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Originally Posted by staylor26
Lebron wasted a NBA Finals MVP performance from Wade in 2011. He wasn’t even the best player on his own team in a series where his team was definitely better on paper, and he still couldn’t get it done. All he needed to do was be a 1B.
Him and Wade even mocked Dirk only to get beat in the end by him. This was after The Decision and “not 1, not 2, not 3…”.
2011 will always be the time he lost the debate forever for the majority. Just a brutal blow to his legacy when comparing him to the ultimate competitor and closer.
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This. So much this.
50 years from now the GOAT conversation will go something like this:
MJ backer: ‘Air Jordan, greatest of All Time!’
LBJ backer: ‘No man, Lebron. Come on, brah. He is the all time leader in like every meaningful statistical category’ [which he may be since he is committed to playing forever to cement his legacy]
MJ backer: ‘What about PPG?’
LBJ backer: ‘well, not counting that one’
MJ backer: ‘What about the fact that Jordan did everything he did in only 14 full NBA seasons while Lebron played like 20?’
LBJ backer: ‘That’s because Bron was more durable and held up better over the long haul’
MJ backer: ‘You know Lebron only played one full 82 game season his entire career, right? And MJ played a full 82 game season 10 times out of his 14 full seasons in the league. AND that he walked away from basketball for basically 2 years to pursue a side hobby cause he was so bored with dominating everyone else in basketball?’
LBJ backer: ‘No man, that was because of his dad dying . . . . and he only did that because he wasn’t as committed as LBJ man. MJ quit on his team.’
MJ backer: ‘You mean like Lebron did at the end of 2 of his first 3 years with the LakeShow?’
LBJ backer: ‘No, man. He was injured. That was different.’
MJ backer: ‘But I thought you just said he was more durable than MJ a little while ago?’
LBJ backer: ‘Stop it, man. You’re confusing me with your circular logic and stuff. I don’t care what you say, man. Lebron was the greatest and the numbers prove it out’
MJ backer: ‘Which numbers? You mean like 6-0 in the NBA Finals?’
LBJ backer: ‘That’s nothing. Lebron went to 10 NBA Finals. I mean, yeah he lost 6 of those, but that wasn’t his fault. He didn’t have good enough players around him. And Jordan had Pippen man. Dude was a HOFer’
MJ backer: ‘That’s true. But didn’t LBJ win his only titles playing with Dwayne Wade, Kyrie Irving, and Anthony Davis? Those were pretty damn good players in their own right. A couple HOFer’s in there’
LBJ backer: ‘Yeah, but Jordan played on super teams in his two three peats’
MJ backer: (blank stare)
LBJ backer: ‘I’m over this man. I don’t care what you think or say. LBJ is, was and will ALWAYS be THE greatest!’
MJ backer: (Brief pause) . . . . . . ‘So explain to me 2011? . . . .’
LBJ backer: . . . . . . . *crickets* . . . . . . . . *still crickets* . . . . . . ‘Go **** yourself’ [Ends conversation and walks out door]