As a data-driven sports analyst raised in Los Angeles, I’ve spent years deconstructing narratives masked as folklore—this isn’t about hero worship, but about probabilistic truth. In this piece, I dissect the mythic comparison between McConnelly’s cold analytics and James’ legendary presence through the lens of Bayesian models. No hype. Just entropy, patterns, and the quiet precision of 21-minute performances decoded into win probabilities. This is not a story—it’s a statistical autopsy.