Former Los Angeles Lakers power forward/center Kwame Brown is calling out future Hall of Fame forward LeBron James. Following James' free-agent decision to leave the Lakers, Brown claims LeBron destroyed former teammates' careers throughout his eight seasons in Los Angeles.

Brown used former Lakers guard Russell Westbrook and Dalton Knecht in concert with James' son, Bronny James, to prove his point, per The Basketball Show.

“I thought LeBron James was a regular individual, and then I realized he's a part of a group. LeBron James is a machine; it's a marketing machine. He's not an individual,” Brown said. “And so, once I realized that, when you go up against a machine, it gives off toxic waste. So what makes it look good, it destroys things around it. And if you look at the careers that he's destroyed, Westbrook, you got Dalton Knecht because of his son; he didn't get a chance to develop.

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“And he comes there with Andrew Wiggins as the number one draft pick, they make up stories about him to trade him for Kevin Love. It's just like I know what that's like and when I see him go places, I'm like, okay, I want to know which player is going to have to be taken away from for this machine to still look like what it is,” Brown concluded.

Former NBA big man Kwame Brown isn't the only former player speaking out on LeBron James leaving the Lakers. Former All-Star guard Gilbert Arenas is predicting Lakers tickets to drop in the wake of James' exit. After eight seasons, LeBron agreed to a two-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers over the summer.