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The Fresh Prince said:
I'd like to see him make it through the 1980s-1990s and then call him the GOAT. That's like calling Lil Wayne the GOAT in Rap when he never had to go through the transitioning period of hip hop. LeBron bitches about fouls, bitches about the reffing, bitches, bitches, bitches. He'd be in tears had he gone through the Bad-Boy eras, the 90s.

LeBron caught a break.
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Caught a break? You serious? Like people have any say or control over what year they happen to slip out of their moms ******? Lebron has never said he is the GOAT, and he can't be penalized for the soft play of literally everyone else in the league. What's your point?
 
Your rings argument is ****ing ******** bro. With that logic, Robert Horry is a better player then Lebron. Is that really the argument you wanna make? Lebron has always carries his team, but he didn't have a Pippen, or a Malone, or a Kareem on his team until he joined the Heat.

So what if he isn't the GOAT, he's top 5 all-time and deserves to be there.
 
scootsy said:
Caught a break? You serious? Like people have any say or control over what year they happen to slip out of their moms ******? Lebron has never said he is the GOAT, and he can't be penalized for the soft play of literally everyone else in the league. What's your point?
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Yeah, you proved the point right there didn't you. He caught a break being born in 1985.
 
How is that catching a break? And by the way...

Lebron won his first ring in his 9th season.

Jordan? His eighth.
 
scootsy said:
Your rings argument is ****ing ******** bro. With that logic, Robert Horry is a better player then Lebron. Is that really the argument you wanna make? Lebron has always carries his team, but he didn't have a Pippen, or a Malone, or a Kareem on his team until he joined the Heat.

So what if he isn't the GOAT, he's top 5 all-time and deserves to be there.
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Well didn't that just hit a nerve or what? You can see it whichever way you want to, but the fact that you're bringing Robert Horry into this discussion proves that you are taking this little pot of bs you're trying to stir up out of the context I was trying to speak about. It ain't all about the rings, but if you're a superstar, which I'm pretty damn certain Robert Horry never was, and your name is being rung into discussion of "Greatest Player of All Time", you best have a little bit of championship hardware at the end of the day to brawn the title.
 
Rings are overrated. Maybe with the lack of parity in the NBA due to talent dispersion we have overemphasized the importance of rings? Or maybe because of An outlier like jordan we have a skewed sense of success is?

Look at how many rings wilt won. Jerry west? Larry bird only won 3.

The truth of the matter, many of the best players you'll ever see haven't win any. Stockton, Malone, Nash, Charles, miller, Ewing, etc. had the spurs never gotten Duncan, the Admiral would have retired with zero rings.

While many of the nba champions are fortunate to just get 1 ring. Just look today. I don't see steph curry winning any anytime soon. As long as lebron is in Miami, the thunder aren't winning anything. Big z and Memphis won't. Especially now that Hollins is out. Cp3, duron, and d rose have yet to even get to the finals. Kyrie Irving has yet to make the playoffs.

I just feel like there is too much of an emphasis on rings in the nba. Horry was an ok player. But he couldn't hold the jock of at least 20 other big men who he played against who retired without winning any rings.

When I think of Kobe, his greatness isn't the 5 rings. His greatness is that he has been an unstoppable offensive force for a decade and keeps going despite his age. Lebron isn't the greatest ever for his one ring (this far). He's great because he truly is one of the best basketball players of all time. Lebron could lose this series and it wouldn't matter to me. He's still 10x better than anyone else in this league. He's still the best player ever. a mix of Jordan and Magic. Can score, rebound, defend, and pass.

He still would crush Jordan in a game of 1 on 1
 
The Thriller said:
When I think of Kobe, his greatness isn't the 5 rings. His greatness is that he has been an unstoppable offensive force for a decade and keeps going despite his age.
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..."unstoppable offensive force?" If that was, in fact, the case.....he'd have 17 rings not just 5! You guys throw around that expression "unstoppable" like people keep using "evolving".....like it's a common occurrence of fact rather than fiction! No NBA player was ever "unstoppable" and things change but do not "evolve!" Jabbar had probably the closets to an unstoppable shot.....but made only 50% of them! When a player or a team switches styles of play, they have "changed" not evolved! They're still basketball players, not some freak form of animal life with two heads, 8 legs and 50 tattoo's! Oh, wait! Scratch that last one......I forgot about the "bird flu!"
 
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