Realistically Speaking - How Many More Rings Can LeBron Win?

[Professor Emeritus]

It depends on a ton of shyt. Other teams' rosters, his own roster, staying injury-free, injuries on his own team or other teams, whether he continues playing an extra 5-6 years after he's not 1st-team All-NBA like Duncan did or goes out on top like Jordan...don't see how you can even begin to guess.

There are 30 teams in the NBA and so much shyt happens, so it seems pretty much impossible to me that he has enough time to win more than 2-3 more. But I wouldn't be surprised if he never wins another one, especially if the Warriors stay together.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Pretend you didn't cape and deflect for Zaza with comments and daps on Bruce Bowen and "commonality" of that type of "defense" brehs

I dapped those posts because Popovich was being a hypocrite. He defended Bowen when he did that shyt as a player, but is now crucifying ZaZa for the same thing. I would've done the same thing if Durant got injured on a similar play, and Kerr came out ranting and he had a history of defending that type of behavior. For the record, I believe ZaZa was well aware that when he shuffled his feet into Kawhi's landing path, he knew his clumsiness could've injured Kawhi. Whether or not it was an intentional dirty play is another thing altogether, but he was aware of what he was doing with his feet, and what damaged they could've caused.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

It depends on a ton of shyt. Other teams' rosters, his own roster, staying injury-free, injuries on his own team or other teams, whether he continues playing an extra 5-6 years after he's not 1st-team All-NBA like Duncan did or goes out on top like Jordan...don't see how you can even begin to guess.

There are 30 teams in the NBA and so much shyt happens, so it seems pretty much impossible to me that he has enough time to win more than 2-3 more. But I wouldn't be surprised if he never wins another one, especially if the Warriors stay together.

Why is it so hard for everyone else to see this? Everyone, or at least the majority should be of the same opinion.

 

[Chabot College]

This will be one of those great threads to bump after the Warriors win the chip and people try to play the revisionist history card and act Lebron never had a chance against the "unfairly" stacked Warriors.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

3-4

No excuse not to win every year. He's a top 3 goat with 2 other all stars behind him

What's the point of coming onto a message board and just lying off your ass in every comment? Last year during the Finals you were saying that Lebron was completely outmatched by the Warriors and had no chance of winning without the NBA's help.

Now the Warriors ADD an MVP, and you claim that Lebron has the win easy?


Lebron gets girls so up in their feelings that they begin revolving their online lives around trying to troll-hate on him.

 

[Remote]

I dapped those posts because Popovich was being a hypocrite. He defended Bowen when he did that shyt as a player, but is now crucifying ZaZa for the same thing. I would've done the same thing if Durant got injured on a similar play, and Kerr came out ranting and he had a history of defending that type of behavior. For the record, I believe ZaZa was well aware that when he shuffled his feet into Kawhi's landing path, he knew his clumsiness could've injured Kawhi. Whether or not it was an intentional dirty play is another thing altogether, but he was fully aware of where his feet were.

So you're NOT and have not been rooting for the Warriors for the last few years?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Why is it so hard for everyone else to see this? Everyone, or at least the majority should be of the same opinion.

Come in here dropping wisdom and all I ever catch from you are negs.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Come in here dropping wisdom and all I ever catch from you are negs.

You stay droppin' wisdom, that doesn't mean you can't be a fukk nikka from time to time. Hell, I should know I'm exactly the same.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You stay droppin' wisdom, that doesn't mean you can't be a fukk nikka from time to time. Hell, I should know I'm exactly the same.

Meh, I catch enough negs from you on bs, don't get any love when you like what I have to say.

p.s. - you might have me for an enemy pretty soon again, since another prediction of yours from one of our arguments is quietly coming apart.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Meh, I catch enough fukking negs from you on bullshyt, don't get any love when you like what I have to say.

p.s. - you might have me for a fukk brotha pretty soon again, since another prediction of yours from one of our arguments is quietly coming apart.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You:

And that's another thing folk have to take into account, Kyrie raises his game in the playoffs, whereas from what we've seen from Wall - he trends in the opposite direction.

Kyrie raises his game in the playoffs because his skillset allows him to.

Y'all LeBron stans should be happy that there's a dude next to him that can pick up his game when it matters.

While Wall is the better defender (margin isn't as great on a general scale - especially when Kyrie ups his activity level in the playoffs)....

As a side note: Irving's defense throughout the majority of the playoffs was borderline great (mainly during the first 2-3 rounds), especially down the stretch of games where he'd make plays like this.....

Kyrie doesn't just raise his game on offense in the playoffs (that includes his playmaking - it was basically a 60/40 split between LeBron and him during the EC-run), but his defense too. He can be bulldog when he wants to be.....

Me:

The weird thing though is that Kyrie sucked at defense back when he wasn't making the postseason too. And in 2015 while he was hurting. So far the 2016 postseason was a unique event.

And you're basing the idea he can pick his defense up mostly on last year's Finals and not much else, right?

So you're confirming that you're basing the idea that he elevates his defense for the postseason on one postseason, right?


I'm not saying you're wrong, I want you to be right because I'm rooting for the Cavs to be great, but I'm not confident there's a whole lot of predictive power there.

I don't want it to be another one....but this might be another one.


p.s. - making the search to find those comments, you been saying some MAD irrational things about Kyrie since he came into the league.


I can see why you get in your feelings about him taking a back seat to Lebron.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Oh, hell naw @The Dankster. I know you saw Al Horford taking your mans off the dribble to the hole?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You:








Me:






I don't want it to be another one....but this might be another one.

You do know that Irving is playing with a bad knee right? And I mean are we just gonna ignore his postseason last year? And what he did in the Finals? You think that was all a fluke? We rewriting history right now?

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p.s. - making the search to find those comments, you been saying some MAD irrational things about Kyrie since he came into the league.

His defense has actually been pretty good in the playoffs, but again he's still struggling with his knee. If anything my comments about Kyrie's ability/play over the years were proven to be true last season.

I can see why you get in your feelings about him taking a back seat to Lebron.

Why should I? He'll NEVER be the player LeBron is, it was better for his growth to have a player like that come to takeover. Especially with the garbage he was surrounded with beforehand, he needed a player like Bron to steer him in the right direction. You should be eternally grateful to Kyrie, because without him you'd probably have to drop a lot of the material you use to defend Bron.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You do know that Irving is playing with a bad knee right? And I mean are we just gonna ignore his postseason last year? And what he did in the Finals? You think that was all a fluke? We rewriting history right now?

He had a great Finals last year. That doesn't mean that you "know" he raises his play for the postseason. You're basing that claim on literally ONE postseason (mostly around what he did against an opposing point guard who wasn't 100% in the Finals) and using it to disregard what he's shown in every regular season of his career.

Why should I? He'll NEVER be the player LeBron is, it was better for his growth to have a player like that come to takeover. Especially with the garbage he was surrounded with beforehand, he needed a player like Bron to steer him in the right direction. You should be eternally grateful to Kyrie, because without him you'd probably have to drop a lot of the material you use to defend Bron.

Hmmm....sometimes you just struck a little bit of a different tone.

Kyrie has shown more clutch ability in one and a half seasons, than LeBron did in seven seasons

kyrie might be the goat

kyrie is already the goat.

This thread is disrespectful to the GAWD Kyrie.

I've never seen any team mate of Bron's, treat him like Kyrie does. bron getting that lil nikka treatment.

KYRIE THE REAL LEADER OF THE TEAM

Kyrie da gawd.

KYRIE DA GAWD MVP WORLD CHAMPION... WHILE WALL WAS SITTING HIS ASS AT HOME.

@360Waves

Kyrie out there saving Brons from embarrassing himself. Brons jumpers -

Is that why Kyrie has not only been the Cavs' best player in the Finals but arguably their best player in the playoffs? If it weren't for him this series would already be over.

Like I said Kyrie has been the Cavs MVP in this series. LeBron killing the Cavs' offense. Again.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Kyrie Irving dealing with soreness in surgically repaired left knee

During the third quarter of last night’s game against the Hawks, Kyrie Irving briefly left the Cavaliers’ bench and headed back to the Cavs’ locker room. On the bench, he could be seen getting his left knee attended to by the Cavs’ medical staff. When he went back to the locker room, the medical team and Cavs GM David Griffin went back with Irving as well.

Irving, though, did return. But that doesn’t mean all is right with his left knee - the same one that required surgery after he injured it during Game 1 of the 2015 NBA Finals. According to Irving, Thursday’s off day “a terrible day for me and my knee,” per cleveland.com.

"It just, I don't want it to feel sore anymore but it's just the realization of it," Irving said per cleveland.com. "I'm doing everything possible to take care of my body, I've got a clear conscience with that. But also understand that sometimes it's gonna hurt. And I gotta be able to deal with it.”

When Cavs coach Tyronn Lue was asked about Irving’s knee and if he would reconsider his plan to not rest Irving (or LeBron James) until the Cavs officially lock up the No. 1 seed, he was noncommittal.

"I don't know," Lue said during his post game press conference. I know 'Bron wanted this one pretty bad and he didn't want to come out of the game. He said, 'This is big, we need this one.' I don't know if guys were tired. I just know we didn't respect those guys."

Irving’s knee now becomes something to watch as the regular wraps up and the playoffs start. Irving’s ability as a creator and a score are essentially to the Cavs’ title chances and they’ll need him at his if they are to repeat.

And it may be worth it just to rest him now regardless of the seeding. There’s not much upside to him playing games if it makes his knee worse or puts him at risk of injury. And at worst, it Irving’s knee adds another layer of drama to the Cavs’ season.

He's probably been dealing with this shyt for months, as you can clearly see he's still dealing with mobility issues in the PS. He ain't moving like he was last season.