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You’ve been fooled by one of his chase down blocks that’s shown repeatedly on ESPN and twitter, making it look he’s doing that every game, when really most of the game he’s hiding, getting easily beat off the dribble, and often times not even contesting, then getting mad at Green, Kuzma, or KCP for not being on a guy that he was supposed to be on. Hope that was enough for you.
As usual, LeBron haters have conjecture and hearsay as their form of "evidence", whereas I have the data:
LeBron has the best defensive rating of all Lakers perimeter players.
LeBron has the second best defensive box +/- of Lakers perimeter players after Alex Caruso, who plays 17.8 minutes per game.
LeBron has the second highest defensive win shares on the Lakers after AD.
LeBron is #4 in the league on ESPN's defensive real plus-minus ranking, after Gobert, Beverley and Giannis.
All this on what is considered to be one of the best, if not the best defensive team in the league this season.