Nephew plz

No idea what this even is, and you have not stickied post on the sub explaining what it is

We are fans of the NBA not of your weird mid season salary draft

Hard pass

The thing is everyone was already calling that loser out in the other thread but now you played the victim and people are gonna just go back to hating you

You need to get outside more, nephew.

Im not even a Trump supporter and I have to admit you people are insane. Stop worrying about these athletes political affiliations. Especially someone like Hayward who doesnt outwardly discuss it or push his ideologies on his fans.

People who are aiding in the destruction of our country should not be ignored. I dont give a shit if he doesnt openly discuss it, hes giving money to one of the worst people on the planet. A person who has done so many terrible things with the support of

i’m so tired of politics

Ruins everything these days

waaahhhhhhh why is everyone trying to ruin my precious entertainment waaaaaaaaaaah

Agreed Also I’m digging the flair

I can go a whole day without thinking about politics until I see someone bring it up on /r/nba. This sites so obsessed with politics you cant even escape it on the sports subs.

I never see it on r/collegebasketball and the gif wars there are pretty nice. This is my first go around so idk how it gets during the tourney but…

Politics is just sports but with more white people

Wow, a Trump joke. So original. So brave.

Very legal and very cool!

Dear diary

Lmao

Yes, orange man bad.

Beard man worse

Indeed

This but without any hint of irony

This but unironically

Orange man bad u/ieatass123 good

Well, yeah

whose worse? Orange man or Rich man?

Beard man

Wahhhhhh someone doesn’t agree with my politics time to make a pointless rant on reddit wahhhhhhhh

grrr orang man bad guy

Loooool sorry ass Trump supporter

Rent Free

Made this account specifically to post this, huh? Be moar subtle.

Delete

They are.

You used a throwaway...for THIS?

I feel like LA has the most racist fans

Lol 50 comments in 3 minutes.

Serious question - are you old enough to vote?

it is pretty troubling that Hayward was following Candace Owens on social media

Is it?

Who’s that

Back conservative influencer/speaker

Stop worrying about who other grown men are following on social media.

Why should he listen to you?

ok crotchviolence

Why is it troubling? Shes believes in people taking accountability for their lives and working hard instead of getting handouts from the government.

Exactly that’s why when the blue handouts weren’t coming she turned red.

It isnt about differing opinions when one side is literally destroying our country and our planet.

Oh for fucks sake here we go. “The people I support are Jesus Christ and the people I don’t support are literally Satan.” Get a fucking grip dude this is an NBA subreddit.

if you actually pay attention to what shes said & who shes surrounded herself with, ya its pretty troubling. but what do I know

Yah Republicans only believe in handouts for the rich and accountability of the poor

oof ouch oo oof ouch you got me.

Once again, this is an NBA subreddit. Go to r/politics if you wanna circlejerk about Trump lol. Is it really that difficult

[removed] Ladies and gentlemen We got em

it always is

I hate to break it to you but it’s always been like this. You’re getting way too wrapped up in nostalgia if you really think if used to be competitive every year

Ok cool

Flair checks out.

What does me being a hornets fan have to do with anything except my own misery?

Kemba and Steph didnt win anything, Im just saying.

yes but it wont happen

bro what

Ok

Id be good with that

This would never happen friendo, but ya.

sure but hes gotta make the playoffs first

Yuh

Yes

Good read. I always thought it was mainly cuz of the dunk, but there was so many other factors. Just shows the mental fortitude NBA players have to have in order to be successful

Van gundy is a cunt. You can say theyre are pussies or whatever but how many players being treated like shit by coaches hurt their careers. possibly like weis and milicic. Some people just need a little push or motivation to them going and no matter how b

Yeah, ultimately his NBA career wasnt much more than some bad decisions and bad advice but life really hit him hard with the birth of his son, and he got super self destructive. This isnt a basketball story so much as a cautionary tale on how depression c

We talk in TS% here man, convert it now!

93.9% Scrub performance compared to his 150% during the ASG

93.9% TS jesus christ.

Highest TS% in a game of 48+ points ever, regular season and postseason. Dame is second with a 49 point game where he had a TS% of 93.2

That’s good for 93.9% TS

>24/24 from the line r/nba: DAE Dirk is super boring?

Ibaka could not stop him

Such a legend.

white hitler

Tbf the FTA really are the equivalent of another 10 FGA. He took 10 full trips to the line (20 free throws), one and1 (1 free throw), and three technicals (3 free throws). But still thats scoring 45 points by using 25 possessions (not counting the tec

You are such an idiot.

No. Im not. Others feel this way

Yes, other idiots feel this way. You are not the only one in the world, just the only one vocal on r/NBA about it.

internet

> If MOST people here disagree I think that means Im onto something. This is the most flawed logic Ive ever seen and its hilarious...youre either trolling hard or youre wearing your headband too tight.

W H O

Name them, source them.

other idiots

How old are you?

Old enough to know who Reggie Lewis is

Are you trying to say Reggie Lewis was better than Bird? No disrespect to Lewis

Thats no old enough to know how good Larry bird is. Bird was a shadow of his former self after missing the 89 season. But his 88 season - 30pt, 6 ast, 9 rebounds, 1.5 steals a game on 60% ts was something else.

Your mother is overrated.

She IS. Right?

Congratulations, you just won dumbest post of the day buddy

Its in the running for the year

Didn’t think I’d be saying this after “Luka doncic has reached his ceiling”, but here we are.

Just today Ive seen "Steph isnt a top 10 PG of all time" and "I would take Luka over LeBron and KD"

Ask everyone WHY Bird was so good what do they say? He could shoot the 3.

Well then back to r/nfl I go

Watch out for the pats fans lol

Tell them that their big dick nick memes suck

mods you know what to do

this is like the only times the mods should intervene.. lol

> Other than the shooting he wasnt that impressive . He was a better playmaker than shooter actually Lol. So he was a fantastic all around offensive player by your own admission

He was GOOD. GOOD.

Go look at his teams record before and after he joined then come back, delete this and go to bed

Yeah. Im sure Danny Ainge snd Robert Parish and Mchale and DJ had nothing to do with it

Ainge/Parish/Mchale werent around during Birds rookie year

So youre racist and really stupid? Although I suppose those too are hand-in-hand.

Im not racist. Detlef Schrempf is one of my fav players all time. As well as Chris Mullin

If you combined Detlef & Mullin you’d have a poor man’s Bird...

Found Isiah Thomass burner

I think Seattle is actually the whitest sport city iirc

Eh..Ok. Lol. They dont usually shout racial slurs in Seattle though

They shout racial slurs in salt lake. They wrote the N word on LeBrons house in LA I’m giving you facts. Seattle has more Caucasians than Boston according to a census

Delete this OP

Sorting by New is such a double edged sword these days. Especially since this sub got more popular in the past few years as well as Reddit as a whole. I miss the days when this sub was at less than 300k subscribers.

Him at his peak would be the best player in the league today.

What!? Hahaha. Just stop...

bruh i thought you dont care what anyone says why you responding

Whose nephew

Lmfao, look at this dudes post history

bro the fuck are you even talking about? he was putting up 29/9/7 in his prime on great shooting. those are prime lebron numbers.

If you dont care what anyone says then why even post this? You are obviously putting this on a public forum so people will engage with it? If you want to start a discussion go ahead. Blatantly lying, or making clickbait bullshit wont help you get a good

Because people seem to think he was better than he was. Accuracy is important to me

But you said you didnt care what people say. If you care about accuracy then you would probably try to inform people with statistics and evidence as well. Such a shame how shallow trolling has become. Good trolls are like good movie villains, they are e

I expected at least a reasonable angle like playing on stacked teams with HOF in their prime. But this is < 50 IQ.

I said his team was really good. REALLY GOOD.

Show me we’re Larry and Luka hurt you

“Two fat thots... it’s time”

“Two flat earths...it’s time”

“If you dig a hole on this very spot, Kevin, you will literally end up in China. Flat. Earth bruh.”

China is in the upside-down

You can still dig there. Have you never actually tried digging to China?

I’ll wait till the Wall is built first.

It would be quicker to just dig to China. They have one there.

Look into it

and they are both single

Buss down thotiana

Kyrie to SAS

"We dont ask for head, we just force it in their mouth" - Roy Hibbert

Magic Johnson has been fined $25,000

$50,000 - @25k for Kevin and @25k for Kyrie

Magic suspended 4 games

This thread is pretty ridiculous. I went to school for lip-reading and hes clearly holding up his fingers and saying "mannys and pedis"... They are setting up an All-star break spa day together. Stop with the reactionary bullshit.

I dont know if you put the words in my head but I really do hear that. I doubt theyd have that discussion there though. Anyone can walk past and overhear them.

They’re fuckin with us Lets dispel this fiction once and for all that Kyrie Irving doesnt know what hes doing. He knows exactly what hes doing

Marco Rubio pasta. Unexpected

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

Donald Rumsfeld reaction when he said that was priceless

"I know the human being and the fish can co-exist peacefully!"

He learnt from the best

Fr tho my jaw was on the floor at that moment of the debate. like i swear to god he *just* said that word for word

I, for one, am honored

Or you know, stand 10 feet away with a camera phone pointed at them.

They have the entire weekend and were even teammates. And they do this out in the open? Cmon man.

i cant even believe that anyone is sincerely entertaining this, but i guess i should. this shit is way worse than ESPN sensationalism

as well as every large facebook, instagram, twitter etc. They all take from the front page of r/nba lol

Its honestly shit like this why I almost give Kyrie a pass for being a conspiracy nut. His life is misreported, misrepresented, and misconstrued every single day. Its not a huge leap of logic for him to read other things and question if they too are war

whatever Abdel Nader is better anyways wait shit

Just focus on your young core. *cries in threepeat pajamas*

FREE RJ!!!

Damn, son, haha.. Hows a Warriors fan out here calling for The Hunter.

I wonder how mad Knicks fans would be if they both went to Brooklyn

Tbh Im not even expecting meetings from either. Id only be mad insofar as i dont want to see the Nets succed, completely independent of the Knicks standing in the league.

Honestly, you shouldnt hold your breathe. The wedding date is already set. [What could go wrong](https://youtu.be/VP5hxpWe1V0)?

Madder than Atlanta fans if the Mavs win the lottery & get Zion to play with Luka and Zinger.

Nets fans obsession with the Knicks is annoying as hell (and I get it, they’re way better run yet they still can’t get fans to the stadium, I’d be in my feelings too) but I’m fine with the team. As a city we need more rings, Boston has been straig

I wish they stayed in the meadowlands

Well we know none of them are going to Boston lol

Cs would still find a way to beat Philly in that scenario

I hope they go to the Knicks between the 2. The Nets are a serious team and could surround them with talent. The Knicks would find a way to fuck this up.

KD turns every team in the league into a legitimate contender, and Kyrie is a top 2 PG in the the playoffs. Theres literally no way the Knicks could fuck up a team consisting of KD + Kyrie

"They could" lmao, we *will*

Kyrie and KD have a bad game where they score 15 combined on 6-37 shooting, but DSJ drops 40. We trade them for Javale because the org believes “he just needs a man in the post he can delegate to”. Verbally commit to sign DSJ to a John-Wall esque cont

Cameron?? Hes never been known for his comedy. Thats not really in his wheelhouse. Id say Adam McKay would fare better. And I would totally see this movie.

I mean they would, KD is coasting and averaging 27.6/7/6, and Kyrie is playing better than Westbrook this year, all they would need would be some decent role players and they are a serious contender.

Wouldnt be mad at all.. id just grab nets tickets @#$@#% it.

I might stop watching the NBA if that happened

I’m sure this thread will be civil

Good now look at 2006 VS 2018. 2018: Pace 100 ORTG 110 2006: Pace 90 ORTG 106

So adjust again for minutes and tell me which is statistically more impressive.

This is your job OP

take a guess

How many times is this exact thread going to be posted?

I dont necessarily disagree with your point that Hardens current season is amazing and is *at least* on par with 2006 Kobe in terms of impressiveness. But there are a couple issues. First of all, obviously you are going to have to ignore defense. Its not

> Cmon dude. You know it doesnt work like that, especially for a guy who people regularly say gets "gassed" at the ends of games. Extrapolating like that is dishonest. > > Curiously, why didnt you "jack up" Kobes usage rate to match Hardens then

Lets look at this from another angle other than "comparing TS% between different eras!" and what not 1) a) 2006 [Kobe Lakers had a 109.5 off rating when he was on the court](https://on.nba.com/2SIu2MX) which as you can see is one of the higher ones am

As long as we agree Kobe wouldnt be a top 5 player in todays NBA.

Harden gets the edge because he is a much better 3 point shooter

This place hates Harden far more than you think if you’re hoping to have a decent debate with people

They can hate him all they want. What hes doing this year is statistically greater than Kobes apex. I still dont have Harden as a top 3 player in this league... and i sure as fuck wouldnt have prime Kobe as a top 3 player in this league.

How the fuck isnt *prime Kobe* top 3 in the league right now? He would be top 1.

Youre actually retarded if you wouldnt have prime Kobe as top 3 right now. Hes arguably 1

He isnt a step below those three. He might be worse, I think hes below Curry and Lebron at least overall, but hes on the same level as them, and so are a few other players

James Harden the regular and FT warrior and by far the biggest post-season choker.

Right smh that playoff choker couldn’t even beat 4 all stars without his 2nd best player

Fuckin scrub

Kobe choked away a 3-1 that very season lmao

inb4 grr defense and 3 pointers

Don’t forget the most important point, integrity

?? &#x200B; bro youre proving the opposite point--that Kobe is supremely UNDERRATED on this sub

Whyd you delete your research man. I was getting a good laugh out of reading your bullshit over and over.

extremely overrated.

I felt bad about shattering the illusion for the children here. Kinda felt like I was telling a bunch of little boys and girls that Santa wasnt real. I felt guilty about it.

Lol dummy

You dont feel guilty about it. You were tired of the downvotes. You very easily could have started this topic and had some legitimate discussions. But the level in which you went to try and downplay Kobes career is hilarious. Youre definitely alone in you

Lots of kids here who grew up worshiping him. Kobe is their favorite character in NBA2k so they think hes sacred. He was alright. Definitely a top 10 player from his generation. Easily top 15-40 all-time. He wouldnt be a top 3 player in todays NBA.

You’re a Celtics fan I expect nothing less.

Goat

Its still crazy to me that he was the 6th man at UNC and got drafted over Chris Paul and Deron Williams

i like this fact

So youre telling me hes not really a bust?

Not at all. Hes been basically a perfectly average NBA player for 14 seasons now

Yup. Pretty much sums him up

He obviously wasnt #2 good, but when you look back at that draft he wouldnt have gone much lower with hindsight. Pretty average draft tbh

Yes he’s quietly been our starting 4 for half a decade

Despite him not exceeding the hype, he’s still the best Tar Heel ever in my eyes.

He would have a better argument for sure. That Mavs series will always bring down his legacy though

jj barea had him on lock

lol still dont know how anybody could be considered better than MJ with that Mavs series on the resume. Avg 18 ppg? Ouch

That Mavs team was on a mission. Swept us like trash the same year

LeBron coulda finished that dunk over Draymond in game 7 causing Oracle to collapse and emerge as the only survivor 3 days later and people would say Jordan woulda did it in 2

> and people would say Jordan woulda did it in 2 <3

*clears throat* **MICHAEL JEFFREY JORDAN WOULD NEVER GO DOWN 3-1 IN THE FIRST PLACE**

what if mj didnt retire?

Yea, modern day four peat would be legendary

lets rephrase the question : would MJ have won all 4 rings in Miami if he was in LeBrons shoes ? yes he would

but he didnt

>would

but he didnt ... sorry i dont live in your fantasy world ... i look at the facts and statistics

i bet that its easy for you to say that online when theirs no face to face confrontation :)

If youre going to troll at least be funny or say stuff that actually gets under peoples skin. This is just lame.

internet boy ;)

MJ fans would still fault him for 07.

Opinions differ

Only thing missing would be a DPOY award

I’d say so. You’re simultaneously getting rid of his biggest failure in 2011 while having him do something nobody has ever done in modern basketball with a 4 peat. Then you look at his history and 2015 if he loses it’s only because of injury

And what if MJ would have never retired twice, or didnt have to play 4 years at UNC, etc.? The conversation would obviously change if you alter history for just one of them.

Yes. At this point, the main difference between MJ and LeBron is rings, but saying that he wouldve won every year is a hell of a jump.

There’s more than rings. 6 rings has become a little bit of a straw man after he got his third

Lebron could be 10-10 in the finals and people would still bring up reason on why hes not the GOAT

And all the first-team defenses...

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Lets take a team with 5 all stars and add an elite prospect to it. Why not?

come on now nephew how to u expect the already weak team and small markets to get better then

mods do your fucking job

#electallmods. Mods should be open to yearly elections because these guys are so often jokes.

100%

So you got shit on the first time went "ah I know why, I didnt have a serious tag" and reposted this garbage idea

Yes I too would love to see the Warriors with Zion and see absolutely no problem with giving the best teams players on small rookie contracts.

You expected serious replies for this? Lol

This is seriously stupid

So whoevers bad when these rules are implemented just stay bad forever. Got it. Mods do your thing

You the type of dude who actually calls the number under “questions/comments?” On the back of potato chip bags?

What (and I can’t stress this enough) #THE FUCK

What’s wrong with tanking?

Boy do I love me a nice, [serious] post

you know what, you might have tagged this as serious.. but maybe thats your pinch of sarcasm

This is equivalent of giving the rich more tax breaks and the poor the shaft

Its been working for this country since Reagan /s

Not sure if serious troll or just plain stupid. Gotta be a troll

This is what happens when you sort by....

I have a better idea. Make all draft picks free agents and use the lottery to determine what teams have the most money to provide a players. Now let the players decide what team they want to go too, while still giving lottery teams an advantage by offerin

Players will take pay cuts to play in big markets like LA or NY, especially since the rookie contract scale only ranges from 50k to like 10M. Players you easily take 5M in LA over 10M in Detroit

Adam Silver would like to know your location

LMAO WHAT

So how will bad teams every become good? ZION TO THE WARRIORS?

just introduce a tax for teams in the lottery loss of playoff revenue + punitive tax will ensure owners dont want to tank (at least for long)

I think your email hit Silver’s spam folder.

Ive seen a lot of crap on this sub This might be the worst post of all time

i think your trololololing

That’s not how it works

Yo don’t be emailing the nba this shit

I hope the admin that reads your email laughs at it, sends it to everyone in the department and it becomes a recurring joke year round.

Hi its me, Adam Silver, and Im gonna say no to this

hi Adam Silver

Fuk it just do a bracket with the bottom four teams during the week before finals to determine who gets the top four picks in order

Would appear that everyone has taken the bait Never mind, after reading op post history it would appear that he’s just a huge fucking moron

yeah i wouldnt get your hopes up on anyone from the nba contacting you anytime soon.

Lol this guys trolling right? But you know what this actually made me think of a good idea. They should give the 9 seed in each conference the highest chance of landing landing the number 1 pick. That could make teams on the outside looking in, immediatel

Would totally fuck up the playoff race, 8 seeds already have ridiculously low probabilities of winning a playoff series so trying to drop out of he playoffs by tossing a few games for the number one pick would be everyone’s idea around the end of the ye

I didnt say the 9 seed would get the 1 pick. I said theyd have a better chance like the bottom teams in the league currently do. The last few years have shown us that the end of the season can be really competitive and that the 8th spot is really coveted

Id be all for it. Penalizing a team for success is a joke and only exists in pro sports as a means of forced parity. If you dont want the rich to get richer than do something about it and beat them. Or dont

#MNBAGA

hopefully you didnt struggle too hard with that very original response lmao

“If you don’t want the rich to get richer, than do something about it and beat them” Sure so easy let me just use my roster full of bums to beat a team that just won a championship. Also I have no way of getting young talent to develop because no

No its not it happens all the time in college athletics. And its happened plenty of times in pro sports as well without the need of a top 5 pick. It doesnt happen overnight nor should it. Sustained success in a sport takes time and effort. A concept tha

A couple might, but I think many will go to teams that will give them the most money and most opportunity. Guys coming into the league will need time to prove themselves and that won’t happen in LA or NY where there so much pressure.

Why not ?

Because a 19 year old has no chance of improving...

Luka is 28

He looks pretty young for a 37 year old.

Never said he couldnt improve, but I dont see him adding things thats going to put him above where Trae I think can go in the future. I dont see Luka ever being the scorer Trae is going to develop into being.

What about getting his turnovers down, being a better FT shooter, getting KP back, and also having a full NBA off season to work on S&C? Thats a lot of things that Luka can do to get better and to say that a 19 y/o doesnt have any more things to add t

You are very right, if all he does is get his free throws up by 10% and 3 point up by 5% he would already be averaging 25/8/6 right now over the last 2 months. I see 4 things that’ll make him an all NBA player pretty soon: Improve decision making on ri

Why would one develop shooting over the other and why are you an idiot?

Oh so Trae won’t shoot any better and has hit his peak. Got it.

Things he can still improve on: * Turnovers. He started the year off with a 1:1 Ast:TO ratio, hes now at 3.2 turnovers per game. He could easily lower that with more experience * FG%. Hes currently at 43%, I expect this to rise (as it most often does wi

Luka has reached his ceiling as a rookie?

Hes only 19. We all know the sexy number is 20.

Just wait till hes 23. Hell need a cane by then.

God, Dirks baby giraffe running ass. I love it.

On his last legs

Honestly he should just retire after this year because it literally won’t get better from here.

Call the glue factory, he done.

The list of players that reached their ceiling at 19 is.... low

Probably not, but he wouldnt be the first player to have his first season be his best. But I dont see that happening with Luka

The ceiling is the roof. Kids these days!

Yes. His limited athleticism stunts how much further he can develop. This isnt a criticism. If he keeps at this pace hell be a HOF player.

> His limited athleticism stunts how much further he can develop. Trae Young is an athletic freak now? Lol. This is so stupid on many levels.

I get what youre trying to say and youre a complete idiot Youre essentially saying Trae has a higher ceiling because he sucks ass at more things than Luka right now

No, Im saying Trae has a higher ceiling, because he has a higher ceiling. Luka is damn near a finished product due to his euro league experience. Trae has never had elite coaching in his life. You can already see him getting better shot selection as the s

>Trae has a higher ceiling, because he has a higher ceiling.

> Luka is damn near a finished product due to his euro league experience > Trae has never had elite coaching in his life So you’re saying that Trae Young will benefit from NBA level coaching and Luka won’t just because he was in the Euro lea

You cant say that for certain though about Luka. Same with Trae, nobody can determine if hell reach the heights youre claiming.

Just shut up.

Yeah. Jokic stopped developing at 19, and he was a much better athlete than Luka.

A) Jokic has improved his defense. B) you don’t need to be an elite defender to even be an mvp candidate. C) your claim was that Luka cannot improve much bc he isn’t athletic. I pointed to Jokic who is waaaaay less athletic and who has improved a

How much do you actually know about Trae Young?

Then do you realize Trae Young is also not considered a good athlete by NBA standards? His selling point were his established skills. They were not his physical attributes. And you brought up Lukas finishing elsewhere, but his FG% at the rim is simila

Trae Young has limited athleticism too lol

Trae young is less athletic than Luka, wtf are you on about

You think a 19 year old reached his ceiling already? That’s a very dumb statement

Yes. I dont see him adding anything of signifgance to his game. Hes not overly athletic so I dont see him improving his finishing or ability to get to the basket. I think this is what hes going to be for his career. a 18 to 20PPG game guy thats a good pla

Trae Young isnt exactly known for his athleticism and is actually OLDER than Luka.

Just because you suck at chess doesnt mean a completely different person with crazy talent cant improve.

Yeah but that kid has already peaked, you can start learning now and overtake him, that’s how this works right?

How does improvement depend upon athleticism? Does being athletic count as a multiplier when developing any other skill? Jesus this is dumb.

You literally didn’t understand any of what I said. I said that being athletic doesn’t make it easier to improve at other things. It isn’t easier to improve at finishing bc you’re athletic or improve at defense. Being athletic might make you b

why dont you think he can improve his shooting and decision making?

So how about he improves on his shooting and his defense then. Sounds like that would raise his ceiling to me

LOL a bigger chris paul is a surefire hall of famer

A bigger Chris Paul is LeBron 2.0

Chris made all defense like every year bud

Yeah. You can get better at all of those things, you fucking cantaloupe.

You make CP the same size as Lebron and hes noticeably better than him

Luka is younger than Trae.... if you think luka has reached his ceiling at 19 then I think I’ve lost faith in this sub

It’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever read on this sub

Lay off the glue sniffing kid

Peak, yes. Career, no.

Why is this an automatic no for everyone? If I was building a team I’d probably rather have Steph.

Ill take the dude who averaged 35/5/5 with first team all defense over steph

I think he peaked higher, which is insane to say considering the player Kobe was. But Steph has yet to accomplish something like what Kobe did in 2008-2010. He would have had the chance if KD hadnt joined. I think its fair to ask "what did he accomplish

You cant descridit steph for his teamates if anything it should be a plus for him cause other stars want to play with him kobe drove away stars

No

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School is out. Kids love kobe

so basically asking if Steph can make it into the top 10 all time players (roughly) its possible but hes not there yet

Maybe soon

Currently no. After his career depending how it ends I can see an argument. But he’s got some work to do.

Yes

No lol

Yes

More impact to the game of basketball and its redefinition of an era yes; counting stats / accolades / championships probably not.

Why compare a pg and sg

Defense matters.

hell yeah there is. unlike kobe, steph was the best player on a championship team at least once.

No.

If he can go 5/7 or better, it’s possible. Kobe’s longevity was incredible and he was one of the greatest 2 way players ever. Curry is the greatest offensive player of all time however so it could be close just due to his sheer dominance in a shorter

At the end of the day Im gonna assume that Curry will have the upper hand

If he wins 2 more yes

How many all nba teams did Kobe make lol. Steph has a long way to go

I have Magic over Kobe even though Kobe has more all-nba

2 more without KD sure.

Ay caramba

Not right now

no

Not yet but I think by the end of his career maybe. Depending on how it goes

(Pick 1) MJ wannabe or dude that revolutionized modern nba greatest shooter of all time foundation of the most dominant dynasty in nba history...

Maybe, but got carried by a much better player(Shaq and KD)

> "what did he accomplish at the highest level as the clear best player on his team?" Two NBA MVPs, a title, and a 73-win season???? Possibly the greatest offensive season we have ever seen in the history of the NBA? Lets not whitewash Currys career b

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Except his playoff numbers during both of those runs are better than Kobes, lol. |Rk|Player|Season|Age|G|GS|MP|FG|FGA|FG%|3P|3PA|3P%|2P|2PA|2P%|FT|FTA|FT%|ORB|DRB|TRB|AST|STL|BLK|TOV|PF|PTS| |-:|:-|:-|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-:

Steph ain’t the greatest offensive player ever lmao wtf

thats enough internet for you today

He really threw that Stockton in there to make himself seem older smh

Whose #6, Jason Williams?

Derrick Rose

The fuck

Lmfao

Lmaooo

Man I posted one copypasta comment once here and got temporarily banned, but you’re over here shitposting nonstop and fine lmao

How do you delete someone elses account?

No

Only acceptable answer here.

“No those are NOT your top 5 players”

This cannot reasonably be anybody’s top 5 players.

I’ve been having a really tough time with this sub lately

Where’s Luka?? disrespectful ass list

You knew what you were getting into with #3

Proven idiot right here. What a fucking joke.

Where the fuck is Mo Bamba

Bad nephew, bad! Go to your room.

Man fuck Presidents’ Day, got the nephew squad out in full force at 2 in the afternoon.

These nephews out of school on President’s Day

Explain this bullshit

Who could forget the most important metric when choosing the all time greats: potential

Lmfaoooo

Good list but i would switch Stockton and James

out

Stockton wasn’t with good teams? I’m a hardcore Stockton fanboy but you wilding out here nephew. Never missed the playoffs but his teams weren’t good. Lol Stockton doesn’t have a title because the Jazz ran into Jordan twice

You say that youre ranking Kyrie based off of his potential, yet this is your supposed top 5 players of all time. Something doesnt add up... lmao

These blogbois are outta control

Kyrie isn’t the third most skilled in the NBA right now, much less all time.

This man actually has Kyrie Irving as his third best player of all time

Back to Facebook you go

2 through 5 is where you went wrong.

the nephewism is strong in this one

Gud list

One of these is not like the other

2-4 made me think "Is this YouTube?" and then 5 made me think you spend too much time on Basketball Reference

Am I the only one to find it laughable that OP uses “potential “ to describe somebody on his list of all time greats?

>9% upvoted

Basically what you’re saying is these are the players you think are the *best*, not the *greatest* Weird list either way, though

I dont understand people like OP who enjoy getting made fun of

How is kyrie above steph and westbrook?

Where’s Quinn Cook???

Strictly going off skills Kyrie is the best player of all time according to your list.

This whole thread fell for this shit. I thought we were smarter r/nba

Kyrie is too low

As far as skill over everything, if you havent before, watch a lot of Hakeem and Kareem tape. Some of the best big man skill guys in the game, with some flash. Always Duncan too for skills and technique but less flash. Earl Monroe is a great watch also, t

poor guy

I know this is a troll but it’s not even funny why did you take the effort to post this

LeBron is too high imo

Yea but one of them was a damn good one.

WTF !!!

Damn he sucks

Mugsy bogues 39blk in 25,400 minutes. 1 block every 651 minutes So not the only one like you say.

bref didnt have him listed, thanks.

Youre also missing Joe Dumars and Derek Fisher.

Isnt Mugsy Bogues considered the worst shot blocker of all time?

I’ve been playing pickup ball a few times a week for 20 years and probably have 3 blocks the whole time.

Tony Parker is quick but he lacks vertical explosiveness so its not that surprising.

I mean Fred Vanvleet is 6 foot tall and has never dunked in an NBA game, and he still averages 5 times Tony Parkers block rate

Who?

Louisiana just produces really good athletes

Pretty sure your own list has Non-States as the 3rd most MVPs born in the state.. you should fix the title

Use your day off from school to study, algebra exam is on wednesday

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More like youre taking a break to toss the salad

Idk why you’re getting downvoted, I found this pretty funny

For an attorney you ain’t the brightest

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I am one with r/nba, r/nba is with me

They should dunk over some Khardashians.

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These guys get paid millions to play basketball not to dunk in an all star contest

who discovered gravity nephew

How about a tank full of sharks and they will have to wear a leather jacket.

If the plane Collins had “jumped over” had a working propeller going on it that would have been cool.

But but Kobe’s already jumped over a MOVING car and a pool of snakes!!!! Vid for the uninitiated https://youtu.be/_Dcv9qzWrps

Teams have to sign off on what players do in the dunk contest The hawks almost didn’t clear Collins to dunk over the plane so idk if that would go over well

>The hawks almost didn’t clear Collins to dunk over the plane Neither did gravity

Are you not entertained?

What happens when LeBron gets his foot eaten by a piranha, nephew?

Lol when has lebron even entered the nba all star dunk contest o.O

So you hate your life?

Yeah, nobody really noticed Tim Duncan, Kawhi Leonard, Tony Parker or David Robinson when they were on the Spurs.

Who?

Tim Duncan was the dude they traded to Toronto for Derozan

Starlord, man! The legendary outlaw?

Not talking about achievements but rather them not being mentioned a lot in nba media. I’m just pissed Rudy is not an All Star yet lmao.

The Spurs definitely have some under appreciated players that people don’t remember for various reasons like James Silas and Larry Kenon, and George Gervin’s kind of out of favor with the all-time crowd, and Manu’s greatness is always hotly conteste

Who are these guys?

When do their camouflage jerseys go to another team? Also you’re wrong.

Yeah everyone is going crazy about Jonathan Simmons these days

I’m tired of all the Kyle Anderson threads on this sub

Weirdly enough I’ve seen more Anderson posts here this season than past two years

i disagree

Lmao

Spike Lee in shambles...

Knicks fans you can go back to the bottle again

Good. He’s not that bad.

Who tf thought this was true. It came from fucking Simmons right?

Team A in 5

A

Team A

prime bron, curry AND shaq lmfao, that’s an op ass team

https://imgur.com/a/kQAvr4V/

I dont think people realize quite how elite the Bucks have been on D this year. Always hear it about the Pacers, but people seem to not notice the Bucks are a better defensive team than offensive team.

Rofl Cavs

Tristan’s coasting rn wait for the playoffs

lol the Cavss dRTG is higher than the Warriorss oRTG

Sixers should be much higher on defensive rating after trading for Butler, they have really good defenders in Butler, Simmons, and a shot blocker in Embiid.

Do you think the Bucks have another level in the playoffs? Like will they step up, a lot of analyst’s are saying the Bucks won’t make the finals because they don’t have another level, they reached their ceiling.

I think they’ll have another level. They’ve flashed it a few times this year, like when they had 50 points in a quarter. That and they had another level on defense when they shifted schemes.

Ive been watching the Bucks SRS all season. It started ridiculously high (like 16 or something stupid) for the first few weeks. Youre still around 9, which is elite. To put it into perspective, the Warriors in 73 win season had a SRS of ~10.3. Bucks are

It was actually a lot of inability to stop cutting in the lane, and defensive plays turning into transition. Also the Bucks actually hitting open shots. We’ve been really bad at wide open 3s (worst in the league). If Mirotic makes us even slightly be

My nephew is really good but hes only a sophomore and averages like 5 ppg . But I think he can be the GOAT

What are his per 36 stats though

Assuming how good his nephew seems to be with that terrible coach I’m assuming about 180 pp36

Lamelo ball

Porzingis wasnt a superstar, and it would be impossible to tell who will actually be good and who wont until they actually play in the NBA.

Donovan Mitchell was projected to be an Avery Bradley role player.

Scottie Lewis jr (in some ways ) reminds me of Jordan his explosiveness and mid range is crazy good

I feel like we loosely use the word “superstar” these days. There are only a handful of superstars in today’s nba

We need a proper distinction between super star and star

Wouldn’t all star selection vs all nba selection work?

I believe he means those who are All-NBA (probably just first team) are superstars

top 6 or so players is a good range i feel

You wouldn’t have AD there too?

Jalen Green is pretty hyped but cant tell from a kid who is that young

Porzingis ain’t no superstar, and I’m not even sure if Lillard is enough of a name to be considered a superstar, he’s borderline

sorry Kawhi or Westbrook

Westbrook aint a superstar tho.. superstar should be top 3/5 Thats no disrespect to Westbrook, hes top 10/15 but superstar is a whole nother echelon.

Wiliam Gates is looking nice! But dont sleep on Aurthur Agee.

You can never tell, even Kobe didnt average more than 20 pts a game until his 4th season. Then Jordan wasnt even thought of as a good enough player till college. Its a crapshoot.

Maybe yes, maybe no, maybe I dont know

This was my senior year and I put up 3.6 ppg in 8 minutes a night.. so u tell me

Half this subreddit

High school players are so far away from reaching their full NBA potential that nobody can properly predict how their careers will turn out. Also, the next era-defining player might not even come from the US.

You consider him a super star or just a star I think big men have it harder to break into that threshold in the first place. Also I tried to make the list as small as possible

Lebron kd ad dlo harden Kawhi curry Giannis

I mean it’s tough considering he hasn’t had any playoff success although neither has Giannis yet. I’d personally say the consensus superstars in the league are LeBron, Kevin Durant and Curry. After that it can vary based on people’s definition of

There’s way too many there and one of them isn’t of the same standard as the rest of your list.

Low effort

*No* effort

The troll is strong with this one

Dont be that guy

The hardest choices require the strongest wills.

https://media.giphy.com/media/WrxoaVPiq0cG4/giphy.gif

It’s still really early in Zo’s career, and he’s been hampered by injuries thus far. I’m obviously a homer but I’m optimistic that he can vastly improve. Zo’s one of those players that can greatly impact a game without having to stack the st

I agree he’s being held back by those things but it’s also not fair to compare guys to former players who have made such massive strides in their game from when they were young, we don’t see that very often

Agreed. The huge strides are what separate regular nba players to All stars and HOF players We’ll see if Zo can develop his game more and improve. I’d say he’s off to a solid start/baseline Edit: added All stars

Then Kidd averaged 17-7-10 and was an all star the very next year. Well see about Lonzo

So this *definitely* goes against my narrative, but I point it out all the time so its only fair. The 1994-1995 Mavericks played at a pace of 94.7 possessions per game (6th fastest in league that season). The 2018-2019 Lakers play at a pace of 103.3 pos

Kidd is an easy first ballot Hall of Famer, one of the best point guards ever (probably like top 40 player ever overall), and was an MVP level player during his prime. I dont think its as simple as just comparing counting stats.

Lonzo is nowhere near Kidd’s level as a passer in the halfcourt. He’s a great transition passer but is meh at best in the halfcourt

Kidd didnt come into the league a half court savant either, things are hard in the half court.

But by Kidd’s 2nd season he was already an elite passer. Seems disingenuous to compare Kidd’s rookie season to Lonzo’s sophomore season

>Kidd didnt come into the league a half court savant either But Kidd could at least dribble, unlike Lonzo. Thats his real problem in the half-court. Not being able to shoot or finish is one thing, but when you cant even get where you want to go, all t

NBA legend Alonzo Ball

Shooting is too important. Kidd developed a consistent three late in his career. Ball doest get that luxury to wait.

2019 and comparing box score stats

#statslie

He will be better than Kidd

Good god no

He will be better than Jordan. Soon enough, Air Ball will be all were talking about

Awww :)

awwww biiiiitch

Kidd was also a rookie at 21 and wasn’t a hopeless shooter

Lonzo is shooting better from 3 than Kidd did that season.

What about his FT%, usually a pretty good indicator of overall shooting ability.

Kidd was a hopeless shooter

thats dishonest - he wasnt a good shooter but he had a midrange, a shitty 3, and could hit a freethrow lonzo shoots 41% from ft

Id say shooting 41% from the line puts you firmly below Kidd who shot 70% his rookie year, that is a massive difference.

lonzo shoots from 41% from the line dude and it took kidd like 10 years to become a good shooter

With the context of pace, it makes Lonzo look worse.

yeah thats my point

You are a fucking God for doing this. I would definitely want Kobe to be building my house

Melo is the goat at masonry dont @ me

This is awesome OP.

Damn didnt realize Vince Carter still has more bricks than Lebron

Vince got a 5 year headstart

This is Off-Season level material, well done.

Fun Fact: Jamaal Crawford could build the #32 largest house based on FGs missed.

Marry me.

No

/r/theydidthemath

I mean, if you have to apply your math degree to something...

This is offseason quality shitpost.

Karl Malone’s place is just so god damn quaint.

Can you add westbrook too?

Lmao

I didn’t know I needed this in my life

this is next level! so cool hahahaha

Im literally at work reading this and I feel like youve done more work today than Ive done all month.

This is amazing. Now we all get to waste time looking at random players and searching for houses!

Yall thought Kobe was chucking when he was actually solving LAs homelessness problem

So build your house brick by boring brick

Harden and Brodie going to build a mansion soon

Kobe makes the biggest house... Some memes never die

This... this is the QUALITY content that I come to this sub for.

Why the fuck this get removed?

Melos house is still technically in progress, but his ability to supply bricks is so high now that no one is contracting him unfortunately. :/

Dont listen to /u/mrsuns10 lets do it, I could clearly use some company lol

Sure Heres westbrook, with a [quaint 980 sq ft building](https://www.theplancollection.com/Upload/Designers/100/1052/29273_Elev_381_251.jpg).

30 for 30: What if I told you that a legacy wasnt the only thing Kobe was building?

Actually, if Russ and Harden decided to be roommates, their house would still only be 50 sq ft larger than Kobes right now.

removed?

Removed?? This was dope though smh

Oh yeah that’s right, today is Presidents Day. Explains a lot

Apparently universities don’t have Presidents’ Day break.. I didn’t even realize that was today because it’s class as usual

Lmaoooo I was thinking of the joke "Is there a National Holiday Im missing today or something?" when I read some nephew shit a couple hours ago and ofc there actually is one

why am i in school then

Offer him a Knicks jersey.

Damn dude this was so fucking funny

Epic fucking joke

Top bants. Real mad lad.

I suggest lying down in his cage with him and pretending youre an injured small mammal.

Dammit why did I laugh at this?

Be thankful it was not a Kobe jersey. The snake would have mamba mentality.

what the fuck

You’ll have to wait till it sheds its skin. Make sure to complement the snake as much as possible so he won’t try and insult you.

Midseason offseason posts, I love it

Pics or it didnt happen ;)

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you seem like a fun guy

lmfao ifw this

Nah we do have it off

How is AD better than Jokic this season? Genuinely asking.

Don’t ask questions. This is ACCURATE.

he’s been better in the games he’s played

Your first three arent in contention for MVP You dont have Rudy Gobert on your list either. RANKINGS DONE BY RANDOS ON REDDIT ARE FLAWED

this list sucked so bad he deleted the post

Playoffs exist, you know? Players can be chilling in RS then turn up in playoffs

The point stands that he was claiming ACCURATE when theres certainly points of discussion

rudy isn’t a top 15 player....

hes more worthy of being top 15 than kemba

Only leads the league in FG%, Screen Assists, and is Top 3 in every defensive metric, but isnt a Top 15 player...

Steve nash wasn’t a top three player the years he won mvp either

So this is what accuracy looks like?

Why is Butler on your list but not Doncic?

If youre basing it on this season then how is Giannis 5 and LeBron 1? Giannis is having a better season than everyone outside of maybe Harden.

if this is for 2018-2019 then this is wrong. Jokic needs more credit.

Gobert and luka and a few others are better than jimmy butler

I love the audacity of r/nba users. “Since that other guy didn’t know what he was talking about, here is my TOTALLY ACCURATE AND OFFICIAL NBA PLAYER RANKINGS THAT ARE BEST OF ALL^tm “

Irving over jokic is wrong, ad at his best is easily top 5

LMA playing in the G-League?

It was this But then DMC got traded during the all star game last year and they decided to move the date forward

Yup. Basically changed to prevent [this from happening again. ](https://youtu.be/7pOtU6vxYWE)

That sly "I love New Orleans."

So DeMarcus cousins doesnt get traded midway during the all star game

They moved it to just before the All STar break just this last year so you dont have guys getting traded over the All Star game like Boogie did a few years ago.

Nephew, do you not remember pne year ago lol

Because its called the Allstar Break, not the Allstar Trade Deadline

STOP PLEASE

Its true, most are agreeing with me too

offense is more important than defense, yes, but taking Steph over some of those players is ridiculous

> most are agreeing with me too sorry Donald but theres only 4 comments in here and only 1 agrees, 1 is neutral, and 2 disagree

It depends on the team defense i think. Look at the celtics when they had IT. Stevens was able to hide him from most opponents offensive action with Bradley and Smart.

Defense does matter. Defense always matter, and I would not take Steph over Kobe, Duncan, or Hakeem. Would take him over Wade though.

this should be obvious offense is always more valuable than defense. You can play perfect defense and still concede a bucket. Edit: didnt read this idiots post. All of those other guys were just as good on offense as Steph, thus, theyre better than Step

you can also play perfect offense and not get a bucket

The stats don’t prove that to be the case though at least to this point in Steph’s career. Example: Steph for his career is averaging 23pts/gm. Hakeem averaged 21pts/gm and retired leading the NBA in blocks at about 3 per game. They both avg 1.7 ste

This tastes very salty

It will have no affect on the league.

The AD trade didnt start the fire. Its just a result of a movement in the NBA that started in 2010.

LeBron really started a pro-player-anti-team movement. He basically showed that you shouldnt be loyal to teams since they can get rid of you at a moments notice because its just "business." He has given the players more power and I respect this.

Coherse me daddy

I think players have too much control now.

Its a lot older than 2010, for example Vince Carter demanded a trade in 2004 and then allegedly played poorly on purpose until they traded him. Its always been players vs. FO and with each CBA, the players gain some edge.

Yeah but nobody cared about that when that happened. Not even comparable to the decision

Think of it this way, when Lebron made the decision he wasnt thinking "Im going to do what Vince Carter did" but every player since the decision has thought "Im going to do what Lebron did"

But players should honor their contracts imo.

Neither

That wasnt the question.

The answer is neither because the difference between the two was barely palpable and neither is a player that you would want as your main piece

derozan but both are overrated

Lowry any day of the week

Remember: **Dirk Nowitzki did not confirm he was retiring and is still getting a better farewell tour than Paul Pierce**

You really took time out to do this

Steph hates charity confirmed, and y’all are getting too worked up over some jokes

This is the content I come to r/nba for.

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The Ganges River doesnt have as much trash in it compared to this post

W before A except after K

he stoopid, it’s not burberry it’s new balance

When you care so much about Kawhi you dont even know how to spell his name

Lmao got me

Lmfao that fucking edit.

Public figures will get judged by everyone because they are in the public consciousness. And its not like Kawhi is judged much harsher than other NBA players, and a lot of them have gone through some serious stuff too. The real issue with Kawhi being ju

Hey good response appreciate it

Something about telling others to not be assholes while you yourself are being an asshole is off to me. Idk

>to tha grammar nazis: this is why u dont get laid Also why you dont get paid.

I actually own maidsofheartscleaningservice.com everybody check it out if you need any cleaning services in the North Texas area we specialize in home residential cleaning so I do get paid and hope that u do as well

Im sure 14 year old black kids have also made fun of it and Im a white kid who knows people like this as well.. Not sure why youre acting like only black guys have lived in the hood.

You dont even have to live in the hood to see fucked up shit happen either or go through fucked up shit.

I didn’t say the 2 things were mutually exclusive

Soft

What happened to him

I think Kawhi is fine, no one actually says anything to his face so why be bothered

What personality?

Stay in school, kids

Who is making fun of him? Also Kawhi just doesnt give a shit what fans think of him, he doesnt have any social media and is very personal. Theres nothing wrong with that.

Is English your second language?

Y’alls*

Yalls*

Downvote for race card

I dunno about all that, but Id pay good money to see him and Kyrie team up and on the podium after each game.

You cant make a joke nowadays without someone getting butt hurt.

Listen here mr potato lmao

Hes in the entertainment business, and he is not naturally entertaining. Being a great baller alone does not make you a star at this point. Sorry.

>Kwahi Leornad

why the hell do i get downvotes in every comment i put, even when i put a funny/top comment worthy comment i still get downvoted for no reason..

Cause you’re literally the dumbest person on this sub bro

> even when i put a funny/top comment worthy comment i still get downvoted for no reason Probably not as funny as you think you are my dude

Comment history checks out. Down voting is a chain reaction. After -1 to -2 down votes your pretty much screwed. Most people, even if they want to agree and up tick you, will just down vote anyway because there is no hope for your comment. Same way w

Kk

if this is Zions account, were all in trouble

frailtyofredditposts*

This is a terrible idea.

why? i think its great idea, on the nba site theres a "Contact us" option and ive emailed them with this idea so im just going to wait and see if i hear back from them maybe?

Lol I got a chuckle out of this. Good luck bro beans.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is terrible

that means shitty teams stay shitty forever, plus fringe playoff teams could easily tank for the 9 seed

So you think we should give Golden State the #1 pick?

You are incredibly dumb it’s actually funny

This isnt the wheel

I don’t know, isn’t the NBA World Championship reason enough to compete for the top?

This would prevent tanking sure. It would also ruin the league and prevent any team from developing competitive balance ever.

Listen, back in the 90s I would have said this is a great idea. It could have worked really well. But today? It just wouldnt work. It would be too unfair to losing teams. /s

Good trolling mate

This is one of the more shitty ideas I’ve seen on this sub. Let’s say the Lakers miss the playoffs, they should get Zion? How about the Nuggets last year, should they have gotten Luka after winning 46 games and missing the playoffs by one game?

That would ruins any idea of competitive balance. A better idea would be removing playoffs team from the first round.

lol

I see where your head is at BUT this idea would be awful for the nba as a whole. The worst teams get the best picks in order to change up who the worst teams are. Imagine if the warriors drafted zion this year, or the rockets drafted luka last year. It wo

Yea, Relegation ain’t happening. A lot of the owners would die before letting that one happen.

Relegation isn’t even worth bringing up because it will never happen in any major North American sports league

Just need a formula that takes into account wins, ratings, ticket sales and just reduce the amount of money teams get from revenue sharing. The idea is if a team sucks then they get a higher draft spot but theyre not going to get as much money because t

https://streamable.com

I wish it did though, watching knicks/cavs games is just insufferable

how do you miss .22 of a shot

He is doing his own (bad for this instance) math instead of just looking at BBref. LBJ has missed 11467 FGs in his career.

I dont understand why he took the averages when you can just look at the totals lol.

This is just a lazy repost from last offseason. As a redditor who spend multiple hours of every day here you are gonna need more original content to satisfy me.

same guy too I think. Dude really dislikes lebron lol

cant even imagine spending your day hating on someone that doesnt know you lol. I hate KD but i aint even thinking about him unless my team plays the Warriors

Has smokingfrog done enough pcp to drop the entire west coast

Fun Fact: Jamaal Crawford is currently #32 all time in FGs missed.

You can just go on basketball reference and see how many shots hes missed. Its 11467 shots btw

Kobe definitely has

Kobe’s bricked enough to build a wall spanning the entire border of the southern United States

>LeBron has missed somewhere around 11825.22 shots throughout his career LOL you couldve just scrolled down once and youll find his total shot attempted and made, would have given you 23,130(FGA) then subract by 11,663 (FGM) = 11,467 shots. lol.

FBI wants to know your location

Epic

**MERICA INCOMING, BROTHER**

Yeah but just GETTING to the finals 9 times is a huge accomplishment I hate when people just assume it just happens

One ring to rule them all

Ash nazg gimbatul

LeBilingual

Let’s go! SPORTS!

hmmmmm

lchaim

I agree.

Inshallah brother

This would be totally okay provided it came with an English translation.

Inc predator missle

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Muslim is a follower of Islam. Its like responding to seeing something in English: "Sorry, I dont speak Christian" What youre seeing up there is in Arabic

I think he knows this. Hes just being willfully ignorant.

Yes

i think he was just trying to make a funny

I think he’s joking

Why are 90% of your posts low effort racism, bit pathetic

Woah what a surprise he browses the donald

I don’t understand how that is racist

Im Muslim but i dont even understand this lol. Only Arab countries speak Arabic.

Looking at the list I’m pretty sure this is a team rating cuz like 4th Rockets are front page

Yeah going off [this](https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/opponent-points-in-paint-per-game), I would guess this is just everything that happens while the player is on the court.

true

Yeah, I wasnt sure I was understanding it correctly. I just genuinely wanted to know more about it.

It’s probably total points in the while he’s on the floor / minutes played or something and the Rockets give up the most points in the paint this year

Rockets are weak on the front court. Add to that Capelas injury. Then theres the Manimal who is more focused on Pick and Rolls and Rebounding but suffers on defense because hes still learning the Rockets defensive assignments and he is undersized compar

And honestly I just misunderstood the stat. I wanted to get some confirmation but its a touchy subject around here.

Its all cool. We are all people. Lets just enjoy basketball.

He plays the most minutes in the league on a bad defensive team, this stat has nothing to do with his defense.

This. Look at PJ Tucker, a fantastic post defender-gives up the 5th most points in the paint per game, averaging 35 mpg this year. Our team defense is just completely horrible, sometimes I feel like its worse than in 2015. We dont have people who can eve

Ah, then its simply me misunderstanding the stat, thanks. Thats why I wanted to post here to make sure.

you cant expose him in the paint like you can with other guards. thats for damn sure

Im not sure. His interior defense passes the eye test for me. Shit, he may be garbage in terms of overall defense in the paint, but he frequently comes up with clutch blocks in the paint, for some reason.

Harden is bad, but he is hide-able bad. Just need to surround him with an elite 2 way PG, young 2 way centre, and a bunch of 3 & D wings...

The rockets are #25 in defense. No one’s hiding anyone

No, its impossible for guard to allow 41 paint points per game https://stats.nba.com/players/defense-dash-lt6/?sort=FGA_LT_06&dir=1&Season=2018-19&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&TeamID=1610612745 4.2 attempts per game < 6ft.

Yawn tired argument alert

Contribute or gtfo man. If Im wrong let me know, thats why I posted.

Check out the YouTubes. Super easy to find the whole comp

u/BreezyBlue IS IN THE BUILDING

Lmao shout out u/breezyBlue best post in r/nba history

If it was a shitpost it was so well done with no post history in 4 years

I genuinely don’t think it was. Based off his comments you could tell his general knowledge of the nba seemed pretty weak. I think he was just shocked to see the crazy changes lol. He also barley commented which you would expect the OP to do if it’s a

So this is Reddit after dark?

KD is the true GOAT

I thought they had news in jail

I cant tell if this is a shitpost

It is

I’m disappointed you don’t know the greatest post in r/nba history. It’s a repost with minor edits

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He’s not going to go from a complete inability to shoot to an all star averaging 25 because he’s excited and has a chip on his shoulder

He is one of the most talented players on this planet. #1 pick for a reason. Id rather have Fultz over Doncic without the benefit of foresight (hindsight worse than 20/20).

We’ve been boomed (x4)

This is a troll right?

What is even the motivation behind "trolling" like this? To get like 4 people moderately annoyed at 2 AM? Theres no joke, nobody is getting upset, nobody even takes you serious because its such a low-effort attempt. I just dont get the mindset...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA

>25/6/3 season on 59% TS next season LMAO

hes so good x4

25/6/3 on 59 TS% next year would make him a top 20-25 player lol I think you’re pushing it just a bit I’m not sure if this is even a serious post or I’ve been boomed

I’m really high on Fultz and think he’ll achieve that, but definitely not next fucking year

When I think of an organization who pushes their players to be better, I think of the Orlando magic

Then you remember our entire staff is drastically different than it has been, we have our first all star since Dwight Gordon has done nothing but improve each year Isaac is coming into his own and we have Wes Iwundu our 2nd round pick from last year contr

I fully agree but next year is too soon. Might need a few extra.

This All-Star break is going to be a mini off-season with a summers worth of shitposts squeezed into 4 days

DAE weed am I right

Yeee weed ayyy xD

Hey hey heyyyy smoke weeed every day

Sneaked the always sunny reference. I approve.

It wouldn’t

You bored bro?

He was definitely smoking in China

That’s probably one place I’d avoid smoking. I don’t know their cannabis laws very well.

It would not change.

I’m a simple guy. I see an always sunny quote, I upvote

Was watching 99 as you commented that

Slightly disappointed but not surprised I don’t think he has

It would mean he is now an overrated bum /s

#SMOKE WEED EVERY DAY

Thank You OP! Very Cool!

this is literally the top post on r/nba rn, why did you post this

Found the internet explorer user

Its only Jokic if you have a Denver flair.

I feel bad for the non Denver flairs then

I just changed to a Denver flair for a few seconds to see it. Thats a big money pic for the big honey. The pinnacle of human perfection

You really thought it was Jokic for everyone? Haha

Shouldnt it be though...? I feel bad for everyone who doesnt get to enjoy him on there permanently.

I don’t know man, have you seen Oladipo’s smooth silky skin?

All I see is one handsome Kawhi Leonard

Nah Jokic got a haircut fam

It’s flair based

This sub tonight man

Yah he’s done

In shambles

im literally speechless dude i hate this sub sometimes

Lmao

It honestly hurt my eyes, head, and somehow my arms to read this.

You gotta be joking

Even shit posting has hit a new low on this sub as of late

Using your same logic, is Dirk ... improving?

yeah shooting poorly in the all-star game is generally a sign that a player is declining

Harden is declining too. Dropped out of the MVP race with his performance tonight /s

Nope not yet thankfully

Fucktard ... lay off the rocks.

Smh

Don[ think u can really gauge if someone is declining or not based on an all star game.

Not yet

Check his stats for the season And on this note, Im off to bed

This is literally the best season of his career, if it was for injuries he would break his 2016 3pt record

2016 was better

Yep not even a top 20 player

Curry is playing amazing this year. hes got another 2 years left of top 5 level play imo. after that hes going to start to decline but hell be starter quality till hes 35-36.

Hahahahaha Oh wait, youre serious? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Its a joke game man...no one cares about numbers in the fucking ASG

Lmao. This is quite the hot take...

Averaging 28ppg on 50/45/90 this season but yes because of the all star game sadly he is declining

Hes always bad in exhibition games where the system isnt designed for him (everyone screen for Curry to get open shots)

Is Zion Williamson declining?

this was the dumbest article ever written

Lol

Curry goat

Wow talk about overreacting

Low quality shit post.

Holy shit kid go to bed

Jokes aside. Hopefully he is. Love seeing him being efficient.

Why is winslow there?

Larry Bird

Hard to bet against Larry bird

Flair checks out

[JUSTIIIIISE????](https://media.tenor.com/images/577659ea3f93f78c1da22efca61ff4ac/tenor.gif)

Joe Harris obviously

Tf where Lavar at bruh

Where’s Thon

Justise better