[Lebron] after winning series: “Father time… already lost to me, it’s over with”
Insane to see a retired Blake Griffin standing there watching LeBron still leading a playoff team
Zion gonna retire before Bron š
Ben Simmons is out of the league before Bron retired lol
“Hey LeBron, we’re good bro. You can go.”
Legit maybe the worst take of all time
Possibly outdone by his 2019 monologue about LeBron in 6 years at 40 not being the best player on the floor in an NBA game. Cowherd is like the NBA equivalent of Jim Cramer.
See how heās been employed since then and youāre bringing up a quote of his from 7 years ago - cowherd is a professional troll and one of the best in the game.
Exactly. They still take him serious even though heās literally said heās not paid to be right.
These dudes are just paid to make hot takes to get people commenting, clicking, and viewing their content
Jokic out of his prime before Bron retires.
yeah Jokic is completely past his prime. No team would take him now.
/s
yup washed he should just go to the celtics like shaq
Does Jokic have Jaden McDaniels?
The wolves do.
this is the crazy one because ben was supposed to be the next lebron for a hot second when he was in high school
“We’re good bro”
I think he was LeBron for at least 1 very hot second there
How many āthe next LeBronā have we had at this point lol.
What’s crazy is that some of those “next LeBron”s that have come through have been legit incredible players and still have not come close to touching what hes done and wont. Luka, AD, KAT and more have received that title, but many of them have careers that are half of his despite being elite.
Yeah least those guys are superstars. Then you look at the super hyped Andrew Wiggins, Ben Simmons, and Zion ā¦
For a guy i consistently saw getting called the next lebron before he was drafted that’s so crazy
this one is the craziest considering 10 years ago Ben was being advertised as the closest thing to Lebron.
Basketball 2 gonna come out before Bron retires
Hell, Bronny James might be outta the league before the Father of Father Time.
Zion might have less points than Bronny in the post-season by the end of his career.
Man, he was supposed to be the Wemby before Wemby…
You talking about Bol Bol?
In what way?
The next generational talent to be drafted #1 who would be the face of the league after LeBron.
Gonna be tough to replace a āgood PRā face of the league Lebron, all these young stars got multiple baby mamas trying to get that child support
Word
Heās legit played with or against most of the former player commentators right now. Shit, his coach was drafted 3 years after him! Shit is actually nuts
Redick was battling Adam Morrison in college when Bron was leading the cavs to the finals
This breaks my brain. Morrison was just a blip during the Kobe/Gasol era. Kobe retired a decade ago. Morrison left the league 16 years ago. Morrison and LeBron are the same age.
Lmfao wtf
nah, sadly that was a year later and they were already drafted.
Bruh
Wow this one of the crazier unc stats to see. His longevity is insane to think about when you look at it from that angle
He said in that Bob does sports video that heās played against like 37% of all nba players ever. Fucking ridiculous. We will never see this shit again
And a bunch of father and sons lmao. That vid just puts it into perspective how long this dude has actually been playing.
JxmyHighroller dropped a video on LeBron’s longevity today.
The most hilarious part of the video to me is a photo of LeBron with a couple young children, fans of the Rockets, seeing LeBron play against Houston in the playoffs.
One of those young children was Jalen Brunson.
Doesnt he have a pic with a young banchero too? Or maybe it was steph, icr
Has one with Tatum I know of
It is absolutely bonkers. Not just that he’s still in the league, but how athletic he still is, how playable he still is. The fact that he was the number 1 option this series and he only had 1 really bad game. On top of that, the worst thing he has ever done as far as controversy goes is saying that he won’t comment on the Hong Kong situation (I think I am paraphrasing but it was along those lines). Truly one of a kind, among any sport I can think of.
It was absolutely not along those lines lmfao
He outright said that NBA heads commenting in support of Hong Kong, while it was in the middle of a hostile takeover, was dangerous and bad for the NBA in China and that it was messing with players’ money.
Even still that being the one real life controversy in over 20 years is pretty impressive by NBA standards.
Oh lol, yeah okay that way more controversial. Never actually seen the clip, only heard people talking about it.
Hasn’t he played against/with like 40% of players all time? Something ridiculous
Wait, what? How have I never noticed that, it’s fucking hilarious lol
There’s some stat where he’s played against 30% of all NBA players ever or some shit.
this would blown my mind in 2015
Bron outlasting Blake wouldnāt have surprised me too much bc of the reliance on athleticism but Bron still being capable of 28-7-8 wouldāve for sure surprised me
Blake has a very nice finesse game in Detroit
Oh for sure, but I didnāt know that was coming in 2015. We saw guys like Rose, Wade, and Stoudemire fizzle quickly when athleticism got shot so I worried griffin would suffer the same fate. He and Wade definitely got impacted but aged by the far the best of the group before injuries
blake was drafted SIX YEARS after bron.
Fuck this is insane hahaha.
Great drinking game. Take a drink everytime Blake commercial comes on. If you really want to get shitfaced add Caitlin Clark.
Drafted 5 years after him and retired several years before most likely
He’s been thinking about this bar for 3 years now. Just hasn’t been able to use it
The LeBron vs Father Time commercial with Jason Momoa is about 3.5 years old now
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe6qRUMOgqE
The fuckery will continue.
Grandfather Time is unbeaten.
That line hits hardest at 41. Like he is the evergoat. Like this shit is insane.
This fuckery is just gonna continue and we have to be okay with it
I would like to get off the Forever Fuckery ride please
There is a way off but I don’t recommend it š¬
He can also sacrifice bronny at the altar
š idk why this made me laugh so much.
I requested lengthy fuckery but forever is just too long
The fuckery will continue until morale improves.
Evergoat is hard AF.Ā
He won in the load management first round, evergoat annointer.Ā
Levergoat
LeLong Games
Lebron with that headset on looks like he’s about to ask me to implement Depth First Search
Bro do you see Finney-Smith abbreviated DFS on here like I do and think “nice pass by Depth First Search”
YES. His name abbreviation is a litmus test to see if someone’s more of an SE or an NBA degen based on what they think of first.
Wow Reddit is so unbearably nerdy i cannot
I winched reading that
Winced. I hope you didn’t winch
On simple wikipedia:
āIn computer science, depth-first search (DFS) is a method used for traversing a graph. It starts at an arbitrary item of a graph and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking.
An example: To make a program that searches all the files on your computer, it has to be able to keep track of which folders it has already searched through, so it doesn’t look through the same folder twice. So it does this: inside each folder, it goes as far down into subfolders as it can. Every time it checks something to see if it matches, it will write it down on the list as āalready searchedā. Then it will leave and go to the next subfolder. If there are no subfolders left, it will backtrack another step and look in the next bigger folder. It does this until it has looked through everything.
We know that this is the best way to make sure the search program looks through every folder and file once, and only once, because graph theory has proved it.ā
Thatās interesting but I still donāt know what it has to do with his headset.
Phone screen interviews over zoom, the interviewer will ask you to code up some algorithms or another comp sci related question. He is basically saying bron looks like an interviewer with the headset on
Ptsd of blowing that one google 2nd round cat and mouse question
If you werent also nerdy, you would be discussing sports in a sports bar, barbershop, or at a public basketball court but instead, youre here on an internet forum.
Youāre gonna give the suboptimal solution and heās gonna say āFather Time is kicking your algorithmās assā
Because he has a headset on?
the joke is he looks like an interviewer
This was corny
your reply was tuff tho keep it up
Taylor gave him a alley-oop, he been waiting to get off those bars š
shoutout taylor man š
Always
“Everybody loose around Taylor” -Blake
Yeah I mean he’s not wrong.
he could play to 54 if he wanted to
Don’t you put that evil on us
The year is 2041, Cooper Flagg has played his final game of the regular season and LeBron James and the Portland Trailblazers are set to take on the Seattle SuperSonics in the first round.
ESPN: Skip what does this mean for LeBrons legacy?
Oh skip is long gone by then
Skips heir?
Piks
Skip is in insane shape I wouldn’t put it past him.
skip bayless will never die. the steroids will keep him going
President Stephen A. Smith signs a bill naming Lebron’s birthday a national holiday
Idk about that. He would probably still be good enough to play as a role player at that age but his body would give out way before that. As far as athletes go Lebron reminds me of Jaromir Jagr who was able to keep playing hockey at a high level until like 45, but he just couldnāt stay healthy after that point.
Nah bro 72, he will be the first player to play with his grandkids in the NBA.
LeBron James will play his final moments in the court and hit one last LeFuckYou Three before passing away at the bench quietly at thw ripe old age of 106
This is Mohammed Ali level bombastic stuff.
remember, he is one injury of retirement. And every year that passes it takes a little injury but cronic one.
-2021
someone maybe in like 2014-15 on this sub asked about old lebron
and i said i think he’d still be a top 10ish player when he retires, it’ll just be he’s bored
at that time i thought it would be like 2020 when he retires lmao
in 2020 he was still the best in the league by the end of the playoffs pretty clearly, and 5 years later he’s still i would say a top 10ish guy i’d want in the playoffs
I remember in 2014 people wondering if he was going to break the scoring record.
Most people had him averaging low double digits at 39⁄40 IF he didnt retire.
Mind you he literally just double the highest ppg for a 41yo this season.
20.9 to Kareems 10.1 in ‘89.
He broke the scoring record faster than anyone ever. and hit each scoring milestone, younger than anyone ever.
Somehow not the goat tho..
Funnier than that: somehow heās not considered a great scorer
Breaking the record while still averaging 25+ ppg is perhaps the most impressive part of it to me. People said heād hang around in the league way longer than he could help winning to stat chase but he legit is still a winning player, even on a max contract
2014 was less than halfway thru his career.
which is absurd to think about now, the Heatles saga in its entirety is in the first half of his career
It is crazy how I’d rather have him that guys that just haven’t gone to the next level while he has only fallen in his god tier, like I rather have Bron than Brown, Maxey, Brunson, Mitchell, Booker, Cade, Barnes, and has never been worse than KD while being four years older.
I think a lot of us thought he was still a top player, but wasnāt sure if he was still the best. Because they missed the playoffs in 2019, he was hurt that season, and people thought he was in LA to make Space Jam and other movies.
And then after that season and Finals run, he reminded everyone that his peak over a playoffs run is still best in the world. Those chase down blocks over athletic guards like Westbrook shut everyone down. Itās insane how long his peak was. Insane how good he still is in spurts.
missing that playoffs possibly allowed his body to recover making him fresh as fuck the next season. Even this season because he missed the start of the season he looks fresher, of course having Luka and Reaves helped as well.
Dumbies tried to argue there were years from 2021-2026 where KD was better than him. There has never been a single year on earth when KD has been better than LeBron
Father Time getting his ass handed to him tbh. Heāll eventually get the win, but a itās a Mickey Mouse win
Unfortunately Savannah is getting the W and LeBron will have to concede to Father Time.
Happy wife happy life
Tom Brady made the right choice, will LeBron do the same?
U mean the D amirite guys
Father Time was the real fraud all along
lebron and tom brady are the 2 dudes to defeat father time
Apples and oranges. Tom Brady had a much easier time for obvious reasons - nowhere near what LeBron has been able to accomplish.
Nowhere near is a stretch. Sure Brady didn’t have to run and jump like LeBron but a QB still playing at an elite level at 45 is just as rare as LeBron doing the same at 41. QBs rarely make it past 40 so the fact that Brady looked like he had a few more years left in him at 45 makes him 1 of 1 - the same as LeBron
Father Time plays in that “run and jump” league, though. The mind is certainly something that Tom has, as well as LeBron, but it goes further as a QB in the NFL. In the NBA, you need the body, first and foremost. That’s where Father Time takes his cut.
LeBron has showed longevity in that area more than ANY superstar in sports ever has. He’s greater than Tiger or Tom or Michael Phelps or Ovechkin or Ronaldo (I MIGHT take some arguments for CR7, but I’d still take LBJ). No disrespect to any of those names AT ALL (I’ve watched Tiger, especially, since I was a child) and LeBron STILL clears them. Not because they were not great, but because he’s in an echelon of his own.
Eh, it’s tough to compare. I can’t call what Brady did easy because he was a high level QB several years longer than anyone else has ever been. And at 44 he was probably a better QB than 41 year old Bron is an NBA player, he probably should’ve won MVP that year. I’d say what Bron is doing now is around as impressive as what Brady was doing 2020-2022. If he’s still doing this at 45? I would put that over Brady at that point.
It takes alot more athleticism to be an nba player than a pocket QB. What lebrons doing is more impressive, easily.
I would add Djokovic. Already the GOAT, still widely acknowledged as the 3rd best player in the world (only behind 2 already all-time greats in Alcaraz and Sinner) while turning 39 this year.
Another weird one to add, but Tamawashi. He’s a sumo wrestler who’s 41 and still competing in the top division of the sport, only guy in the modern era of the sport to ever do that. And it’s a brutal brutal sport in a way that western sports aren’t because they generally can’t take time off to rehab injuries.
Already the GOAT
This is definitely not clear cut
You could make arguments just as strong for Federer, and I’d argue an even stronger case for Nadal
Yes it is lmao. Novak dominated the h2h while also having the most grand slams. He beat Federer in the biggest matches. He was 11-6 in grand slams vs him. 4-1 in finals. Has the most weeks at being ranked #1. Thereās too much that goes Novaks way when it comes to stats. With Nadal, heās the goat clay player but never was as well rounded as Novak. A lot of counting stats are due to matches on clay when looking at h2hās but Novak still has the h2h advantage. Nadal has never won an ATP final btw. Theres just not enough there and not enough weeks at #1 for Nadal.
I donāt see how you can make an argument for Nadal or Federer objectively over Novak at this point. Heās done it the longest and peaked the best.
I would argue Djokovic this year is 3rd best like Lebron can be 3rd best in the world on a given night. I mean the guy hasnt played since january and it’s not gonna get better. Just a matter of availability
Lowkey Phillip rivers but in an abstract way
And Lewis Hamilton
Giving Father Time bulletin board material oh no
Tempting fate
Canāt wait to see Lebron catch a lob from his grandson
LeBron is 50 this fuckery can’t go on much longer
LeBron pls do not take a negative step during Game 1
Father Time with the fake comeback for two games
Taylor Rooks always got NBA players saying the wildest one-liners šš
LeFuckery can’t go on much longer
Donāt tempt fate, Bron. Geezā¦
fuckery points added
Father Time is undefeated
Father Prime
lebron is the knicks and father time is the hawks
Father Time about to clap back like never before
I remember defending Lebron against a random troll in 2019 saying Lebron had lost a step. Here we still are.
Father time loses a lot of battles but has never lost a war
LeBron, keep winning some more battles ..
Na he’s so gangsta
That got bros pussy wet
It’s Bron ofc it did
LeFather Two Timing
41 year old leading a lakers team without their 2 main ball handlers most of the series and literally beat a young athletic team that was favored even without KD. I donāt wanna hear it. This guy beat Father Time.
At 41, heās number in fast breaks this year? You canāt tell me he aināt on some special juice or unknown treatments
Retirement can have me when it earns me.
Senior citizen lebron doesnt want to crash social security so he works forever.
Heās 100% thinking about the future documentary when he says stuff like this lol
Did he just jinx himself?
MFāer gonna live on forever like Sasori
Almost as cringe as something Tatum would say.
I love ya Bron and the Lakers are probably my favorite all time team, but its gg’s.
What does the “but” mean here. What are you even saying lol?
We aint making past OKC.
HgH…blood test , piss test now.
Heās the most scrutinize athlete of all timeā¦let him talk his ish and appreciate greatness. We will never witness anything like this in our lifetime.
Ok since you said it, it must be true. /s
Is Father Time a lower-seeded team that’s missing 3 of their best players?
Remind me in a week.
beat father time in hand to hand combat
Gotta give LeBron credit, at his age, he is ballinā out.
Crazy to see how dominant he still is, I remember VC dunking at 40 and it would make a highlight reel
It’s over
Couldn’t help but think he jinxed himself there
Love LeBron. Favorite player, all time. But this is a bad look. Father Time never loses the war. It gets binary: walk on air until the injury means you look down and the road runner drops. The natural order. I hope thatās still year(s) away, ofc
Talk your shit LOL
He was fun to watch, but the rockets are broken roster with some serious chemistry issues. Ā I donāt think the lakers are gonna do so well in the next round .Ā
Lebron post Titanomachy; you love to see it.
Keep that same energy after the 4 game sweep against OKC
I maintain if he didn’t have to travel for away games, he’d play until he’s 50.
Lot’s of rest and recovering time, no stress of travel.
Father time always wins.
lol homeboy is going through o get an ankle test next series.
Bro still has to face 2 more teams and Father Time always wins
Lebron vs Jordan debate: Wizards Jordan vs Lakers Lebron.
Fuck rings, Bron is the definition of āgenerational talentā and nobody in the league right now will match his longevity at such a high level.
nobody in the league right now will match his longevity at such a high level.
I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody ever does. He’s like the generational talent of generational talents when it comes to longevity.
He’s trying everything just to pass Jordan
I honestly think whoever signs him next season should load manage him like crazy. Like 1 game per week crazy and save him in the playoffs. Because this man, even at 41, is the best player in the court.
As long as he has the medicine, he can play as long as he wants
Yes, that special special medicine lol
Think how many #1 picks heās outlasted since he was drafted.
Dwight Howard, Andrew Bogut, Andrea Bargnani, Greg Oden, Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin, John Wall, Anthony Bennett, Ben Simmons (?), and Markelle Fultz (probably). That last guy was drafted FOURTEEN years after LeBron was.
He even has an outside shot of outlasting Risacher, which would be goddamn insane.