They're new to this stage. Give them a break.
Fell behind and just started to panic. Other than Tatum, nobody could hit a shot
> Jordan.
Sorry Jordan fans who can't see the other side. This guy is just better.
Dude scores 35 with Jeff freaking Green as the only other option.
for leaving Jordan and Bill Russell available.
LeBron is a much better player than Bill Russell.
you just said that
Have a nice night
But he's a distant 3rd behind LeBron and Michael.
He didn't score a ton and couldn't shoot or hit free throws, just rebounded a shit ton during an era when he was probably 5 inches taller than everyone else on average.
Bill Russell in the modern era would be a great player, but not nearly what he was back then.
Michael and LeBron are the top 2, without question.
LOL Bill Russell today wouldn't even make the league. Transport ANY player from the NBA today to the 1960s and they would be considered the best player ever by a country mile.
You should have listened to your mom when she told you you'd go blind from doing that too much to yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnu5vMfPtbw
You're right. Kevin Garnett/Shaq/Hakeem would have no shot if Bill Russell were guarding them. lol
It's also irrelevant.
Jesse Owens wouldn't win a top-quality high-school 100m now--at least half a dozen high school runners this year have put up times better than his Olympic time. Does this reduce his greatness in the slightest?
Most people now don't know how dominant players like Bill Russell and George Mikan were. If players like them grew up with the level of play now, they'd probably be just as dominant.
And even though he didn't play long ago, people don't know how great Hakeem Olajuwon was.
Oddly enough though, even though Wilt Chamberlain would lose to Bill Russell more than win, some of the same people who will say Bill Russell wouldn't be able to compete now, will talk about how great Chamberlain was and that he could play in any era.
Bill Russell interview about Chamberlain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8r-WSWJM0M
Not at all. And I don't mind people ranking Bill Russell in the top 3 of all time as he was as dominant in the 60s as say LeBron is today. My response was to the claim that Bill Russell would still be a great player today, playing against todays players, which is obviously a ridiculous claim. Marcia then moronicly responded, which led to my youtube video and our back and forth.
And no matter which other players in the top 10 of all time are selected for his, they win the game. No question about it.
LJ is making a claim for MJ’s GOAT title. He’s not there yet. But for your criteria it’s Magic.
Was Boston at full strength?
Kyrie Irving couldn't play tonight to send LeBron home.
Do you not know? Do you need to ask? I do not think this was a well-intentioned comment. You should have just made your point IMO.
Relax
I'm just trying to pioint out Kyrie Irving didn't play.
Have a better night. :-)
did great without Kyrie Irving.
He's a clutch player.
Imagine how great they would have been with him!
How good is Boston going to be next year.
The curious thing about Cleveland is that they do have two or three guys that are at least marginal NBA starters (Hood was a starter at Utah before this year, Clarkson started for terrible Lakers teams, Nance is on the edge) but they're all on the second unit, playing behind guys like Green and Smith who truly couldn't start on any other team.
They'll be bad when LeBron leaves but I don't think they'll be historically (as in Stepien-era) bad. But the relative value of the other players wil be completely different.
is better than both with his 7. Or Bill Russell with his 11. If we're going to count championships as the end all, be all, then we damn well better be consistent with it. It can't just be selective.
LBJ should have had a 35, 15, and 15 night. But his squad of rec league players couldn't hit any wide open corner 3s--thanks Kyle Korver.
hehe
have to watch the Finals. GS should wash the Cavs in 4-5.
Would have given GS a better series?
but only an extra game, most likely.
It was pointless to watch the playoffs. You all know what will happen.
Who could've possibly guessed that the player who has made the finals the last seven years in a row would make it an eighth year??
I mean had an itch to try out baseball for 2 years.
LeBron is pretty good at basketball.
...with a starting lineup of Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Drew Gooden, Sasha Pavlovic and Daniel Gibson. (OK, Ilgauskas was prettty good. But Daniel Gibson???)
Then he took two finals games off the supposedly greatest team of all time with Dellavedova, Shumpert, Thompson and Mozgov.
Maybe GOAT is a harder question. But if you need to add one player to a squad of G-leaguers, LeBron's your man.
Celts lost for one and one reason only. Cavs invented a timetraveling device that creates an Einstin Rosen bridge through intersectional microdynamic dimensions, which created a temporally distorational vortex with a probabilisic cloud at a statistically valid and average centerpoint at the intersection of the basket's average radial spatial locations, and with a net positive outward pressurization thrust of sufficient average radialized direction to exert a defectatory momentum impluse at the time-reverse-calculated chronospacial location of the 3 point attempts.
In other words, the Celts went 7 FOR 39 from the 3 line, and THAT was end of game. Had they hit three of those suckers in the 4th, game maybe comes out totally different.
Warriors/Rockets, this wasn't.
Always happy to see the Celtics yak it up on their home floor. Lebron may or may not be the GOAT but who cares? His legacy, like all the other arguable GOATs is beyond secure. He's the greatest players vs the generation he played against and that's all you can realistically ask.