勒布朗表示，自己當時願意改變外界對球星必須獨自帶領母隊奪冠的敘事。
勒布朗說：「我接受改變那種敘事，因為我的旅程和那些人的旅程不同。」
How LeBron James Redefined the Modern Athletehttps://time.com/collection/time100-sports/2026/lebron-james/“I was comfortable with changing that narrative because my journey is different from those guys’ journey,” says James. He points out that Johnson, for example, in his rookie season joined with Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the first of the five titles they would win together. “I wasn’t privy to that,” he says. “M.J. spent his first couple years without a Hall of Fame teammate. But then, boom, they drafted Scottie Pippen, and boom, here comes Phil Jackson.” Bird, meanwhile, teamed up with Robert Parish and Kevin McHale in year two. “I didn’t see that the franchise was going on the trajectory that I was going on in my career,” says James. “I wanted more. I wanted to win at the highest level.” He rejects the notion that chasing titles with fellow stars counts as some kind of cheat code. “It’s no different from someone in business going from one place to the next place, because they get a better opportunity to be around better people,” he says. “In sports, sometimes people get so caught up in ‘He should do this on his own.’ I don’t play tennis and I don’t play golf. The way I grew up is, we’ve got to do this together as a team.”
Superteams soon became the norm. “It was a turning point for the league,” says five-time All-Star Kevin Love, who played with James and Kyrie Irving during James’ second tour with the Cavs. “You know who has the power here. In the past, it was always ownership and the front office. LeBron completely flipped that on its axis.”
