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720 wrote:Masai4PM wrote:King James gets #4...
Greatest of this generation and that's all that should matter when looking at the greats.
2 of his 4 came in shortened/unconventional seasons, I wonder if people that don’t like him will use that as ammo.
MixxSRC wrote:This whole bubble thing had this Summer League vibe
Syd-TK3 wrote:We matched up best with the Lakers
SFour wrote:do Lakers get two asterisks on their title...one for the bubble season, the other for Heat injuries
called it. Raps fans should know better than to say that. still drives me crazy when people say it about our chip TheRealDeal wrote:SFour wrote:do Lakers get two asterisks on their title...one for the bubble season, the other for Heat injuries
720 wrote:MixxSRC wrote:I'm glad we won one in Lebron era. Gotta wait for him to retire now
He got lucky with the clippers choking. Next year with the warriors coming back and KD with the nets he might not win another one for awhile.
Randle McMurphy wrote:720 wrote:MixxSRC wrote:I'm glad we won one in Lebron era. Gotta wait for him to retire now
He got lucky with the clippers choking. Next year with the warriors coming back and KD with the nets he might not win another one for awhile.
He beat a much better Warriors team in 2016 with a much worse #2 in Kyrie than AD. We will see on the Nets, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up on that.
720 wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:720 wrote:He got lucky with the clippers choking. Next year with the warriors coming back and KD with the nets he might not win another one for awhile.
He beat a much better Warriors team in 2016 with a much worse #2 in Kyrie than AD. We will see on the Nets, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up on that.
Draymond suspension, Curry playing hurt, Iggy and Bogut getting hurt also impacted that series.
Kyrie also hit the biggest shot of that series.
Randle McMurphy wrote:720 wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:He beat a much better Warriors team in 2016 with a much worse #2 in Kyrie than AD. We will see on the Nets, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up on that.
Draymond suspension, Curry playing hurt, Iggy and Bogut getting hurt also impacted that series.
Kyrie also hit the biggest shot of that series.
That’s good for Kyrie, but LeBron went 41-16-7-3-3, 41-8-11-4-3, and 27-11-11-2-3 to close that series in the last three games in what has an argument for the greatest Finals performance in history.
The crazy thing is he is still more or less that guy even at age 36. The Warriors (who have nowhere near the quality of role players they did then and who have watched Curry and Draymond decline) are simply not. Suffice it to say, I’m taking LeBron and AD in that one.
720 wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:720 wrote:Draymond suspension, Curry playing hurt, Iggy and Bogut getting hurt also impacted that series.
Kyrie also hit the biggest shot of that series.
That’s good for Kyrie, but LeBron went 41-16-7-3-3, 41-8-11-4-3, and 27-11-11-2-3 to close that series in the last three games in what has an argument for the greatest Finals performance in history.
The crazy thing is he is still more or less that guy even at age 36. The Warriors (who have nowhere near the quality of role players they did then and who have watched Curry and Draymond decline) are simply not. Suffice it to say, I’m taking LeBron and AD in that one.
Their 4th and fifth options are Wiggins and probably one of the lotto picks in this draft. I don’t think it’ll be a skeleton crew.
Randle McMurphy wrote:720 wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:That’s good for Kyrie, but LeBron went 41-16-7-3-3, 41-8-11-4-3, and 27-11-11-2-3 to close that series in the last three games in what has an argument for the greatest Finals performance in history.
The crazy thing is he is still more or less that guy even at age 36. The Warriors (who have nowhere near the quality of role players they did then and who have watched Curry and Draymond decline) are simply not. Suffice it to say, I’m taking LeBron and AD in that one.
Their 4th and fifth options are Wiggins and probably one of the lotto picks in this draft. I don’t think it’ll be a skeleton crew.
Wiggins is literally terrible (he’s basically like a very poor man’s Demar) and has been for his entire career. That isn’t a selling point for me.
Buddythefriend wrote:Forget the shortened season - has an NBA team ever had as WEAK a pathway to a Championship as the 2020 Lakers? Portland, Houston, Denver, Miami. Good teams yes, but they are hardly juggernauts. Both the 2019 Sixers and 2019 Bucks would have mopped the floor with the 2020 Lakers, and the Raps had to go through both those teams just to get to the Finals.
Raptors_128 wrote:The Heat’s 3 best players got injured in the 1st damn game.
How are the Lakers so damn lucky? They keeping falling face first into superstars, it’s just not fair man.
raf1995 wrote:I just don’t think he has that kind of potential. I think we will regret not trading him for a haul in a few years when he’s a mid-tier starter with nice playmaking and defense and a shaky jumper.
TheRealDeal wrote:I wonder if people will say the Lakers title is tainted or "they got lucky" because of Miami's injuries
raf1995 wrote:I just don’t think he has that kind of potential. I think we will regret not trading him for a haul in a few years when he’s a mid-tier starter with nice playmaking and defense and a shaky jumper.