5 players NBA fans would have loved to see pair up with LeBron James

LeBron James has always been one of the best players in the NBA, if not the best. The player nicknamed 'the King' has been challenged by many players, but in the end has seldom failed to come out on top.

Even now, in his 16th year in the league, LeBron James is competing for an NBA Championship with the LA Lakers along with 27-year-old Anthony Davis.

This was a pairing NBA fans were ecstatic to get a chance to watch. But what about the countless other team-ups fans were deprived of over the course of LeBron James' illustrious career?

Here are five NBA players that fans would have loved to see in a team with LeBron James.

Kevin Durant and LeBron James would have wreaked havoc on the NBA if they were paired together

NBA fans would have loved to see Kevin Durant teaming up with LeBron James.

Even thinking about a team-up between Kevin Durant and LeBron James has the potential to make any NBA fan's mouth water.

If the King and the Slim Reaper were ever paired together, we can only imagine the number of highlights, posters and even NBA championships this duo could have garnered.

While fans did get a small taste of this in the 2018 All-star game when Durant was chosen to be in James' team, we suspect the performance there wouldn't even have held a candle to their performances we could have seen in the regular season and the NBA Playoffs if the pair played together.

A prime Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James teaming up would have been a force to be reckoned with

In his prime, Carmelo Anthony could have done some serious damage in a pairing with LeBron James.

While Carmelo Anthony is a good role player for the Portland Trail Blazers now, many have forgotten how great he really was in his prime. A lethal scorer, Carmelo Anthony, was an absolute terror on the basketball court, shattering scoring records like he was born to do it.

If LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony were on the same team during the prime of their careers, the offensive explosions would have been unimaginable. Given the firepower this NBA duo would have had, fans may well have considered it to be a sin to miss a game with the two players in it.

A Chris Paul - LeBron James team-up would have been an exquisite one for fans to watch

The duo of LeBron James and Chris Paul would have been a mouth-watering one for NBA fans.

LeBron James and Chris Paul have been close friends for a very long time, even before the start of their professional careers. And while we have seen how funny their jokes and roasts of each other are, we can only imagine how amazing the two could have been on the court together, if only they played for the same team.

The number of highlight dunks LeBron James would have had from Chris Paul's lobs is just one of the many reasons fans would have absolutely loved to see this team-up.

Apart from that, given the abilities of LeBron James and Paul, if they had been in an NBA team together, perhaps the NBA championship that has eluded the latter for his entire career would have been one he could have won with arguably the greatest player of all time over and over again.

A pairing of Stephen Curry and LeBron James could well have been invincible

Stephen Curry and LeBron James could well have been unbeatable together.

When you put the greatest shooter of all time alongside arguably the greatest player of all time, the only thing you could have got was a potentially invincible team.

Just thinking about an NBA team where Stephen Curry kills the opposition from the outside while LeBron James only makes it worse from the inside is incredibly scary.

NBA fans would have killed to watch the games this team would have played. No matter how good any other team in the NBA could be, we can't see any team beating a pairing of Stephen Curry and LeBron James.

If Kobe Bryant and LeBron James teamed up, they could have been the greatest duo of all time

This team-up could have resulted in countless NBA championships.

A team with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James in it would have had the potential to go down as the greatest team of all time.

Just imagine it: this team would have been favorites to win the NBA Championships for the foreseeable future as soon as these two players would have been put together in it.

Who knows, perhaps this team could have even been the first one ever to win four championships in a row. Alas, we will never know or ever see the damage this team-up could have done in the NBA.

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