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

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Isn't his job to win? Wtf he in the wrong career if he looking for just fun

A breh earlier in the thread explained it. He went from rebuilding to now needing to build a title team in 1-2 years since bron wasn’t signing no long term deals. I guess he was just stressed out

Also I think this is getting overblown. As usual it’s not about Bron himself it’s about his dikkriding groupies. Just read an article that Brons camp hit up Griff today for an explanation and Griff said they took him out of context and he was speaking about the media parade around Bron. Similar to what KD said last year. Bron the person ain’t the issue it’s the way the media and fans act that’s the issue.
 

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bron gets none of the blame... :dwillhuh:

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dudes tripping over themselves and they momma to blame bron for everything...legm, lecoach, on and on. not saying he doesn't deserve some of the blame, but dude saying he gets NONE of the blame...lol right. now watch him try to cop pleas and hide his hands like he didn't just throw a whole bucket of rocks.
 
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bron gets none of the blame... :dwillhuh:

:laff:

dudes tripping over themselves and they momma to blame bron for everything...legm, lecoach, on and on. not saying he doesn't deserve some of the blame, but dude saying he gets NONE of the blame...lol right. now watch him try to cop pleas and hide his hands like he didn't just throw a whole bucket of rocks.

He's clearly talking about the media never blaming him not random people on the internet.

The media goes out of their way to blame everyone but LeBron. Why do you think there's always the topic of "does LeBron have enough help"? And whenever he wins the media runs with the comparisons to Jordan. Players and GMs see this shyt and don't like it.
 

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He's clearly talking about the media never blaming him not random people on the internet.

The media goes out of their way to blame everyone but LeBron. Why do you think there's always the topic of "does LeBron have enough help"? And whenever he wins the media runs with the comparisons to Jordan. Players and GMs see this shyt and don't like it.
Care to give some examples, when the media didn’t blame lebron for losing?
 

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They wrote the N word on that man house out in LA :scust: and the Media been spinning his story with a negative slant the moment he refused to say no to a CaC Owner :mjpls: To this day I dun remember seeing one CaC in the media turn on Rapistburger for being accused twice...:mjtf:....but steady with the Smoke for Henny for crossing the street on a red :what:..If you nikkas dun wake up and see this for what it is...:usure: ...They will not allow famous Breh's to enjoy success and retire with reputations in tact.....:smugbiden:...Sidney Poitier knew damn well what he was doing staying the fukk out of dodge on an island and talking to the media once a year:manny:
 

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He's clearly talking about the media never blaming him not random people on the internet.

The media goes out of their way to blame everyone but LeBron. Why do you think there's always the topic of "does LeBron have enough help"? And whenever he wins the media runs with the comparisons to Jordan. Players and GMs see this shyt and don't like it.
....the media doesn’t? You really believe the media does that? nikkas on Fox Sports have gotten shows based off hating on Bron. Like.....are y’all serious right now? LeBron gets days worth of segments about being excited at a stupid ass AAU game.

You can’t believe that. LeBron gets criticized for every single fukking thing he does. Dude can’t post some shyt on IG without First Take dissecting if it’s appropriate or not smh
 

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He's clearly talking about the media never blaming him not random people on the internet.

The media goes out of their way to blame everyone but LeBron. Why do you think there's always the topic of "does LeBron have enough help"? And whenever he wins the media runs with the comparisons to Jordan. Players and GMs see this shyt and don't like it.
that's bullshyt. media be on the blame game with bron just like everyone else. media is just more passive aggressive with it.

a coach gets fired, all bron's fault. a player gets disgruntled about his shine like kyrie was. bron's fault. players get traded, bron wasn't happy with the roster according to the media. team doesn't gel as well as people thought they should like la last year, bron's fault.

the media was on his azz after the decision. lol at media going out of their way not to blame bron. in what bizzaro world are you living in? :mjlol:
 

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The reality is, when you have an elite player (or players), there is a great deal of pressure to win. And the grind of it wears on everyone.

There isnt a GM anywhere, ever, in ANY SPORT who was part of a big time contender or dynasty that wasnt exhausted or took less joy in the job as time went on.

I'm pretty sure everything he said about LeBron is 100% accurate, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a privileged white dude who is very publicly whining about having to do a job for which he's paid millions of dollars.

Imagine if any player won a ring and then immediately left their team because it's too hard and stressful having to put in the work and practice required to win a championship, and it's much less stressful to play for a team with no aspirations at all...

This is some sucker sh*t

Lebron has never said a negative word about this dude

Griffin overrated btw

He gets credit for looking smart compared to the average dumb gm

100 on all the above quoted posters ..

Griff is probably right about everything except that LeBron gets none if the blame, anybody who says that is obviously trying to spin a narrative. There's no way you can tout that as true unless you're trying to shape a narrative...

I do think Bron's move to LA didn't prioritize winning, but the last two years Bron spent in Cleveland, you can't see a guy still fight for a spot in The Finals and say winning isn't important to him...

But the move to LA, winning clearly wasn't priority #1...

Also, this has to be said, Griff was a brand new GM when Bron came home, had been on the job for like 5 months. Now, I'll say that I believe Griff is very much a competent GM, and I think he's looking really good with the Pels right now, but he gotta prove he can win without LeBron, not the other way around, so in that sense, his ass is overrated. He got to three Finals in a row with Bron and got a championship, time to show he can do it without one of the best players ever...

His remarks aren't gonna age well if we look back in 7 years and the only time he even made a conference final was with LeBron James, let alone a chip...

Furthermore, he is coming off like an entitled, whiny a$$hole. Execs, players, coaches for dynasties or teams that sustain greatness for a long time, it is NEVER easy. The Seattle Seahawks were the most dominant team in the NFC from 2011-2016 and Pete Carroll, an experienced NFL and NCAA coach, has said it wasn't easy at all---->it's never easy. There are egos from ownership to players to coaches to exec's, and the amount of work and pressure it takes to sustain high level of play is nervewracking...

Griff is probably mostly right in his sentiment, but he is def not above criticism for these remarks. What the fukk has he accomplished away from LeBron? Did he really think the position of leading an annual championship contender comes with no pressure, no drama?

Good luck to dude and I like him, but these comments were petty and he just made himself a marked man in this New Orleans rebuild. They better be contending for titles in 3-4 years under his guidance or these comments are gonna bite him in the ass...
 

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Your legacy is set in stone when u retire, this whole notion that a player still in his statistical prime can just coast for the rest of his career because he has 3 rings is hilarious:russ:

If you dont have anything to prove then get ur ass off the court
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And other star players of this same era are building legitimate legacies of their own.... You think Bron can just sit on those 3 rings for the rest of his career when there are 2 other super star small forwards in the league who could match that number next year?:usure:

If Bron had 5 rings right now I'd think differently, but for all his GOAT claims he sure hasn't done much to outpace his competition in winning. Why is everybody eating in the Lebron era?

Lebrons legacy AS IS will have many holes in it that wont stand the test of time if hes doesn't win another ring. Honestly I think he needs 2 more rings to really separate himself from his contemporaries.
Who is his contemporary? :mjtf:

That bytch KD?
 
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....the media doesn’t? You really believe the media does that? nikkas on Fox Sports have gotten shows based off hating on Bron. Like.....are y’all serious right now? LeBron gets days worth of segments about being excited at a stupid ass AAU game.

You can’t believe that. LeBron gets criticized for every single fukking thing he does. Dude can’t post some shyt on IG without First Take dissecting if it’s appropriate or not smh

:gucci: Skip Bayless is just one man. On FS1 alone you got 4 LeBron dikkriders with major shows (Nick Wright, Cris Carter, Shannon Sharpe, and Colin Cowherd).

For every allegedly negative Bron story there's always 4-5 that are making excuses for him. Act like Nick Wright's show isn't a LeBron stan propaganda production.
 
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