Oh, I know. Everything now for LeBron for the rest of his career is about playing with his son and everything else is secondary. I still would prefer he left this trash heap of an organization and tried to win while he's still actually good.

**** Klutch Sports

LMAO As if Klutch Sports and LeBron aren't the main catalysts for the sorry shape that franchise is in now. At their urging the Lakers traded away Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Montrezl Harrell, and 4 first round picks for Street Clothes and Westbrick.

It's a waste of time.

He loves to play stupid with LeGM.

That's why it's so fun to "remind" him. Especially when he's getting out of pocket about the Durant Warriors, even though LeBron, DWade, and Bosh actually colluded to circumvent the Salary Cap to sign together.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;If Steph gets to 5 rings he&#39;s above LeBron!&quot;</p>&mdash; Barry (@BarryOnHere) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarryOnHere/status/1582845618547933184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LMAO You couldn't be more transparent about how badly the Warriors hurt your feelings winning all those Championships. Also, just ftr, we don't need every Barry McCockiner tweet in existence about LeBron dumped in here, my guy.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Stephtards really try to rewrite history as if Steph didn&#39;t have a massive talent advantage every time his team beat LeBron&#39;s team in the Finals. Truly disgusting. We can&#39;t let people forget the truth!</p>&mdash; Barry (@BarryOnHere) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarryOnHere/status/1582846592117112832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Wait, are we supposed to have sympathy for LeBron that he got rekt by the super team trend he introduced to the NBA? That's laughable even for Barry.

Meh the Anthony Davis trade was fine.

Steph's "superteam" was largely built in-house.

Well, yeah, but it's a funnier narrative to expose the hypocrisy of the LeBron Stan than just pointing out the simple facts of the matter.

This thread is literally the same every single season. That's why I stopped posting in it. It just becomes a KCC LeBron slurp session with him posting a bunch of Barry tweets.

Well, the NBA Regular season is about as intriguing as watching a dog snarf it's own gooch. Thats the result of having 20/30 teams getting into the playoffs. Hell, a bunch of nationally televised games will have multiple stars that people would actually like to see sitting out because of "load management". It's a very subpar product as it currently stands.

I would describe the threads more as "KCC posts one positive thing about LeBron inevitably leading to five pages of hate about LeBron." I didn't even call him the GOAT this time, I just said he had a good game.

I was just discussing this over the weekend with my friends at my fantasy draft, yeah. Kawhi and the Spurs kind of ruined the NBA. That was never really a thing before Pop started allowing that and now everyone literally does it all the time.

Remember when David Stern actually fined the Spurs for that?

You could just start a LeBron thread. :shrug:

I like watching him play, but I'm not sure discussing him ad nauseam is great for this thread.

Oh good, the NBA thread has been turned into a Lebron thread by KCC for the 13th year in a row.

yaaaaay

It's so engrained in the league now I don't know if they'll be able to reverse the trend, but Silver really should at least make an honest attempt at it.

In my experience here, it's generally the only thing that keeps this thread anything close to active. People don't care about the regular season, he's right.

I'm interested in seeing what Gobert brings to Minnny. If he (and his gang) can stay healthy, they should be fun to watch. Of course, I'm also geeked to see the Thunder play, even if they lose.

Other "young" teams, like NO, Kings, Cleveland, Rockets, and Magic should be fun to watch as well. LET'S GOOOOOO!

We could talk about Curry.

He's pretty amazing. Agreed?

You're probably right. It's either that or the idiot that claims "NBA teams don't play defense" or someshit.

I mean, we'd all agree that two of the "favorites" to win are the Clippers and Nets, yeah? Constantly featured in the national slot and yet most of the time you're lucky to see just one star while they're playing, nevermind the starting 5 as it should be on paper.

I’ve never understood the Barry tweets. He’s a fun twitter troll not a well respected, expert on sports or anything close to it. If we cared about Barry’s thoughts we’d follow him on twitter. He’s not my go to source to back up an argument.

Kenrich, Muscala, and Bazely are so ****ing useless.

Once JW went down with the concussion (or whatever), the Thunder didn't really have a third player.

Knicks should have won and the Pels dominated the Nets. Pels will be a top team in the West if they stay healthy

That's not surprising to anyone. They took a really good team and added a superstar to the mix.

The true prize of next year’s draft is Ho You Fat

He's decent at the 3 point line but other then that he's just average. - KCC


I will add that KCC does give this thread some flare and he doesn't like my Warriors who were raising that Championship banner last night.

16 rings before he came and nobody is impressed by that 4 month off bubble ring at the YMCA.

Westbrook goes 0 for 11. Benched with a minute left (he should have never entered the game in the 2nd half). Worst player in the NBA.

Victor, Scoot, and the Thompson Twins (no, not those guys).

And Beverley was 0-7.

It's gonna be so much fun rooting against this team.

Sometimes guys just look different than everybody else.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Russ says he played ‘solid’ tonight <br><br>(🎥 <a href="https://twitter.com/LakersDailyCom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LakersDailyCom</a>) <a href="https://t.co/V1QyhcWfPx">pic.twitter.com/V1QyhcWfPx</a></p>&mdash; NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1583331491932966913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You see the video of him warming up?

Everytime someone says NBA teams don't play defense I talk about the time I saw Dwight Howard, known bricklayer, make like 15 straight mid range jumpers in warm ups. Because NBA players, even 'bad' shooters, just don't miss when they aren't guarded.

They're doing a pre-game spot and Westbrook is in the background getting 12 footers up. He went like 2 of 8.

He's just ****ing trash.

If he had any self awareness he would embrace the roll of a drive and kick PG only and play some defense. He still is quick and can get to the basket fairly easy he should just do that. But nah he wants to take jumpers and bricks them most of the time.

Or in short, do what Rondo did early in his career.

The reverse Jason Kidd?

Through the early part of his career, Kidd was, politely, a sub-optimal shooter. Now right around the time he hit 30 he found his stroke and could really shoot. But early in his career he was very much a drive and kick guy.

Yes though thinking about it I don't know if this is possible because Lebron is basically the PG alot of the time. Just a bad fit and LeGM is responsible.

Literally all you have to do to make a LeBron team decent is add shooting (because he can take anybody individually off the dribble or in the post and force defenses to collapse and help) and the Lakers still somehow haven’t ever managed to do that in his entire tenure there. Even the team that won the championship lacked it. Just bizarre the direction they’ve gone here with Westbrook and the rest of the scrubs.

LeGM's fault. Cry moar.

Kidd's J was hilarious, though. That push shot went in enough to make it interesting (as he got older), but it was always a bit odd.

LMAO That's kind of what happens when LeGM and Klutch put pressure on the FO to add a bum like Westbrick at the expense of every somewhat valuable asset you have left in the organization.

Even if you don't believe that Lebron is secretly in charge, to think he doesn't co-sign stuff like this is just reeruned. KCC isn't that dumb, he just plays stupid so he can have his narrative.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The fact that LeBron is still held to a superstar standard in his 20th NBA season is why he&#39;s the GOAT.</p>&mdash; Barry (@BarryOnHere) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarryOnHere/status/1583583785198981120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Held to a superstar standard? Wut? Mostly people are just laughing at him for how badly he's ****ed the Lakers over. No one expects him or them to do anything this season.

Well, this thread went to shit fast.

Lakers disaster so far seems to be all that ESPN is talking about as well.

Well, LeBron the GM isn't so good.

Do you want the euro stars to suck this year?

Doncic, yes.

Ja Morant with an absolutely ridiculous performance tonight. 49 points. Stepped up big after the Grizz went down 16 and couldn’t buy a bucket. It’s so fun watching him play.

Man, I like so much what Gobert allows the Wolves to do and his performance tonight was just about perfect. Until he had two free throws with the game in the balance and he wasn't mentally tough enough to hit either one. One game doesn't matter, but damn, get your shit together on the line, Rudy.

I hope Ja has gotten to the level where he can knock the Warriors off this year.

Jokic is brilliant.

The Blazers are 2-0 baby! Squeaked out a win against the Suns last night.

I definitely think there are a lot of teams good enough to knock the Warriors off. Playing against the Warriors becomes such a mental game. It gets so frustrating watching teams switch their style of play to try and keep up with GS. If teams stay focused on driving to the bucket instead of letting the Warriors dictate the pace and turn it into an ugly 3 point contest they will dominate the Warriors this year. For some reason teams are way too in love with the 3 ball today. Even when it’s not falling. There was a stretch in the 2nd quarter of the GSW vs Den game last night where I felt like I was just watching a couple middle schoolers jack up stupid 3’s in a game of NBA 2k. Denver should have been able to stretch the lead to 30+ but for some reason started jacking up stupid 3’s right along with GS. The Warriors do not have a good enough post presence to have the success they have had. Teams need to just stick to their game and drive the bucket with ease when they play the Warriors.

I love that Lillard stuck it out with the Trailblazers.

They are but Poku is even more worthless.

My favorite player in thr NBA. This is what people want to watch. Sheer athleticism. No crafty bullshit (Harden, Doncic). Guy gets real fouls. Flies the **** around. This is what Russell Westbrook could have been if he didn't have a 71 IQ.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I think what Draymond did here was quite dirty but I think we also need to talk about wtf Jordan Poole was doing 🤨 <a href="https://t.co/Z3iP214esa">pic.twitter.com/Z3iP214esa</a></p>&mdash; Jack 🏹📋 (@murray_center27) <a href="https://twitter.com/murray_center27/status/1583856200411594756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Probably not, but we can dream that this disgraceful organization will get taken down a peg.

How is Hong Kong Lebron doing?

I'm trying to watch this Celtics@Magic game and all I can find are Boston streams. My god there's just nothing worse than Boston sports announcers. Their voices are annoying and they're homers to the max. Have a little bit of professionalism you chowderhead reeruns.

Doncic is putting on a show tonight. As much as Dillon Brooks offensive shit show in the playoffs last year pissed me off, we really need his defense back. He’s very valuable in that regard.

How many games in a row including tonight has Luka and the Mavs kicked the dogshit out of Jah and the Grizzlies? Yet Jah gets the All-Star nod over Luka. GTFOH.

They just got rolled by 41 by the Mavs. Luka lit up Jah but yeah they could totally challenge Golden State. ROFL

I heard an opinion that Lebron doesn't want to ask out so he can say that he never asked for a trade in his career.

The dude goes through teams like Liz Taylor went through husbands. Nobody cares if it was via trade or FA. Not buying that rumor.

Doubt that is the case. All of his haters already trash him for not being loyal to his franchises (see the post above mine).

I honestly just think winning isn't the priority anymore for him. Family is.

Luka a ho

Luka’s made Jah his ho just about every time they’ve faced each other.

euro trash. the next bullshit player. he can take over for james hardens reign of garbage.

If style is so important to you maybe watch the and 1 series instead.

God I love this.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“No Russ no!”<a href="https://t.co/AuqXCkpWmy">pic.twitter.com/AuqXCkpWmy</a></p>&mdash; Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/1584308612041564162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You can HEAR the crowd shouting "noooooo!" as he shoots.

Just ****ing release the guy and be done with it. He ain't gonna hit anything but he's not gonna stop shooting it. He can't play defense and won't pass. The only way to succeed with him on the floor is to simply ice him out and play 4 on 5.

This is just amazing.

And remember folks - the 2023 first rounder is unprotected and the Pelicans have control of the pick swap.

Man I hope they get 1.1 and lose that ****er.

Eat shit, Lakers.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Russ came down with 17 seconds on the shot clock and pulled this… Lebron was not happy <a href="https://t.co/MMJh0khz6N">pic.twitter.com/MMJh0khz6N</a></p>&mdash; Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a href="https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1584310482441474048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Like is Westbrook trying to get benched/released here? You have to at least consider the possibility after this.

Oh I see DJ was already on it LMAO