USA Teammates Vote LeBron James As Best Player On Team At 40 Years Old

On a roster filled with NBA MVPs and superstars in their prime, it’s 40-year-old LeBron James who is the best player on Team USA.

Don’t believe well?

Well, you can take the word of James’ teammates, who voted the Los Angeles Lakers star as such over the weekend.

James was voted the top national team player in camp in a straw poll of Team USA players conducted by The Athletic.

James won the poll with five votes, while Stephen Curry, Anthony Edwards and Jrue Holiday each received two votes. Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard and Bam Adebayo all received one vote.

Team USA Select Team Coaches And Players Were In Awe Of LeBron James

Houston Rockets rookie Amen Thompson was in camp as part of the Team USA selected team and participated in the poll. Here’s what he had to say about James:

“That’s what I told my brother after the first day, I was like dude’s 40 and he’s the best player on the court.”

What exactly stood out about James?

Orland Magic and select team head coach Jamahl Mosley said James showed leadership and poise throughout the camp.

“You feel and see his presence on the court,” he said. “You see exactly what he’s doing, the way he’s communicating, the way he’s talking, getting guys in position. There’s a level of focus on the seriousness of understanding the moment that he just continues to show.”

While James, who will start his 22nd season in the NBA later this year, stole the show for Team USA, it was 17-year-old Duke freshman Cooper Flagg who turned heads for the select team.

“If I had to choose one person (on the select team), it was definitely Cooper,” Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr. said of the most-impressive player on his select team.

Flagg received a whopping nine votes and was easily the top vote-getter in another question for the same poll.