Have you ever seen a trailer for a movie that somehow totally misrepresented what the movie was really all about?

A supposed comedy that actually turned out to be more like a drama?

The movie might well have still been very good, but usually when your expectations are thrown for such a loop, negativity surfaces.

That movie is LeBron James.

Like many sports fans, I had not spent three full consecutive games watching LeBron's game possession by possession. But this is the time of year when such scrutiny of stars games comes with the territory.

My conclusion: Oh, he's really, really good. Maybe even great. But, he's not at all what the people at Nike, Sprite, Powerade, Cub Cadet and Upper Deck have said he is. They have been marketing LeBron as an NBA super-hero in the mold of Jordan, Kobe or D-Wade.

He's not. Not even close. He likely never will be.

Which is fine. Nobody said he had to be that. But when Sports Illustrated calls you "The Chosen One" in high school, when people write songs which say "the game will never be the same" and when your nickname is "The King"...

Well...

Of course, it doesn't help when LeBron himself said this year in response to a question about what his goals were: "Just trying to be a global icon."

So don't cry to me about the kind of scrutiny he's experiencing or how the criticism is "unfair." He asked for it. He's got it.

To me, LeBron James is a four-inch taller version of Jason Kidd with superior strength; better forward gear momentum going to the hole and a better jump shot than Kidd's flat screwball.

He is also able to make mind-boggling open-court dunks that electrify home crowds and demoralize opponents.

Now, if somebody had told you this kind of player was coming out of high school in Cleveland (minus all the hype, of course) your reaction would have likely been: "Wow. I can't wait to see that player!"

But since LeBron came with an absurd amount of hype -- and hyperbole -- the trailer for the movie is not matching what we are currently seeing.

LeBron is, simply put, not a "hero" NBA player. Those kinds of guys are Bird, Jordan, Kobe and Wade; scoring stars that can hoist a team on their back and carry them home. Players who are so unstoppable at times that you curse them under your breath when they are beating your team.

Nobody is likely to ever say: "Well, we are down by two, we've got 7 seconds to go. THANK GOD we've got LeBron!"

But, you did with all the other guys I mentioned above.

The reasons, to me at least, are becoming more evident the more I watch James play. He's bigger and "more boxy" than the Jordan-Kobe-Wade prototype I'm comparing him to... He can't elude defenders as well as J-K-W, and he's more reluctant to shoot. His crossover is average at best.

He even has said in this series: "You have to take what they give you" and that "It's not all about me taking a lot of shots."

The J-K-W trio would sooner say "No, I don't want to see Tyra Banks naked" than either of the above statements.

Where J-K-W is about mid-air acrobatics, LeBron is more about LeBrawn. Where J-K-W seemed to relish daggering a double-team with a twist and flick three-pointer, LeBron wants to find an open cutter.

Which is fine. It's just that we've been sold something entirely different.

And what annoys me the most about LeBron is the "age argument." You know how it goes: "Give him time! Remember, he's only 22 years old!"

Please.

Ask yourself if true greatness in sports ever had to wait until they were old enough to legally have a beer?

When Magic Johnson was a Lakers rookie, he played all five spots on the floor en route to a 42-point, championship-clinching Game 7 masterpiece while subbing for injured center Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

When Michael Jordan came into the league, he started lighting teams up en route to 28 points per game with the likes of Orlando Woolridge, Quintin Dailey and Dave Corzine around him. In year two, after missing most of the regular season with a broken foot, he was scoring 63 against the Celtics at the Garden.

When Tiger Woods dusted the field at the Masters, making the course his personal pitch and putt, how old was he? Right. Twenty-one.

The final piece of my recalibration regarding LeBron James is what drives him. What really does drive him? Global icon status?

I think of what drove the J-K-W trio, and with each there's SOMETHING which obviously stuck in their competitive craw.

For Jordan, it was getting cut from his high school team. For Kobe, it was having to hear Shaq get all the credit. For Wade, it was being drafted so low.

What slight did LeBron ever have to endure? What setback athletically, did he ever internalize as a driving engine of desire?

LeBron James is a very good player now, probably great. He'll be great for a long time. He'll continue to get better. He might even be Top-50 caliber when it's all said and done.

But, he's not what he's cracked up to be. That much is now very much evident.