I hate watching Lebron play in that it feels like the refs are hyper aware of any play he is involved in. They don't always go his way, but it is a big difference. You never see him get an over the back or loose ball foul randomly, for instance, like he's Bojan Bogdonivich or Derek Favors.
Part of it is the way he isolates his defender and plays for the foul, part of it is his incessant whining and demonstrations on every call (which he will never get T'd up for,) but the final part is that the refs are never, ever going to let him fall into foul trouble of any kind, and he plays like he knows it. He wil get all of the 50/50 calls as well.
In the 90's people talked about the "Jordan Rules" But Jordan would foul out and get T'd up. He also didn't whine after every play, realizing he was already getting a good whistle. I even feel like sometimes the refs even get tired of Harden's crap, but time freezes whenever anything remotely controversial happens with Lebron, and you can see the ref considering other things than a purely basketball reaction. It really bugs. He gets to play differently than any other player.