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@DustinSheldon3 @MrOldMan9000 He was facing 5 hall of famers with his second best player being… jr smith?

@MrOldMan9000 Bron was facing 2 mvp 4 all stars Mj was facing 1-2 bruh gtfo😭

LeBron took more shots than his other 4 teammates combined. MJ did the same thing except he won

@KevinOConnor @JDumasReports Harden pissing down his leg in late stages of the playoffs. NO ONE could have seen this coming. Absolutely no one. I am shocked beyond measure.

@JDumasReports I mean...Jackson is right? As he pointed out: He can guard on-ball 2-4. What he can't do is guard a speedy guard like Brunson. On top of that Harden pissed down his leg offensively. All that's what makes it so inexcusable that Atkinson didn't call a timeout.

I just woke up still thinking: "How the hell did Kenny Atkinson not call a timeout?" Then I opened this app, and this was on top of my for you page. These clips. That stat. You gotta be kidding. How THE HELL did Kenny Atkinson not call a timeout?

@adryanashton When he’s retired he will be the greatest defensive player ever by a large margin. Dpoy will be named the Wemby when he’s done. If he’s healthy he will be unanimous DPOY until he retires

yeah this the greatest defender i ever seen with my 2 eyes sadly

@SBN_Ricky This is the nba finals. If the winner gets out with health of their key players they’re winning the chip in 5 games

Highest level of ball we’ve seen since the Warriors/Cavs Finals

@powerlifter1980 @tomhaberstroh Wemby will not get the MVPs he deserves because of minutes and dumb voters. But every playoffs he will remind everyone he is his own tier

@tomhaberstroh No SGA is apparently. They just gave him an award lol 😂

best player in the world victor wembanyama

@DragonflyJonez He’s also a defense by himself. This is goat level shit. By the end of this series it will be readily apparent that it’s his league as long as he’s healthy. Won’t win as many MVPs cuz of minutes but every playoffs we will realize he is in his own tier

How many dudes in NBA history are putting up 41 and 24 on a road conference finals game and sending the game to OT on a 3 ball from 30 and putting the game away by catching a lob. How many

Wemby will not win as many mvp’s as he deserves in his career. Not cuz of talent but bc the spurs are a smart organization that knows what they have. However, every playoffs the entire basketball world will realize this is the best player on earth.

@MikeAScotto 0 made field goals in a game 7 at home and a -23. The guy is who he is.

@MikeAScotto lol wait for it. That literal turd had 0 points in game 6 against the knicks with Embiid on one leg. That dude is an abject criminal who stole 40 million a year to consistently play like a minimum level player in games that mattered.

Detroit Pistons coach JB Bickerstaff on Tobias Harris: “Nobody can say shit to me about Tobias Harris. He is dependable, reliable, prepared for the moment. He’s a leader. He’s a great teammate. He’s a great human being. He’s a high-level competitor.”

@Chamber32Doors @HappyPunch @MostVpromotions UFC will never let him out of his deal. Thats why signing that last ufc contract was dumb. It was like a 7-9 fight contract. When he signed it they probably gave him more for the certainty of knowing he will never fight outside the ufc again.

@HappyPunch @MostVpromotions Even if he gets out of the UFC contract he's not fighting Ngannou. All talk.

Jon Jones said he wants to get out of his UFC contract to fight Francis Ngannou 😳 “I don’t think Dana’s interested in doing business with Francis. If we can get out of my contract, that’d be great.” (via @MostVpromotions)

@Geraldini93 Dudes in the conversation for greatest pure athlete in human history.

Man when people say LeBron look the same or jump the same or haven’t lost a step I say man please look at this. Dude was so far ahead of everybody else athletically that his slowed down still looks better than most. Insanity!!

@_willcompton Max is gonna pick him apart. Connor hasn’t won a fight against a high level opponent in 10 years,

Holy shit Connor McGregor is actually back

@SanttttiMuks01 Cole could drop Forrest hills level album again and it wouldn’t matter. Fair or not a key part of his legacy and how he’s remembered is him bowing out during the beef. He can put out better albums than the other two but he can’t be in the same tier as them all time.

The Fall-Off is 1000% superior to GNX & Iceman. Hip-hop community just don't appreciate Cole's work.

@Jessahn_Amaru Top 5 Kendrick song

Reincarnated was on GNX man

@Whyalways_rex Further proof of this is how he is trash for Brazil vs what Mbappe does for france. That being said, Mbappe is a great player but not a great leader. Diva + doesn’t press. They need to bring a player mbappe respects and sell the rest of the team on working for Mbappe… good luck.

No elite coach in his outright senses will make Vinicius the main man of a football club. I repeat no one. Xabi didn’t even try and was sacked. Arbeloa was tasked to make him that guy and he failed, he couldn’t lead. Vini is a Di Maria, A Rashford, an OZIL or maybe an Alvarez. These are support players not leaders of a project. These guys mentioned are talented but they simply can’t lead. They aren’t that consistent. Yes, they can have moments but it ends there. You make a player who can always step up your main player. For example if Cristiano or Messi is having a bad game and there’s a penalty you expect them to convert. You can rely on them to convert it, Vini on the other hand can’t be trusted with such responsibilities . It’s not about hate or dislike, he simply isn’t that guy everyone is forcing him to be and he knows it. That’s why in one of his interviews he said I’m here to help Kylian score goals. Off course he knows he can’t handle that pressure of being depended on for goals each game. And that’s exactly why after going 20+ matches without a goal it was accepted. 10 games without a goal from Kylian wouldn’t be tolerated at all, Like Messi or Ronaldo. The club didn’t want to accept that because they thought he was the main reason why we won the double in 23/24. That’s not true by a mile. Jude, A midfielder was the top scorer in La liga with 19 goals and 4 in the UCL. Vini on the other hand scored 15 La liga goals and only 6 in the UCL. Rodrygo, Joselu and Brahim had their fair shares of goals in that season. The face of that project wasn’t Vini and he wasn’t the main player that season as well. With 15 league goals and 6 UCL goals you can’t lead a project and that’s why France football didn’t give him Ballon Do’r award, and since then he’s actually shown that he didn’t deserve it, although he promised to do it 10x more whatever he achieved that season. So those calling on Vinicius to be the main man just calm down, he’s a support player not a main man. I already gave examples of his caliber of players who are clearly ahead of him when it comes to Talent and Achievements but they accepted the support role to enable the main men to deliver without any jealousy or envy. Honestly I don’t care how anyone responds to this but that’s just the fact. Xabi’s project was ruined because he wasn’t getting the accolades he thinks he deserved, but after the Cone came in to make him his main man what happened? Ghosts in 8 games and show up in two. That’s not his fault, that’s his level. Eyes be given to those who should see 💡

@Sean_Barnard1 I have yet to hear a reason why they felt so compelled to extend him when they did. Just an indefensible decision

To get ahead of this conversation- The “Trade Embiid” crowd is sure to be loud and the frustrations are fair. But it can’t just be emotional “Get him out of here” takes Actually provide an argument for what a deal would look like that puts the Sixers in a better position as a franchise. This isn’t addition by subtraction and it’s a lot harder than most people act like Also probably worth noting he showed more fight than any other member of the roster today

@VicLombardi The penalty isn’t high enough. They need to have an integrity of the game committee that goes through every game and flags flopping and shit like this. Start with a 5k fine. Every subsequent infraction in a season doubles the previous one. 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. 5 times = 155k

The scissor kick jumper followed by the immediate dive must be addressed. Every team has a player who does it. I see youth players now doing it. It’s so difficult to distinguish in real time. It’s a WWE move and it must be extinguished from the game.

@SherwoodStrauss Which player would you draft to a generic team? If you want the intellectual discussion of who is better between them then double down on that and tell me which players median outcome at draft time is higher and what is that gap in player quality? This is a chasm

Eh, Draymond wasn’t Barkley, but he was the 2nd best player on a 73 win team. Defense is half the game but a lot of NBA discourse seems to reject the premise of a defensive superstar

@TommyGunnNBA @mrclarkinc If chuck and draymond entered a draft to join a generic team and teams knew what they brought to the table thru their careers, every gm in the history would take chuck before draymond. Assess the players in a vacuum and there is a seismic gap. wtf are we even debating

@mrclarkinc Chuck might be the best EVER to never win a ring. But people will NEVER understand dray’s value… and it will endlessly piss me off

All the dumbest basketball folks you know will reference Chuck’s PPG in his final season, vs Draymond’s PPG in his BEST season. Don’t listen to them. They’re idiots.

@MarzTalksSports I don’t understand what is so controversial. Before their nba careers started rivers had the better basketball career. Pretty clearly. Once nba started it’s draymond pretty clearly. Rivers point that draymond team context allowed him to reach 99th percentile outcome is right too

Is this not kinda weird?

@NealGardner_ It’s also being bought into the team concept and principles of pressing. Mbappe refuses to do it while with dembele being their best player his desire to press makes everyone do it.

Mbappe is undeniably one of the best footballers in the world, but this is a classic lesson in individualism vs togetherness, and why the latter is almost always a bigger proponent to success. Football, after all, is a collective game. Think about this — Luis Enrique subbed his best player off in the 60th minute yesterday, the current Ballon d’Or holder, and he clapped himself off - standing there in arms with his teammates nearing the full time whistle, cheering every micro victory on. That is togetherness. That is playing for the team. That is what creates a dynasty.