Ex-Heat teammate House says LeBron quit in 2011 Finals

Now 33 years old and his 15th NBA season, LeBronJames has placed himself squarely in the conversation by most to be included with the likes of MichaelJordan as

Now 33 years old and his 15th NBA season, LeBronJames has placed himself squarely in the conversation by most to be included with the likes of MichaelJordan as perhaps the greatest player of all time.

However, don't include his former Miami Heat teammate EddieHouse in those agreeing with that assessment.

Speaking with Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe on FOX Sports' "Undisputed," House, whose last season in the league was the 2010-11 campaign in which he was a teammate of James in Miami, said James "quit" on the Heat in The Finals against the Mavericks that season, his first in a Heat uniform after bolting from Cleveland after the 2010 season.

Appearing on the show, House had this to say:

"I can't get over the fact he didn't show up in Dallas. Not only because I was on the team, but the fact he was the best player and everybody was dependent on him to show up and do what he does, and he was MIA. He had a bad series. Jordan never had that.

"People killed James Harden for having a bad series last year ... but you going to say somebody who quit in The Finals, [at] the end of everything, when all the marbles are on the table, that he's the greatest of all time? I can't buy it."

James, who returned to Cleveland in the summer of 2014 and led the Cavaliers to their first NBA championship in 2016, averaged only 17.8 points in that series against Dallas, magnified by an eight-point effort in Game 4 and a plus-minus rating of minus-24 in Game 6, in which the Mavericks wrapped up the title.

He's never shied away from the fact he did not play nearly up to his standards in that series.

"@thorpjoshua: @KingJames How do I get my baby to fall asleep?"(Put my performance in the 2011 Finals on! Night night immediately)

— LeBron James (@KingJames) January 11, 2014