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The increased efficiency of perimeter players has less to do with LeBron and more to do with the rules changes last season -- it's the very reason the rules were changed in the first place. LeBron was horribly inefficient his first season, less efficient than Michael Jordan was in his last season with the Wiz. Last season, LeBron's TS% was 55%, exactly what Kobe's career TS% is. I don't see how LeBron's game has forced other perimeter players to take their scoring efficiency up a notch. It's the rules.

To LeBron's credit, though, he's an incredible scorer this season. Not since Jordan have we seen a perimeter player score 30+ ppg on 58 TS%. Jordan did it from age 24-28, and then once more in the '95-96 season. Basically, only in his prime. LeBron's already doing it at age 21.