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[QUOTE="Phenomenon, post: 1837158, member: 3610"]
Shaq and Boozer are as relevant as anyone else.  Shaq was coming off of a renaissance season in Phoenix before coming to Cleveland.  There are 14 players that I listed that refuted the notion that it is easy to look good alongside of LeBron.  An eclectic mix of young, old, prime and not-prime.  To be honest, I probably only looked up 15 guys to come up with that list of 14.  One would be more hard-pressed to find a list of people that actually looked good and had the data to back it up.

Truthfully speaking, no one looks good alongside of LeBron for two reasons:  (a) LeBron is like Heidi Klum of basketball.  No matter the girl, you're going to look rather doggish alongside of her, and (b) LeBron's style of basketball (aka pounding the rock into the hardwood for 23 seconds before rifling the ball at a teammate) isn't conducive towards looking good as a teammate.

There is a massive adjustment needed to work alongside of him and it is more cerebral than anything.  Intelligent players like Battier, Allen, Wade have been able to do it the best.  Dion isn't the most cerebral player out on the court.  But to cast him off as some type of a black sheep because he didn't look good alongside of LeBron is rather intellectually cowardly.  People don't look good alongside of him.  LeBron looks good.  And like alphaorange said above, the team wins because of LeBron, not because of other people.
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