Woj still dropping bombs: “Lebron was nearly excluded from the 08 Olympic team”

[ajnapoleon]

How?

They are rewriting history to blame 2004 on a rookie LeBron and Melo, to save the reputation of Larry Brown and Popvich

Why do people not remember

Duncan
AI
Was on this team

 

[10bandz]

be LeGBT brehs

every fukking day there is something these bozos gotta juelz from

 

[10bandz]

nikka your quote was that Kobe missed the playoffs or “got smoked” in the first round when he had bad teammates… my rebuttal was Lebron has done the same even with good teammates.

Hate when y’all bring up dumb shyt then start crying You want me to lay out what the lakers have done the last 5 years for you? Bron literally missed the playoffs his first year in LA.

Kobe with Smush and Kwame gets us just as far as Bron with AD, RW, and Luka

 

[10bandz]

And Lebron was still the best player on the team

absolutely embarrassing

 

[10bandz]

That team was basically Kobe, Dwight and the banana boat crew. You had to have bron

D Wade was the leading scorer and u dont even mention him lol clowns

 

[Diondon]

Peel back the layers
In due time

 

[LV Koopa]

Finals run in 07 and MVP runs starting. If you believe Lebron was ever in danger of being left off the 08 Olympic team you are a fool.

 

[FlyRy]

He’s been getting bounced early for years now, this is normal scheduling for us

Bron about to be the same age as bean when he passed. Bean missed the playoffs at 26

 

[LV Koopa]

Kobe with Smush and Kwame gets us just as far as Bron with AD, RW, and Luka

My god. Extremely dark times for Kobe. Had to feel sorry for him hooping with them bums.

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

Yeah because he was supposed to beat Boston, Orlando, and even LA with Delonte West, Antwan Jamison, and Shaq

So he needed more help

 

[David_TheMan]

Im older. I was there

Larry shares the greatest amount of blame for the teams lack of success. In real time, that's how everybody felt

I'm older too, I remember this team. I remember at the time the reporting was that LeBron,, Melo,, DWade were isolated because Brown wanted to put it all on the veterans and put the younger guys in their place.

So to hear the story try to shift to blaming Bron is very strange.

 

[Jerz-2]

LeBurden

 

[dh86]

I remember Woj used to write foul shyt about LeBron and Chris Paul in the 2008-2010 time period

 

[Damnshow]

Finals are about to happen in a few days and these losers are desperate for names such as Bron or Kobe to keep the attention of casuals

Why do I care what could've happened in 08 when the outcome is that they won that gold medal. This is some chatty patty bullshyt.

 

[Oldschooler]

I also remember this team well because it was supposed to be the redemption team that brought the glory back at the Olympics. It was also the start of social media namely facebook and twitter and some of the players were vlogging during the trip.. Bosh and Howard.

Remember USA had suffered some huge losses in international play prior. In 2004 Olympics they lost by almost 20 points to Puerto Rico in group play, followed by a loss to Lithuania in group play and finally the loss everyone remembers to Argentina in the semifinals. In 2006 FIBA world championship they lost to Greece in the semifinals and Greece ended up losing by damn nearly 30 points to Spain in the championship game so we can probably conclude USA would have lost to Spain in 2006 as well. They made both coaching changes and player personnel changes.

The road to redemption started with winning Gold at the 2007 FIBA Americas championships where they dismantled Puerto Rico and Argentina. USA was winning convincingly against every team averaging almost 117 ppg and 72 opponet ppg - both tournament best. Bron and Melo were easily the best players on that team followed by Kobe.

At the 2008 Olympics it can be argued that Bron was the best player he certainly was stats wise followed by Wade. Defensively Chris Bosh was their best player because he was switching and guarding the pick and roll extremely well.

Therefore I dont buy this narrative that USA basketball was even for a second contemplating leaving Bron out of the Olympics roster when he was one of their best players in 2007. Woj is just bitter because of Brons camp and handlers. Nothing more to see here.