Those guys will always be remembered as Champions.
We live in an era that rings matter. If you wanna be anywhere elite company you need to show some rings.
This is exactly why you need rings. Can have a hall of fame career and still don’t get the respect because you’re ringless.
Dan Marino always get brought up in conversations about great QBs but the fact that he never won a ring fukks him over.
Quoting them nggas is nasty work. And it’s a prime example of the game of telephone

What they do as entertainment and jokes has been taken by new nggas and casuals as ‘well this is how we discourse hoops now’.
They have set us back tremendously. Let Kenny smith tell it he had a better career than Charles Barkley, straight nasty work
But anyway, as far as ‘remembered as a champion’ no one cares what you did as an other. Gary Payton STILL ain’t viewed as better than ringless guards Stockton, cp3, or Westbrook. And Nash’s 2 MVPs is more valuable hardware than GP’s ‘oh yea he did win one’ ring as the Ron Harper of the Heat
