LeBron James: “I don’t know how many more opportunities I’ll get to play in the postseason in my career. So … s—, I live for this moment. I live for the postseason.”
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I will forever hate the Lakers but its hard not to root for 41 year old LeBron leading an upset round 1.
Also helps the Rockets are abysmal to watch and I have no interest in seeing that team in the 2nd round.
Bro i just want a post season where all teams are healthy with no “what ifs”
I know it’s a little biased because we won it, but the bubble is the closest thing to that we had to that recently.
Even with or without bias, I still don’t understand why ppl try to discount the bubble championship. During that time we heard how players were struggling with some adjustments, some not even game related, despite them being on a neutral ground. And on the opposite end we saw some stars flourish: Donovan Mitchell in that environment.
You know why. It’s because the Lakers won it. Nobody said it was a fake title when they were picking us to lose series after we lost those game 1s. It only because fake AFTER we won.
And LeBron won it on top of that. It’s two big groups of haters intersecting to hate on that championship
Very true
Yeah, pretty much every player who played in the bubble said it was the hardest/most fun environment for basketball they were apart of.
I don’t discount it but I understand why people asterisk it. It was just significantly different basketball that is hard to compare to other years. Still a competition though and the Lakers still won, but there’s no denying it was weird and surreal and the circumstances were much different than a normal season and playoffs.
But the majority of people trying to asterisk it are not trying to have a discussion about how weird the pandemic was, but are just trying to be haters.
Especially when every player in the bubble has said something to the effect of this was the purest basketball they played. If the players have a lot of respect for it, it’s ridiculous for these idiots to try to diminish it behind their keyboards.
No fans, no narratives, no “covering the spread” or “extending the series” shenanigan (as far as I can remember). Everyone (except Lou Will lmao) just hooping
Lou Will, you’re trash
every player, coach, and team had the same experience. they were in the same bubble playing the same basketball. no asterisk is necessary because the best team won.
in the direction where NBA has been trending last 10-15 years…
without huge and unrealistic changes (eliminating back to backs or 5 games in 7 nights, decreasing count of games or somehow making the game slower or less swift movements)… I don’t see it happening sadly.
it’s been lots of ‘asterisk’ champions and it will keep that way
That’s not really how contact sports work
Man this year’s playoffs would’ve been extra insane if so.
Lakers with Luka. 76’ers with Embiid. Spurs with Wemby. Rockets with full KD. Nuggets with full Jokic. Blazers with Dame. The list goes on…
Honestly I’m hoping for them to win for LeBron but also so the rockets fire udoka. Say what you want about Durant but this year has people retroactively downplaying his whole career and it seems wildly unfair. I’ll freely admit that’s bias though, I’ll never love this next crop of stars like I do the ones who were there when I really fell in love with basketball.
It’ll make you feel better when the Lakers lose by 160 over 4 games to OKC.
What’s crazy is that game 1 will be a 1 point game that the Lakers should have stolen from an All-World performance by LeBron as well
Have some pride in your team instead of typing defeatist shit for reddit upvotes
If we will I’m totally switching into wait to get turbo fucked mode
Shit, my team is so ass I’m starting to root for him too.
Also I get a little bit of schadenfreude out of KD crashing out of the playoffs on his third team in 4 years
i’m really not a sports hater in general but the rockets just keep putting together such hatable squads 😭
first the moreyball 420iq hyper optimized offense plus harden in peak free throw merchant form was very fun to root against. watching them miss 27 straight threes was a high i’m still not sure ive fully come down from
now they just have this clueless, janky, ugly ass team led by whiny ass temu jokic and getoffmydickerson whose only win con is out-rebounding their opponent by like 30 because they collectively shit their pants when anyone but KD has to take a jump shot
if they put together a feel good squad like the pacers one day i’ll readily hop off the hate train, but right now watching bronny sr. son these overrated fools is a feast for my soul 😌
Bro Lebron is as old as your dad and he’s still out playing young guys. So crazy. For some people grew up with Lebron, who’s had over 20 years in the league. 20 years, that’s like a full military career.
ESPN: LeBron says regular season is meaningless. Why the 65-games rule is bad for the league
I love/hate how well comments like these clown ESPN
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Dammit, it was right there, lol.
LeInspirational.
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That one works pretty well, he should adopt it as a nickname or something
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Man knows it’s coming to an end, gotta soak it all in
If he wanted to, I wonder how long he could feasibly stay on somebody’s roster for as long as possible. You could probably still get a few solid bench minutes for 45+ year old lebron
Best to ever do it. Not really even close.
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I love u King
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bros been saying this for the last decade
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Next year LeFarewell tour! pleeaase
hell no, give me more seasons of bron
The fuckery will continue until 50
Haven’t watched a single NBA regular season game but I’ve been pretty locked to watching LeBron postseason