I would never have imagined that.
Could any race driver hit a 3-pointer falling out of bounds with a pro NBA player jumping at him as LBJ did this year in the playoffs?
And it's interesting that you chose endurance sports for "neutral" athletic examples but not anything which would take advantage of an NBA player's explosiveness. No nothing about sprints or intermediates (400 or 800 meters), no high jumps, long jumps, triple jumps, pole vault, etc.
I remember hearing that former Hawk center Kevin Willis completed a marathon in well under 3 hours. There's no question that most NBA players could complete marathons if they decided to do it. They do a lot of CV training, though more geared towards bursts of activity but if your officemates are dropping 20 pounds and completing marathons, most professional athletes could do it -- except a lot of golfers
.And if you want to cherry pick sports -- there may be some NBA players who've played soccer, since a lot of them are international players -- then I could just as easily say LeBron played high school football so he would destroy any race car driver, especially European ones, on the gridiron. But it's a pretty meaningless comparison.
Hand-eye coordination is certainly a skill but so is doing a couple of between the legs dribbles, then stepping back and hitting a 25-foot jumper with a guy with a 7-foot wingspan jumping towards you. Lebron could probably become decent at driving a race car (if he wanted to, he could try after he retires, since his NBA contract probably would prohibit it). After all, Paul Newman started up race car driving after he was over 40 years old.
