He is a professional athlete and is paid to be ready to perform at a very high athletic level, day in and day out. The guy works out constantly with professional trainers to stay fit. He is probably doing a lot more agility, weight lifting, and reactionary drills than actual running. All that being said, he could definitely break 60 tomorrow, I'd bet my life on it. I'd guess him to run somewhere around 54-55. Give him some training over a few weeks and he's 51-52.
put him in a race with a high school freshman that runs 53. do you think lebron is going to let that kid beat him?
Do you guys really think that Lebron James is one of the greatest pure athletes on the planet?
You do realize that he competes in a sport in which success is highly dependent on mastering complex skills such as shooting, dribbling, and passing. Great players have to think on the spot and memorize complicated defensive and offensive schemas.
Also, this is a sport where height is a very significant advantage and taller less skilled athletes will often be more successful than average sized more skilled athletes. Do you think he would have won the MVP award this year at 5'9?
Surely, Lebron james is a gifted athlete who has mastered many skills vital to the game of basketball, but do you really think he is gifted in all aspects of athletics?
I would assume that there are many high school kids with a body type more geared towards running with greater natural talent for running who would crush him easily.
Sub-50 would be almost an elite time, so I highly doubt that he could achieve this.
Exaaectly! he's body is quite to large too run as fast as the ingornant people on here seem to tihnk.
i would bet large moeny that he culdnt run 60 seconds.
but..wait.! Here come the troll parade whom say lebron Lames is america'as "NEXT GREAT MILER" *rolleseyes* and will challange allan webb (??LOOOL??) for title.
I know I'm late to this discussion, but I was actually having this exact discussion with my father during the NBA Finals. I ran at a major public university in one of the BCS conferences with a decent basketball team. During the fall the coach would bring the team out on the track and have them do some sprints and intervals on the track. As I watched these guys run some 200s one day I was struck by how large they were and how they appeared to lumber through the intervals. The body types that are well suited to play basketball at the highest levels and to sprint no more than about 32 meters at a time (a basketball court is 94 feet long) did not appear to me to be well suited to racing at any sort of distance. 400 meters is a long way for someone who does not regularly "race" more than 32 meters at a time.
The argument has been made, and repeated many times in this thread, that LeBron is exceptional and that he'd be able to do almost anything, including run 50 for the 400. I don't doubt that with serious training he'd improve substantially and that he'd run something respectable (under 55). My guess though, is that his current training, physical activities, and body type leave him poorly equipped to run, in the immediate or near term, anything under 60 seconds.
44 flat
id like to see westbrooks 400 time.
You guys are crazy. LeBron is a better athlete than me (we're both the best in the world at what we do but his sport is more popular, so he has more competition) and I can run 43.94. It's ABSURD to talk about breaking 50. The real question of this thread is: Can he run sub-43?
Lebron vs Peyton would be a good 400m race. There'd be nothing in it.