSF- Beat Portland 4-1

WCF - Beat OKC 4-3(coming back from down 3-1)

Finals - Lost to Cleveland 4-3

I looked at Kyrie's entire NBA career and compared his 67 road games in five of the NBA's northernmost cities, Portland, Minneapolis, Toronto, Milwaukee and Boston, with his other 326 road games.

Credit for the idea: https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6q5fgb/oc_does_kyrie_irving_play_worse_closer_to_the/

Northern Kyrie averages:

22.6 PTS / 3.6 REB / 4.85 AST

Everywhere else on the road:

24.1 PTS / 3.9 REB / 5.55 AST

The difference in assists is statistically significant (p = .018). Even after controlling for season and minutes played, playing in the northern group is associated with about 0.67 fewer assists per game (p = .017).

Kyrie’s career stats in northern NBA cities:
at POR: 22.6/3.0/3.9, 30.0% win rate
at MIN: 21.4/3.7/5.2, 77.8%
at TOR: 20.8/3.6/5.1, 50.0%
at MIL: 25.2/4.0/5.4, 52.9%
at BOS: 22.5/3.5/4.4, 46.2%

Total: 22.6/3.6/4.85 with a 50.7% win rate.

Most importantly, his turnovers are almost literally identical: 2.57 per game in both groups.

So Kyrie isn't losing control of the basketball as he approaches the North Pole.

He's just significantly less willing to give it to somebody else, perhaps to appease the gods.

tl;dr: The closer Kyrie gets to the North Pole, the less he passes.

In October 2018, the Rockets offered Marquese Chriss and Brandon Knight and 4 first round picks. The wolves accepted Covington, Saric, and Bayless, and a 2nd instead.

The wolves then traded away Covington, Jordan Bell, Keita-Bates Diop, and Noah Vonleah in a 4 team trade that netted them the Hawks 2020 1st, (Aleksej Pokusevski) Malik Beasley, Jarred Vanderbilt, Juan Hernangomez, and Evan Turner's terrible contract.

The Wolves then turned the Hawks pick into the Knicks 1st, (Leandro Bolmaro) Jaden McDaniels, and Ricky Rubio. (They also traded away old as dirt James Johnson and a 2023 2nd, James Nnaji.

Hernangomez was traded with Jarret Culver for Patrick Beverley one year later.

Beasley, Beverley, Bolmaro and Vanderbilt were pieces in the Rudy Gobert trade 2 years later.

So basically long term, Covington netted Rubio, McDaniels, and like, 1/3rd of Gobert.

Steph Curry and James Harden were rookies

Karl-Anthony Towns was two years away from being able to legally drive a car

r/NBA had fewer than 800 subscribers at the time

Devin Booker was still in eighth grade

Reddit's most hated movie Avatar was still in theaters

Are you reading this on an iPhone? If you were reading it when this series happened, it would have been the iPhone 3GS, and you'd be operating on iOS 3.0

The US was still looking for Osama Bin Laden

2x Reigning MVP SGA was 11 years old

Elon Musk was broke and couch surfing

Drake hadn't released an album

It's been since May 13, 2010 that any Eastern Conference Team has dethroned LeBron James. 25 series win streak.

Eastern Conference Atlantic

Eastern Conference Central

Eastern Conference Southeast

Western Conference Northwest

Western Conference Pacific

Western Conference Southwest

The game was 109-102 with 1.7 seconds left. Of course LeBron had to ruin it, with help from Antonio Daniels. For this reason Lebron still hasn't had a 27/7/7 game.

Source: https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/200704250CLE.html