LeBron chose by far, the better team. Not close in my opinion.
LeBron
Durant
Davis
Leonard
Kyrie
Harden
Thompson
Lillard
Westbrook
Aldridge
Towns
Beal
Wade
Versus
Giannis
Embiid
George
Walker
Curry
Middleton
Jokic
Simmons
Griffin
Russell
Vucevic
Lowry
Nowitzki
LeBron chose first from the starters which is a big advantage and then Giannis gave up his advantage of picking first from the reserves by choosing his teammate Middleton first.
Also, Simmons was apparently traded for Westbrook after the draft. Simmons tweeted "where was Woj on that one?"
Giannis just made some bad choices. LeBron's 2nd 5 might be better than Giannis' starting 5.
Are we looking at the same teams here? That's Steph and Giannis, not Seth and Kostas.
G - Walker
G - Curry
F - Giannis
F - George
C - Embiid
vs
G - Lillard
G - Klay
F - Simmons
F - Davis
C - Towns
You think that's close, but the starting lineup is not?
Outside of Walker, every Giannis starter can hold their own against team LeBron, while Team LeBron has no answer for Embiid (as a starter), though of course the counter to that is who does Embiid guard on the other end?
I like the makeup of Team Giannis. Now I'm not saying they're better, but I think it's a good match up.