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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2685812, member: 488"] I don't think many people who closely follow the NBA think he's selfish. Perhaps they might use the word to mean something slightly different, but that's because the word is incorrectly used a lot. Chasing a couple rebounds during the slog of an 82 game season is a lot different than hunting your numbers at the expense of your team. You could make the argument that any player is selfish. You could argue that a player who is super efficient is hurting his team by not shooting enough. I used to, and sometimes still do, make that argument about LeBron all the time. It's actually really easy to become enamored by your efficiency in the analytics era and pass up shots to helpless players late in the shot clock. That's about as selfish as it gets - there are guys who do that and Russ is not one of them. One sneaky way to track that sort of thing is by how often he'll wait an extra second for the clock to expire before launching a 50 foot heave. Kemba has taken 38 heaves in his career. That's not good for the field goal percentage or the three point percentage. LeBron has played twice as many games and only attempted 33. Does that mean LeBron is selfish? No. But you know there are people who will call Kemba selfish because he's a scoring point guard, and those people are dumb. [/QUOTE]