True. I just don’t think it’s a fair comparison because Russ’ game features some obvious flaws in a way MJ’s didn’t. I agree that team success is a bad way to judge individual players, but I think we CAN judge players on how particular aspects of their game contribute to winning/losing, outside of counting stats.

Well, I looked it up and it was actually 42% for Iverson’s MVP campaign, so Westbrook topped him winning it at 42.5, but with a usage rate of 41.7% to Iverson’s 35.9. This is significant to me because that Sixers team was like the ultimate one-man squad success story, and Westbrook blows it and even ‘06 Kobe (38.7%)…

Russell only made Durant leave for GS because he himself does not gurantee him a title, while the already assembled and tested super team did.

D’aww. It’s like when a kid takes Psych 101 his first semester of college then comes back for Winter Break being the only one who “gets it.”

Your first post was good - “empty calories” was an innovative turn of bullshittery that could easily have fallen out of the mouth of, say, Colin Cowherd - but this one lacks flair and seems like it’s trying too hard; it’s almost enough to make me think you actually believe in your garbage take.

Replace Russ with Kawhi and the thunder don’t make the playoffs.

The Thunder without Russ go from a playoff team to like...30 wins. It’s frankly fucking astounding that so many people don’t understand what “most valuable” means.

I would like his “build for the future, hold our chips on getting a big time player until LeBron declines” plan other than the fact that he gave a max deal to 30 year old Al Horford. What is the point of that if you’re going to kick the can down the road each time an opportunity comes up?

I just can’t stomach this line of reasoning. All it really does is point out the inherent uncertainty in the process, which everyone already acknowledges. It’s not instructive. It doesn’t say anything we didn’t already know.

Nobody knows, but it’s always worth pointing out that the first player picked isn’t always the best player in the draft.

Please. Cows don’t have to be treated that way to feed people. And people does

The suffering in factory farms is far greater than that experienced by a bull in this sport. In factory farms the suffering typically lasts the animals’ entire lives and it is JUST as unnecessary as the bullfight: there are many other ways entertain and many other things to eat. Eating meat is an important cultural…

Please. Spare me the argument over semantics. It’s called a fucking bullfight in English.

Really? You’re going to feign confusion and play the pedantic “But KD only lost to them once” card? By the way, the Cavs only lost to the Celtics twice during LeBron’s time.

Everyone collectively lost their shit both when Lebron and Bosh went to the Heat, and then again when Lebron and Love went to the Cavs, because the assumption was that no other team had the talent level (read: stars) to compete with the Lebron superteams. I still don’t see how it’s fair to penalize a single player…

My guess is because there’s two of them and one of him? Maybe don’t want the other being jealous is all I can think of.

Lol - so the answer to my questions is “no”. Warriors fans cannot accept a loss without blaming the refs. If you think it is so rigged why do you watch? I dont understand how people could say such nonsense and still watch the NBA or care about it.

These LeBron the Bad GM takes are getting out of hand. So he helped ‘put together’ 2nd best team in the league, instead of the 1st.

Why would the NFL, for example, cut Netflix or another streaming service in on the “rights” to sporting events, rather than just running them on NFL.com?

Not really. I loved the way he swayed menacingly while awaiting a pitch and his swing is pretty beautiful and one of the most effective of all-time.