Thanks for calling me a retard though!
No problem. Calls em as I sees em.
Over and over I see others here and analysts and retired players and current players agreeing that Lebron is the better individual talent, the better player, the best in the world, yet they would choose Kobe for a TEAM because it's a TEAM sport and on a TEAM Kobe is the more valuable player, the better asset, the player who will give you the better chance at winning.
Agree to disagree? You just equated talent to stats. Yet when people post stats showing Lebron isn't as winning as his super star counterpart... err, fuck those stats. Only the stats supporting Lebron's individual performances prove anything, and only individual performance is the measure of a player despite it being a team game.
2-4 in the Finals. And those 2 wins were after declaring he'd get 7 or whatever. And those 2 wins were on teams the colluded to buy through free agency. And those 2 wins were by stacking a team in Miami when he couldn't get shit down on his own terms, on his home court, with the team he'd struggled to make something and fail over and over. And even then there were hilarious stories coming out credit everyone BUT Lebron for winning, that other players were the heart and soul of the team, the motivators, the ones doing the dirty work and pushing people in practice and teaching other players, etc, etc. Lebron was the great player who showed up, reaped all the rewards, patted himself on the back, agreed with everyone that he was the best player in the world, and then still managed to not live up to even his own expectations in Miami.
So, yeah, of course you don't care about attitude or culture of winning or playing team ball. I don't blame you. Our current sports culture is about as ignorant and dumb as ever. People don't understand why the Warriors were the best TEAM and why the best player on the best team should win MVP when other players on worse teams had better stats. People don't understand how or why Tim Duncan and the Spurs could keep winning when they didn't even have a max player, and weren't bringing in a ton of superstar free agents.
Lebron symbolizes everything wrong in current NBA culture, and again I'll agree he's the best individual player, but just as much a distraction and just as detrimental to his team and the NBA as he is a benefit... if you care about things like good team basketball and winning and not just raking up stats and patting yourself on the back.
