Who Was the Better Player In His Prime?

  • Larry Bird

    Votes: 68 41.5%
  • LeBron James

    Votes: 76 46.3%
  • Delonte West Won

    Votes: 20 12.2%

  • Total voters
    164

Art Barr

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I don't remember ever disagreeing with you on any issue in the last 30 years... but this is so wrong. Bird's lack of defensive ability was a running joke.

I also find it hilarious that people give Bird full credit for winning with a ridiculously talented team. How many of his teammates are in the HOF?


Yo could have never seen bird, breh.
Bird was a top flight defender, one of the top flight players in every category of all time and the best nemesis/VILLAIN in the WHOLE ENTIRE HISTORY OF fukk'N TELEVISION.
like you really don't know about isu vs msu.
Then the complete segueway to the NBA and translation of draw.
Just to kill you and all that bullshyt.
Bird took Indiana state to the NCAA championship game.
When was the last time isu had an actual contender or consistent ranked team.
How long is the gap inbetween tournie final 4 appearances for isu to this date.
Let alone the actual championship game.
If not for magic's skyhook and the death of Len bias and a driveway full of gravel and a shovel.
You would not know shyt about HOOP'N except for the Celtics, period.
You could never have been cognitive watching BBALL.
when bird was in college or in the actual NBA, breh.
Do you even know the level of cheating that occurred in the garden.
Are you aware of the mental stability you had to be made of just to even convert a basket in Boston garden.
Plus you were playing arguably the best pedigreed and mentally secure team in league history with bird's celt's.

I know you nikkaz really don't know this shyt at all like that.


Bron would be an actual footnote of mediocrity and an even more obvious low IQ ball player if Len bias got to be a celtc too.
So, just stop breh,....you have no idea before the magic skyhook.
How bleak beating the Celtics was.

Bird was killing fools.
Did you see bird in person, healthy as fukk.



Art Barr

Rip to bias,...

Yet the whole black American sporting world sighed in relief.
When bias passed.
As the grip the celt's would have had with;

DJ
Bias
Bird
McHale
Chief

Would have been murder death killmode to the NBA.
To the point the NBA would not even be looked at as a black sport like it is now.
That that racial stigma of bird and how dominant a player he was.
People forgot it was black players and a black coach on the Celtics.
When DJ was a heralded player just to begin with.
That is how good a player bird was.
That even trying to have a convo about ball.
nikkaz had to pull a reverse racism card.
To even talk about basketball and denounce bird off of race to even get a convo started.
Bird was that dominant that nikkaz would make ground rules of black power Intimidation.
That you better not even mention bird, that is how dominant a player bird was.
nikkaz sleep,....
these mental midget ass nikkaz would have never got paid or any of that if bias lived.
nikkaz lucky mike came along sith air Jordan cause you would have had black bird's weapons on, PERIOD.
WHICH was the only hard body shoe on the market and ever for that time.
For thirty dollars a pop, you was killin the land in a pair of bird weapons, killin the land.
All because bird had this shyt on COMPLETE fukk'N LOCK.
like as a black man, you knew you had no outlet in life and knew playing bball back then.
was not even worth it because the Celts had that shyt on so much lock.
 

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We know you can't all after that bullshyt bill Russell epic fail bullshyt.
That you try to spin this false fake ass narrative like you are on point and nikkaz know you are a WOAT OF ALL TIME POSTER, IN EVERY FORUM.


Art Barr = goat poster in the history of the whole fukk'n history of the internet
 
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We know you can't all after that bullshyt bill Russell epic fail bullshyt.
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What the fukk are you even talking about? I've barely spoken about Bill Russell on this board.....
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That you try to spin this false fake ass narrative like you are on point and nikkaz know you are a WOAT OF ALL TIME POSTER, IN EVERY FORUM.


Art Barr = goat poster in the history of the whole fukk'n histoty internet
I only really post on this side of the board (and in TFR). You're getting me confused with somebody else.
 

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this article is much needed, we need to have discussions. alot of you never saw Bird play in reality, so you're basing this on a biased view and shouldn't really have an opinion tbh.

Bird is fairly close to Lebron, but i'd choose Lebron myself for the sheet power and athleticism but Bird had more leadership, heart, and clutch.

HOwever, Lebrons drives are unstoppable in his prime..you have to go with that.
 

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I hardly ever post in the Booth. fukk is wrong with you. :camby:


We know because you are the worst in that forum and a refugee wack poster who has to run to the alternative forum about sports.
Where you suck here.
You, think bill Russell was not even a skill player and I had to post footage to clown you and everybody grafted how pisspoor of a poster you were then.
Just stop nikka....you a wack refugee forum poster and had to run and hide in the sports forum and you suck over here, too.


Art Barr

If I did not regulate this shyt for real,...and have you bytch nikkaz scared.
Lennox Lewis would be better than Ali by the clowns on here .
Then, this fool would have tried to say bill Russell was not one of the highest level all around skill post players of all time too.
Where small ball and undersized defenders and teams is all based around bil russell's celt's.
The same small ball that dominates the NBA with the warriors now.



Just stop you clown, you don't know shyt about sports.
Now, try and spin your fake bullshyt deflection based false narrative.
when I am the champ of this shyt and you grasp'n at fake imaginary false narratives that don't save you.

I see you still never responded to the bulletin post from another poster or mine with any actual content.
All because you don't have any actual fukk'n content to post and one of the biggest wack posters in this communities history.


Art Barr = I own you nikkaz and you and everyone knows that shyt, so fail trying to front.
 

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What the fukk are you even talking about? I've barely spoken about Bill Russell on this board.....

I only really post on this side of the board (and in TFR). You're getting me confused with somebody else.


No, that is you fool.
Now, neg again because you bytchmade and have no content or facts to save you, you bytch.

YOU CAN NOT DISPUTE A FACT
THE FACT IS,...nikka I AM ART fukk'N BARR THE GOAT POSTER IN INTERNET fukk'N HISTORY, nikka.
THAT IS A fukk'N FACT.


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Larry went up against the Bad Boy Pistons and the Chicago Bulls in the East. Those were two of the toughest teams in the league. And despite his struggles with those teams and in the Finals against the Lakers, he still won 3 rings as the main player.

LeBron's shortcomings are magnified because he allows himself to be built up as the greatest of all time. He's the one who tatted himself "The Chosen One". He's the one who initially wore 23 then went to 6 (supposedly out of respect for Jordan but interestingly enough was disrespecting Russell) only to go back to 23. He's the one who called himself "King James". He's the one telling us to "Witness." He's the one who put himself on the NBA's Mount Olympus and again threw shade at Russell. LeBron's post-season struggles get scrutinized because he put all that pressure on himself. He allows himself to be built up as not only the league's best player but the best ever (even though he isn't nor could he ever be). LeBron has no problem frontrunning and calling himself the greatest or the best player in the world when things are going his way yet stans get upset when he fails to live up to his standards and the image he created for himself.
:comeon:

this shytty "b-b-but his tattoos! his nickname!" criticism was just as corny back in 2011 as it is now...not to mention, it's completely irrelevant when comparing him to other players. all of that is just you not liking the dude. it has nothing to do with his actual play/accomplishments/career/etc.
 
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Parrish was in his fifth season and he wasn't a role player. He was their most important defensive piece and was by far the main reason why they had one of the best defenses in the league. Shut down the paint all throughout the playoffs and shut down Moses in the Finals too.

I was at work typing all over the place you right brethren:wtb:

But Bird was still the Alpha Dog over the great Chief regardless.
 

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I don't remember ever disagreeing with you on any issue in the last 30 years... but this is so wrong. Bird's lack of defensive ability was a running joke.

I also find it hilarious that people give Bird full credit for winning with a ridiculously talented team. How many of his teammates are in the HOF?

Going by people in here standards, Bird avg more boards, blocks, and steals per game :lolbron:
 
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Yo could have never seen bird, breh.
Bird was a top flight defender, one of the top flight players in every category of all time and the best nemesis/VILLAIN in the WHOLE ENTIRE HISTORY OF fukk'N TELEVISION.
like you really don't know about isu vs msu.
Then the complete segueway to the NBA and translation of draw.
Just to kill you and all that bullshyt.
Bird took Indiana state to the NCAA championship game.
When was the last time isu had an actual contender or consistent ranked team.
How long is the gap inbetween tournie final 4 appearances for isu to this date.
Let alone the actual championship game.
If not for magic's skyhook and the death of Len bias and a driveway full of gravel and a shovel.
You would not know shyt about HOOP'N except for the Celtics, period.
You could never have been cognitive watching BBALL.
when bird was in college or in the actual NBA, breh.
Do you even know the level of cheating that occurred in the garden.
Are you aware of the mental stability you had to be made of just to even convert a basket in Boston garden.
Plus you were playing arguably the best pedigreed and mentally secure team in league history with bird's celt's.

I know you nikkaz really don't know this shyt at all like that.


Bron would be an actual footnote of mediocrity and an even more obvious low IQ ball player if Len bias got to be a celtc too.
So, just stop breh,....you have no idea before the magic skyhook.
How bleak beating the Celtics was.

Bird was killing fools.
Did you see bird in person, healthy as fukk.



Art Barr

Rip to bias,...

Yet the whole black American sporting world sighed in relief.
When bias passed.
As the grip the celt's would have had with;

DJ
Bias
Bird
McHale
Chief

Would have been murder death killmode to the NBA.
To the point the NBA would not even be looked at as a black sport like it is now.
That that racial stigma of bird and how dominant a player he was.
People forgot it was black players and a black coach on the Celtics.
When DJ was a heralded player just to begin with.
That is how good a player bird was.
That even trying to have a convo about ball.
nikkaz had to pull a reverse racism card.
To even talk about basketball and denounce bird off of race to even get a convo started.
Bird was that dominant that nikkaz would make ground rules of black power Intimidation.
That you better not even mention bird, that is how dominant a player bird was.
nikkaz sleep,....
these mental midget ass nikkaz would have never got paid or any of that if bias lived.
nikkaz lucky mike came along sith air Jordan cause you would have had black bird's weapons on, PERIOD.
WHICH was the only hard body shoe on the market and ever for that time.
For thirty dollars a pop, you was killin the land in a pair of bird weapons, killin the land.
All because bird had this shyt on COMPLETE fukk'N LOCK.
like as a black man, you knew you had no outlet in life and knew playing bball back then.
was not even worth it because the Celts had that shyt on so much lock.
:dead::dead::dead:

Real talk! Especially from a cultural aspect
 
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