LeBron has the excuses ready for Sunday.

[Pennebaker]

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[Ballerhogger]

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[MoMan24]

People are now waking up and seeing that Kawhi had a better supporting cast in Toronto than in LA with the clips. It just not such a smooth fit even though the talent is arguably better.

You can put Lebron with a bummy team like Cleveland with injured stars and he still gets to the finals. Put a prime kawhi on that team and they might get bounced in the first or second round.

tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

[Don Ford]

Well that kind of backfired

[MoMan24]

A clearly-past-his-prime Lebron just owned a firmly-in-his-prime Kawhi.
Yeah, it's one regular season game, but some people were trying to say that Kawhi the 4-time All Star was a GOAT candidate for the past couple months

This. I don't want to hear it anymore, Kawhi is in his prime he should be dusting a 35 year old LBJ and he can't even come close to that.

FACTS. FACTS. FACTS.

[homecourtloss]

GOAT gif potential. Saved for perhaps useful purposes later.

[NoZoLakers]

People are now waking up and seeing that Kawhi had a better supporting cast in Toronto than in LA with the clips. It just not such a smooth fit even though the talent is arguably better.

You can put Lebron with a bummy team like Cleveland with injured stars and he still gets to the finals. Put a prime kawhi on that team and they might get bounced in the first or second round.

tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

spurs traded him to tor out of spite somewhat so just be grateful it worked out for tor end. he want gona stay no matter what so stop crying already

[Roco14]

tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

spurs traded him to tor out of spite somewhat so just be grateful it worked out for tor end. he want gona stay no matter what so stop crying already

1. learn how to spell. "he want gona stay"? "Kawahi"? illiterate.

2. You're clueless about the game of basketball. And probably everything else.

If the spurs wanted the worst for kawhi, they wouldn't have traded him to the eventual champs.

No personal attacks. Keep it about basketball.
- GM

[LivingLegend]

Oh hell yes Im here for this type of content

King sh$%

[LakersSoul]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28854970/lebron-james-helps-lakers-clinch-first-playoff-berth-2012-13

On Sunday, the Lakers will try to beat another title contender for the first time this season when they square off against their Staples Center hallway rivals -- the Clippers (43-19). The Clippers are surging, having won six straight games and are at full strength with a healthy roster. They beat the Lakers in the season opener without Paul George and again in their highly anticipated Christmas night showdown.

The third meeting between the two Los Angeles teams was postponed after Kobe Bryant's death, setting up Sunday's encounter as their third matchup this season.

"We know how well they've been playing as of late," James said. "They're at full strength. We're at full strength. And we look forward to the challenge to see how we can match up with them again. So, you know, the first game, we kind of threw that game out the window. It's the first game of the season. Who were we? Who were they? They had way more returning guys than we did [at that point]. We were still trying to figure out ourselves.

"And then the Christmas Day game, we didn't play to our capabilities. We played great in the first half and then the second half we let it kind of get away from us. So we just look forward to see if we can continue to play good basketball, no matter win, lose or draw."




LeBron as usual can't just own something straight up. Basically first loss is forgotten because it was a new team (Nevermind no PG, yes I realized they had no Kuzma or Rondo). Kuzma and Rondo are basically negative players this year, so having them out was a blessing probably.

Second loss is a classic "we beat ourselves" type deal. Admits they played well, then choked. Clippers held them to 3 points in the last 5 minutes. Maybe he can talk about how AD has 2 ppg in 4th quarters vs the Clippers? Then he hedges with basically saying win, loss or draw doesn't matter, just the effort does.

I can see Sunday going either way, but it's pathetic to me that time and time again the supposed 2nd best all time player has an excuse for each loss. Imagine Jordan or Kobe talking like this?

What a clown comment. Where is the excuse he mentions? He stated the facts. Nobody had their team ready on opening day. On Christmas, they blew the lead.

Today, they kept the lead and never let the Clipper challenge.

[Badonkadonk]

People are now waking up and seeing that Kawhi had a better supporting cast in Toronto than in LA with the clips. It just not such a smooth fit even though the talent is arguably better.

You can put Lebron with a bummy team like Cleveland with injured stars and he still gets to the finals. Put a prime kawhi on that team and they might get bounced in the first or second round.

tor should just be thankful kawahi graced them with his presence

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

Just enjoying this season way more than I thought I'd be as a Raps fan, watching everybody outside Toronto come to the slow realization how good Kawhi had it running with Siakam, Lowry, Gasol, Freddy, Norm and the crew.

[KyRo23]

Bruh you posted a whopping 45 excuses in the game thread today.

Cite them, please, for lulz.

His main thing is to cite "anomalies" like Bradley playing well or the Clippers shooting bad as excuses to losing. Most of it is just complaining with underlying excuses that he contradicts when the fouls happen the other way.

Lmao Avery Bradley ties season high already with 5 threes. Gonna be the next Shake Milton, drop 40 then be average the next 5 games

Bradley revenge game. In before he drops 10 points combined the next 5

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Let's see Avery Bradley play like this just once more ALL SEASON lmao. You think in a series this man is gonna outplay every single one of our role players?

lol paul george having one of those games smh..ofc its against the lakers. Lemme see this man do this in the playoffs

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So far I'd guess Lakers should win this. They are playing way smarter. Clippers just jacking up horrid shots.

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Lmao LeBron lowers shoulder, knocks PG away and gets foul

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What's scary is Clippers role players have actually been trash with Lou/Morris/Shamet/Green/Jackson. Lakers top heavy again. This game is basically a 2 on 2 so far.

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Zubac is getting shoved by 2-3 guys off the boards every other play. Need a call

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Clippers need to start really putting guys on their back if they are gonna ref like this.

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[NoZoLakers]

Kawahi should be thankful a top 3 organization traded for him, made sure he was healthy, went 17-5 without him, put together an all-time great defensive team with many great vets, and skilled young players that were ready to win. He should thank his blessing he didn't get traded to some bottom feeder.

spurs traded him to tor out of spite somewhat so just be grateful it worked out for tor end. he want gona stay no matter what so stop crying already

1. learn how to spell. "he want gona stay"? "Kawahi"? illiterate.

2. You're clueless about the game of basketball. And probably everything else.

If the spurs wanted the worst for kawhi, they wouldn't have traded him to the eventual champs.

he WASNT going to stay no matter what, nobody outside of tor cares bout the raptors, the clipps have a better record than the raptors. every few weeks theres a post by raptor fans asking if kawahi is regretting leaving tor...fyi only fake star like Derozen regrets leaving tor, vc didnt, bosh didnt

[homecourtloss]

Bruh you posted a whopping 45 excuses in the game thread today.

Cite them, please, for lulz.

His main thing is to cite "anomalies" like Bradley playing well or the Clippers shooting bad as excuses to losing. Most of it is just complaining with underlying excuses that he contradicts when the fouls happen the other way.

Lmao Avery Bradley ties season high already with 5 threes. Gonna be the next Shake Milton, drop 40 then be average the next 5 games

Bradley revenge game. In before he drops 10 points combined the next 5

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Let's see Avery Bradley play like this just once more ALL SEASON lmao. You think in a series this man is gonna outplay every single one of our role players?

lol paul george having one of those games smh..ofc its against the lakers. Lemme see this man do this in the playoffs

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So far I'd guess Lakers should win this. They are playing way smarter. Clippers just jacking up horrid shots.

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Lmao LeBron lowers shoulder, knocks PG away and gets foul

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Read on Twitter

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What's scary is Clippers role players have actually been trash with Lou/Morris/Shamet/Green/Jackson. Lakers top heavy again. This game is basically a 2 on 2 so far.

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Zubac is getting shoved by 2-3 guys off the boards every other play. Need a call

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Clippers need to start really putting guys on their back if they are gonna ref like this.

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Looks like Clipsfan98 got his excuses ready this Sunday.

[bellabiyel]

imagine posting athread because of being salty in an interview and pulling some jinx ..youll never learn..im new to this forum but come on i dont post threads to hate a team/player ..to many threads of hating the lakers since last year and still youu never learn..

hey aleast you have a chance to post against the lakers in the playoffs you still have a chance

[ShazamDaShiznt]

clipper fans remind me of this

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[LipSkinMatter]

Clips Fan? You out here?

[chrismikayla]

LOL you'd think people would realize that you shouldn't create hot take threads, because if it doesn't work out that thread is getting bumped and the OP rightfully roasted.

[Homer38]

LOL you'd think people would realize that you shouldn't create hot take threads, because if it doesn't work out that thread is getting bumped and the OP rightfully roasted.

Yeah, the hot take is always a horrible idea!

[Johnny Bball]

What do you want him to say, they're a better team, we don't have a chance? This is nothing, all players talk like this.

No, I want him to keep it simple. They beat us twice and we are motivated to not let it happen again. The moral victories look pathetic coming from someone of his caliber. Like I said find a clip for me of Jordan doing this kind of stuff? Or even Kobe? To elite competitors a loss is a loss to learn from, there are no excuses or moral victories.

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Any moral victory now?

Don't think he needs an excuse.