Klay Thompson Says Lebron James is the Toughest Opponent He’s Faced
Wow really?
Wouldn’t surprised if he said Kobe tbh since all players glazing him
In this same interview klay said his Mt Rushmore is MJ, Kobe, Lebron and Steph
Lol at Kobe being on par with the other 3
Found the guy that never saw Kobe play 😂
Kobe is not on par with the other three
Kobe is definitely better than Steph, come on now.
No he is not.
Recency bias is a helluva drug. Kobe was a better overall scorer, defender and playmaker. A Raptors fan should know better.
Wow. Kobe is not a better scorer or playmaker, and his defence is overrated, although obviously better than Steph’s. Steph is by far the better offensive player and is doing it just as long.
Prolific mid-range shot merchant != automatic 3 point guy who re-shaped the entire NBA’s approach to scoring.
You could call Jordan a mid-range shot merchant too 😂 Different eras. I’m sure Jordan and Kobe both would be practicing on and putting up more 3’s in this era. Hindsight is 20⁄20.
MJ’s career efficiency all time is 3rd. Kobe’s is 32nd, effectively on par with Jerry West, Dirk, and Garnett. So, maybe a shitty comparison.
I like Kobe. He was a great player. He does not deserve to be on mount Rushmore, and he is not on par with MJ, Lebron, or Curry.
So when Kobe took a team with similar (worse) off rating as Brons 09 team and won was he on Par or better? Because Bron couldn’t seem to do it.
LeBron had an on/off rating of +21.2. Kobe had an on/off rating of +11.1.
Straight from bball ref.
Cavs 112.4 off and 102.4 def
Lakers 112.8 and 104.7
So as I said very comparable.
Off floor Bron 102.6 Kobe 103.5
Playoffs Bron 107.3(115.1) Kobe 100.3 (113.4)
Did not see def for either, you can go find it if you like.
Again it’s simple stats so yes they do not capture everything (flawed)
At least offensively both teams heavily dependent on BOTH players, but more so Kobe. The Lakers were actually worse during the playoffs listed in parentheses. And Brons team was better than Kobe’s off the floor.
Also don’t know why the number diff on the website as well team vs player page.
I don’t know what else you need. Offensively it agrees with my conclusion. I even went the extra mile to take out AI scrubbing and went to bball ref myself. Obviously personnel are different and you’ll never be able to test the what if theories, but this shows defiantly that Kobe carried a bigger offensive role while also going through a tougher conference. And to his credit the East had some credible teams this couple of year.
The rosters are just not comparable. The Lakers were obviously better. LeBron averaged 35 9 7 for the playoffs and 39 8 8 in the series against the Magic. Kobe had a pretty damn good roster that year. Let’s be honest bro.
bro literally pulls up with 1 stat from 1 season like it’s the only thing that matters lmao
1 stat 😂. You mean all those stats?
66 wins 1st in off 4th in def vs Kobe 3rd off 6th def.
What about the numbers showing the Cavs were a better than than Kobes on and off the court, not including better in the playoffs and Kobe being in a tougher conf?
But thats right none of that matters to you, probably just gonna make up an excuse lol.
Many who saw both play say Jordan is better than Kobe, Jordan is the goat but Kobe is the closest thing.
Kobe is not Jordan bro
The closest thing. You wouldn’t get it if you weren’t there.
The closest thing is not that close
Watched his full career. Still not sure why people glaze an inefficient, rapist, asshole so much but you do you!
No you didn’t.
Lol okay
This Mt. Rushmore is just so difficult to argue against.
I think you gotta have at least one big man on there considering like 6 of the top 12 all time are bigs. I dont even really care which one
It’d be Kevon looney
I’m going to be telling my grandchildren about 2022 Looney
I said big man not two way demon alien hybrid
Saying “glazing” like it isnt Kobe Bryant who is a top 10 player all time, is insane. Make it sound like Kobe isnt worthy of being called most difficult opponent
lol and? Kobe was on his way out after his injury in 2013 while Klay started to ascend.
“Big if true, I thought for sure it was going to be Austin Reaves.”
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BB is a team game, not an iso matchup. Rockets were better team than Cavs, but not a single player on that roster was close to LeBron.
Hmm you’d think LeBron made players better… he had Love who averaged 26⁄12 and dropped 33 in a quarter before. Isn’t he supposedly super smart as well? You’d think he could make them work for it because Houston could’ve won against them if cp3 doesn’t get injured
Kobe “fan” with a troll account, lol. How bored are you?
Kobe’s alright, better than Leflop but MJ is better than them both. Don’t get trolled kid, bet you checked out my profile 🤣🫵
Why are all LeBron haters the same
because hyperfocusing on the negative without appreciating the positive becomes a more telltale sign of intellectual limitation the bigger said positive becomes. and we’re talking about hands down the greatest career in basketball ever, if not in all sports. while it’s still going on.
which means the longer the fuckery continues, the more abjectly stupid the average lebron hater is, objectively.
(ofc not counting people who simply dislike him while still being cognizant of his unparalleled body of work)
Back in the day, I would’ve told anyone who’d listen, that Michael Jordan sucked. Right in the middle of his prime, I was making the arguments that he’s a ball-hog. Magic Johnson is better. Barkely is better. Kareem WAS better. He’s no different than Dominque Wilkins or Cylde Drexler. Jordan is over-rated. He only beat my beloved Cavs because Mark Price had an injury, etc etc.
All the time. I never let up.
Shortly after that, I had my 13th birthday party.
Bet you checked out my profile
I did. Read my comment.
Get triggered stan, truth hurts
Ooh i love truth, let me give you a truth big man. Kobe Bryant is a rapist
take my downdoot😡
I imagine about 448 other current players would also say this
Not Dillon the Villain though
His top five are:
Dillon
He spit hot fire
My Mt Rushmore is me with 4 different expressions
I disliked dillion at first but overtime i could respect his disrespect
And the dude was a LeBron fan anyways, maybe he changed his mind and just actually hate bron now but he is probably just trolling while he still can
Nah, he’s a Klutch client
I mean Klay had a teammate who might earn a couple of mentions
Would probably be LeBrons choice too I’d imagine
That’s because he’s never guarded me. Klay running from the smoke.
Is that you Devin Booker
Nah that’s Pat Bev
xD
E nem marcava o Lebron James, isso quem fazia era o Iguodala, o Klay marcava o Irving
I mean who TF else is he gonna say lol
Instagram comments were spamming kyrie
Asking ChatGPT would have more value than consulting Instagram comments lmao
A lot of the oldheads in other subreddits and former players would freak out if you said bron over kobe
Klay didn’t play against Kobe that many times tbf, and about half of them were Kobe post-Achilles. The Warriors played the Cavs with prime LeBron in 4 straight Finals. He matched up against prime LeBron more times in 2 post-seasons than he did against Kobe in their entire careers.
I do agree some old heads/Kobe fans would freak out, but those people are dumb lol.
Kobe definitely not overrated. He just wasn’t better than MJ and LeBron
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Great argument! “Jcole”
Lol
Lmao you really just learned the word malleable and think you’re hot shit. Go look up more YouTube videos, maybe you’ll find something that will improve your life cause you seem to have a loooooot of free time.
LOLOLOL got him fked up 😂
And there’s plenty of vids like this: https://youtu.be/ILRuGOuTJ2s?is=z7BkEBG5E1PJfJwA
As well as Jordan and Bron being neck and neck in the GOAT poll when they polled players in 2024 with Kobe being a far away distant 3rd.
I can find plenty of other clips too of players saying Bron > Kobe, if not Bron being the GOAT
What if I don’t care how good a rapist was at basketball? And Bron still better
Kobe’s wife got over it. You fanboys are weird lmao anyone can be accused of rape doesn’t mean it’s true. We saw that one student get kicked out of school and it turned out the girl lied.
Educate yourself 🐑 your king is terrible aside from stat padding
Yeah, Kobe just admitted to choking her, having her blood on his shirt, as well as denying it entirely initially but then completely changing his story when caught red handed. Dude also got accused of sexually assaulting another women 9 months prior
Stop it fanboy, Lebron was accused of human trafficking by that wnba player
How is that even close to credible when compared to Kobe raping someone (he basically admitted to raping her). You need to read up on that case because the details are horrifying
Their argument is that the victim had other men’s semen/DNA when she took the rape test which shows that she had encounters with someone else after Kobe + her bragging about it to her friends.
But at the same time that doesn’t change the damning physical evidence against Kobe himself. I mean rape victims’ behavior isn’t predictable at all so I don’t think that’s fair to say.
I’ve read them. Not gonna blame her but she had no reason to go to his room with him. Bryant still said he believes it was consensual and that he realized she might not have after it ended in 2005.
I’m not a huge Bron Stan by any means. I just know people who have been raped and can’t stand rapists
I’m with you there, rapist deserve the death penalty. I just don’t think Kobe raped anyone.
He pretty much admitted it. Anyone with a brain who is unbiased and knows the details knows he raped her
He absolutely did not admit it though. As part of the 2005 civil resolution, Bryant released a statement saying: “Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did.”
Kobe not even top 10, he got a lot of players between him and Bron.
Depends on if you prefer Kobe or Hakeem
Most NBA player have Kobe above leflop so deal with it. If Kobe isn’t top 10 neither is your king
Bunch of cherry picked clips to support your narrative. Here’s clips to support our narrative too.
https://youtube.com/shorts/FeUqkXvE7U4?is=iX-pZ_JIFvlTIKEA
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ac4bxaxwAyI?is=NLqHENolHlLud9aO
(The stuff Bird said about picking Kobe over bron if he wants to win again and again but he’d play with bron to have fun was in early 2013 back when LeBron only had 1 chip, this is what he’s said in later years actually).
https://youtu.be/4JlQcC0xihQ?is=ydhEePkScVndrvjm (at 6 mins, he says MJ is the GOAT, and then it’s gotta be Lebron and then Kareem)
https://youtu.be/CHszJrMoR3o?is=8GsCuXFheUgmWjzi
https://youtube.com/shorts/L59wkBFf-xE?is=Q39Eu049ypLtMuqF
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tP7jwN/
https://youtu.be/7MG8wjJNdf4?is=_0CcJZxwP-_pSCWj
https://youtu.be/RGPoHUrT9v0?is=d4kMA07KgYIDUDwM
https://youtu.be/ohI27Wlh3xU?is=-s6FcXeICdRgROP3
https://youtu.be/_V6kNCsCyWU?is=k9SzSFVzq34OnT4S
https://youtu.be/Pp_tfKpIQrw?is=V8_MdH6QfbndoDyu
https://youtu.be/9sdqdc_xaL4?is=_LyF_i_lpI6OIVx3
Last but not least: https://www.reddit.com/r/NBATalk/comments/1q2vm7x/former_players_always_pick_jordan_and_kobe_over/. Watch the vid and later at the end Chauncey says LeBron will probably go down as the greatest player to ever play back in 2024⁄25. The stuff he said about Kobe was that MJ is the goat but Kobe is the most skilled player to ever play back in 2019”
Your own links show legends picking Mike. Most pick Mj and even Kobe over Leflop
Yes, but they’re picking Bron over Kobe which is my point
The video I shared was longer and had way more players.
Kobe got 5 rings and bodied Lebron in the all-star game when they could actually go 1v1
folk gotta resort to all star games lmaoooo
You have to be a bronsexual cosplaying. Ain’t no way you said “all star game” unironically
Honestly, Durant would not be a wrong answer.
That’d be a fair answer, peak KD was easily one of the toughest covers ever. But he faced off with Lebron a lot more and under higher stakes.
Steph in practice
Depends on the matchup, it can be quite different for different players. For example, Giannis would likely have an “easier” time guarding LeBron than guarding Steph.
kawhi leonard
color me shocked
LeBron James followed by infidelity
followed by infidelity
Can’t tell if that’s his teammate or his next date tbh
He must have got his feelings hurt
It’s kinda weird that people still give Klay shit for (accurately) noting that LeBron got his feelings hurt when Draymond called him a bitch.
LeBron: Draymond called me a bitch, which is overboard because I have a family:
> “I’m all cool with the competition. I’m all fine with that, but some of the words that came out of his mouth was a little bit overboard, and being a guy with pride, a guy with three kids and a family, things of that nature, some things just go overboard and that’s where he took it, and that was it.”
Klay: People talk trash a lot, but I guess what Draymond said hurt his feelings:
> “Guys talk trash in this league all the time,” Thompson said. “I’m just kind of shocked some guys take it so personal. You know, it’s a man’s league and I’ve heard a lot of bad things on that court, but at the end of the day, it stays on the court. We’re all competitive people. Trash talk is a part of the game in basketball. I feel like it’s a part of any sport, especially this competitive.”
A reporter then asked Thompson directly if he thought James overreacted.
> “I don’t know,” Thompson said. “I don’t know how the man feels. But obviously people have feelings and people’s feelings get hurt even if they’re called a bad word. I guess his feelings just got hurt. I mean, we’ve all been called plenty of bad words on the basketball court before. Some guys just react to it differently. All I can say, for myself individually, I just try to ignore it or just let it fuel the fire, but I don’t carry it with me when the job is done.”
You are such an unbelievable nerd tbh.
Immediately thought of this. It’s like saying a school bully was the person you feared most as a kid. But this is the same bully you talked shit to unprovoked
Bro yall gotta chill. This klay quote follows him too much. At the time he was exactly right. He still is right. Yall trash him because his team ended up losing but LeBron making a huge deal from being called a bitch was odd and not normal. It’s also not like admitting a school bully was the person you feared the most at all. Horrible analogy.
How you feel about twitter fingers will determine which side you stand on this.
Klay isn’t that guy. So why is he talking out his neck about a guy who is?
Groundbreaking
Why does he talk like he’s retired
He’s in his washed era
He’s in his unc era. I’ve head KD and Steph talk like this and LeBron’s been talking like this for years lol. They’re still in the league, but they know they’re at the tail end of their career and have left a legacy and won and achieved the highest highs of the sports. Makes them a little nostalgic and they talk like it.
He might as well be, I would be surprised if he decided to play after his contract ends. He really doesn’t have anything left in his legs between age and injuries.
LBJ: Klay, Stallions are tougher to handle…
Everybody knows the real answer is Brandon Knight
i guess he just got his feelings hurt
LeNemesis
Meteorologist says sky is blue
He’s the toughest opponent I’ve ever faced too
He ain’t played Derrick Tarver
Could…. Not can.
Sounds like Klay got his feelings hurt
Pretty cool that you can hear the Hawks schedule announcement video being filmed in the background starting at about 6 seconds.
Devin Booker
Two it
Yup. Not Jordan. LeBron.
Jordan retired in 2003. Klay’s career started in 2011.
Yeah, I am aware. Its called a joke!
Idk what Plaqueboymax is looking at on his phone but he’s talking to Klay Thompson about his experience guarding LeBron James and can’t even muster up the interest about what Klay has to say? He’s genuinely lucky to even be in this conversation and to pick the brain of an NBA all-star and is grunting and looking at his phone like an idiot
You must didn’t listen to the audio or you just want to bitch about another grown ass man like a fucking damsel smh he just reading the questions people asking him to ask klay you moron
No it was Kyrie
Klutch sports working overtime