Poor LeBron never played on a superteam

dnc

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/874484980302270464

Tequilla

Because 3 is no longer a superteam

dnc

dnc

https://twitter.com/SBNation/status/874473429918859264

allpurpleallgold

It just depends on how you want to define super team.

dnc

https://twitter.com/SamuelLJackson/status/874452854366380032

PurpleJ

Every team he's been on is a super team, because he's LeBron. His problem is the refs have it out for him.

allpurpleallgold

PurpleJ said:

Every team he's been on is a super team, because he's LeBron. His problem is the refs have it out for him.

Steph Curry 15 game 5 free throw attempts.
Lebron James 4.

Nuff said on that.

PurpleThrobber

I love Rappaport.

https://www.facebook.com/barstoolsports/videos/10155484599462502/

haie

Lebron obviously deserves shit for losing to Dallas.

San Antonio and Golden State had unreal depth compared to the corpses that they shovel out onto the court when he's not in.

JR was on fire tonight, but holy fuck. Jefferson did not deserve to play. Deron did not deserve to play. Shumpert can't resist his usual 5 pre-game blunts before an elimination game. Love has his moments but overall should be a fringe all star rotting in Portland.

Lebron haters deserve to choke on their newly bought "The City" throwback unis.

PurpleJ

allpurpleallgold said:

PurpleJ said:

Every team he's been on is a super team, because he's LeBron. His problem is the refs have it out for him.

Steph Curry 15 game 5 free throw attempts.
Lebron James 4.

Nuff said on that.

Adam Silver did 9-11.

Stay woke.

Gladstone

All these complaints about super teams makes me appreciate the 2011 Mavericks more and more everyday. One hall of famer in his prime in Dirk, one hall of famer near the end in Jason Kidd, and a bunch of good, but not all time great players. Wound up ending Phil Jackson's coaching career and taking down the super team in Miami.

RoadDawg55

LeBron has already said this. He said if he would have joined Boston back in 2010 it would be similar to what Durant did by joining GS.

TierbsHsotBoobs

PurpleJ said:

Every team he's been on is a super team, because he's LeBron. His problem is the refs have it out for him.

LeBroon POTD!

PurpleThrobber

haie said:

Lebron obviously deserves shit for losing to Dallas.

San Antonio and Golden State had unreal depth compared to the corpses that they shovel out onto the court when he's not in.

JR was on fire tonight, but holy fuck. Jefferson did not deserve to play. Deron did not deserve to play. Shumpert can't resist his usual 5 pre-game blunts before an elimination game. Love has his moments but overall should be a fringe all star rotting in Portland.

Lebron haters deserve to choke on their newly bought "The City" throwback unis.

So either:

1) Cleveland's front office is shit and can't manage their cap and sign good enough players

or

2) Good enough players don't want to play with Lebron and he can't convince them to come to Cleveland to watch him be the man. Because, like, Bron's gonna Bron.


whynotboth.gif

dnc

PurpleThrobber said:

haie said:

Lebron obviously deserves shit for losing to Dallas.

San Antonio and Golden State had unreal depth compared to the corpses that they shovel out onto the court when he's not in.

JR was on fire tonight, but holy fuck. Jefferson did not deserve to play. Deron did not deserve to play. Shumpert can't resist his usual 5 pre-game blunts before an elimination game. Love has his moments but overall should be a fringe all star rotting in Portland.

Lebron haters deserve to choke on their newly bought "The City" throwback unis.

So either:

1) Cleveland's front office is shit and can't manage their cap and sign good enough players

or

2) Good enough players don't want to play with Lebron and he can't convince them to come to Cleveland to watch him be the man. Because, like, Bron's gonna Bron.


whynotboth.gif

LeBron is Coach and GM in Cleveland.

hth

PurpleThrobber

dnc said:

PurpleThrobber said:

haie said:

Lebron obviously deserves shit for losing to Dallas.

San Antonio and Golden State had unreal depth compared to the corpses that they shovel out onto the court when he's not in.

JR was on fire tonight, but holy fuck. Jefferson did not deserve to play. Deron did not deserve to play. Shumpert can't resist his usual 5 pre-game blunts before an elimination game. Love has his moments but overall should be a fringe all star rotting in Portland.

Lebron haters deserve to choke on their newly bought "The City" throwback unis.

So either:

1) Cleveland's front office is shit and can't manage their cap and sign good enough players

or

2) Good enough players don't want to play with Lebron and he can't convince them to come to Cleveland to watch him be the man. Because, like, Bron's gonna Bron.


whynotboth.gif

LeBron is Coach and GM in Cleveland.

hth

dnc

allpurpleallgold said:

It just depends on how you want to define super team.

Thank you President Clinton.

When James joined Wade and Bosh they had all three been All Stars each of the past 5 seasons (6 for LeBron and Wade) for a total of 17 All Stars between them. They were all in their primes (Wade was 28, Bosh was 26, James was 25). They had 6 first team all NBA appearances, 5 second team all NBAs and 1 third team all NBAs between them (total of 12), two MVP trophies and one Finals MVP.

When Durant joined the Warriors, the Big Four, they had all four been All Stars for one season together (7 straight for Durant, 3 straight or Curry, 2 straight for Klay and 1 for Green) for a total of 13 All Stars between them. They were all in their primes (Curry was 28, Durant 27, Green 26 and Klay 26). They had 7 first team all NBA appearances, 3 second team all NBAs and 1 third team all NBAs between them (total of 11), three MVP trophies and no Finals MVPS.

Golden State's big four is better than Miami's big three but that doesn't make Miami less of a superteam it just makes Golden State a little more of one. You could argue either way on this current Cleveland team, but you can't deny Miami IMO. The difference is Miami's third star was bigger than either of GS's third stars, but GS has one more star. If you ranked the 7 players at the times the deals were signed you'd go 1 James 2 Durant, 3 Steph 4 Wade (3 and 4 is super close though) 5 Bosh 6 Green 7 Thompson.

LeBron should have said something like "Players before us fought long and hard for us to have the right to choose where we play, I can't control who plays with who but I'm glad we have that right." Saying it's bad for the game when he worked endlessly to put the Miami one together (and tried to get both Melo and Chris Paul to join them at different points as well) is just a bad look.

Dave Portnoy is right.

dnc

dnc said:

allpurpleallgold said:

It just depends on how you want to define super team.

Thank you President Clinton.

When James joined Wade and Bosh they had all three been All Stars each of the past 5 seasons (6 for LeBron and Wade) for a total of 17 All Stars between them. They were all in their primes (Wade was 28, Bosh was 26, James was 25). They had 6 first team all NBA appearances, 5 second team all NBAs and 1 third team all NBAs between them (total of 12), two MVP trophies and one Finals MVP.

When Durant joined the Warriors, the Big Four, they had all four been All Stars for one season together (7 straight for Durant, 3 straight or Curry, 2 straight for Klay and 1 for Green) for a total of 13 All Stars between them. They were all in their primes (Curry was 28, Durant 27, Green 26 and Klay 26). They had 7 first team all NBA appearances, 3 second team all NBAs and 1 third team all NBAs between them (total of 11), three MVP trophies and no Finals MVPS.

Golden State's big four than Miami's big three but that doesn't make Miami less of a superteam it just makes Golden State a little more of one. You could argue either way on this current Cleveland team, but you can't deny Miami IMO. The difference is Miami's third star was bigger than either of GS's third stars, but has a Big Four rather than a Big Three.

LeBron should have said something like "Players before us fought long and hard for us to have the right to choose where we play, I can't control who plays with who but I'm glad we have that right." Saying it's bad for the game when he worked endlessly to put the Miami one together (and tried to get both Melo and Chris Paul to join them at different points as well) is just a bad look.

Dave Portnoy is right.

You can't flag your own poast even when you went full Tequilla.

haie

No one said Lebron the GM isn't shit. He needs

allpurpleallgold said:

It just depends on how you want to define super team.

Lebron + 1-2 other all stars and dreck on the rest of the team != super team

Golden State where there is 1 bad player on the entire team, and even he did his part in ending Kawahi == super team.

I actually like Golden State a lot, the other franchises need to get their shit together. The NBA has the worst roster management of the 4 major pro sports.

dnc

haie said:

No one said Lebron the GM isn't shit. He needs

allpurpleallgold said:

It just depends on how you want to define super team.

Lebron + 1-2 other all stars and dreck on the rest of the team != super team

Golden State where there is 1 bad player on the entire team, and even he did his part in ending Kawahi == super team.

I actually like Golden State a lot, the other franchises need to get their shit together. The NBA has the worst roster management of the 4 major pro sports.

The Miami superteam had Udonis Haslem, Ray Allen, Mike Miller, Shane Battier and Rashard Lewis at various points (at least three of them at all times IIRC). They weren't devoid of quality role players.

But yes, Golden State's roster construction and player development are top notch. Let's not forget what a big step forward almost everyone on the team took after they hired Kerr. Not sure how much was Kerr and how much was Mark Jackson being awful, but that team is just stacked in the front office and on the bench as well as on the court.