LeBron is a 'barometer' in the NBA - Durant - video Dailymotion

The Phoenix Suns' Kevin Durant hailed LeBron James for setting a benchmark everyone can compare to in the NBA

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00:00 What's it like to be a Barometer?

00:02 It's like a barometer.

00:03 You know, you look at..

00:04 Just look at his bar scores after my games a lot my whole

00:08 career, you know, see what he did,

00:11 watching high license.

00:12 I was in high school.

00:13 We got close when I was a senior in high school and he was third

00:17 or fourth year in the league and he was dominating.

00:20 And somebody that inspired me, you know,

00:22 as I was coming into the college,

00:24 into the league to want to play at that level.

00:27 So somebody that's just a, you know,

00:30 you just compare yourself to.

00:32 And if you could accomplish and achieve some of the stuff that

00:35 he's done, that means you're doing pretty solid for yourself.

00:38 So it's just a baseline for you as a player to see,

00:41 you know, how great you can be.

00:43 And he set that example for everybody in the league.