"Building around LeBron was miserable" -David Griffin (article)

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I was planning on staying out of Bron threads for a bit so I could stay away from the mentally deranged LeTrumps, but :lolbron:
 

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This is just a distraction so that the league does not find out abput bron’s tampering :lolbron:


Bron and griff are cool

Why else would AD get traded to the lakers, even when the owner said she didn’t want to trade him to LA
 

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I mean to be honest even Kyrie gave Bron the credit :mjgrin:

And while Magic was out here being possibly the worst GM in the league, Bron was getting destroyed for the whole trade deadline thing and getting dragged cause the Lakers young core couldn’t win shyt without him. :yeshrug:


they didn't shyt with him neither.

Oh yeah I forgot, they won the 4th place on xmas championship
 

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Difference being MJ wasnt sitting on a one year deal every year with the threat of leaving if you didnt bow to his every demand. And he wasnt getting people signed to absurd contracts like a JR Smith. How can you build a team and attract people there if everyone is on edge about the centerpiece leaving you high and dry?
He wasn't sitting on a one-year deal every year - he had a 3/2 deal.

And who the hell were they supposed to attract? They were done for cap space once they had LeBron, Kyrie and Love on the same team. They had to build through trades, not from attracting free agents. JR's deal had exactly zero effect on their ability to do anything because they were already over the cap no matter how much they paid JR. If they had let him walk, he would have just walked and they still would have been over the cap with nothing in return.


Nah. Zion might not start a sports agency and demand certain guys get paid.
How would that affect the building of the team at all?

I assume you're talking about JR and TT? If they got paid less, you realize....that doesn't change the team situation at all? And if they weren't paid at all, you realize....that you're still stuck with the same team only now you don't have JR and TT?

Cap was $94 million in 2017. Cavs were paying $128 million, including $28 million to JR and TT combined. They could have let JR, TT, and Shump all walk and still wouldn't have had room to replace them with anything more than vet minimums.
 
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The Bron Ball system is it's own GM. Any "figurehead" who assumes that position on a team led by Lebron is just a puppet. That's why Chauncy Billups didnt want no parts of that shyt after Griffin left.

And Griffin is telling the truth about Lebron losing his competitive edge. I think LeBron really sees this time in LA as some kind of victory lap for his career. Taco Tuesdays and Space Jam seem more important to him than winning these days. Hope he realizes that he does have more to prove, his legacy can definitely be tarnished over these next 2-3 years....hell not making the playoffs this year put a sizable dent in his armor.

I just hope he takes next year serious and brings the intensity that he lacked last season. If the Clippers win it all next year Lebron will never live that down
 

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I’d disagree with that. Bron wants a shot at being the GOAT. He can’t be stuck at 3 rings with the Steph Currys and Kawhi and KD are definitely going to win one more before their career ends.

Lebron gotta get to 4-5 to truly be considered. You cats really think Lebron came to LA to just chill? He was backchanneling like a motherfukker... tryna get a super team set up for when he got there
 

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He wasn't sitting on a one-year deal every year - he had a 3/2 deal.

And who the hell were they supposed to attract? They were done for cap space once they had LeBron, Kyrie and Love on the same team. They had to build through trades, not from attracting free agents. JR's deal had exactly zero effect on their ability to do anything because they were already over the cap no matter how much they paid JR. If they had let him walk, he would have just walked and they still would have been over the cap with nothing in return.


aahhhh here we goooooo :mjgrin:
 
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Do people really believe that Mike wasn’t? Other greats weren’t?

Jordan and Kobe were nothing like LeBron. Stop comparing Bron's p*ssy passive aggressive tendencies and need to always shift the blame onto others with straight killers like Jordan and Kobe.

Jordan and Kobe were straight forward. Bron works behind the scenes like a bytch.

This is why I'm convinced most Bron stans are fakkits and pussies. I honestly don't know how anyone can be a fan of the way Bron operates with his passive aggressive bullshyt. I'm sure most men prefer someone like Kobe just yelling at Mitch Kupchuck to his face when he got a problem rather than doing all the weird p*ssy shyt LeBron does.
 
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Jordan and Kobe were nothing like LeBron. Stop comparing Bron's p*ssy passive aggressive tendencies and need to always shift the blame onto others with straight killers like Jordan and Kobe.

Jordan and Kobe were straight forward. Bron works behind the scenes like a bytch.

This is why I'm convinced most Bron stans are fakkits and pussies. I honestly don't know how anyone can be a fan of the way Bron operates with his passive aggressive bullshyt. I'm sure most men prefer someone like Kobe just yelling at Mitch Kupchuck to his face when he got a problem rather than doing all the weird p*ssy shyt LeBron does.

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