Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
+ 5 more career boards inside the all-time top 100.
On the NBA Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 100.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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Career DominanceCareer ShapesClutchEra Adjusted SeasonsMt RushmoreOnly ClubRarest SeasonsVALCareer TwinsEra AdjustedEra Adjusted Careers
Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.
Career milestones LeBron James reached that no other NBA player has — each claim is literally true and checkable.
How often LeBron James led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 34 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 2018, 23 rated seasons.
Season boards
34
top-ten finishes across the NBA season boards
LeBron James's 2018 season ranks among the most statistically extreme in NBA history — measured only against its own season and position-group peers (robust z, never blended across eras).
LeBron James's 2018 season, re-projected onto the 2026 league — its within-era standing expressed in one modern currency (VAL), so it ranks beside today's best in NBA history.
Ranked against the single greatest era-translated seasons in every sport by z — robust standard deviations above LeBron James's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
The season chip above measures LeBron James's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 23 seasons (2004–2026) — a true nomad. The crest trail: