“Kawhi is earning our buddy Pablo a Pulitzer”

LMAOOO 💀

Hes way better when hes not on TV. His takes are better

One of the best pods I’ve heard in some time.

Who actually said harden was better then bron he fighting ghosts

“contemporaries” and it’s guys who came to league 5+ years after him

Dude is just built different

His contemporaries are all gone already. Wade, Melo, Bosh. Nobody is from his generation really.

Lebron’s obviously a beast, but I don’t see how Nick Wright is “absolutely right” here. Because it’s completely devoid of important context.

None of those other guys had the luxury of playing with a top 5 player in Luka to help them get through the regular season and into the playoffs.

Obviously Lebron’s being doing everything on his own in the playoffs, but ignoring that Luka was the driving force in them making it into the playoffs is asinine.

And saying:

None of his contemporaries are moving like this in their late years.

Is crazy too.

Steph and Kawhi in particular were magnificent this year.

Can we not just appreciate how all 4 of those guys are still playing so incredibly at their ages? Why does it always have to be putting down certain players to elevate others?

Nick is actually wrong. You rank players based on the entire season and not just one series. Curry is still the main guy on his team. Carrying this responsibility led to his injury. KD was the main guy for his team and he ended up hurt too.

LeBron didn’t have to carry that burden all year because Luka was the main guy. This allowed Lebron to coast all season. Steph and KD didn’t have that luxury. Being the man for 6 months is a lot different than being the man for one series. If Bron had to be the main guy all year, he would have zero energy right now.

If you swapped Curry and LeBron this season theyd be in the same boat, dubs struggling to win and Lakers going to the playoffs.

A 300 looks like a Phantom until a Phantom pulls up (or whatever the joke is)

“Everyone is better than LeBron until it’s time to be better than Lebron” - what a bar, damn.

Curry is still elite, Kahwi had one of his best years ever, KD is still elite. I see this situation as the Lakers being a better team than Warriors Clippers Houston not because Lebron is much better than those guys. Hardrn is ass though.

well he is right but others dont have a top5 player in the league who carried them like luka did with lebron. he mostly coasted though the season while kawhi and durant especially busted their asses whole season.

LeBum never won any Pulitzers sadly 

It’s funny because Simmons made fun of Torre and now Torre is a Pulitzer Prize winner

The best assist of his career

God damn it. I spent so much effort to trim it below 300 characters. Now realizing I wasted 6 characters right there lmao

Seth Curry in all time conversations

breaking news: Stephon Castle lied about his age and he’s actually 36

A minor typo is soo crazy

Insane stuff

He’s taking about Dell…people are always saying Dell could cook LeBron. 

I’m a LeHater but I agree, he’s the best old head out there by far.

He is though. The game 3 glaze had people saying it was the most impressive thing LeBron has done. There will be plenty more praise to come after the Lakers lose the series just based on what he’s still averaging and doing on the court, but it’s tough to jump to praise during a losing series.

Like… LeBron still being incredible has been the most consistent story of the playoffs.

This is insane that LeBron’s not getting higher praise

Are we both on reddit?

Wtf are you even talking about this sub is /r/lakers2

This take was to argue he’s top 10 overall. He should get higher praise, but you advocating that LeBron is a top 10 player this season? I ain’t gonna do that.

He’s the all time Greatest Of All Time - of all time!

This so much. The dude is 1 of 1. People immediately go to the goat convo and its like just stfu and watch greatness. There is no guarantee we will ever see another player like Lebron EVER. I hope we do, cause its awesome.

But all these fucking haters will look back in a couple years after Lebron retires and be like oh.. yeah, he was incredible. maybe I shouldnt have hated so hard.

Also, he was the most hyped high school player of all time and absolutely delivered on every damn thing we were promised. That NEVER happens.

Not just that…dude has had the spotlight on him since FOURTEEN and has not only lived up to, but surpassed the hype.

The media immortalized Jordan’s run, the media has trashed LeBron his whole career for engagement.

The product of that is people worshipping Jordan and defending his legacy with nostalgia, and people slander LeBron with intangible criticisms like he’s weak minded, he wants to be liked by everyone, no clutch gene, he’s a bitch etc.

He came too close to Jordan. If he had been “just” an all time top 10 player who had no real shot at being the Goat he’d be universally beloved at this stage of his career.

because people picking him over jordan is an attack on the childhood of every single person who grew up as a kid in the 90s watching jordan and singing along to i wanna be like mike

and/or they are republican

I’m 2 years younger and had neck pain for weeks from using the wrong pillow

I am neither a LeBron fan nor a LeBron hater, but he should get even more praise for how level headed and normal he is as a person. He is a genuinely good and chill guy despite the insane amount of money and attention he has been under his whole life

Honestly, it’s just that he was too good too early. People in general have a problem with that. They don’t like when young people are elite at something they’re not supposed to be elite at. So they wait and pick apart anything to bring someone that high up down a peg. It’s a sad way to live life, but then again, most people are miserable fucks.

Why don’t ur mom love you bro

If Lebron and Mahomes both fall into a river, I wonder who Nick Wright will save first.

I’m writing strongly worded DMs to Atkinson to get Sir CC moved up in the roster ahead of that bum

Marcus Smart would be the second best shot creator for the Warriors if he was on there lol

Luka has been out the entire postseason lmao. Bron damn near won an entire series without the 1st and 3rd options on his team. Meanwhile Steph can’t even make it out of the Play-In without elderly Jimmy Butler

Luka/AR/LeBron played 29 games together this season 

Find a new slant 

I mean that’s dope but we re talking about this yr 

Last year is doing a lot of carrying here

Yeah this makes no sense.

Curry was better than Lebron in 2024-25. I don’t really think curry had a noticeable decline this season, he stayed about the same. So why would he be worse than lebron all of a sudden lol, if lebron also stayed the same or slightly declined.

yeah lebron famously had that player in the round1 everybody expected lakers to lose

Harden is ranked above LeBron in the Ringer 100 rankings, so presumably yes there are people of note at the Ringer who are claiming that when creating the rankings.

Yes

Throughout this season LeBron at various points was talked about as a net negative for the Lakers who they shouldn’t even attempt to re-sign bc they’re better without him and the question is should any team offer him more than the mid level lmao

Regular season there were times when harden was better. He was carrying a team back from the worst start ever while LBJ was trying to reduce his role to third option. Problem is that’s regular season harden, dude falls off hard in playoffs while LeBron picks it up

Jimmy Butler is a better than AR but we also haven’t had a run with both of them healthy.

I’m sorry we’re not LeBron James, where’s Mysterio???

how does it hurt you?

He lets you know his bias and has fun with it. He’s one of the only noticeable sports guys willing to openly shit on melo for being dirty, KD for being toxic and ruining his team, kawai/clippers for blatantly cheating, SGA/Thunder for flopping/foul baiting themselves into victories, etc.

He admits Luka bitches too much and sucks on defense, Mahomes gets lucky, LeBrons not top 10 anymore, Giannis can’t shoot, etc. even if he’ll make a joke excuse for it. He admits when he’s wrong like with Joker and Sam Darnold

He’s been shitting on the Thunder style of ball for well over a year and a half now, and initially got my attention for calling out the cringe of the Nets fiasco a few years ago

He’s made for Reddit lol

FTF is the best sports show on tv.

Don’t hate. Truly funny.

Harden is the 3rd best player on the Cavs in 2026

Lebron’s longevity is crazy but the lack of context here is a bit bait lmao. Dubs roster isn’t ideal 🤷🏼‍♂️

Nick is giving Bill shit for the NBA Player rankings that the Ringer publishes every month. It’s not a rant about social media takes, it’s about Bill’s website.

You can’t be better than LeBron if you can’t handle a double team by world class defenders like Rui Hachimura and Austin Reaves