I despise Wade but effort on D has never been a knock on him. He was ELITE on D, issue is his knees are now elite at being shitty

This is so on-point it's not even funny and you didn't even mention that he plays the same position as LeBron. You make this move every time when you already have Kyrie and LeBron.

KG's one of the 30-40 best players to ever do it. I really like Love but Love couldn't carry his jock.

Right and Bird was MJ/Kobe level clutch too so tomato tomato (that doesn't work as well in print.) Irrelevant though, because by the time he's done he'll have passed Bird, I'm sure.

To be fair there were also significantly less teams (we've added 7 by my count since 87 - Minn, Charlotte, NO, Miami, Orlando, Toronto, and Memphis) so you could go to most teams and have the talent to compete if you were a HOFer. Not the case these days. Having said that, yes, MJ, Bird and those guys were…

Spot-on with the player comparisons!

Putting Oscar on that list of the greatest greats is insane. Guy was amazing for a bit but won ONE title with the guy who really should be on this list, Kareem. IMO, the only guys in league history LeBron still has to pass (and probably will beyond Russell, Kareem, and MJ) are, in no order, Shaq, Kobe, Duncan, Bird,…

The only problem with this is that you're using per-game averages for a guy who hasn't finished his career (and gone through the slowing down years to drop those averages to something more comparable.) Bird IS better than LeBron at this point right now. Will that still be the case once all's said and done? Very…