Give me your hottest NBA Hot Takes Ever

[contestedlayups]

Tyrus Thomas will have a far better career than Lamarcus Aldridge. Great trade!
(After the 2013 playoffs) Marquis Teague is the backup pg the Bulls needed!

It's not all Bulls stuff.

The 2013 Lakers will be the first 8 seed to win the NBA Finals.
The 2001 Clippers will win the NBA Finals within the next three years.
There is no way the 2012 Thunder lose to Miami. Their talent is too great.

They really should have won that series honestly. It was a WOAT coaching performance by Scott Brooks having a 22-year old James Harden guard LeBron instead of KD and playing a horrendously bad Kendrick Perkins 23 MPG. The Thunder were -25 with Perkins on the floor and +5 with him on the bench and everyone knew at the time that he was awful. Crazy to think what the narrative damage would be to LeBron’s legacy if he was 0-3 against KD and 2-7 in the Finals.

I totally agree. I didn't take that Scott Brooks could single handedly ruin a Finals by playing Perkins and Fisher over Ibaka and Harden for whatever reason. Didn't make sense to me then, still doesn't now.

[DonDoolie]

In terms of pure talent, Kobe is the 3rd best SG of his era behind TMac and Manu.

2016 Spurs and 2016 Thunder would have beaten the 2016 Cavs.

2015 Spurs would have repeated if Tiago Splitter had been healthy

Kobe’s talent was never the issue. On pure talent, he should have been a Top 10 player of all-time. It was his selfishness, terrible leadership, and consistent choking on the biggest stage that keep him behind contemporaries like CP3, Wade, and Dirk for me.

This isn’t even a hot take, this is called being a complete moron.

[PrinceH]

Zion will be a bust

Shawn Kemp should've been the best player of his generation (better than Jordan)