Shohei Ohtani won his third consecutive MLB MVP award last week. It was also his second straight NL MVP and his fourth in the last five years—all unanimous. Coming on the heels of another stellar postseason run for the Dodgers that ended in another World Series win and Ohtani’s greatness is impossible to ignore even if the baseball season is over. It’s an overwhelming level of excellence that left even LeBron James in awe—and reminds him of a longtime NBA rival on the court.
On Tuesday James released another episode of his Mind The Game podcast with Steve Nash. It was the second half of a lengthy interview the two conducted with the one and only Steph Curry. At one point James brought up the absurd versatility of Ohtani and how ridiculous it is that one player can strike out numerous batters in a championship series game while hitting home runs at the same time. It inspired James to then explain how Curry is similar to Ohtani in that dangerous versatility and listed all the ways the Warriors superstar can destroy his opponent, just like Ohtani.
