Kyle Lowry: 'They’ve got LeBron James and nobody’s closing the gap on him'

[SchoolboyC]

And they got swept so what's your point?

And the Raptors are significantly more talented them and are about to get swept while losing by even larger margins

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

The player that The Coli NBA and analytic experts claim is better than Jkidd

nikkas tried to argue that he was better than Jason Kidd

fukking morons

Lowry sucks and I say this as a person who's watched the Raptors since their inception in 95

Imagine Jason Kidd saying this.

Kidd called the Pistons the best defensive squad he's seen in his career, and that any team would find it hard to score against them, in 2004 during the actual series (after Game 6 if my memory serves me correctly). You know the same series where Kidd averaged 10 ppg on 28% shooting in 44 mins. You know the series where in Game 7 he went 0-8 and had ZERO points. Or what about when he 'quit' on the Nets and demanded a trade -

Who is he Kidding? Ex-Nets star Jason Kidd quit on team before trade to Mavs

The paycheck should be enough, right? Millions of direct-deposit dollars should represent the only source of motivation needed for the professional athlete in search of a cause.

But that's fantasy league logic. Real-world circumstance tells us that ballplayers who aren't employed by championship contenders, who don't have passionate fan bases, and who barely cling to the false hopes tethered to the last playoff seed often strike an uninspired pose.

Ballplayers like the Nets.

They know they can't win it all. They know the franchise is focusing on a who-knows-when move to Brooklyn. And they know that missing the postseason for the first time since 2001 would be met by a sweeping wave of indifference back home.

They should also know this: Jason Kidd believes they amount to a circle of losers and fools.

Now that's a cause that should boil every Net's blood. Players, coaches, executives, everyone who was told by Kidd's trade demand (to the Lakers) last year, and his trade demand (to the Mavericks) this year, that they weren't good enough for his Hall of Fame game.

"When you cut through all the nuances," Rod Thorn said Thursday, "that's exactly what Jason said. 'I don't want to play with you guys. You're not good enough. Let me out of here."'

The Nets should never forget that. They should never forget Kidd quit on them as clearly as Stephon Marbury quit on the Knicks.

Kidd was just a little smarter in covering his morale-busting tracks.

The Nets played the Mavericks in Dallas on Saturday night. Kidd and his former teammates were cordial to one another. All have said that they will continue to be friends and that there are no hard feelings for the charming star who once led the Nets to back-to-back NBA Finals.

Richard Jefferson and Vince Carter and the rest play along, if only because it's easier to fake it with a former friend than to confront him on the errors of his ways. But Jefferson and Carter need to understand something: Kidd couldn't wait to get as far away from them as he could.

Kidd didn't believe they were championship material, and this epiphany didn't just hit him like a blind pick last month. In the middle of last season, Kidd was pushing Thorn to deal him into Kobe Bryant's backcourt. "And he was very adamant about it," Thorn said.

Kidd was adamant he wanted to play with people other than Jefferson and Carter.

First it was Kobe, then it was Dirk Nowitzki. Kidd came up with a mystery migraine and boycotted a Knicks game at home as part of a master plan to get out and get out fast. Later, he went public with his desire to leave East Rutherford in his wake, and burned the same bridges he burned on earlier exits from Dallas and Phoenix.

Thorn was furious with Kidd. If he could've traded his point guard to the Timberwolves or Grizzlies, he would have.

"From my perspective," Thorn said, "some things you just don't forget. But you go on and trades happen and players don't stay in places forever. I'm worried about the team I have right now, not the team I had three weeks ago."

The team Kidd tried to steer off an exit ramp and into the swamp.

Thursday, Kidd was quoted in the New York Daily News swearing he never quit on his team, never tempered his drive to win, never did anything for the Nets but spill them a river of blood, sweat and tears.

His claims were no more credible than his migraine. He took a clear shot at his coach, Lawrence Frank, when he said, "New Jersey has no identity. That was my whole thing. Are we a running team? Are we a half-court team? What are we? I don't think they still know."

 

[Kaypain]

Well lLowry is trash so I honestly don't care what he says...


This is why I wished Giannis/Bucks would've made it here. You got Giannis actually wanting the challenge, the rookie dunking on both Kyrie and Lebron in the same game, etc..

I knew the Raptors were going to p*ssy out with they one dimensional ass scoring.

Get this cakewalk bullshyt off TV

East is so weak it's fukking disgusting

Shut your cry baby ass up nikka

 

[VegasCAC]

There's J.Kidd haters on the Coli

 

[ThaRealness]

THERES PLENTY OF GUYS WHO ARENT SCARED TO GO AT BRON.
(RUSS, JIMMY, PG, GIANNIS ETC)
HE JUST HAS A MUCH BETTER TEAM THAN THEM.

KD GONNA DESTROY THAT nikka.


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Yeah cause KD has a much better team then Lebron

 

[PS5 Pro]

top of the food chain they all bow down to big dawg bronbron it's hilarious*

Coli jinx activated

 

[Kaypain]

Whole team is powder cakes

Yo WTF

 

[DIMES]

Well lLowry is trash so I honestly don't care what he says...


This is why I wished Giannis/Bucks would've made it here. You got Giannis actually wanting the challenge, the rookie dunking on both Kyrie and Lebron in the same game, etc..

I knew the Raptors were going to p*ssy out with they one dimensional ass scoring.

Get this cakewalk bullshyt off TV

East is so weak it's fukking disgusting

The west is fukking weak too. The jazz ain't shyt let's be real

 

[ryderldb]

Why would you even say this publically? They never had a fukking chance.

 

[Brief Keef]

@Gil Scott-Heroin come get your boy
I can't imagine anyone on my Heat ever being this gutless

bron play weird when he play us tho but u right Bronze know what it is

 

[O.T.I.S.]

The west is fukking weak too. The jazz ain't shyt let's be real

Jazz is actually a solid team with multiple ways to score and not laying down against anybody

So no... Theyre better than Toronto

 

[Brief Keef]

He's not Whiney, he's not a snitch, he's a hard working, dedicated to his craft black man. Who's coming to snatch their souls yet again.

You nikkas forget, before he gassed out in 2015, he was on his way to snatching their souls without 2 of the top 3 players on the team

As long as Love and Kyrie are ready to go. Small chance that they lose a series to golden state.

He put the fear of God in Steph and Klay and Dray last year

And Durant has been shook of Lebron at least 2012

They all scared of him and they thinking forming a voltron gone stop that man

at thinking Lebron gone have his 4th ring taken from him by KD and friends.

boy yall nikkas in for a rude awakening just hope yall dont got no excuses

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

If there is an equivalent of a simp in the NBA, Kyle Lowry is definitely it

 

[supertrekker]

I don't think people say he isn't respected.

He's just not as respected as Kobe and Jordan.

Quotes like this happened every game when Kobe was in his prime.

If he never joined Wade and Bosh in Miami he would be respected like Kobe and Jordan. It made him look like he needed all the help in the world to win a title and at first didn't. Last year he proved himself but folks got long memories and that's why KD won't get respect if he wins a title in GS.

 

[onelastdeath]

So no... Theyre better than Toronto

Toronto beats Utah in 6