Stephen A. Smith ETHERS LeBron James for Making Excuses About Losing To the Mavericks in 2011

[Bryan Danielson]

If yall really cared about the people yall claim yall will care about after he’s retired?

Why wait? Why not care about them now

Why not make more threads and have more discussions on Ant, Wemby, Joker and etc?

When MJ was playing for the Wizards, people was talking bout Duncan, Shaq, AI, TMac, Vince, KG, and etc

 

[MVike28]

The nikka is 40 and still got y’all typing out long essays about him



Rent free

 

[steph_harden]

I have praised lebron in the past but 2011 remains the one blemish on his record its nearly as bad as kobe quitting on his team against the suns and refusing to shoot the ball and blowing a 3-1 lead against the inferior suns team or in the 2004 finals or in game 6 of 2008 finals where the lakers got blown out by 39 points, he shot 7/22 in an elimination game with 4 turnovers, he shot 9/26 in game 1 as well he was awful in that 2008 series and jordan have lost several times in the playoffs. great players have blemishes some way more than others as well

The Suns weren’t inferior breh. They were actually much more talented which is why they were the 2 seed and LA was the 7th. Only reason They got up 3-1 was because the Suns were playing without Amare and were tiny and the Lakers bullied them with size and a balanced scoring attack. Once the Suns figured out how to speed the game up they negated that and blew the Lakers off the floor.

Kobe did quit in that game 7 though.

 

[fifth column]

It took the #2 and #3 players in the NBA to team up in order to beat LeBron... that's what the GSW era is known for

Bron and Wade did the same in 2011

 

[BandOfGypsys]

He didn't just lose, he quit and basically said "fukk you nikkas I'm rich your broke, enjoy your lives peasants"

 

[BaggerofTea]

2011 was the GOAT chokejob tbf.

2-1, up with the better team then collapse completely.

5 championships/3 peat would make a difference comparing him to Jordan.


Deserves to be ethered honestly, no execuses.

Never heard of Jordan, Brady, Lewis Hamilton choking in those moments.


He lost composure, is what it is.

 

[Mister Terrific]

2011 was the GOAT chokejob tbf.

Not even close. Kobe was up 3-1 on the Suns, Curry was up 3-1 on the Cavs, Dirk lost to an 8 seed and was up 2-0 on the Heat. Shaq and Kobe lost to a team without one bonafide hall of famer. Wilt was far and away the best player in the NBA and couldn’t beat the Celtics etc etc.

Never heard of Jordan, Brady, Lewis Hamilton choking in those moments.


He lost composure, is what it is.

Michael Jordan lost in the 1st round 3 times in his career

Against the Pistons in 1989 the series was tied 2-2 and Jordan proceeded to go 5-15 (game 5) and 4-8 (game 6). The Bulls lost 3 in a row.


Tom Brady lost to Eli Manning in an undefeated season with the greatest Wide Receiver of all-time.


I don’t watch racing so maybe that dude Lewis Hamilton is perfect I don’t know. He fukked the p*ssy cat doll. He da goat

 

[SadimirPutin]

SAS is just as bad as that other fool Skip cause ain't no way he magically left out the part That would make his bullshyt hot take invalid

And the OP in true coli fashion came here for the usual low thought coli circle jerk

 

[s@n]

Disgusting, since literally Bron specifically stated he was terrible during 2011 and that he should have played better while also later stating he didn’t wanna take anything away from the Mavs who played well but he realized he needed to play 10x better the next year…..this was all in the podcast lol

This entire clip was after JJ brought up how he gets irritated when people talk about superteam and only mention a Big 2-3 when you need role players to be elite in their role. And Bron specifically brought up the differences between 2011 to show that they hadn’t fully brought the right sort of guys in after that first year and he was right… Ray Allen, Mike Miller, Shane Battier were incredibly vital to that Heat team and they didn’t have them in 2011. They went deep to the finals IN SPITE of having players that didn’t fully fit together

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Lebron admitted he played like shyt, what is there to ether?

He went on his podcast and blamed it on the roster... Hence the response

 

[Mister Terrific]

He went on his podcast and blamed it on the roster... Hence the response

False. He said the roster was poorly constructed - which it was- and his poor play.

 

[fifth column]

False. He said the roster was poorly constructed - which it was- and his poor play.

Nah, it’s all on Lebron choking, they won every playoff series 4-1 leading up to the finals and were up 2-1 with a lead in the 4th quarter of game 4. That was an all time choke job by Lebron

 

[jaydawg08]

Nah, it’s all on Lebron choking, they won every playoff series 4-1 leading up to the finals and were up 2-1 with a lead in the 4th quarter of game 4. That was an all time choke job by Lebron

No one has said it wasn’t on Bron.. Bron said it was on him. I’m confused by your point

 

[Mister Terrific]

Nah, it’s all on Lebron choking, they won every playoff series 4-1 leading up to the finals and were up 2-1 with a lead in the 4th quarter of game 4. That was an all time choke job by Lebron

Lebron said he fukked up? I’m starting to think you people are retarded?

 

[fifth column]

No one has said it wasn’t on Bron.. Bron said it was on him. I’m confused by your point

Lebron try to spin it on some the roster wasn’t good shyt, I ain’t a blind witness to the Lexcuses