What I said was a possibility, one of many. I didn't ignore anything. The thread question didn't ask me to give an analysis of every team's chances of winning. It asks, how many more do I believe he can win. Not how many more he will win. For all I know he'll never win another, or maybe he'll win 5 more who knows?
I'm ignoring the rest of your dumb shyt because it has no relevance. This thread is asking for a realistic projeciton of how many more rings he can win (I'm assuming as the #1 option), that means within the realm of REALISTIC possibility. There's a possiblity I could fly to the moon in the next five years, it doesn't make it a
realistic possibility now does it?
This is prior to the game tonight (he surpassed 50,000 minutes in G1) -
By the time next season finishes, he's likely to finish around 53,000 - most of the players who've been fortunate enough to play as many minutes as that have either been on the steady decline or are role player status. Now if we were to take this in a vacuum, the possibility of LeBron playing high level minutes as a #1 option for the next three seasons while keeping this level of impact/production (even allowing a little leeway for a decline) is almost zero to none. Y'all folk speak as if LeBron is just going to keep going at this rate forever and ever, Amen. He's not the typical 32-year-old, he's got the mileage of someone 3-4 years older, and then some.
Then we get into the fact that his team needs him to play close to 40 minutes a night to be a competitive contender, what does that tell you about the structure of the team? Is it practical for this team to be reliant upon someone who's played that many minutes to carry them for the next few seasons just to contend? You say the Warriors are gonna break up soon and get weaker (their main pieces are basically at their peaks, and are a lot younger than LeBron)? What is your reasoning for this? Why aren't you giving them the best case scenario like you're doing with the Cavs? Why aren't you giving the best case scenario for every team in the league? Why only give it to the Cavs? You speak about Kyrie entering his prime in three years, how do you know he'll still be playing with his injury history? He's already struggling with a knee injury in these playoffs. What makes you automatically think he'll be healthy for the next 2-3 seasons? What about Love, what happens if he breaks down with his injury history? Look at all the role players on this Cavs team who're nearing the end of their careers, are the Cavs just gonna suddenly pluck role players outta thin air to replace the void (which will get bigger) over the next 2-3 seasons?
What about the other teams and younger stars (even ones who haven't even
come to life yet) who'll be entering their primes over the next 2-3 years? What about teams like the Bucks who are basically a few more pieces/years away from potentially running the league?
There's so much shyt you're not taking into account, you're living in the moment and trying to make "realistic" projections based on looking at LeBron through the lens of how he's playing right now, and not a realistic one of how he will be over the next 2-3 years. And not how different the league will be.
If the Cavs lose in the Finals this season, are you still going to say that LeBron has 2-3+ years of realistically winning a title? If the answer is no, then clearly your projections were never realistic in the first place were they.....
