i don't think my feelings about lebron can be summed up in a single word such as "like"
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
<3 Bron fuck da h8ers
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
i admire lebron of course but not in an "it's okay for him to get the lakers a championship" sorta way
― Clay, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
Clay otm
― covidiot wind (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
I’m going to enjoy every minute of LeBron and don’t understand people who don’t.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
He's great, feel lucky to have seen him play basketball, don't know what more you'd want
It is weird how he's just played at this amazing level forever, never really done anything bad off the court, did a lot of great things in the community, and basically seems like a decent guy and people have this weird animus towards him
Yet weirdo miserable sociopaths like Jordan and Kobe are universally loved
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
(talking general public more than ilh )
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
i respect lebron hugely as a player and as a person (from what i can see from a distance). i think he's comported himself about as well as anyone possibly could in has position as the most important basketball player for the last 18 years.
as a sports fan i think this stage of his career is boring and inorganic and it's hard for me to feel much of anything about it.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Vogel looks like a total dork.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Xxxpost Always respected MJ's talent, but christ he's a petulant dude
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Including continuing to push the lie that his coach "cut" him from the basketball team in high school
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
and i don't think it's even totally lebron's doing! the current structure of the nba made this the best path to a title for him and he took it.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
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― Clay, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
cad completely otm
― Clay, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
hahaha i've been in and out but did they not let rob pelinka talk?
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
Lebron should probably go in the HoF as a player and GM
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
very convenient when you can fit the GM and finals MVP into the same interview slot
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
i think pelinka got 7th place for exec of the year and he should be thankful it was that high tbh
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
sup @MichelobULTRA 😊🍾 pic.twitter.com/CxTcoiWqOW— NBA Bubble Life (@NBABubbleLife) October 12, 2020
i hope there's some champagne and the guys aren't stuck with just michelob ultra :(
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
the champagne of low carb beers
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
can't believe Giannis was not the first Antetokounmpo to get a ring
― frogbs, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
^hearing this in Swizz Beats's voice
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 October 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
I begrudgingly convinced myself I'd be ok with the Lakers winning the championship when Lebron started doing great work supporting voter enfranchisement. I'm amazed by so much of his game but don't really care for his bully ball or incessant whining.
AD is forever on my shit list for how he left nola. I'm grateful that at least his ring comes with a big fat asterisk.
― Fetchboy, Monday, 12 October 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
It doesn’t come with an asterisk sorry.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 12 October 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
― Clay
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 12 October 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
Bubble title is absolutely an asterisk
― Fetchboy, Monday, 12 October 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link
Nah
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 October 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
"comes with an asterix" usually always means "i don't like the team that won", modified season or not
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 October 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
otm
― cointelamateur (m bison), Monday, 12 October 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
The Lakers of all franchises were literally on the championship podium begging for people to acknowledge and respect this title lmao. Disingenuous or not, when guys like TJ Warren and Jamal Murray come crashing back down to earth and the Warriors flip that #2 pick and insert themselves back into the title race next season the "Mickey Mouse ring" and asterisk takes are definitely gonna be a thing.
All I have a problem with is the bullshit "This was the toughest path to a title EVERRRRR" nonsense that some were desperately trying to push about all of this. No, resuming without a fourth of the whole league in Orlando after a 4 month break to be wined and dined by the few remaining overworked Disney World employees that weren't laid off en masse in a luxury suite in your off hours when you aren't playing in an empty gym with no travel, in front of live webcam feeds hung up on a wall with fake crowd noise piped in over the speakers is not "The toughest obstacle to a championship in sports history", sorry.
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Monday, 12 October 2020 04:24 (three years ago) link
i can buy the social isolation being hard if you didnt have family there with you.
― cointelamateur (m bison), Monday, 12 October 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
Oh cool it's trevor
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 October 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
I started out not liking LeBron, then he won me over, then he annointed himself GOAT, and I'm back to not liking him.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 October 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
lakers were clearly the best team and will be remembered as the rightful champions... the asterisk theory is bunk
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
what i was thinking about tonight is how the GOAT argument would look if there wasn’t a cap spike allowing durant to sign with the warriors. we all just accept the KD warriors as like a natural part of history but it all circles back to a historical anomaly with the cap based on a decision by the union that i think is pretty agreed upon to be regrettable in retrospect. watching those warriors-cavs finals at the time it seemed pretty clear that lebron would have won at least one if KD never ended up on the warriors. he basically had 3 years of his prime wiped out by the timing of TV rights negotiations, if you wanna discuss asterisks
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
good post ^
Warriors' 2nd and 3rd titles have penciled-in asterisks in my mind ... in ink for KD
― alpine static, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
going to sleep happy tonight remembering that paul pierce is pissed and every possible outcome of this finals was going to end that way
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
i admire lebron of course but not in an "it's okay for him to get the lakers a championship" sorta way― Clay, Sunday, October 11, 2020 7:04 PM (three hours ago)
― Clay, Sunday, October 11, 2020 7:04 PM (three hours ago)
this is the opposite for me ... i like Bron (and AD) so much, i was actively rooting for Miami to give them trouble (and extend the season) but ultimately wanted the Lakers to win. and historically, i hate them.
― alpine static, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
― Spottie, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:43 (three years ago) link
Ends up *there
― Spottie, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
LeBron has also been the beneficiary of Adventures in Cap Space though. The Heatles were a previously unthinkable phenomenon.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 October 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
He kicked off the player empowerment movement he can’t be mad at anyone doing it better than he did.
― Spottie, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:45 (three years ago) link
That “what if” and “asterisk” mental games are a slippery slope. Lebron could easily have two less titles too if it wasn’t for the ray allen shot and the perfect storm of events in 2016.
― Spottie, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
No asterisks either. They earned it, they were the best or 2nd best team all season.
― Spottie, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
yeah but those are all things that happened on the court... unlikely events but still players deciding the game. i enjoyed the KD warriors a lot but those three championships were decided at the negotiation table
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2020 05:56 (three years ago) link
the league was essentially non-competitive for three seasons in a way that i don't think has much historical precedent... you could maybe point to the kobe/shaq three peat dynasty which has some weird origins in its own right -- magic not offering shaq the max contract (one of the stupidest decisions in nba history), kobe convincing several teams to not draft him -- but mathematically i don't think we'll never be able to see a team like the warriors again
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
i forget the raptors won last year lol...
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2020 06:06 (three years ago) link
xpost to be fair to Steph, Klay, Dray and Kerr, only two of their three championships were w/ KD and thus decided at the negotiation table - imo, at least. i don't think it's fair to discount 2015.
― alpine static, Monday, 12 October 2020 06:10 (three years ago) link
lol, now that makes sense