From 2011 to 2018, there wasn't quite a more singularly dominant force in the NBA than LeBron James. After all, James made the NBA Finals eight straight times despite moving from the Miami Heat to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014, and he won three championships in the process, including the most iconic 3-1 comeback in NBA history in 2016 against the Golden State Warriors.

However, that apparently has not been enough for the rest of the league to fear The King, at least according to James' former Heat teammate Mario Chalmers.

Speaking on the In Shambles podcast, Chalmers revealed that nobody headed into a clash with a LeBron James-led team cowering in fear of one of the most dominant players of all time.

“Nobody fears Bron. Nobody's like, ‘Da*n, I gotta go play against Bron tonight.' Nobody said that. I don't know why, because I seen people be scared when they actually line up to him, but they're not scared thinking about that matchup,” Chalmers said.

Of course, it's hard to ascertain Mario Chalmers' claims, given how anecdotal his evidence is regarding the matter. Nevertheless, for the fans of the teams that LeBron James ran through in his eight-year reign of terror in the Eastern Conference, there was no scarier sight than a locked-in version of the NBA's all-time leading scorer. Just ask Toronto Raptors fans.

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But Chalmers was not yet finished making claims that could piss off LeBron. In the process of saying that nobody feared James, he also compared his former Heat teammate unfavorably towards Michael Jordan, who is arguably the four-time NBA champion's closest competitor for the “Greatest Of All Time” title.

“You hear anybody from that era talk about going against Jordan, there's a fear. So when you have people that fear a player, then that tells you something different already. Like Jordan is just that guy. Like everything was, ‘I want to be like Mike,'” Chalmers added.

It's unclear if LeBron James has any bad blood with Mario Chalmers at the moment. Their relationship on the court has always been akin to that of a big brother-little brother dynamic, anyway. However, statements like these surely won't do the former Heat point guard any favors.