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Just wait until Bronny comes in and leads the Lakers to the NBA Final.
That dude couldn’t lead an AAu team to a championship
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That dude couldn’t lead an AAu team to a championship
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You mean they couldn't buy a championship. I would say Lebron wasn't much of a rescue. It was more about having the spotlight on him/access to Hollywood/being considered a Laker great, which he won't be..
Lebron deserves to be on a losing team considering he always jumps ship when his team has exhausted every possible dollar and asset to make him happy.
He will go down as the greatest ball hog of all time.
Terry Yake
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isn't that the whole point of free agency? he absolutely rescued the franchise. the lakers were going nowhere before he signed
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could've been better if lebron and pelinka hadn't blown up a title winning team to bring westbrick in
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Embiid with his third broken face and now McCain, probably leading the pack for RotY, needs meniscus surgery.
Someone needs to start sacrificing live chickens or something to get this curse on the Sixers lifted.
Someone needs to start sacrificing live chickens or something to get this curse on the Sixers lifted.
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Did they win a title, yes but there were circumstances. They played 20 less games had a break did a seating tournament and won. Would have been a lot different if they played 82 and won it. I think The Lakers caught lightning in a bottle more than they were a true caliber contender.
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yeah, that's just pure cope. they were #1 in the west at the time of the shutdown and had just beaten the bucks and clippers in back to back games. not to mention they were the 3rd best defensive team in the league. you could maybe make that argument for miami, but the lakers were a top 3 team all season
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We both know regular season means nothing. Were they good, yes, but that last 20 games is when teams start turning it up for the playoffs. One off games don't mean anything to a 7 game series. Their chip is between a NBA cup and a real chip.
2 of Lebron 4 championships came from shortened season.
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and if your team had won, you'd be calling it the hardest championship ever
like i said, pure cope
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My team did win when GS were all injured and we had Leonard for 1 season. I know if GS was healthy we wouldn't have even won a game. History books will mark it as a chip but it's not like we defeated one of the greats at full strength.
If Toronto won in the bubble I would have been the first one to say "yeah, but". Short cuts are short cuts no matter who takes them and for what reason...........like only going to teams who can afford to buy championships.
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lebron took a shortcut joining a lakers team that had been one of the worst teams in the league for 5 seasons prior?
did you expect the highest profile player in the league to have signed with the hornets or pistons?
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But the lakers went from the worst to first no? They were willing to buy who ever they could to win. It doesnt always work but how many teams can offer what the Lakers can. There's a reason why he went to LA and Miami. Going back to Cleveland was a vanity project were he though he could lead them to multiples but couldn't.
He could have tried winning in Washington.
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they went from 11th in the west in 17/18 to 10th in 18/19 with lebron to 1st in 19/20
lakers didn't "buy" AD though. they traded three up and coming young players and a bunch of picks for him. after lebron and AD, the third and fourth highest paid guys on that team were danny green and KCP. not exactly guys you "buy" titles with
no serious player who cares about winning is signing with washington
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they went from 11th in the west in 17/18 to 10th in 18/19 with Lebron injured and a veteran roster to 1st in 19/20 with AD. They Also added Dwight Howard, Danny Green, Markieff Morris , Rondo from the year before. These 4 players contributed almost 30 points a game on that run.
They bought Lebron and A.D. and filled out the rest of the roster from the players they got over 2 seasons on cheap contracts because Lebron and A.D. made up more than half of the cap.
In his first year they signed a bunch of players to 1 year contracts knowing they were going to need the cap space to bring in AD.They bought Lebron and A.D. and filled out the rest of the roster from the players they got over 2 seasons on cheap contracts because Lebron and A.D. made up more than half of the cap.
