LeBron James’ Favourite (And Least Favourite) Players To Pass To

Posted on by Basketball Forever Staff

Earlier in the season, an interesting list emerged of the players LeBron James had assisted the most during his career. Here’s the full list, courtesy of Redditor u/beepbop24, and here’s a quick look at the top 10 players on it:

  1. Zydrunas Ilgauskas – 785
  2. Kevin Love – 502
  3. Chris Bosh – 481
  4. Dwyane Wade – 428
  5. Drew Gooden – 356
  6. Anderson Varejao – 354
  7. J.R. Smith – 288
  8. Kyle Kuzma – 248
  9. Anthony Davis – 246
  10. Mo Williams – 231

Now we have gone one step further and factored in how many possessions James played with each teammate, in order to work out which players he was setting up the most, relative to how much he played with them. And considering LeBron has played with more than 150 teammates over his career, we decided to limit the list to those who had received at least 50 assists from him.

Here are the results:

  1. Anthony Davis (11.33%)
  2. Kevin Love (8.57%)
  3. Carlos Boozer (8.15%)
  4. Chris Bosh (7.67%)
  5. Kyle Kuzma (6.77%)
  6. Dwyane Wade (6.66%)
  7. Zydrunas Ilgauskas (5.80%)
  8. Jeff McInnis (5.79%)
  9. Avery Bradley (5.71%)
  10. JaVale McGee (5.70%)
  11. Kyle Korver (5.61%)
  12. J.R. Smith (5.25%)
  13. Brandon Ingram (5.25%)
  14. Mo Williams (5.21%)
  15. Drew Gooden (5.18%)
  16. Anthony Parker (4.88%)
  17. Jae Crowder (4.81%)
  18. Kyrie Irving (4.78%)
  19. Montrezl Harrell (4.77%)
  20. Channing Frye (4.64%)
  21. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (4.44%)
  22. Ray Allen (4.43%)
  23. Shaquille O’Neal (4.38%)
  24. Timofey Mozgov (4.37%)
  25. Danny Green (4.08%)
  26. Donyell Marshall (4.08%)
  27. Jeff Green (4.03%)
  28. Mario Chalmers (3.74%)
  29. Larry Hughes (3.66%)
  30. Delonte West (3.40%)
  31. Anderson Varejao (3.39%)
  32. J.J. Hickson (3.30%)
  33. Damon Jones (3.17%)
  34. Daniel Gibson (3.08%)
  35. Tristan Thompson (3.06%)
  36. Dwight Howard (2.81%)
  37. Iman Shumpert (2.63%)
  38. Richard Jefferson (2.49%)
  39. Matthew Dellavedova (2.42%)
  40. Wally Szczerbiak (2.23%)
  41. Udonis Haslem (2.18%)
  42. Alex Caruso (2.18%)
  43. Shane Battier (2.16%)
  44. Ira Newble (2.12%)
  45. Eric Snow (2.07%)
  46. Mike Miller (1.86%)
  47. Sasha Pavlovic (1.81%)
  48. Norris Cole (1.59%)
  49. James Jones (1.27%)

Who knew Carlos Boozer received quite so many looks from LeBron? Or that Anthony Parker and Drew Gooden topped Kyrie Irving? And spare a thought for James Jones, a career 40 percent three-point shooter who very rarely saw scoring opportunities from LeBron…

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