17 championships didn’t win themselves.
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Sports culture has really shifted because this sorta thing would’ve been so cool like 10 years ago but just feels so corporate, tacky, and cynical now
1. SGA
2. Kawhi (or MJ, if AI doesn’t realise the NBA ball was Spalding until 2021)
3. Melo
4. Kobe***
5. Dame or Kyrie
6. KD
7. LeBron
8. Steph
9. Klay
10. DBook
11. Ja
12. Harden
Ben Simmons when asked if he can return to his prime, via @BrendenNunesNBA:
"I'm there. He's there. He woke up."
First 31 years of the team labeled as “origins”.
6 NBA titles in that time they love to count to that total tho
Pretty photos… But not interested in any “official history” coming from Jerry Buss’ self-aggrandising idiot nepo babies
If LeBron is not returning to the Cavs, he should say so
Just be up front and say you don’t want to ruin what’s there
It’s the fanbase that’s gonna carry his legacy the hardest when he retires, and he may alienate them like he did 16 years ago
Especially if he goes to the Bay
Cavs gonna carry Bron’s legacy the hardest - he should feed that fanbase if there’s just a year or two left
Turn Harden into something resembling a defender and you’ve got an interesting team in the East
From purely a character arc perspective, ending the career with “The Decision 2.0” is more compelling than “I’m Coming Home (Again)”
The most controversial moment of his career - one that shaped modern player empowerment - except this time he’s accomplished everything
Lmao Pelinka definitely got that Wemby call thinking the impossible was about to happen again
Victor Wembanyama’s agent met with Rob Pelinka last summer to learn how Kobe Bryant mentally prepared himself, per @ramonashelburne.
“One summer Bryant had become obsessed with studying how great white sharks hunt and attack their prey. So it became Pelinka's job to find him the best place in the world to do that -- which is apparently Guadalupe, an island 150 miles off the coast of Baja, Mexico, where you can go cage diving in the crystal-clear waters.
Bryant would later write in The Players' Tribune in 2017 that his study of great whites helped him defend Allen Iverson.”
Why is the GM / president of basketball operations even in a position to be giving out the game ball
The $$$ is important too
Lakers’ price is likely discounted for Bronny, LA, and being 42
But he’s also been their best player in the playoffs and is hugely profitable for the org
While he can accept a role he’s overqualified for, the number will be a point of pride
Lakers insider Dave McMenamin:
“Basically from the All-Star game and onward is that LeBron will continue to play NBA basketball but will it be in Los Angeles?… There’s five or six teams you could viably see him going to next year. The Lakers if they are swept here, will have to convince LeBron, I would say on some level, that we have a plan in place here for you to come back and compete for a championship… At this stage of his career that is the number one that has guiding his decisions: being able to compete for a championship.”
(via @mcten)
“Basketball Greatness” = how great you were (peak) x how long you were great for (longevity)
Longevity is half of it. It’s why MJ’s ring total used to be an argument
Even if MJ reached greater heights (he didn’t), LeBron dwarfs him on the other axis.
No debate. He’s the GOAT.
“Clooney, Kerr, and Popovich should not use their platform to speak on issues close to them because it’s not their specialty & I don’t care
BTW here’s my thoughts on the importance of Israel and how all criminal acts are justified in war”
A geriatric sex pest supporting another
