You really typed up a lot of shyt to confirm that you don't know anything about ball. I'm defending the sanctity of basketball, idiots like you watch first take every morning and think you're experts on the game.. It's sickening.
Kobe was a killer right? It's funny ya'll got more smoke for Bron losing to a team with two MVPs and two all-stars with cats like Kyle Korver and Dellavadova than you do for any of Kobe's losses:
- lost in 6 to the Spurs in the second round with Shaq
- lost in 5 to the Pistons with no superstar
- didn't make the playoffs in 05
- blew a 3-1 lead in 06 to the Suns
- lost in 5 to the Suns in 07
- lost to the Celtics in 6 and got blown out in the elimination game
- got swept in the second round against the Mavs as a higher seed
- lost to the baby thunder in 5 in 2012
Kobe is a legend but you clowns wave off or contextualize any of his losses and act like anytime Lebron loses when his team is outmatched is an indictment on his career.
As for the other shytty narratives you co-opted from Skip bayless:
- Losing on massive scale? Lebron has won at the same rate as Duncan, Kareem, Shaq, Kobe, etc. And has always won as the engine of his team. If 4 rings in 18 seasons is losing at massive scale then all of those cats were losers as well. Unless you're an idiot that thinks losing in the finals is somehow worse than losing in the first or second round, which I suppose is the case.
- Statistically he is probably the greatest player ever.
- Ya'll penalize dude for getting drafted by one of the worst franchises ever.. A franchise that never won shyt before he played for them or after he played for them. So Bron is penalized for changing teams in free agency instead of having the luxury of being drafted on a team with Shaq or Kareem or having his front office draft Scottie Pippen. Instead, Lebron played for a team that didn't want to trade JJ Hickson for Amare Stoudamire and he's criticized for leaving via free agency when most players would have done the same. Kobe is on video cussing out Mitch for not trading half the roster to get Jason Kidd.
- Those Boston Celtics that you call senile were 30 when they teamed up.. The same age as Harden and KD are now and the same age as Bron when he first went back to Cleveland. Ya'll nikkas aren't even consistent with your arguments... You're over here typing up essays about Bron losing at 36 in his 18th season but act like three nikkas teaming up at age 30 should be disregarded because of age.
- Ya'll bring up Ray hitting that clutch shot and ignore that Lebron scored 12 points in the 4th quarter of that game to erase a 10 point deficit. Ya'll love bringing up Kyrie's shot and ignore that Bron hit a clutch three to give the Cavs the lead right before Kyrie's shot, averaged a triple double during that finals, and dropped 41 in back to back games to force a game 7.
- The 2014 finals when Bron averaged 28 PPG on 70% TS while Wade averaged 15 PPG on 50% TS? The Spurs had FIVE players that performed better than Wade in that series. Wade's knees were shot after four straight years of making the finals, he was never the same player after that but somehow the Heat losing that series falls squarely on Bron. Like I said, shyt analysis from nikkas that don't actually watch the games.
- Exactly, Delladova went to the hospital because he was not equipped to play such a large role on the biggest stage. The fact that you're trying to sell him as anything but a role player who shouldn't see more than a few minutes a game proves the agenda you clowns have. Dude has been racking up DNPs for the last 5-6 years but somehow Lebron is supposed to win with him as his second best player. Shows how delusional you nikkas are.
- I guess having the most playoff buzzer beaters in NBA history isn't clutch. Bron got more playoff game winners than Jordan and Kobe and has led the league in 4th quarter scoring for a number of years throughout his career. You nikkas come with the same recycled narratives that are easily disproven if you ever bothered to watch the sport.
You don't even know what you're talking about. Who are these other players that are "statistically better at everything".. point to actual numbers. Lebron lost to the Spurs twice- once at 22 on a team with boobie gibson and delonte west. If you think that's the Spurs taking turns on him then I'd love to see what you gotta say about what the Celtics and Pistons did to Jordan. Lebron's losses can easily be contextualized by anyone that bothered to watch the games. Kawhi got outplayed by Lebron and won finals MVP because he was on a balanced historic team with several great players. Lebron was on a team running on fumes with two co-stars that were never the same after that season.
Lebron played eight seasons with weak supporting casts (2003-2010, 2018), two seasons on injured teams (2014 and 2015) which leaves about six strong teams (2011-2013, 2016-2017, 2020). In 2017, he faced one of the greatest teams ever assembled. According to your shytty logic, KD and Steph should be considered better players than Bron because they were able to beat Bron with Kevin Love as his best teammate. I guess that means Isiah Thomas, Dumars, and Bird are all better than Jordan and Nash is better than Kobe.