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@jawnswoop I can't even talk shit tonight since your whole team is out
Nike Jumpman doesn't just pay ESPN to fluff Mikey, they also pay them not to trash an Under Armour athlete that's marketed as an alternative to Bron. ESPN can't talk about Curry's game. It would alienate white viewers. This way when he plays well again (he will) they can glaze him and everyone can still say he's more successful than Bron for being light skinned and white passing. Even BGOL isn't going in. Now that everyone knows it's never been about basketball, they can respond accordingly.
I mean, it really doesn't matter because our season was over anyway, so............
I has to pause it at the first finals
So can I bring up bam and dragic being hurt is why the heat lost the finals in the bubble ?
Herro being out against Denver?
I literally just tried to explain this to Bizarre (@Costanza ) and Eminem (@therealjondoe ) yesterday.
Sure, the only reason the Lakers who had the leagues best record that year beat the Heat is cuz Bam and Dragic were hurt. If they were healthy, Lakers get swept. Only reason Bron posted 29, 8, and 7 is cuz those guys were out. That's the general consensus.
Interesting.
Jimmy's best 2 teammates were out
Best scorer and best defender
Our board admin is a gay white man that's attracted to Kobe Bryant. It's the only explanation why two alts would be on a porn board 24/7 365 carrying water for him. He's also attracted to Steph. So those guys get projected over Bron thru his alt accounts.
They played against Jokic in 2023, why didn't the Heat win that series? Let me guess Jokic and the Nuggets were way better than Bron and the Lakers? And you concede Joker is unstoppable.
Lakers cooked a young Nuggets team in the bubble. They took that shit personal and been on our ass ever since.
The trolling heavily relies on media and social media support. Without ESPN and the clickbait sites, there is no trolling. But what happens when white people no longer believe in the credibility of the media and are exhausted from the misinformation of the clickbait? LeBron is gonna play at least 3 more seasons, is all this sustainable to combat that? Stephen A and these troll farms gotta put in work for 3 more years. That's asking a lot, and it's not like we don't got young players coming in that people want to see covered fairly. This new TV arrangement is bout to change the discourse because it has to. If your team sucks, you shouldn't be talking shit, just like with the NFL. We gotta get back to that.
Herro was outThey played against Jokic in 2023, why didn't the Heat win that series? Let me guess Jokic and the Nuggets were way better than Bron and the Lakers? And you concede Joker is unstoppable.
Am I doing it right?
So you think the Heat would've won if he played? Jokic wouldntve performed as well?
A simple yes or no.
No
But i do think they could've beat the Lakers
Mans risked being shipped to a gulag in El Salvador
Well, you're the only one cuz that is considered Bron's weakest Finals opponent and he was the best player by a wide margin. When Steph beat him in 2015 without his co-stars (that he won with in 2016), he had a teammate that was considered better and won Finals MVP over him. Not the same thing.
Jokic 2023 Finals numbers the same as Bron's in 2020 by the way.
Well, you're the only one cuz that is considered Bron's weakest Finals opponent and he was the best player by a wide margin. When Steph beat him in 2015 without his co-stars (that he won with in 2016), he had a teammate that was considered better and won Finals MVP over him. Not the same thing.
Jokic 2023 Finals numbers the same as Bron's in 2020 by the way.
He was great
Jimmy was too
This is why Shaq wouldn't be as effective today and couldn't play the whole game. He's too slow defensively and offensively, and he doesn't have the range to compensate being on the floor. He'd still be all star level, but just brute power and force doesn't work in this era. You have to be skilled and be able to shoot.
@KingTaharqa I just remembered the nuggets finals. Olidipo was out too in addition to herro and jimmy came into the series injured because of the Knicks series prior.
Denver was rolling though
Denver was rolling though
@jawnswoop this dude bona jumping out the gym
The problem is none of those guys actually won anything. The Cavs winning in 2016 validated that K Love and Kyrie were missed the year prior. Miami needed to win in 2023. When they didn't, it just reaffirmed that they were a weak Finals opponent. People would say the same thing bout the Celtics had they lost last year after choking in 2022.
I don't think anyone was beating that nuggets team the way they were shooting that series
It was ridiculous
Thanks, I'm not watching that game tho, I'm watching WWE.
Same team choked in the 2nd round the following year at home. They played 3 play in teams that year to win a title. Miami was one of them and wasn't that good. Until Bam and company win something, no one is gonna assume they would've won in the past including the Lakers who handled them in 6 games. If you would've won a chip in any of the 4 years after the Bubble, people would give the "we were injured in 2020" shit more cred. But you didn't. Now the Lakers are poised to go back to the Finals again.
The nuggets lost a bunch of players after that finals
Nobody can do it alone which was always the point.
LeBron got swept by himself.
There's no exceptions. Maybe Dirk.