Former NBA All-Star forward and lottery pick Antoine Walker dismisses the claim that LeBron James was’ unguardable’ in a pickup game involving legendary Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.

In a recent appearance on FanDuel’s TV show Run It Back, Walker, who participated in the runs, said James was not as dominant as he said he was.

“Well, he wasn’t unguardable,” Walker said. “… When LeBron came in, obviously he was only 16, 17 years old. I mean, we had heard of him, but Tim wasn’t going to let him play over guys that were paying clients of his. So, he got to play towards the end of the run.”

However, Walker did state that the then 16-year-old James was able to ‘hold his own.’

“One thing that is true, he was able to hold his own,” Walker stated. “But you know how it is. When them first five or six games, where the runs are intense and you’re going at it, he wasn’t a part of those. He got to play kind of towards the end of the runs when he first came in.

“But you could see the potential obviously when he was playing,” Walker continued. “You could see it. But as far as dominating or anything like that, no, that wasn’t the case.”

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The pickup games were organized by Jordan’s former personal trainer, Tim Gorver.

Walker’s comments come after James shared that he was indeed dominant in the pickup games.

“I was unguardable”, James said. “When I finally got out there, I was like, ‘I’m busting a**.’ I was nervous. I was nervous as hell, being out there with MJ and the rest of those guys. But I was like, ‘Oh, I’m about to go crazy.’ And I did, I did.”

James, who exploded onto the scene as a teenager in his time at St. Vincent St. Mary, made a name for himself. The road was not easy for James at the start, but he has surpassed any expectations that were set on him at the start of his career and then some.

It’s unclear who is telling the truth; however, James does have a reputation of lying a bit. Nonetheless, former NBA All-Star Metta Sandiford-Artest attested to James’ side of the story.

“Everybody knew who he was. He was already famous. I’m like, I want to see what he got. He was cooking. He was 15 or 16 posting, getting to the basket and I’m like, ‘This is going to be a huge issue,’ you know, and for sure it was,” said Sandiford-Artest.

“When I saw that, it motivated me. I’m like, ‘I got to go to work.’ He coming into the league cooking. I was not like that when I was 15. … He could have gone pro right then honestly.”

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