We’ve spent the better part of the past 14 years trying to define his game, comparing him to titans from the past and trying to reconcile his growing list of accomplishments.

LeBron James wants no part of it, of course, choosing instead to focus on there here and now with a Cleveland Cavaliers team locked in on the repeat challenge that all champions relish.

He’s busy surveying the ever-changing NBA landscape and trying to come up with ways to refine his game in an era where a new set of challengers to his throne -- Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard, just to name a few -- as the game’s best player.

“They are all still chasing him, the entire league is,” a Western Conference executive said. “That’s just a fact. Say what you want about anyone else, but nobody currently in this has the impact on a franchise that he does. I’ll let you and other people decide where he fits in the larger picture of the league. But right now, with what he’s done, six straight trips to The Finals, and is still doing … he’s the real MVP.”

James sits third on this week’s KIA Race to the MVP Ladder behind Westbrook and Harden, who both are having spectacular seasons. But LeBron’s Cavaliers sit atop the Eastern Conference standings and are fresh off of a Christmas Day comeback win over Durant and the Warriors in a Finals rematch and perhaps Finals preview.

Statistically, he’s had better seasons. And at 32, he’s not the same physical specimen he once was. But he’s still a player whose jaw-dropping combination of size, speed, skill and off-the-charts basketball IQ that comes along once a generation.