LeBron’s had an amazing postseason, reaching his 8th straight NBA Finals. Check this out:
He leads all players in the postseason with 8.4 Estimaged Wins Added (EWA). EWA gives “the estimated number of wins a player adds to a team’s season total above what a ‘replacement player’ would produce.” In other words, while the Cavs are 12-6 so far in the postseason, without Lebron, they’d win just (checks numbers) 3.6 of those 18 games. He has more than double the EWA of the next player on the list, James Harden.
LeBron is the only Cavalier in the top 20. A reserve – Larry Nance Jr – is the next Cavalier at 1.0 EWA (29th place). Houston and Golden State both have three players in the top 20 (Houston has three of the top 5).