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2011 2012 2013 coulda been a 3-peat but i guess DWade fukked it up righ
Bron from 2011-2018 had 8 consecutive finals appearances, from 2019-2023.... 1 finals appearance. What changed?
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Nah it doesn’t work like that. We gave Bron 2x the amount of time as MJ to convince us and he still trying, it ran its course.
Whether you or I like or dislike MJ doesn’t change history.
murksiderock
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Woulda been a good series but nothing suggests the Bucks were ready for that degree of ball with how they choked the year prior; how they took advantage of inferior competition the year after; and how they've never replicated that fluke year since...
"Nothing but killers out the gate"...
Kobe managed to choke series to the Phoenix Suns, who were such killers.....they lost to the Mavs...who were then backdoored in the NBA Finals.
The Suns were such killers they never, not even ONE TIME, made it thru the gauntlet to represent the West in The Finals
Remember the Lob City Killers? What a fun time, can you remind me who they beat? Did they ever even win two playoff series?
You nikkas hate for LeBron is really love, the only teams that were consistently problematic in The West during his 15-year East career, was San Antonio, Los Angeles, and later Golden State. All those teams would be less successful if he spent 15 years in conference with them, and all those other "killer" West teams would have been food for him the same way they were food for LA, SA, and GS...
VegetasHairline
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Mister Terrific
It’s Great to be a Michigan Wolverine
He’s convinced half the league already
In an anonymous poll of 142 NBA players conducted by The Athletic, Michael Jordan narrowly edged out LeBron James as the greatest player in NBA history, with 45.9% of the vote to James' 42.1%. This is the first time the lead in the poll was this narrow, with Jordan previously holding a larger lead in previous years
Who is the NBA GOAT: LeBron or Jordan? For current players, longevity is narrowing the gap
According to our player poll, the greatest of all time hasn't changed. But it's not as clear-cut as it was even a year ago.
www.nytimes.com
You’re old and retarded
Sunalmighty
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he mentioned sidney moncrief like sidney was a scrub
- 5× NBA All-Star (1982–1986)
- All-NBA First Team (1983)
- 4× All-NBA Second Team (1982, 1984–1986)
- 2× NBA Defensive Player of the Year (1983, 1984)
- 4× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1983–1986)
- NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1982)
murksiderock
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In Bron's 15-year East career:
•the Spurs went 3-1 in 4 Finals and 4-3 in 7 WCF;
•the Lakers went 2-2 in 4 Finals and 4-0 in 4 WCF;
•the Warriors went 3-1 in 4 Finals and 4-0 in 4 WCF
Bron took a series apiece off SA and GS, so logically you can deduce one less Finals run for either team, so instead of 4 Finals appearances, they would have max of 3, and 2 Finals runs to LeBron....
You can logically say he'd take a Finals run away from the Lakers too. So at the bare minimum, if Bron played his 15 years in The West, he'd have 3 Finals appearances, and the Lakers, Spurs, and Warriors would all have 3 Finals appearances...
He never lost 3 Finals in a row so we know he wouldn't be 0-3 in those Finals. He's a better player at peak than the peak versions of the best players on those teams, so you could really give him more than 3 Finals runs, and subtract from those other guys. Those guys got to eat because it wasn't no LeBron in The West and beat up on Pretender West squads...
If he spent 15 years in The West he'd still be a multiple-time champion with several Finals runs...
•the Spurs went 3-1 in 4 Finals and 4-3 in 7 WCF;
•the Lakers went 2-2 in 4 Finals and 4-0 in 4 WCF;
•the Warriors went 3-1 in 4 Finals and 4-0 in 4 WCF
Bron took a series apiece off SA and GS, so logically you can deduce one less Finals run for either team, so instead of 4 Finals appearances, they would have max of 3, and 2 Finals runs to LeBron....
You can logically say he'd take a Finals run away from the Lakers too. So at the bare minimum, if Bron played his 15 years in The West, he'd have 3 Finals appearances, and the Lakers, Spurs, and Warriors would all have 3 Finals appearances...
He never lost 3 Finals in a row so we know he wouldn't be 0-3 in those Finals. He's a better player at peak than the peak versions of the best players on those teams, so you could really give him more than 3 Finals runs, and subtract from those other guys. Those guys got to eat because it wasn't no LeBron in The West and beat up on Pretender West squads...
If he spent 15 years in The West he'd still be a multiple-time champion with several Finals runs...
murksiderock
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Plenty of people think he is, you know that even if you disagree...
Bro none of these young nikkas or they teams fukking with apex LeBron...Year 22 expectations
2012-2018 Lebron sweeps Anthony Edwards and Julius Randle and the rest of this conference.
I wanna see Minnesota win it all and I'm rooting for Randle, who is playing the best ball of his life. But Randle is historucally unreliable this time of year, peak versions of Bron is embarrassing this nikka. Ant is in Y5 and the bill is coming due soon on him getting to The Finals...
Jokic 10 years in this thang wirh only one Finals run...
Kawhi has spent his entire career save one season in The West, and has never led a Finals run as a #1 in this conference. Same for Harden, nearly entire career here and no Finals runs as a #1...
Booker's fluke Finals run came in a covid year and has done nothing to replicate that one genie in a bottle season, he's a career loser...
CP3 spent his whole career in The West and just has the one fluke year...
The Houston Rockets, from this iteration going backwards to the Yao/McGrady era, are underperformed generation after generation...
Luka is 7 years in with one Finals appearance he was thoroughly embarrassed in...
Shai is 7 years in with no Finals runs and is gonna get real heat if his teamz currently 72-14 on the year, can't win it all. But to date he already couldn't elevate as a 1-seed last year...
This conference is full of one-offs and Pretenders, only exception being Steph The Great. LeBron in his prime at the same time the rest of these guys? He'd be spanking these nikkas year after year...
Leonard Washington
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You asked what did he have to do with this, and I laid out why he may have been brought into the discussionmaybe, maybe not. but that holds no weight in my comments. i didn't bring up Mike, he did. but the facts are facts. there are HUNDREDS of comments where lebron disciples SLANDER JORDAN because of lebron stats at 40. they bring up his wizards years minus context (3 year layoff and playing on a torn meniscus) but as soon as lebron loses, its because he's 40 and the expectations are adjusted because of his age.
VegetasHairline
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LeShambles 
Actually bud, you are the one who didn't think this one thru... which i understand because you are the proverbial LeBron stan... which is why i don't ever really bother responding.. but just to be clear...
I said this:
aka i didn't claim he was the reason Cleveland lost the 2009 series. I didn't bother reading the other stuff you jotted down... because everyone else understands what i'm saying by the boogeyman comment and they see i'm speaking from the perspective of someone who's watched his career since onset and neither subscribes to being an insecure hater of his or a dikkriding stan
HNIC973
R.I.P Bandana P
East vs West
I find it funny that you kats need to slander old man Bron just to make you feel validated in your belief that he'd not succeed out west
.If Bron started out in the west, he'd definitely have better squads, and would still have had at least 4 rings. Maybe more actually, since he'd have a better team.
Imagine him getting drafted by the Nuggets instead of Melo
. Buddy might have gotten 3 rings by 2011.
That nikka is a scrub with no heart
Multiple all star appearances and all nbas while having 25 K points makes you a scrub now
Breh you don’t know ball
