To put LeBron's longevity in perspective, he's played in the NBA longer than Josh Giddey's girlfriends have been alive.
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Bragging rights. It's explained in the commercial.
Celtics and Heat have his number. If Bucks got moved to the West, Giannis might go to the finals every year (just to lose to the Celtics or Heat).
Agree with this.
I think James Harden actually was more talented than Jimmy, but you can't ignore the playoff stuff. Harden is a lot better in the playoffs than people give him credit for, but he's never stepped up during nut crunching time to single handedly win series against good opponents like all the other greats do. We've seen LeBron, KD, Curry, Kawhi, Giannis, Jokic, etc. do. Jimmy has done this on multiple occasions, while Harden always found a way to come up short against the Warriors or Spurs.
- Charles Barkley
- Jimmy Butler
- Elgin Baylor
- Reggie Miller
- Chris Paul
- Karl Malone
- James Harden
- Paul George
- Steve Nash
- Dominique Wilkins
Nikola Jovic was still in high school while playing his first NBA season.
The Clippers should try to beat the Bulls to the blow it up market.
They should at least be able to land a nice package for Paul George. Kawhi should also fetch something decent. They can probably just buyout Harden.
The tournament gives teams a chance to prove that they're the best team in the league.
Winning the Double Crown in a season is better than just a regular championship season too and is important for ranking the historically great teams all time.
There's a reason why front offices should pick the coaches and not the players. With either Nick Nurse or Budenholzer, the Bucks would look like world beaters. Instead, they're going to be a play-in team and lose to Miami in the first round.
Warriors need to make some type of mega trade using Klay and maybe CP3's expiring contracts along with Kuminga and every picks and swaps that they have available.
Someone like the Bulls are a natural partner as they could send back multiple good rotation players in some combo of Lavine, Caruso, and Vucevic in the same trade.
Right now, the Warriors don't stack up talent wise as a contender and are poised to waste another year of Steph Curry's peak prime.
Klay needed to pull up from Curry in OKC range.
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Miami probably missing the knockout stage even with a win against Milwaukee without Butler and Herro is just sad and not a good look for this tournament when their only loss would be to a missed buzzer beater. They're mostly getting punished because they played the Wizards and Hornets when the bad teams were in better condition to compete.
Tournament would be much better with either 2nd place in every group making the knockout stage, with the top 2 seeds getting a bye into the round of 8 (like 12-team NFL playoff format), double wild card play-in match to play the top seed (like 10-team MLB playoff format), or if they're insistent on the Top 8 cut (Magic the Gathering playoff format) then points defeated by in losses would be a better tie breaker than scoring margin since that is something a team can fully control.