Join the rest of us in actually liking John Cena now. It’s a lot easier, and some questionable booking aside, he’s been pretty consistently great for the past 4+ years running.

Eh, being out West never really stopped Tim Duncan ... who the metrics say was not even remotely as good as Chris Paul. Hell, for that matter, the metrics say Chris Paul is vastly superior to Kobe Bryant, who managed to win two post-Shaq rings in the same conference as Chris Paul.

I notice you’re arbitrarily limiting your sample size to the period after LeBron carried a bunch of absolute shit teams to the conference finals and Finals year after year after year. Huh.

“I will say that Indiana could have done better than they did,” said a smug Gilbert.guy who just signed Derrick Rose and no it is not 2010 in case you were wondering.

Didn’t he play Spider Man?

I gave you a star but had to take it away after I saw the Jay-Z/Linkin Park opinion.

Agreed. (And I really like both those albums.) I feel like the swipe at “Kid A” is supposed to be a swipe at all the terrible men who go on and on and on about “Kid A” (and I hate those guys too), but Radiohead fans include A LOT of women, and there’s not really any macho posturing in “Kid A” — I actually think one of…

I mean, I could almost buy this if one of his wish-list destinations were not Minnesota.

I’m curious how much of this stems from the fact that two of their foundational players are second-generation NBA players, whose fathers were role players and not superstars on good teams.

He’s gonna regret this one day as he’s sailing off into the horizon, where the earth ends.

The only thing left is that he just wants to be considered the best player on his team, which makes it odd when his short list of 4 contains one team with a player (Porzingis) that should be better than him shortly, one team with two players (Butler and KAT) who are widely considered better than him right now, and one…

IS it NECESSARY for Lebron to drink his own urine?? No, but he does it anyway because it’s sterile and he likes the taste.

LeBron is leaving. This is all the proof you know. Get out while you still have as much value as you do, and see if you can do something with somebody else. But if LeBron leaves and it’s just him and Love, he’s going to get exposed.

“Fuck Comic Sans, I am going full dingbats with this one” -Right arrow, checkmark, star Circle, airplane, pencil, scissors, snowflake, heart

HE NEVER WOULD HAVE LEFT JORDAN

It’s strangely comforting to know that even the greatest athlete on the planet still has to deal with an asshole boss. Some things are unavoidable I suppose...

This is a scalding hot take. I’ll buy the argument that he’s the most important player on the team, but there is no waaaaaay he was the best player on the team the year one of his teammates unanimously won the MVP.

you mean like on Davidson where he elevated the play of his teammates and himself every year? steph would be elite anywhere. injuries are the only thing that held him back.

I am not enjoying watching basketball that is not competitive.

Thompson also has George covered in the Neither of My Legs Have Been Smashed Into Pieces department.