Not only was James the gravitational center of the NBA, but he was, ahem, a new kind of star, one that we didn't always have the capacity to fully comprehend. Over the past week, James's greatness has fallen into sharp relief, not because of anything he's done on the court, but because of what he didn't, maybe even couldn't, do. The struggles of the 2018-19 Los Angeles Lakers are well-documented because, as Kevin Durant once noted, that's the kind of environment that springs up around James.