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@JonnyRoot_ Stop. Larry Bird used to get offended if coaches put a white guy on him. White dudes typically can’t “play”. They shoot. They make smart plays. They aren’t often known for slashing and playing off the bounce. It doesn’t mean anything.

LeBron says teammate Austin Reaves doesn’t “play like a white boy” 1. What does that even mean? 2. Imagine if a white guy said this about a black guy. Media would have a meltdown. 3. How does Steve Nash sit there & listen to this nonsense?

@LakersSpin It’s not offensive in any way, shape, or form. It’s just a long accepted, funny joke that we understand.

If you're a white guy who has ever actually interacted with black people before you know this isn't racist or offensive in any way.

@CaptLuvsMer @HeWasOnTop @Stats_N_Facts Yep. Everyone brags about KDs efficiency, but if you only won 2 titles when your team was stacked, it means you been protecting your shooting percentage. As the star, it’s your job to get as many looks and score. The more opportunities lesser teammates have, you’re likely to lose

@HeWasOnTop @capitulatin @Stats_N_Facts 1 of Klaw's best gms was gm7 PHI vs. TOR he shot bad.. WHY? NO one on TOR wanted to shoot so Kawhi had 2 guys near or on him shooting well & lost means you didnt' shoot ENOUGH goal isn't EFF its Ws Taurasi: GIGI Bryant had fade away at 8 yrs old something Bron got in yr 18

Kobe shot 40% outside 3 feet and 64% at the rim. LeBron shoots 38% outside 3 feet and 75% at the rim. Shot selection is a skill. Taking more contested middies to score less efficiently isn’t a flex. LeBron can make every shot Kobe could make - he just chooses the smarter ones.

@HeWasOnTop @CaptLuvsMer @Stats_N_Facts To me, his best performance, the one I’m most proud of, is 2015 when he just lost but kept firing away. Unafraid of being blamed. Too often, Bron makes SURE he has a good percentage, which means he avoids jumpers, to his team’s detriment, putting too much pressure on others.

@capitulatin @CaptLuvsMer @Stats_N_Facts also hes had mutiple finals where his efficiency n shot making was fine n still lost, hell even 2011 was more him on heavy minutes being an all around third option n being a great defensive guy he only shot bad in the 4th.... 2007 is fair but u need defense to volume shoot

@HeWasOnTop @CaptLuvsMer @Stats_N_Facts Sometimes you have to win ugly. That’s the point of late playoff wins. It becomes a battle of attrition. You can’t hang your hat on shooting percentages in those moments, because it is a battle of wills. It’s why Kobe and MJ historically won big games, shooting % be damned.

@HeWasOnTop @CaptLuvsMer @Stats_N_Facts Game 7 when everyone shot horribly, and Ray Allen was too tired from guarding Kobe to have a good shooting night himself? The Game 7 when Kobe was grabbing every defensive board for 5-6 straight minutes in a series where the team who won the rebounding war won the game?

@CaptLuvsMer @Stats_N_Facts Bingo

@capitulatin @Stats_N_Facts gotta have counters what counters is there to 5 screens and bulldozing yourself to the rim it looks nice on efficiency basis but makes it harder to find ways to win when you don't have it 6-0, 5-2, 5-4. 5-1, vs. 4-6

@CaptLuvsMer @Stats_N_Facts The point being when the drive is no longer there, you need to be able to score at a high clip while maintaining, or even increasing, your volume.

@capitulatin @Stats_N_Facts its not just defenses its tired body of long series. You cannot get the the rim the same way 30x a game. body cannot sustain that. its why Wade at 6'4 was no longer Wade 10 years into his career.

@tjjackson_23 @Stats_N_Facts Yes, that it does.

@capitulatin @Stats_N_Facts But it shows up in finals losses

@mrmikeMTL Kobe’s death was THE moment everything went haywire. Almost like he was the fucking anchor being of this timeline.

Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse???

@TitoMFCruz @FastbreakHoops5 And Kobe and MJ would absolutely play on the floor together. And quite fucking often. Kob’ on the ball playing tight to force the drive, Shaq and Duncan behind him, Jordan and Bron playing passing lanes. Absolutely LETHAL defensive pressure.

@TitoMFCruz @FastbreakHoops5 The two of them can easily play alongside any of the others, and they’re your two best perimeter defenders and your best competitors. I’d start one and let the other play pissed off every night, watching as they play the best on the entire team to show why they belonged starting

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@Arespro36 @FastbreakHoops5 I’m fine with either KD or Duncan coming off the bench for balance purposes. But if I REALLY want to win, then I’m benching Kobe or Jordan. Cause whoever sits is going to have a MASSIVE fucking chip on their shoulder and be the best player on the entire team to prove themselves

@FastbreakHoops5 KD prob the honest answer but. In my biased opinion Jordan 6th man Kobe starts at the 2

@RetroCoast We’d have ALL said the same about capturing Maduro in the middle of the night. It wouldn’t have sounded absolutely preposterous and more along the lines of “Trump just saying wild shit for reactions”.

If US Marines land at the Strait of Hormuz, half will be killed in action and half will be taken prisoner of war. This is the brutal military reality. Stop this fantasy talk of "taking the Strait of Hormuz." It's militarily impossible and would be disastrous for America.

@Mishi_2210 127

Brain Teaser Answer is not 72 then whats the answer??

@ApexJones22 His footwork really is trash for someone so great at the game. If you never watched him play, you’d think he was a football player at a Rock n Jock basketball game hosted by Bill Bellamy.

And footwork

@Deezy1994 Love was in the West. Bron was in the East making the Finals by himself. Not the same thing.

Bron went to 2 finals without AD, Kyrie, Love, and Bosh 2 finals Now let’s be real.. Love got MVP votes and never made the playoffs Like man I’m not about to keep going back and forward wit people who don’t know hoops You saying Bron was stat padding but hes been to multiple finals and CF without any of them dudes and they couldn’t even make the playoffs consistently Let’s be real here

@MichaelARothman We have never had such a Main Charcter of the World as President of the United States of America. Dude is levels above every other president.

𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗦. 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗗𝗘. 𝗢𝗜𝗟 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗦. Watch what just happened in real time. President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. and Iran have had productive talks and he has ordered the Department of War to postpone strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days. 𝗙𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿: The Dow Jones went from 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝟴𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 to 𝗨𝗣 𝟭,𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀. A 1,900-point swing — 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆. Oil prices reversed course and dropped 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝘀. One Truth Social post. Fifteen minutes. Nearly two thousand points on the Dow. This is what it looks like when markets trust a president. They weren't reacting to a press conference, a committee vote, or a carefully worded State Department communiqué. They were reacting to 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻'𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 — because that word has proven to mean something. Obama posted selfies. Biden read from notecards. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝟭,𝟵𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀. Love him or hate him — there is no one else on the planet with this kind of market authority. That's not opinion. That's the tape.

@piersmorgan @AntiToxicPeople Shut the fuck up, Brit, and go back to whining about the international laws like the Neville Chamberlain pussy you are.

Incredible that we’ve gone from needing code-breaking geniuses to crack secret war plans, to the US President telling everyone exactly what he plans to do, every few hours on social media.