Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Joining former champion 73 win team with 3 All-Stars + Finals MVP that you choked to = joining with a Miami team that hasn't been a contender in 5 years with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh (who was most certainly not and never was a "superstar" level player)
Seems like the false equivalence fallacy to me but what do I know.
Yeah those guys sucked. I don't know why LeBron predicted winning 7+ championships and why he thought winning would be easy with those bums. [Reply]
Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
I made a $200 bet with a co worker last year after the Finals that Golden State would win the Finals this year vs the field. I also have an injury out where I break even if Curry, Thompson, or Durant miss a Finals game due to injury. I can still win the bet in that scenario, but I can’t lose it.
I can’t believe anyone took that bet. I’m feeling pretty good about it.
Why the hell would anyone bet against GS and give someone an injury out on top of it? With LeBron going to the Lakers Warriors were clearly the overwhelming favorite to win it all again. They didnt lose any key players and no contender really improved that much in the offseason.
Bad bet by your coworker. If I were you id look to keep betting him in the future.. [Reply]
Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy:
Why the hell would anyone bet against GS and give someone an injury out on top of it? With LeBron going to the Lakers Warriors were clearly the overwhelming favorite to win it all again. They didnt lose any key players and no contender really improved that much in the offseason.
Bad bet by your coworker. If I were you id look to keep betting him in the future..
I can’t believe he took it. I’m really hoping KD misses just game 1 and plays the rest of the series. [Reply]
Originally Posted by -King-:
Yeah those guys sucked. I don't know why LeBron predicted winning 7+ championships and why he thought winning would be easy with those bums.
you are dealing with the biggest Lebron ball washer next to Nick Wright so your not going to get honest talk regarding Lebron James. Actually your not going to get honest NBA talk cause every time he enters the thread its all about lebron even if the current discussion has nothing to do with Lebron. He obsessed with lebron being the greatest ever and second place is light years away and his posts follow that narrative. [Reply]
Originally Posted by NWTF:
you are dealing with the biggest Lebron ball washer next to Nick Wright so your not going to get honest talk regarding Lebron James. Actually your not going to get honest NBA talk cause every time he enters the thread its all about lebron even if the current discussion has nothing to do with Lebron. He obsessed with lebron being the greatest ever and second place is light years away and his posts follow that narrative.
Which is why he also obsesses about Durant. KD ended all hope he had that Lebron would obtain GOAT status by blocking his NBA titles and finals MVPs. Right now as many people think Kobe is the GOAT as they do Lebron and you are talking an extreme minority...maybe 10% each. [Reply]
Originally Posted by -King-:
Yeah those guys sucked. I don't know why LeBron predicted winning 7+ championships and why he thought winning would be easy with those bums.
Just joining up with two other top 10 players at the time might have that effect. Saying Bosh wasn’t a superstar at the time is just revisionist history. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Miles:
Just joining up with two other top 10 players at the time might have that effect. Saying Bosh wasn’t a superstar at the time is just revisionist history.
Do people not actually remember what Chris Bosh was? Because I do. I had to watch his soft play for over a half decade.
At the time he signed with Miami, he ranked 14th in WS/48 (behind Nene, Bynum and Horford), 39th in the league in BPM (behind Troy Murphy), and 37th in VORP (behind Jared Dudley and Boris Diaw). He was not a superstar/top 10 player, he wasn't even close to it. If he was, the Raptors probably would have won 50 games and/or a playoff round at some point during his 7 year stint there. [Reply]