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RB34 wrote:One ring to rule them all..

Dirks.

Drygon wrote:I agree with you that not all rings are created equal.

KD's 2017 ring is more valuable than all of LeBron's Miami Heat rings going by SRS...

whitehops wrote:obviously lebron's rings, but i'll give credit where credit is due and durant arguably had a better series than lebron in the 2012 finals, even though his team lost. we often talk about lebron's supporting cast not pulling their weight but in that finals series even durant's insanely efficient volume scoring couldn't overcome all three of westbrook, harden and ibaka's poor scoring.

DonaldSanders wrote:

Jimmy Recard wrote:Dirk’s ring is worth more than all of them combined

Haha this. I love Dirk and that championship is worth at least 2-3 as "the man" considering his cast and LeBron's.

JordansBulls wrote:They both were bad. I'd say Lebron's worst because in 2010 he was considered the best in the league and he joined Wade a proven champion and a top 2-3 player in the league.. In 2016 KD wasn't considered the best in the league when he left his team.

Yup, I'm OK just equating them though. Both players had the exact same goal when creating/joining their team: making an unbeatable super team. I honestly think LeBron expected to do really crazy stuff that never materialized, e.g. break the regular season wins record, 4-peat, something. Now we sit here and pretend like LeBron wasn't trying to totally break the league -- guess who led to KD being willing to join the GSW?

Wade's #s the season before LeBron:

26.6pts 4.8rb 6.5ast

Bosh's #s the season before LeBron:
24pts 7.9rb 2.4ast

And let us not forget in the FINALS in 2011 when LeBron was playing like garbage Wade averaged 26.5pts 7rb 5.2ast
Wade averaged more points, assists, blocks, steals than Finals MVP Dirk
But Wade was "old" right? Dwayne Wade, a legit #1 option for a championship winning team before LeBron showed up.

Game 4 2011 LeBron scores 8 points and the Heat lose by 3 points. Wade had 32 and Bosh had 24.
Game 6 2011 LeBron was -24 and the Heat lost by 10. Wade was +3, Bosh +4.

I'm a big LeBron fan honestly -- his career has some big highs and lows though. Nothing KD did on the Warriors is even remotely close to the absolute trashcan LeBron's 2011 was. This gets spun away/ignored now as part of the "LeBron learned to win through this" shtick. To me the biggest choke of all time is LeBron's 2011 Finals series, and I'm someone who would have been fine with LeBron winning the Finals MVP in a losing effort in 2015 during the Curry's 1st chip. This alone makes it impossible for LeBron's Heat work to be better than what KD did with the Warriors.

LeBron didn't regain his public love until he started going up against the Warriors in the finals, taking 1 out of 4 as an underdog in every series. KD has the opportunity to do something similar now with the Nets, but it will be tough.

Lalouie wrote:lebron's rings

okc.

okc was the youngest team in the finals since walton's blazers. the nba has historically not been kind to young teams. all teams other than said blazers have had to go through the process, mainly the ring teams getting old or injured.

lebron's other miami ring was bs that not only upset pops but that very same sas team validated how bs that bs ring was by trouncing that very same heat team the following year, 4 - 1!!! lmao

so yeah, BOTH miami rings were weak

i give credit where credit is due vs gsw. could that ever happen again,,,,no, but the cavs did grind it out.

kd is just weak. it's a tie. the milennial teens has been the "70s with flash" with the spurs being the bedrock of reliability

Woodsanity wrote:He had a significantly worse series unless you base things strictly on ppg and ts%.... I remember watching that series and thinking man Durant is getting a lot of points but he didn't seem to be having the impact he should have had.

Kevin wasn't a good defender back then nor a competent passer. He put up a lot of points on good efficiency but he did little else.

Even based strictly on gamescore which isn't a great indicator since it doesn't measure defense.

Lebron: 23.6 gamescore, Durant 20.7. This is because Durant did poorly in other metrics like rebounds and assists.

His defense was mediocre, he got torched badly by Mario Chalmers who had a career game while being guarded by Durant....

Like Chalmers is a legit scrub the only thing I remember about him is his one great game in the Finals where he torched KD.

Brofessor24 wrote:IMO all rings are equal.

bballgod07 wrote:

Brofessor24 wrote:IMO all rings are equal.

then Robert Horry is better than Jordan, Lebron, and Kobe...
Dont tell me they do other crap...
If they were so good why dont they have the same ring as Horry.

NO-KG-AI wrote:LeBron wanted his run to go the same way KD's did when he joined his buddies, lets not get it twisted. Lucky for us and for LeBron's legacy, LeBron sucked at picking teammates that fit, and nobody thought Wade and Bosh would decline as fast as they did, so they ended up being a strong, but not overly stacked contender. It ended up being a fun run, despite people crying gloom and doom when it originally formed.

King4Day wrote:KD was a major reason why GSW won 2, and if he remained healthy, they may have pulled off the 3rd.
LeBron, in Miami won 2, but by a miracle of god (Allen), he got a 2nd.