Bron loves the spotlight, with that comes the haters like Riley who also like the spotlight. We all knew east was no match for the west this year. I don't reckon Bron giving other champion teams an asterisk, Riley should leave it for the fans to talk about it if they want to. But since he loves attention, he HAD to say that. Riley knows he was just a middle man to free up the cap space, and miami big 3 did the rest. Old man still salty after all those years.
Pat Riley: “Lakers beat us fair and square, but there’s always going to be that asterisk”
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Love Riley for his time with the Lakers and thanks for the chips
but would the pistons at full strength if isiah ankle wasn’t fukked up would have won the 88 finals
but would the pistons at full strength if isiah ankle wasn’t fukked up would have won the 88 finals
Cmon Pat, you can put an asterisk on a few championships if we looking at injuries.
Kinguno
The Immortal
Pat Riley whole career a fabrication where it starts at the core because a guy fell off a bike. If said guy doesn’t fall off bike Pat Riley doesn’t coach. He didn’t do shyt with the Knicks it was the knickerbockers on the court. Wade won them all them titles and he disrespected Wade in so many ways wasting his prime, under paying him, over paying bums, drafting bums, and other shyt man was going to go back to the Lakers but then Buss may he Rest In Peace gave the Heat Shaq. So technically Jerry Buss should have another ring. I say this all to say this the whites propped up this white man because he spoke in code to them and he rode the wave of actions done by the players which he then received credit for because of racism. When he didn’t have stars his teams were bad and he still gets credit and propped up. Magic was a drama queen. Shaq was a drama queen. Ewing played with Drama queens. Wade as we know is a drama queen. Man got credit for the Heatles when they planned it earlier from when they signed their second contracts. Pat Riley did do one thing he trademarked “three-peat”. They call a black man gangster how do they visualize that against how they do that for a white man he’s wearing a suit, nice watch, and nice shoes. The ways he’s disrespected the players go under the radar but listen you guys he likes to have the players run all day, work out early, and get their body fat measured he’s so tough and he’s a boss 
What basketball boss pays Hassan Whiteside 98 MILLION?
What basketball boss pays Hassan Whiteside 98 MILLION?
Jordan>>LeFrozen
It was written in the Bible
There was hella asterisk talk on here when the warriors won. It got worse when they lost once Lebron had Kyrie and love back the following year, but then KD joined and took all the attention. With all due respect you must of not been on here often if you didn’t see people try to disregard that 2015 chip. The “no Kyrie and love” was a major talking point and even to this day when it comes to discussing Bron rings. You literally had to not have been paying attention to not have seen it at some point
nonetheless all of this is silly either way. Lakers won fiat and square, Riles should have just left it at that
facts... we beat them fair & square in '88 bro, i'm disgusted with riles because he's better than this
look, i'm all for having honest, constructive criticism of king james if warranted. but c'mon this is just some hate shyt. no one with any basketball sense ever said the 2015 ring for the warriors was an asterisk ring just like this 2020 ring for the world champs doesn't have an asterisk either
Lakerman0834
Veteran
hes hurt because personal vs bron
Biscayne
Ocean air
The Lakers didn’t go on their huge run in a game 1, until the Dragic injury in the 2nd quarter. Up until that point it was a close back and fourth game with hella lead changes. Games 3-4-5 were all close games in which Miami either won or Miami almost won. You think it’s unreasonable to believe that with a healthy Dragic taking those Nunn and Herro minutes that Miami couldn’t have won Game 4, and potentially take a 3-2 series lead?
THE MACHINE
night owl
Lakers didn’t have their starting point guard the entire bubble though 
Flex Luger
Job Is Finished
Oh okay
Kinguno
The Immortal
The media put an asterisk on it first by having Bron almost win Finals MVP. Finals MVP is a vote among 11 people picked at random among the media historically. Over the last few years certain Disney and Turner employees have gotten to vote that we know are Bronsexuals Brian Windhorst and Rachel Nichols. In 2015 the media publications that got a vote was USA Today, NBA.com, Bleacher Report, CBSSports.com, ESPN Radio, Akron Beacon Journal, Grantland, San Francisco Chronicle, and Yahoo Sports. It was a 7-4 vote with Iggy barely winning. Then the media were interviewing themselves about how they felt the Warriors didn’t win it because the injuries. All these media people have podcasts with fans that don’t watch the game but listen and view the NBA from them. Players on teams that lost most notably the Clippers kept talking about how injuries cost them. The narrative that every team had a point guard get hurt. Fans of teams that weren’t the Warriors would write or call into shows asking about the asterisk. Then 2016 happened long story short by losing 2015 became more of an asterisk. Signing KD made 2017 a another asterisk because for sure the Warriors were fukked up and the Cavs were in their head (according to the media and cavs players that’s why they beat them on Christmas). Long story short Curry was seen as a blip on the Bron storm view until KD went there and then from there it became a KD thing with the media and fans working in different ways to give credit to Steph to undermine KD not realizing it was undermining their whole run in hindsight the Warriors became so hated before KD they were called arrogant and soft. They were liked for a few months but since then there have been many attempts to poke holes into their run from so many ways. For me it sucks that Mark Jackson got the team stolen he took them from 23 wins to 47 wins to 51 wins. When Curry took off in 2015 that roster had a bunch of fat trimmed off and Curry was next level. After they won they talked back to the haters which gave them more hate coming into 2016 they were doing great until because of the hate the blazers didn’t wipe the floor quick and Steph slipped. 2016 Finals nobody cared what happened to the Warriors from the suspension to Klay being ejected or even that weird shyt with the players’s families being stuck on a bus for hours by the Cleveland Police. So once again the Warriors struck back at the hate by getting KD. If say they didn’t win until KD went this would be so different to the narratives people love Lebron would’ve won multiple titles in Cleveland then the Warriors could’ve had their run with KD and been appreciated. But the Bay Area changed forcing the black people out, the team built a new arena on the other side of the bay, there was an infusion of money pushing more people out, the media out there lost jobs because when ever a team gets great ESPN hires local writers ( they did in Miami) they were hiring people who just moved there (When Bron went to Miami huge number of people made the same move because they were or are still in the Bron Business) making OGs feel a way leading them to attack an metaphorically equal to that in KD. Add the fact that KD is a tall darkskin Black man who wasn’t afraid to tell the media how they were. It’s very interesting how it all works that from the court we get so much from sneakers, video games, podcasts, books, movies, YouTube videos, articles, money and so much armchair psychology that feeds into itself even more. Over the last few years there have been books that came out about the Shaq and Kobe Lakers they speak to the past now we got books about today while today still happening with the GMs and players telling secrets to the media that their rivals can then read. The CAVS from top to bottom sent emails to the league about Draymond to get him suspended and denied it but in a book written by Brian Windhorst the email is there. Of these books only a small portion is done by black writers. These white media people make up narratives then ask questions about them then make those spread as reporting then make books about it to go on sports shows where that becomes narrative and used for a day or week. So much is lost over the the time but certain things stick to boost up or knock down over time.
