Lakers Coach Reveals Surprising Similarity Between LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal

A Lakers coach has shared some surprising similarities between LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal. The Los Angeles Lakers are officially NBA champions in 2020. It was awesome to watch LeBron James and Anthony Davis grow their relationship enough to win the title. But LeBron and Davis are not usually compared to one another as being similar.

But Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are. Take a look at what Phil Handy said about this recently.

“Everybody knows Kob and ‘Bron are different guys, personality-wise,” Handy said. “But their work ethic, and their approach to the game, is identical. The way they study their opponents. Their way that they break down their own games. The way that they take care of their bodies off the floor. Just the time spent in terms of wanting to be at the top and wanting to compete, they’re exactly the same in that regard. There are so many similarities in just their Alpha mentality, their competitive spirit, and then their confidence.”

“Like, people always question ‘Bron sometimes for whatever decisions he makes, but he’s always been a guy that’s tried to make the right basketball play. (But) being confident? His confidence? His, being around him and Kob, there’s no lack of confidence from either one of those dudes, on anything they can’t do on the floor.”

Lakers Coach Reveals Surprising Similarity Between LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal

But Lakers assistant coach Mike Penberthy has also seen the similarities and talked about it. Take a look at what he had to say about it recently.

“Shaq had the ability to make other people better,” Penberthy said. “LeBron made other people better. A.D. and Kobe were more of the assassins of the group. They’re looking to score and looking to get the ball. Not that they couldn’t make other people better, but they were more valuable to the team scoring.”

It is easy to see how LeBron and Kobe are similar. It was interesting to see the assassin mentality come out even more since he joined the Lakers. And that is exactly what Kobe had that most players don’t

Do you agree with what he had to say?