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I think Barkley & O'Neal should feature themselves on Shaqin' A Fool if they believe Chris Paul is the 'greatest leader in basketball'. There are plenty of reasons why his teams typically underachieve in the playoffs...one of which is the guy is an all-time ####### and his teammates eventually hate him. That tends to show up on the court eventually.
i think that's their way, whether they know it or not, of saying there are no more leaders in basketball, no one for whom wins are bigger than rep and/or brand. CP3 is the tallest dwarf in the war-riven Croatia that the NBA has become
No, but he only played with 1 NBA All-Star as a teammate .... Lebron 7.
I think it was just a factual list of who made an all-star game while a teammate of said player.
Lol. Why would anyone want to go play with a guy that leads his team to the finals like 60 percent of the time?
I agree but James will be 37 next season and has a lot of miles on his body so like old cars I expect more frequent breakdowns going forward.
I disagree because he is a freak of nature. I think his injuries this year were caused by a short off-season and playing a more condensed schedule. He is going to have a longer off-season this year and more motivation. Father time will eventually catch up to James, but I don't think it will be next year.
He did. Did you see him tank the first round?
It was more of a comparison of guys who were atypical as the best player on a team (even for their era). Unseld and Malone led their teams and won with rebounding and other non-scoring means. Giannis is in that same mold. Sure the game has expanded to a 3-pt shooting league, but Giannis is also a lot more skilled and faster than either of Unseld & Malone. It wasn't a direct comparison, but a conceptual one whereby an atypical star can be the best player on a Championship team. Honestly, Shaq would probably fall in that category as well, but he was more offensive minded. Maybe Duncan is a good comparison? Either way, the whole point was to combat the concept that since Giannis doesn't shoot 3's, he can't be the best player on a championship team.
I liked and understood your first comparisons just fine. They were better than Duncan for sure. Someone compared Giannis to Shaq, which seemed weird on the surface but was also accurate in how both force all five defenders into the half circle then still get postered.
i would say because he seems to be on the downside of his career, and not sure he can take a team to the finals again. Age has to get him at some point no? the TRT and whatever else is being fed into Lebron's body can't work forever.
I think this was a big factor for both of the returning finals teams getting bounced.
It had to. Both of those teams looked like shells of themselves compared to their run last season.
Unseld was certainly a rock and a true leader of the Bullets. But he did have Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes with him during those 2 Finals years.
It wouldn't surprise me if this is how he thinks of himself and I'm confident he had a heavy hand in writing this.
it's so funny that Durant is viewed this way, but a guy like Lebron or others isn't. The NBA has a lot of egocentric players, and maybe that is the nature of what the game has become.
Did AD play at all? Last I saw near the end of the Portland game was that AD was cleared to play. I see in the box he only played 5 minutes. Did he get hurt again?
5:25 to be exact.I missed the beginning of the game, then fell asleep shortly after I tuned in
Yes, he started the game and was moving cautiously and then was trying to guard Booker and slid with him to the basket and started grabbing at his groin. He sat on the floor for a bit and then eventually just went to the bench and never came back in.I missed the beginning of the game, then fell asleep shortly after I tuned in
And have people forgotten how good Pippen was? I'm not a Pippen fan, per se but I still feel like he's never gotten his due because of the huge Jordan shadow he played in. I know he was Top-50 all-time but he's still seen as riding Jordan's coattails. James did have Wade in Miami but the argument that Jordan did it all by himself is wrong.
Well, the almost universal hot take among the Boston media is that Stevens is not a great fit for the job and will be somewhere else in a year. It is said he likes coaching, teaching younger players, player development, and X's and O's. It is also said he is not the type to worry about salary cap implications, player exceptions, stashing players overseas, and luxury tax considerations.
Can I cosign this?
Agreed.
i almost started diddling with a Shakesperean soliloquy watching the King dribbling at the top of the key in the second half, already behind by 20+, wondering why the forces of nature were not bending to his will and how it could be that his army did not consist of Horsemen of the Apocalypse but stainheads and headbands. O wither me, not age, not destiny, but the indignity of pledging the troth of championship moments to Sir Wes of Matthews. Redeem your warrior, o great halls of fame, that such may not be so!
james also had bosch and a still hot shootin ray allen down there not weighing on anything but just saying that miami team was pretty loaded take that to the bank bromigos
i liked this post but honestly that was just me trying to look smart the only shakespere i know makes fishing rods take that to the bank brohans
I'm not sure why anyone would keep coaching over being a GM. Stevens was making around $4M as the coach. I bet he pulls in $3M+ as GM. I've only coached travel and AAU, but I was up night after night thinking through rotations, plays, dealing with players and parents, etc. Lots and lots of antacid involved. GM probably only up nights during trade deadlines and the draft. Don't have to travel if you don't want. Seems like a cushy lifestyle 300 days per year.
Dandridge put them over the top after a decade of playoff heartbreak. He was playing Dad-ball before it had a name. Their other secret weapon was Tommy Henderson at PG. He was as steady as they came after having manic dudes like Kevin Porter. Kevin Grevey was another fine player in those years. Unseld, Hayes, and Chenier were on the downside.
how many years did you play college and pro ball in europe its a thing now so you have to tell us take that to the bank bromigo
I was unable to read the article since I don't have ESPN+, but my understanding is that they pretty much have to bring him back. They're over the cap with or without Schroder, so letting him walk wouldn't enable them to sign someone else -- they'd just lose their starting PG with no replacement.
maybe no replacement would be an upgrade if i am the lakers i run davis gasol drummond and kostas and i guess labron and just turn the clock back about 50 years and go all big all the time and just beat people up they might not win a lot but it would be fun to watch those lardos try to keep up wtih devon brooker and other fast guys take that to the bank brohans
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