>who they let offensive foul people to the hoop
Hilarious how removed from objective reality this is when you actually look at the stats and how rarely Lebron gets a whistle driving to the rim compare to any other big name player. Fricking cope
Any superstar will just hop on a super team if they feel the fear of never winning a ring. Actually shocking that Chris Paul still hasn’t made it happen though
If he was in the eastern conference 10 years ago with another all star on his team he definitely would have. And yea he’s got 15 years left so he will. The guy is incredible, will go down as the best since Jordan
That’s my point. Eastern conference has been a joke since when Jordan retired to like 2019
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and you think luka could get past prime lebron? with only 1 other star on his team?
2 years ago
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Well duh. Lebron couldn’t even get past Dirk Nowitzki like 10 years ago and he had a superteam
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he also beat the winningest team in history down 1-3
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no one cares about fake regular season wins lmao, though to be fair if LeBron wasn't a dumb Black person who wanted to be GM and trade for garbage players like Westbrook he could have like 8 rings
2 years ago
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this is the correct take
2 years ago
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Yea thanks to the league suspending that idiot Draymond Green and the referees rigging the shit out of the game. Not to mention Kyrie Irving saving the day
2 years ago
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>kobrgays ever complaining about refball
you need to be +18 to post here newbie
2 years ago
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So we agree referees favor media darlings for narrative purposes. Both Kobe and Lebron would get absolutely demoralized by Jordan anyway. Especially lebron who is b***h made
2 years ago
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>lebron only won because of refball >ok kobe did too but it doesn't matter because muh jordan
kobrgays are pathetic, they ride mj's coattails just as much as he did
2 years ago
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That helicopter crash was the best thing to happen to Kobe Bryant's image in 20 years (aside from the penis degloving)
2 years ago
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the injury reports on the body of kobe and his daughter are absolutely horrific.
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I always wondered if it was a completely instant death and they didn't even see it coming. I guess the pilot could have said OH FRICK when he realized where he was but then it was just immediately lights out?
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they definitely knew for at least a few seconds
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some of the other people on the helicopter had it worse. one of the mothers and her daughter were crushed and ripped apart.
2 years ago
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from what i remember reading and seeing in the sketches of the injury report, kobe was pretty much cut in half at the waist, his and giannas brains where blown out of their faces, plus all kinds of other shit you could imagine stemming from a big flying hunk of metal slamming into a mountain.
2 years ago
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>the referees rigging the shit out of the game
funny coming from someone who just ragged on lebron for losing to dirk, who lived at the free throw line that series
2 years ago
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"dude more free thows = refs" is the most midwit take of all time
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>jump shooter getting more FTA than two opponents who aggressively drive to the basket all game
do you happen to be a harden fan, too?
2 years ago
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it's called baiting people to foul you which your boy Wade did vs the Mavs in 06 when the refs LITERALLY rigged it for the Heat
2 years ago
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wade got most of his calls driving iirc, which you are much more likely to be fouled doing than jump shooting
2 years ago
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not if you have game like Dirk or Paul Pierce
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>mentioning pierce in the same breath as dirk
lebron haters baka
2 years ago
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both have one title, were taken back to back in the same draft and both dropped in said draft, were crafty perimeter players who could go down in the post, averaged similar ppg, etc
2 years ago
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pierce could only squeak out 1 ring when he had a big three for many years
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he was like 34 at that point and KG was injured in 09, Perk got injured in 10. just the facts
dirk is unironically overrated
zoomers especially forget that prior to 2011 he was considered a playoff choker thanks to 2006 and 2007
if lebron doesn't choke in 2011 pierce would easily be considered better than him
Lebron is the only “top 10 player” to have a negative finals record
2 years ago
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are you one of those people that thinks not making the finals is better than making them and losing?
2 years ago
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I’m a person who thinks losing more than you’ve won on the biggest stage makes you a fricking loser
2 years ago
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ah, so it's better for players not to even make the big stage in your mind
i see
2 years ago
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Imagine team swapping, building superteams and ring chasing and still having a losing finals record. Just embarrassing
2 years ago
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its not better but there's no proof the top team in a Conference wouldn't be 9th in the other conference so it really doesn't matter one way or another
2 years ago
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>go to more finals than 27 teams in the league have >this is considered a bad thing
remember who's on the logo is moron
2 years ago
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Excellent point. Robert Horry is another one who has been to more finals than most teams
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>jordan decline ushers in unprecedented age of parity >lebron destroys the league because he isnt good enough surpass jordan in cleveland >only 4 teams have a real chance at title >half the league actively tries to lose games.
wow, such prestige.
2 years ago
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>lebron destroys the league because he isnt good enough surpass jordan in cleveland
i forgot that the first big 3 was the heatles, good point
2 years ago
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pooling talent isnt the problem. players colluding with each other is the problem and we've slid all the way to the bottom just like it was predicted when lebon did his gay espn decision.
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>he says as the two teams in the finals currently have mostly home grown talent
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>age of parity >aside from 1 year its literally the spurs or lakers vs pistons then celtics
just say you're under 12 and stop replying
its embarssing to watch you post
2 years ago
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>those quads
I kneel
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>lebron destroys the league
Adam Silver has fricked the league, not Jordan. David Stern wouldn't put up with the player empowerment bullshit that has resulted in the league becoming a political soapbox and players having the ability to sign a max contract and demand a trade the year after.
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the refs arent corrupt enough to rig the winner. they only frick around with spreads and totals.
2 years ago
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not unless know the right signals
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Kings vs Lakers was absolutely rigged via refball. The guy who even got that series said the NBA didn’t want Jersey vs. Sacramento for ratings
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Kings vs. Nets would’ve been boring as frick, based stern pulling the plug
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Doesn’t matter. Lebron had a superteam and got outplayed by Jason Terry lmao
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and then went back and won 2 rings
how many more times did the mavs make the finals?
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And choked again but got saved by a miraculous Ray Allen shot lmao. Then went on to get booty blasted by Spurs the following year
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they were saved by the moron Popovich taking out Duncan. Commie "Coach Pop" can't make the playoffs without Duncan in fact, sad!
you can always tell some casual homosexual because they think Kobe was ever good lmao, homie was a ballhog garbage time player who might be top 20 of all time on a good day
I'm not of the mind that Kobe was anything incredible and he unfortunately caused a lot of his teammates to go unsung. Lebron is a blatant frickin hotdog showboating ballhog and the reason his teams never fricking win finals is because he refuses to pass it and plays shit defense. He also travels every single game but Black folk and LeBron fans let it happen because OMG HE SLAMMDABAWL!
I can't stand LeBron too yet I always get him my team on nba2k because he's so goddamn big and fast you can just blow through people or bully ball them
Curry is finished. He had a good 3 game run but that’s the most we’ll see from him. Celtics defense isn’t even fair. That homosexual Robert Williams is a cheat code in the paint
Only because no one ever goes at him on offense, they just let him hide in the corner and rest. Delly and that chimp nigglet are the only ones that went at him and exposed his ass for being soft.
>no one ever goes at him on offense
Black person WHAT
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watch any fricking game with the warriors and the warriors being on defense. Every fricking time or at least 80% of the time all you see Curry do is be in the corner standing there doing nothing because the guy he's guarding doesn't get the ball.
>a season where they were #1 seed and couldn't take advantage of it because of the neutral court >many players, including Dame, claiming that it was the hardest playoffs ever
ring on his 3rd team btw
Probably, but he's just too imperfect, his career was such a mess compared to MJ and Kobe. He may not have strictly started the 'move around until you have a superteam' shit but he sure as hell was the king of it, and that leaves a sour taste in people's mouth.
Don't want to make it too off topic, but man. Everyone should have been on high alert when china was shutting down their factories. Those guys never shut down anything, not even christmas
Inside the NBA is one of the best shows on TV and Chuck is one of the funniest people alive. It’s hilarious that the NFL is going to try to replicate it and will fail miserably
>can't say big ol San Antonio women anymore >his fat jokes mostly stay with Shaq and Zion instead of everyone else >isn't allowed to drop redpills and blackpills anymore
These same execs probably had a heart attack when Chuck almost threw his mug at garbage Warriors bandwagoners on live TV
We'll get one glorious season of episodes with a doesn't-give-a-frick Chuck right before he retires. And if the execs try to stop him I hope he quits on the spot.
Greg Oden had a surgically fricked up leg that was shorter than the other and he was enormous. Chet has been durable so far and if you actually watched him play he hangs and bangs with big guys pretty well by sheer virtue of his length. Even if he gets moved off his spot he can still block attempts.
Chet will be just fine.
because aside from the playoffs the basketball season and offseason are boring as frick
hell even this years playoffs and finals have been nothing but shitty blowouts each night
Because all basketball coverage off the court is moronic. Tim Legler is the only "analyst" who actually knows anything and they stick him on fricking midnight sportscenter. When dumb as bricks Kendrick Perkins and Stephen A Smith are front and center feeding hot takes because that's all they know how to do, that's what the casual discourse becomes. I would include Skip in that category but he doesn't even pretend to be an analyst.
Perk lacks Chuck's self-awareness and his pedigree. Even worse, Perk acts like being the 8th man for a championship squad that had KG, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen is some kind of great accomplishment.
i genuinely don't understand perk's meteoric rise to the top of nba coverage. i feel like even last season he was a sometimes analyst for local celtics broadcasts and now he's the leading dude on scott van pelt sportscenter. wild
How are you actually a Nets fan? Unless you’re from New Jersey and can’t let them go you’d have to be the biggest bandwagon ass fan ever if you like the nets. Cause real mofos from New York rep knicks.
warriors got too comfy while playing vs injured nuggies and young grizzlies and literally luka + 10 wow players
the east simply got so much better west doesn't even have lebron factor no more because the fricking moron wasted his salary cap on westbrook instead of good role players
It’ll never be the same. Chuck doesn’t give a frick about corporate interests so he’ll say whatever and has no worry of being cancelled since he’s already an NBA legend. Draymond is a corporate man who speaks his mind but it’s very politically correct.
>That time Kenny said something to the effect of how he was a big reason they won >Shaq and chuck roll their eyes >"Hakeem is why you won anyone could have thrown the dude the ball" >Kenny starts seething while chuck and Shaq keep laughing at him
It was fricking hilarious how you could tell Kenny was seething about Chuck’s “bus driver” or “bus rider” comments because he was basically referring to a player like Kenny who went along for the ride
Kenny is fine for soaking up the analysis segments at halftime and sometimes as a shit-stirrer, but that's about all he brings to the show. I hope that he knows that every time Chuck brings him down off his championship high horse he deserves it 100%.
I don't blame him since he's next to two legends, but he tries too hard. He's fine as a time waster and he does have the most experience compared to Shaq and Chuck.
Shaq used to be way too sensitive too, but lately he's been more chill and funny.
Everyone always says Kenny is “the straight man” but that’s basically Ernie who keeps the show on track and everyone in line. Kenny could be replaced by literally anyone but he knows that
kenny is important because he's the "basketball talk" straight man. Ernie is the straight man for reeling them in when they get off topic or start arguing, but Kenny is for when Shaq/Chuck are discussing basketball shit and only really giving perspective from their pov as two legendary players. Since Kenny is not nearly on the same level as them he can end up grounding the discussion more.
He also is a great instigator at times, serving up easy lobs to shaq/chuck or spurring them on into a funny bit or argument.
That’s fair. I do think that Ernie is the MVP of the show though and it wouldn’t work at all without him. You could still replace Kenny with a decent player and get a similar show
I think it's part of the charm that there are two straight men, but it's played with because Ernie inexplicably has street cred whereas Kenny is played as a dweeb.
The white dudes are supposed to be like their handlers who actually know shit about sports but theyre a couple of morons meaning the comic relief are also the guys who know the sport they're talking about.
Everyone shut the frick up about goat talk, cause the answer's Bill Russel and it's not debatable.
Who's gonna win the Finals? I'm thinking my Celties : )
I watched my first nba game in years. Game 7 heat vs celtics. Heat down like 11 going for 2s, celtics start going for 3s, everyone is walking, heat actually get to within 2 points. It was embarrassing it was like they were throwing. I was so bored.
Yea that was trash. However the Bucks vs Celtics series was kino. But that was literally the only good series of the playoffs. Basketball is a joke and has been for the longest
>gazillionaire Black person who went to a $30k-a-year private school lectures poor whites on how priveliged they are
courageous. revolutionary, eve- wait
>memechuck
I dont browse Cinemaphileee or watch basketball so why hate on the 3 pointers? it's probably analytics that figured out the most optimal way to win was to memechuck from a couple of spots
at least baseball is trying to fix it by banning the shift but idk what apehoop can do
It’s a symptom of the absolute soft state of NBA. Nobody wants to get physical anymore like that. Which is why the post-up aspect of the game is almost dead and Power Fotwards like Duncan and Garnet are pretty much obsolete
its not the 3s themselves
its the fact that players who shouldn't even be shooting 3s are chucking them up now commonly
yeah it was cool to see a big man like yao or duncan put one up but it was rare
>no mention of the Shaq's dumbest moment
As incredible as the gas math is, Shaq using the flight to LA as a reference point to the time to get to the moon is his finest
Almost 4 years after the incident, another similar incident happened also at the same arena, this time between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Detroit Shock (now known as the Dallas Wings) of the WNBA. This gave it the nickname "The Malice at The Palace II".[74] >WNBA
my sides
charles barkley also charged into the stands in detroit and fought fans, this was in 1992 i think, he was suspended for maybe 2 games. he also tossed a Black person through a plate glass window from a third story bar.
My dad went to UCLA and had that happen. They were playing pickup intramurals and Magic and Kareem and a few of the other current Lakers showed up. They were very polite, and asked to play next and all the guys basically noped off the court and watched them play. My dad said that Kareem was the most impressive person he’s ever seen in person across any sport, and that’s with him playing with Magic.
>tfw was big NBA fan thru the 2000s thru game 7 of the 2016 finals >durant joined warriors >gave up on the nba >stopped watching inside the nba as well, now just try to see the occasional highlights pf the funny stuff that happens
i tried watching the show on its own after dropping the nba but i couldnt get thru it, too much nba talk. the league is utter fricking shit now
wrong. the nba was still decently entertaining when the celtics big 3 happened. the heatles era was annoying but it wasn't really that bad. the heat went 2-2 in finals, easily could have gone 1-3 if not for ray allen, and all the finals except the thunder were entertaining, even the final spurs-heat was entertaining despite being a beatdown because of how funny the massacre was. and i say this as a fan of the chicago bulls who the heat destroyed every year in the playoffs.
once durant joined the warriors the entire league just went down the toilet. thats when all the super team bullshit really took off, the three point chucking, adam silver turning the league into an even bigger meme with MORE playoff teams and trying to do some mid-season tournament, and even more social media obsession.. its a fricking joke.
yeah 2010 was when i really got into it, like watching every single regular season game my team played on shitty streams because i was out of market diehard obsessed.
i have heard that this year and last year were good. unfortunately, the three years i stopped watching (2017-19 like you said) was too much for me to be able to come back to it. i saw no point. the officiating is still horrendous, the three point chucking, every team scoring 110-120 a game, even more teams making the playoffs because 16/30 wasnt enough, the superstars teaming up is worse than ever, the constant soap opera drama, and the regular season is still basically meaningless. frick that shit
>I will say, things are back to normal since then though - this was a legitimately good year for ball.
we just had 2 seasons full of injuries and covid protocols bro
just look at denver. normally a competitive team but 100% irrelevant because of the murray injury
I couldn't watch the past two years because of the BLM shit, left such an awful taste in my mouth combined with the crybaby pussy primma Donnas, super team shit, etc. I couldn't do it anymore. Watched the playoffs a bit this year though and there was some good matchups and definitely some solid new blood on these usually underwhelming teams. Also seemed like the refs weren't so quick to whistle and there was some hard defense that won playoff games. The whining to refs and flopping by players is still awful every single game though
>mfw i strung together a bunch of clips of chuck doing sexual motions on the show to use as my signature on the porn torrent tracker i'm on
should i post here
1. Bird
2. Magic
3. Kareem
4. MJ
5. Wilt
90sgays conveniently forget that MJ didnt win a damn thing until Bird was hurt in his final season. 0-6 against Larry Legend in the playoffs. He was talented for sure and could handle the pressure in the clutch, but couldn’t do anything until Larry was out of the way in the Eastern Conference, plus the NBA changed rules to make it easier for him to dominate.
Lebron would be 6 on this list btw.
>Wilt plus your uncle Jim vs Russell and multiple hall of famers
This was the Lakers-Celtics rivalry back then. Wilt was the best player of either team by far.
>what determines an entertaining game vs a shit one?
The biggest factor is fandom. If your team wins, it's pretty much always an entertaining game.
If you're looking at a neutral game, what you think of first is that the game is close down the stretch (last 2 minutes) >large comebacks >many lead changes >buzzer-beating shots >exciting individual plays >great performances by individual players >well-officiated
All of these factors amplify the excitement.
What are some movie series where the originals were hailed as visionary, but the series slowly lost it's luster until the rights were then sold to a new owner that overpromised and underdelivered?
I got into the NBA three or four years ago and I'm almost ready to tap out already. The flopping and officiating is fricking ridiculous and I can't see why anyone would be entertained by it.
how the frick could you get into the nba 3 or 4 years ago? right in the middle of the warriors destroying everyone, you found enjoyment in that? that was LITERALLY the worst time of the past decade to start watching
yeah he'd have like 3 titles as the main star already if not more, Tatum Brown and Smart would be perfect sidekicks and he'd be Bird level popular in Boston and respected for having his own team nationally
sounds good on paper but he might have Kyrie on those teams which would frick everything up
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eh maybe, but KD Kyrie and Horford with Tatum, and Brown and then Smart off the bench is pretty hard to argue with. even if kyrie still gets injured. celtics just needed someone who could take over and score in the 4th, durant does that.
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it would be pretty sick but I just know Kyrie fricks it up because Boston is an ancient indian burial ground or some shit
yeah they would have won a couple chips by now already, while tatum and brown and smart and timelord developed. durant would be on easy street to lead a two part dynasty, the first few with him leading the team and then once he gets too old, like this year, tatum and brown step up to run the team, like this year.
>move to Brockton MA for Amazon job from South Carolina >go from $9/hr to $18/hr and $5000 hiring bonus >manager brings up the Celtics before every shift >I pretend to be a basketball fan and diehard Celtics fan >hook up with a girl at a watch party for the first time >actually have numbers saved in my phone besides my parents and food delivery
Best year of my life so far. I'll forever be a Celtics fan.
I don't know much about Bird but watched a bunch of the Paul Pierce era on YouTube. I might subscribe to NBA for a little while to watch Hardwood Classics.
>live in bay area >started hating nba when durant joined warriors >too autistic to even fake enjoying basketball to relate to how the entire region loves the warriors
>B-B-B-B-BUT MEME CHUCKING REEEEEEEEEE
Curry is the best player of the 10s. Better than LeBrick, Kobrick, Klown Durant and literally everyone to ever play the ball. Your favorite will never change how the game is played (unless he is Wilt). Your favorite will never break the shooting record. Your favorite would never be a star if he was 6'3" and under. Your favorite player will never have skills. Being physical does not need skills. Shooting like Curry needs skills. Something your favorite player will never have.
Top 5:
Stephen Curry
Larry Bird
Scottie Pippen
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
6th would be Shaq, despite how much I think big players don't have any skills, Shaq's natural gift and dominance is one of a kind.
Is LeBron better than Kobe?
Well one is dead, so not hard to beat that.
no
Lebrons not even better than Luka Doncic aka the great white hope. He’s a media darling who they let offensive foul people to the hoop.
Unironically what is the point of this kind of delusion?
>who they let offensive foul people to the hoop
Hilarious how removed from objective reality this is when you actually look at the stats and how rarely Lebron gets a whistle driving to the rim compare to any other big name player. Fricking cope
Mental illness. You can always tell who the unathletic losers are that never played a sport
Post body Black person, guarantee you're the type who gets bodied in webms
Luka will never win a ring
Any superstar will just hop on a super team if they feel the fear of never winning a ring. Actually shocking that Chris Paul still hasn’t made it happen though
If that was true Russ would have gotten his this year.
or harden any of the last 5 years
People seem to forget all the times stars have tried to form a "superteam" but it turned out to be a utter failure.
If he was in the eastern conference 10 years ago with another all star on his team he definitely would have. And yea he’s got 15 years left so he will. The guy is incredible, will go down as the best since Jordan
did you forget who ran the eastern conference 10 years ago?
That’s my point. Eastern conference has been a joke since when Jordan retired to like 2019
and you think luka could get past prime lebron? with only 1 other star on his team?
Well duh. Lebron couldn’t even get past Dirk Nowitzki like 10 years ago and he had a superteam
he also beat the winningest team in history down 1-3
no one cares about fake regular season wins lmao, though to be fair if LeBron wasn't a dumb Black person who wanted to be GM and trade for garbage players like Westbrook he could have like 8 rings
this is the correct take
Yea thanks to the league suspending that idiot Draymond Green and the referees rigging the shit out of the game. Not to mention Kyrie Irving saving the day
>kobrgays ever complaining about refball
you need to be +18 to post here newbie
So we agree referees favor media darlings for narrative purposes. Both Kobe and Lebron would get absolutely demoralized by Jordan anyway. Especially lebron who is b***h made
>lebron only won because of refball
>ok kobe did too but it doesn't matter because muh jordan
kobrgays are pathetic, they ride mj's coattails just as much as he did
That helicopter crash was the best thing to happen to Kobe Bryant's image in 20 years (aside from the penis degloving)
the injury reports on the body of kobe and his daughter are absolutely horrific.
I always wondered if it was a completely instant death and they didn't even see it coming. I guess the pilot could have said OH FRICK when he realized where he was but then it was just immediately lights out?
they definitely knew for at least a few seconds
some of the other people on the helicopter had it worse. one of the mothers and her daughter were crushed and ripped apart.
from what i remember reading and seeing in the sketches of the injury report, kobe was pretty much cut in half at the waist, his and giannas brains where blown out of their faces, plus all kinds of other shit you could imagine stemming from a big flying hunk of metal slamming into a mountain.
>the referees rigging the shit out of the game
funny coming from someone who just ragged on lebron for losing to dirk, who lived at the free throw line that series
"dude more free thows = refs" is the most midwit take of all time
>jump shooter getting more FTA than two opponents who aggressively drive to the basket all game
do you happen to be a harden fan, too?
it's called baiting people to foul you which your boy Wade did vs the Mavs in 06 when the refs LITERALLY rigged it for the Heat
wade got most of his calls driving iirc, which you are much more likely to be fouled doing than jump shooting
not if you have game like Dirk or Paul Pierce
>mentioning pierce in the same breath as dirk
lebron haters baka
both have one title, were taken back to back in the same draft and both dropped in said draft, were crafty perimeter players who could go down in the post, averaged similar ppg, etc
pierce could only squeak out 1 ring when he had a big three for many years
he was like 34 at that point and KG was injured in 09, Perk got injured in 10. just the facts
dirk is unironically overrated
zoomers especially forget that prior to 2011 he was considered a playoff choker thanks to 2006 and 2007
if lebron doesn't choke in 2011 pierce would easily be considered better than him
Lebron is the only “top 10 player” to have a negative finals record
are you one of those people that thinks not making the finals is better than making them and losing?
I’m a person who thinks losing more than you’ve won on the biggest stage makes you a fricking loser
ah, so it's better for players not to even make the big stage in your mind
i see
Imagine team swapping, building superteams and ring chasing and still having a losing finals record. Just embarrassing
its not better but there's no proof the top team in a Conference wouldn't be 9th in the other conference so it really doesn't matter one way or another
>go to more finals than 27 teams in the league have
>this is considered a bad thing
remember who's on the logo is moron
Excellent point. Robert Horry is another one who has been to more finals than most teams
>jordan decline ushers in unprecedented age of parity
>lebron destroys the league because he isnt good enough surpass jordan in cleveland
>only 4 teams have a real chance at title
>half the league actively tries to lose games.
wow, such prestige.
>lebron destroys the league because he isnt good enough surpass jordan in cleveland
i forgot that the first big 3 was the heatles, good point
pooling talent isnt the problem. players colluding with each other is the problem and we've slid all the way to the bottom just like it was predicted when lebon did his gay espn decision.
>he says as the two teams in the finals currently have mostly home grown talent
>age of parity
>aside from 1 year its literally the spurs or lakers vs pistons then celtics
just say you're under 12 and stop replying
its embarssing to watch you post
>those quads
I kneel
>lebron destroys the league
Adam Silver has fricked the league, not Jordan. David Stern wouldn't put up with the player empowerment bullshit that has resulted in the league becoming a political soapbox and players having the ability to sign a max contract and demand a trade the year after.
the refs arent corrupt enough to rig the winner. they only frick around with spreads and totals.
not unless know the right signals
Kings vs Lakers was absolutely rigged via refball. The guy who even got that series said the NBA didn’t want Jersey vs. Sacramento for ratings
Kings vs. Nets would’ve been boring as frick, based stern pulling the plug
Doesn’t matter. Lebron had a superteam and got outplayed by Jason Terry lmao
and then went back and won 2 rings
how many more times did the mavs make the finals?
And choked again but got saved by a miraculous Ray Allen shot lmao. Then went on to get booty blasted by Spurs the following year
they were saved by the moron Popovich taking out Duncan. Commie "Coach Pop" can't make the playoffs without Duncan in fact, sad!
He's better than MJ obviously he's better than Kobe who's barely top 15
Embarrassing take. You have to be a zoomer.
lmao you kobrgays forget that before he died and especially before he retired he was considered a team cancer holding the lakers back from rebuilding
5 rings. Seethe
lmao 5 rings and he had to be carried to each one
big shot bob says hi
Shaq carried him to 3 and Pau was better for the final two
This is true. Kobe isn’t top 10 but he was still much more enjoyable to watch than that bore lebron
>He's better than MJ
you can always tell some casual homosexual because they think Kobe was ever good lmao, homie was a ballhog garbage time player who might be top 20 of all time on a good day
Kobe won an Oscar
those arent very hard to get if you have money.
So did Mike Conley.
Kobe never abandoned any of his teammates or his teams in the 4th quater like LeChoke has done several times.
he chucked his team out of the game countless times because he didn't trust his teammates
Both are raging douchebags but LeBron by a mile. Kobe is an overrated ball chucker.
>Watching sports
>Watching Black folk playing sports
>Stop liking what I don't like
Ywnbaw
lmfao this homie was probably picked last on any sport in PE
>doesn’t derive enjoyment watching the Celtics shit on the meme-chucking Warriors
ngmi
The Celtics are just as much of a memechuck team as the Warriors. This series is trash.
wrong, they pass the ball around for 15 seconds before taking a 3. Curry just backsteps and memechucks, big difference.
>meme-chucking
Haven’t been on Cinemaphile in years but this brought me back lel
Basketball is kino.
people who take pride in knowing nothing about sports and say shit like sportsball unironically are the biggest homosexuals I've met in my experience
lmfao you watch Black person millionaires who beat their wives chuck a ball for four hours straight
>its another anon thinks he's superior to everyone
you will die alone
I'm not of the mind that Kobe was anything incredible and he unfortunately caused a lot of his teammates to go unsung. Lebron is a blatant frickin hotdog showboating ballhog and the reason his teams never fricking win finals is because he refuses to pass it and plays shit defense. He also travels every single game but Black folk and LeBron fans let it happen because OMG HE SLAMMDABAWL!
I can't stand LeBron too yet I always get him my team on nba2k because he's so goddamn big and fast you can just blow through people or bully ball them
>lebron
>ballhog
???????? he's one of the most unselfish superstars ever
>lebron
>ballhog
wait don't you homosexuals b***h that he always passes the ball
which one is it
both, he got in his own head
Duncan > Kobe > Lebron
Where does Curry fit in here?
Depends on if he can actually beat the Leltics and get a FMVP this year. If he can he's top 10 no doubt.
Curry is finished. He had a good 3 game run but that’s the most we’ll see from him. Celtics defense isn’t even fair. That homosexual Robert Williams is a cheat code in the paint
Only because no one ever goes at him on offense, they just let him hide in the corner and rest. Delly and that chimp nigglet are the only ones that went at him and exposed his ass for being soft.
>no one ever goes at him on offense
Black person WHAT
watch any fricking game with the warriors and the warriors being on defense. Every fricking time or at least 80% of the time all you see Curry do is be in the corner standing there doing nothing because the guy he's guarding doesn't get the ball.
1 finals mvp out of 4 attempts does not make someone top 10
What about the shooting records and the way he changed the game
>changed the game for the worse
>regular season "records" that he only has because he shoots 3s 100x more than anyone else
>gazillionaire Black person lectures millions of poor white people on how privileged they are
courageous. revolutionary even
Easily
If you asked me 5 years ago I might say "maybe". Now that the dust has settled, no.
>if you asked me when he had less achievements maybe
>now that he has more achievements no
Finna cope? Finna seethe?
>Only ring since then was bubble championship*
>a season where they were #1 seed and couldn't take advantage of it because of the neutral court
>many players, including Dame, claiming that it was the hardest playoffs ever
ring on his 3rd team btw
>now that kobe died, no
Probably, but he's just too imperfect, his career was such a mess compared to MJ and Kobe. He may not have strictly started the 'move around until you have a superteam' shit but he sure as hell was the king of it, and that leaves a sour taste in people's mouth.
>tfw remember thinking Kobe dying would be the biggest news story of 2020 when it happened
Man that feels like 5 years ago now
Don't want to make it too off topic, but man. Everyone should have been on high alert when china was shutting down their factories. Those guys never shut down anything, not even christmas
No shit. If Kobe was still alive no one would disagree except Lakers homers.
yea
in terms of skill lebron is better but you need a psychopath like kobe to win championships
Oh, Victoria's definitely a secret down there.
Tell ya, my nickname there is 'Skinny'.
That's where they invented the toothbrush because they only got one tooth.
Chuck: They got them bloomers down there
>Shaq nearly convulses from laughter
Shaq: What do they got, Chuck?
Chuck: Bloomers
>Shaq convulses again
How they be eatin them churros down there, Chuck
Be nice. Its honestly the best live thing on tv. Between Chuck and Shaq shitposting and Earnie actually being a good person
Anon, we love it. It's fun to type it all out.
Inside the NBA is one of the best shows on TV and Chuck is one of the funniest people alive. It’s hilarious that the NFL is going to try to replicate it and will fail miserably
Bruh, inside the NBA is a literal cure for depression. I didn't even like basketball before I started binging them.
Based, some of the compilation videos of Chuck roasting people/getting roasted actually make me a happier person too
Chuck is my favorite. He literally does not give a frick and says what he means and is honest. It's gonna be a damn shame when he retires in 2 years.
Yeah, and he just laughs whenever anyone comes at him. Durant tried giving him real shit recently and they just made a joke out of it
I loved that clip when he had to give his jersey to Drake and Chuck just says "Is that a cadaver?" He'd score 55 points if he ate a cheeseburger.
He's been silently cancelled by TNT execs
>can't say big ol San Antonio women anymore
>his fat jokes mostly stay with Shaq and Zion instead of everyone else
>isn't allowed to drop redpills and blackpills anymore
These same execs probably had a heart attack when Chuck almost threw his mug at garbage Warriors bandwagoners on live TV
they signed Biz Nasty for NHL coverage, i don't think the TNT people give a frick
We'll get one glorious season of episodes with a doesn't-give-a-frick Chuck right before he retires. And if the execs try to stop him I hope he quits on the spot.
Go Celtics
Is Chet legit? Will he be the first white American superstar in forever?
>white
that's a spic
Needs to put on some more muscle mass or he will be bullied to hell in the NBA.
only if he starts doing super steroids like Yawnis asap
needs to put on muscle and sharpen his actual big man skills or he's gonna be a worse tingus pingus
A more fragile Greg Oden. Won't last 5 years in the NBA.
Greg Oden had a surgically fricked up leg that was shorter than the other and he was enormous. Chet has been durable so far and if you actually watched him play he hangs and bangs with big guys pretty well by sheer virtue of his length. Even if he gets moved off his spot he can still block attempts.
Chet will be just fine.
if he gets on the greek freak gear maybe.
I legit changed my gas filling routine because of this video. I keep it full and throw $20 in it when it gets that low.
>you now remember the time Shaq did the 1-chip challenge
It's nothing to me... Ah.
UIASY8UDASYHUDAS
Erneh', lemme tell you somethin', I don't watch da' bad teams, Erneh'
What made Erneh react like this again? Was it Chuck’s phone going off during the show?
Shaq's new age gas math in OP
I love watching Chuck make fun of how moronic Shaq is
WHEN A GUY IS BANGING YOU
Thank you Freemason! I shall continue to watch your coonball show and buy Nigge products.
I didn’t know my fellow /nba/nime chads browsed Cinemaphile what’s up bros
It’s time for the flagless GOAT debate. Truly anonymous and thus we will get the best possible answer.
For me?
It’s LeGod. Carry the hell on,
why casuals always wanna debate about the goat status
same reason they only talk about nfl QBs
because nobody compares to wilt, kid.
>Harlem Globetrotters the player
Bill Russel fricked his ass time after time
because aside from the playoffs the basketball season and offseason are boring as frick
hell even this years playoffs and finals have been nothing but shitty blowouts each night
Because all basketball coverage off the court is moronic. Tim Legler is the only "analyst" who actually knows anything and they stick him on fricking midnight sportscenter. When dumb as bricks Kendrick Perkins and Stephen A Smith are front and center feeding hot takes because that's all they know how to do, that's what the casual discourse becomes. I would include Skip in that category but he doesn't even pretend to be an analyst.
perk is funny sometimes. he's like a mini chuck
Perk lacks Chuck's self-awareness and his pedigree. Even worse, Perk acts like being the 8th man for a championship squad that had KG, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen is some kind of great accomplishment.
he was the starting center you idiot
He’s trash. Kevin Looney is starting center for warriors. Nobody cares
dont ever respond to me again
Yeah, and he played 92 minutes and scored 20 points in a 6 game series. 15 minutes per game is 8-9th man territory regardless of who starts
Oh frick that fat, blithering moron he's just as bad "I swear I'm the goat of women's and men's basketball please pay attention to me" Candace parker
i genuinely don't understand perk's meteoric rise to the top of nba coverage. i feel like even last season he was a sometimes analyst for local celtics broadcasts and now he's the leading dude on scott van pelt sportscenter. wild
people find him funny and espn is trying to push him as the next chuck
and espns nba coverage is so shit that he's actually one of the better ones
>wait, is that your real body? tell me they put something on you and that's not really your body
Who did Chuck better?
old heads get it bullying is the way to go to help fatasses just like japan
honestly i only enjoy the regular season of my nets and actually really shitty teams like magic kings okc
what are they talking about?
>sup homes
>nothing much you know keeping the league straight know what i mean?
>aight bless my brother
How are you actually a Nets fan? Unless you’re from New Jersey and can’t let them go you’d have to be the biggest bandwagon ass fan ever if you like the nets. Cause real mofos from New York rep knicks.
Even in Jersey nobody fricking liked the nets. Knicks dominate NJ/NY. The only argument comes from Devils or Rangers
Jersey master race is always Jets, Mets, Knicks, Devils. Simple as
what a miserable existence that must be
im from jersey
You gotta move on then my man. They’re no longer your team.
the script is to replace the old warriors team with the new and younger celtics team
Wilt is the goat.
For me it’s:
Jordan
Kareem
Wilt
Magic
Hakeem
>Hakeem in the top 5
BASED. This guy knows hoops
replace magic with byrd and we got a deal
Death to all fricking Wiltcels
>the Kenny got the booty tap segment
FRICK CHIMNEYCELS
better nba discussion here than in /nba/
my celties in 6
warriors got too comfy while playing vs injured nuggies and young grizzlies and literally luka + 10 wow players
the east simply got so much better west doesn't even have lebron factor no more because the fricking moron wasted his salary cap on westbrook instead of good role players
is draymond a replacement for shaq or for chuck?
The way he's playing right now he'll be sliding into Chuck's chair immediately after he retires in 2 years.
the show lives and dies with chuck, watch any 90s inside the nba and try not to fall asleep
It’ll never be the same. Chuck doesn’t give a frick about corporate interests so he’ll say whatever and has no worry of being cancelled since he’s already an NBA legend. Draymond is a corporate man who speaks his mind but it’s very politically correct.
I hate Kenny so fricking much
"The older he gets, the better he was." - Chuck
>That time Kenny said something to the effect of how he was a big reason they won
>Shaq and chuck roll their eyes
>"Hakeem is why you won anyone could have thrown the dude the ball"
>Kenny starts seething while chuck and Shaq keep laughing at him
The best was the time Kenny said he was the locker room leader on the team and Vernon Maxwell btfo him
It was fricking hilarious how you could tell Kenny was seething about Chuck’s “bus driver” or “bus rider” comments because he was basically referring to a player like Kenny who went along for the ride
Kenny is fine for soaking up the analysis segments at halftime and sometimes as a shit-stirrer, but that's about all he brings to the show. I hope that he knows that every time Chuck brings him down off his championship high horse he deserves it 100%.
I don't blame him since he's next to two legends, but he tries too hard. He's fine as a time waster and he does have the most experience compared to Shaq and Chuck.
Shaq used to be way too sensitive too, but lately he's been more chill and funny.
Everyone always says Kenny is “the straight man” but that’s basically Ernie who keeps the show on track and everyone in line. Kenny could be replaced by literally anyone but he knows that
kenny is important because he's the "basketball talk" straight man. Ernie is the straight man for reeling them in when they get off topic or start arguing, but Kenny is for when Shaq/Chuck are discussing basketball shit and only really giving perspective from their pov as two legendary players. Since Kenny is not nearly on the same level as them he can end up grounding the discussion more.
He also is a great instigator at times, serving up easy lobs to shaq/chuck or spurring them on into a funny bit or argument.
That’s fair. I do think that Ernie is the MVP of the show though and it wouldn’t work at all without him. You could still replace Kenny with a decent player and get a similar show
you're definitely right, look what happens when ernie isn't there
I think it's part of the charm that there are two straight men, but it's played with because Ernie inexplicably has street cred whereas Kenny is played as a dweeb.
the shaq and chuck show
hosted by ernie and some other guy as the side character
The white dudes are supposed to be like their handlers who actually know shit about sports but theyre a couple of morons meaning the comic relief are also the guys who know the sport they're talking about.
SKEEP
>"Oh boy going to San Antonio with those big ole women down there, Weight Watchers we gotta go to San Antonio"
>Those big old booty
>Chhuuuurrrroos eating
>big women!
>they wear those big old bloomers
>Victoria ain't no secret down there!
basketball is the ultimate cuck sport. Such a gay fricking sport to watch…you have to have a maximum iq of 75 to enjoy something like basketball
Everyone shut the frick up about goat talk, cause the answer's Bill Russel and it's not debatable.
Who's gonna win the Finals? I'm thinking my Celties : )
>INTRODUCING …YOUR 2023 SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!!! BACK TO BACK, THE LOS ANGELES RAAAAAAMS!!!!!!
ITS STAFFORD TIME BOYS
Duncan>Kobr
Common knowledge
I like beisbol more but inside the nba is comfy
apehoop sucks and I'm from south florida
Do they really
yes, Americans really wear shoes inside
how does Kenny even walk
Basketball is like hockey but for stupid people.
This is a fact. Playoff hockey is kino. Playoff apehoop is hit or miss, mostly miss
I watched my first nba game in years. Game 7 heat vs celtics. Heat down like 11 going for 2s, celtics start going for 3s, everyone is walking, heat actually get to within 2 points. It was embarrassing it was like they were throwing. I was so bored.
Yea that was trash. However the Bucks vs Celtics series was kino. But that was literally the only good series of the playoffs. Basketball is a joke and has been for the longest
Yeah, Bucks Celtics was pretty great. Would have been even better if Middleton was healthy.
The playoffs have been pretty boring for the most part this year. Lots of blowouts. I can’t stand watching the Celtics play either
>gazillionaire Black person who went to a $30k-a-year private school lectures poor whites on how priveliged they are
courageous. revolutionary, eve- wait
Stop worshipping blacks.
i dont worship them, i use them for entertainment
The NBA is pozzed entertainment nerdy israeli kids, wiggers and chinks. By far the most cucked professional sports league.
post height and jaw
>one more thing about coming
>that came out of nowhere
What did they mean by that?
Why can't they replace kenny with gilbert arenas
based chuck
>memechuck
I dont browse Cinemaphileee or watch basketball so why hate on the 3 pointers? it's probably analytics that figured out the most optimal way to win was to memechuck from a couple of spots
at least baseball is trying to fix it by banning the shift but idk what apehoop can do
>banning the shift
moronic
Manfred is just as bad as Silver only in a different way
move the 3pt line back
analytics also say in American football to go for it on 4th down too. No one does that meme shit there.
It’s a symptom of the absolute soft state of NBA. Nobody wants to get physical anymore like that. Which is why the post-up aspect of the game is almost dead and Power Fotwards like Duncan and Garnet are pretty much obsolete
lmao have you watched the Celtics? They are physical and have been defended physically in every series. Bucks and Heat battles were rockfights
Yea they finally tweaked the rules this year to make it physical again but unfortunately memechucking still prevails
its not the 3s themselves
its the fact that players who shouldn't even be shooting 3s are chucking them up now commonly
yeah it was cool to see a big man like yao or duncan put one up but it was rare
you get worse gas mileage from a full tank
>no mention of the Shaq's dumbest moment
As incredible as the gas math is, Shaq using the flight to LA as a reference point to the time to get to the moon is his finest
Was it kino?
would've been better if Mike Breen said "BANG" when Stephen Jackson punched the guy who threw his beer at a restrained Meta World Peace
i liked the commentator that would scream "JAMES!" when lebron did something
Almost 4 years after the incident, another similar incident happened also at the same arena, this time between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Detroit Shock (now known as the Dallas Wings) of the WNBA. This gave it the nickname "The Malice at The Palace II".[74]
>WNBA
my sides
>commentators pretending to hate the fighting
charles barkley also charged into the stands in detroit and fought fans, this was in 1992 i think, he was suspended for maybe 2 games. he also tossed a Black person through a plate glass window from a third story bar.
Yes, but Barkley gets sympathy treatment for having 0 (zero) rings.
holy shit why are Black folk like this?
>What you say, Chuck?
Is this guy white? Mixed? Native? I do not know...
He's everybody's black friend
white but born in milwaukee and went to georgia so spiritually black
it’s what happens when start accumulating to many n word passes from your nba bros
He just lightskinned
>tfw you will never be shooting hoops in an empty dusty gym and see prime Magic and MJ approach you from across the court
My dad went to UCLA and had that happen. They were playing pickup intramurals and Magic and Kareem and a few of the other current Lakers showed up. They were very polite, and asked to play next and all the guys basically noped off the court and watched them play. My dad said that Kareem was the most impressive person he’s ever seen in person across any sport, and that’s with him playing with Magic.
>tfw was big NBA fan thru the 2000s thru game 7 of the 2016 finals
>durant joined warriors
>gave up on the nba
>stopped watching inside the nba as well, now just try to see the occasional highlights pf the funny stuff that happens
i tried watching the show on its own after dropping the nba but i couldnt get thru it, too much nba talk. the league is utter fricking shit now
Downfall really started with Garnett going to the celtics but especially when lebron went to the heat
wrong. the nba was still decently entertaining when the celtics big 3 happened. the heatles era was annoying but it wasn't really that bad. the heat went 2-2 in finals, easily could have gone 1-3 if not for ray allen, and all the finals except the thunder were entertaining, even the final spurs-heat was entertaining despite being a beatdown because of how funny the massacre was. and i say this as a fan of the chicago bulls who the heat destroyed every year in the playoffs.
once durant joined the warriors the entire league just went down the toilet. thats when all the super team bullshit really took off, the three point chucking, adam silver turning the league into an even bigger meme with MORE playoff teams and trying to do some mid-season tournament, and even more social media obsession.. its a fricking joke.
I started watching around 2010 - die hard fan.
100% agreed the 2017-2019 seasons were dog shit because of the Durant Warriors teams - league ruining stuff.
I will say, things are back to normal since then though - this was a legitimately good year for ball.
yeah 2010 was when i really got into it, like watching every single regular season game my team played on shitty streams because i was out of market diehard obsessed.
i have heard that this year and last year were good. unfortunately, the three years i stopped watching (2017-19 like you said) was too much for me to be able to come back to it. i saw no point. the officiating is still horrendous, the three point chucking, every team scoring 110-120 a game, even more teams making the playoffs because 16/30 wasnt enough, the superstars teaming up is worse than ever, the constant soap opera drama, and the regular season is still basically meaningless. frick that shit
>I will say, things are back to normal since then though - this was a legitimately good year for ball.
we just had 2 seasons full of injuries and covid protocols bro
just look at denver. normally a competitive team but 100% irrelevant because of the murray injury
I couldn't watch the past two years because of the BLM shit, left such an awful taste in my mouth combined with the crybaby pussy primma Donnas, super team shit, etc. I couldn't do it anymore. Watched the playoffs a bit this year though and there was some good matchups and definitely some solid new blood on these usually underwhelming teams. Also seemed like the refs weren't so quick to whistle and there was some hard defense that won playoff games. The whining to refs and flopping by players is still awful every single game though
>mfw i strung together a bunch of clips of chuck doing sexual motions on the show to use as my signature on the porn torrent tracker i'm on
should i post here
Yes
1. Bird
2. Magic
3. Kareem
4. MJ
5. Wilt
90sgays conveniently forget that MJ didnt win a damn thing until Bird was hurt in his final season. 0-6 against Larry Legend in the playoffs. He was talented for sure and could handle the pressure in the clutch, but couldn’t do anything until Larry was out of the way in the Eastern Conference, plus the NBA changed rules to make it easier for him to dominate.
Lebron would be 6 on this list btw.
>Wilt
>no Russell
cringe
>Wilt plus your uncle Jim vs Russell and multiple hall of famers
This was the Lakers-Celtics rivalry back then. Wilt was the best player of either team by far.
Not too big on basketball or sports in general, but ive been watching more lately. what determines an entertaining game vs a shit one?
>what determines an entertaining game vs a shit one?
if it's close, you fricking moron
Thats an obvious metric but theres more stuff that goes down than just that
>what determines an entertaining game vs a shit one?
The biggest factor is fandom. If your team wins, it's pretty much always an entertaining game.
If you're looking at a neutral game, what you think of first is that the game is close down the stretch (last 2 minutes)
>large comebacks
>many lead changes
>buzzer-beating shots
>exciting individual plays
>great performances by individual players
>well-officiated
All of these factors amplify the excitement.
Putting money on it and winning/losing...
It probably is a lot better to fuel up before your tank gets near empty, right?
fellas rate my chuck gif
What are some movie series where the originals were hailed as visionary, but the series slowly lost it's luster until the rights were then sold to a new owner that overpromised and underdelivered?
The NBA died after 2014. I hope the meme chucking era ends soon.
t. no skill fat ass
>t. somehow made basketball more boring than fricking golf
I got into the NBA three or four years ago and I'm almost ready to tap out already. The flopping and officiating is fricking ridiculous and I can't see why anyone would be entertained by it.
how the frick could you get into the nba 3 or 4 years ago? right in the middle of the warriors destroying everyone, you found enjoyment in that? that was LITERALLY the worst time of the past decade to start watching
he could be a lifelong warriors fan zoomer who actually enjoys seeing 50 3s chucked behind illegal screens every game
I'm originally from Wisconsin and started watching the Bucks.
post that pic of when he lost the bet to let his hairline grow out
what went wrong?
Lil B dabbed on his ass and he never recovered.
too pussy to kick Westbrick out of OKC
according to twitter he was never good and Steph and company carried his ass.
last year everyone was crowning him the best player in the league though
hi Kevin, shouldve signed with the Celtics instead of the Warriors, you'd be an all time legend
would he really be though? I was just talking about how reactionary everyone is
yeah he'd have like 3 titles as the main star already if not more, Tatum Brown and Smart would be perfect sidekicks and he'd be Bird level popular in Boston and respected for having his own team nationally
sounds good on paper but he might have Kyrie on those teams which would frick everything up
eh maybe, but KD Kyrie and Horford with Tatum, and Brown and then Smart off the bench is pretty hard to argue with. even if kyrie still gets injured. celtics just needed someone who could take over and score in the 4th, durant does that.
it would be pretty sick but I just know Kyrie fricks it up because Boston is an ancient indian burial ground or some shit
yeah they would have won a couple chips by now already, while tatum and brown and smart and timelord developed. durant would be on easy street to lead a two part dynasty, the first few with him leading the team and then once he gets too old, like this year, tatum and brown step up to run the team, like this year.
which is ironic because steph cant close and kd was the closer. they definitely needed each other
I've grown to be fine with not drafting him, he would have left the blazers way before okc
They left Seattle for bumfrick Oklahoma
This. His legacy being defined by fricking Oklahoma is absolutely hilarious
>move to Brockton MA for Amazon job from South Carolina
>go from $9/hr to $18/hr and $5000 hiring bonus
>manager brings up the Celtics before every shift
>I pretend to be a basketball fan and diehard Celtics fan
>hook up with a girl at a watch party for the first time
>actually have numbers saved in my phone besides my parents and food delivery
Best year of my life so far. I'll forever be a Celtics fan.
welcome to the club
I don't know much about Bird but watched a bunch of the Paul Pierce era on YouTube. I might subscribe to NBA for a little while to watch Hardwood Classics.
>live in bay area
>started hating nba when durant joined warriors
>too autistic to even fake enjoying basketball to relate to how the entire region loves the warriors
>B-B-B-B-BUT MEME CHUCKING REEEEEEEEEE
Curry is the best player of the 10s. Better than LeBrick, Kobrick, Klown Durant and literally everyone to ever play the ball. Your favorite will never change how the game is played (unless he is Wilt). Your favorite will never break the shooting record. Your favorite would never be a star if he was 6'3" and under. Your favorite player will never have skills. Being physical does not need skills. Shooting like Curry needs skills. Something your favorite player will never have.
Top 5:
Stephen Curry
Larry Bird
Scottie Pippen
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
6th would be Shaq, despite how much I think big players don't have any skills, Shaq's natural gift and dominance is one of a kind.