Kobe v. LeBron: PER Doesn’t Tell the Entire Story

On Friday, our own Tom Ziller used statistical analysis to declare that LeBron James is a better player than Kobe Bryant. Although I loved the read and the analysis, I must disagree with Ziller’s final conclusion. The metric for Ziller’s well-written stat-based conclusion was a comparison of Kobe and LeBron’s PER throughout their careers. John Hollinger’s PER (Player Efficiency Rating) tries to statistically rank the best players in the NBA. I have to say it probably does a better job of it than any other statistical measure out there…

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