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I'm telling y'all man.. Kobe stans are amazing.
I know a few in real life. And these guys are legit torn about this title. They are not as happy as they should be.
One of the Kobe stans I know in real life is how I cracked the code on these clowns. This dude I know is from Wilmington, Jordan's home town but is a HS bball coach in Charlotte now. He only wears Jordan sneakers and named his 4 year old son Jordan. But surprise surprise, hes a Kobe stan too! In Kobes farewell tour year he got all hyped to see him vs. the Hornets and proclaimed he was this die hard Laker fan, mamba this, mamba that. Posting nonstop bout the Lakers.
Soon as the Dubs emerge, he jumps on their wagon and starts dickriding Steph hard as hell. And using his success to shit on Bron (since Kobe retired at this point). Dude stops posting bout the Lakers and posts non stop bout "Chef" and celebrating his wins over Brons Cavs and calling him greatest PG ever, yada yada.
When Bron came to the Lakers in 2018, just like the dickeaters here, he was super pissed Bron was coming to "his" team after he openly rooted for the Dubs for 4 years and never repped LA. Now that nigga dont even post about the Lakers or the NBA, except when Kobe died of course since the Dubs fell off. He's furious as hell the Lakers won.
His hatred for Bron is stronger than any fake love he had for the Lakers. Can you guess what complexion he is? 
I didn’t notice it at first but yeah this is hilarious
The thing is they just don’t know how stupid they sound with the Lakers bubble talk because EVERY TEAM went through the samething as the Lakers. I’ve seen them saying Lebron had 5 months off...SO DID EVERY OTHER PLAYER; the Lakers didn’t have to travel...NONE OF THE OTHER TEAMS DID EITHER; other teams didn’t get to play home games......NEITHER DID THE LAKERS; it was mentally tough for other teams....SAME WITH THE LAKERS. Shannon finally had to snap at Skip for continuing to say stupid shit like that acting like the Lakers didn’t go through the same things as the other teams
I knew Rob Parker was gonna come up with some bullshit, he sounds stupid. He keeps saying your resume will speak for yourself and people will notice. Lebrons resume does speak for itself but then you got people like HIM who still find a reason to go against him. You can tell he is hurt because ONCE AGAIN one of his picks/predictions that he rode so hard for all year like usual was WRONG
Just quoting this in case anybody missed it the first time.
From Juwan Howard to Boogie Cousins, this statement is the truth.
Are those dudes highly skilled and talented? Yes
Did they work their asses off to get to, and remain in, the NBA? Yes, absolutely.
Do they merit praise and recognition on their own, aside from winning a title? Yes.
Would they have rings if they weren't on LBJ's team? ...
You LITERALLY described 4 or 5 dudes I grew up withOne of the Kobe stans I know in real life is how I cracked the code on these clowns. This dude I know is from Wilmington, Jordan's home town but is a HS bball coach in Charlotte now. He only wears Jordan sneakers and named his 4 year old son Jordan. But surprise surprise, hes a Kobe stan too! In Kobes farewell tour year he got all hyped to see him vs. the Hornets and proclaimed he was this die hard Laker fan, mamba this, mamba that. Posting nonstop bout the Lakers.
Soon as the Dubs emerge, he jumps on their wagon and starts dickriding Steph hard as hell. And using his success to shit on Bron (since Kobe retired at this point). Dude stops posting bout the Lakers and posts non stop bout "Chef" and celebrating his wins over Brons Cavs and calling him greatest PG ever, yada yada.
When Bron came to the Lakers in 2018, just like the dickeaters here, he was super pissed Bron was coming to "his" team after he openly rooted for the Dubs for 4 years and never repped LA. Now that nigga dont even post about the Lakers or the NBA, except when Kobe died of course since the Dubs fell off. He's furious as hell the Lakers won.
At the end of the day, Vogel was the right choice.
This wasn't supposed to happen
Giannis and Kawhi was supposed to be in this...
The Heat just made the greatest free agent recruitment video ever.
And Jimmy just solidified himself like Lebron Iverson did when they lead an unexpected team to the finals
Kevin Durant was in fucking Oklahoma!! And he won an MVP and was cemented as a top 5 player. Miss me with the "he was on NO" nonsense. He wasnt considered top 5 because he want top 5.. and he was only seen onlimited basis because he was winning 40 games a year. Again, stop this!!
Have you not been paying attention!!?/ No , nigga, they were not saying that. They were saying "The lakers got raped by NO", "Bron come to Hollywood for movie money", "The clippers are the team to beat. Bron washed.. Kawhi the best", .. Shit, you had delusional unappreciative ingrate Laker fans here talking shit. Tobe left that team in the fucking gutter and shitstain niggas like @LordSinister told us Bron was ruining the dam team, and screwing up development of them bum ass niggas Rob, Magic nem drafted..
.. Foh man.
^^^^^
People are ignoring how high the level of play was with a neutral site, no fans and controlled environment
Light skin Jermaine...
Oh, its top 6 now? Not 5? Ok bro..
Man please. I woulda been the right choice. The guy took some Jew bastard name David Blatt to a final and woulda won with him had Kyrie not cracked his knee like an egg and Love hadnt had his arm yanked from its socket by some white trash hippie in Boston. Ty Lue has a ring for fucks sake. You niggas need to stop.
But to be fair players like paul George cracked under the pressure scrutiny and isolation needing therapy
No shame in it but shows how ignorant all this mental toughness talk really is
Also Kawhi didn't want to play in the bubble period and it showed
So additional respect to Lebron leadership commitment and "mental toughness " and to the entire laker squad
Oh, its top 6 now? Not 5? Ok bro..
Nah, he's been ranked #2-#6 since 2015 except for like one year. Now Ya Boy Bron has been ranked #1 all those years. So there's that.
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Hard to Handle the tale of Jimmy Butler
By Marc Stein
People laughed at the story about Jimmy Butler getting a visit from hotel security because he was dribbling a basketball too loudly in his room. They laughed at the idea of Butler peddling $20 cups of his branded coffee to his Miami Heat teammates. They laughed at how unruly his mustache got as he steadfastly refused to see a barber.
So much about Butler’s stay inside the N.B.A. bubble at Walt Disney World in Florida was a source of humor.
People were laughing with Butler for the first time in his career, because he was more effective and consistent than ever with the serious stuff.
With the longest season in league history finally complete, it is no joke to assert that no player in the bubble enhanced his reputation as much as Butler did. Miami lost the N.B.A. finals to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in six games, but Butler — playing for much of the series without the injured Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic alongside him — won the bubble as much as any individual could.
When the season began, more than 12 months ago, Butler was widely regarded as a perennial All-Star whose headstrong, confrontational ways made him a complicated fit in most N.B.A. locker rooms. A year later, after he led the Heat to the N.B.A. finals as a No. 5 seed and outdueled James twice in the championship series, Butler has the look (and commands the respect) of one of the league’s top 10 players.
Will it last? Will the success and adulation change him? Or did we actually have it wrong about him all along? These are the sorts of questions Butler, 31, inspires now after a post-30, Steve Nash-ian breakthrough to elite status in his ninth season.
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“Believe me when I tell you that I do not care what people say about me,” Butler said. “I truly don’t care.”
That was his message to me after Miami’s first-round sweep of the Indiana Pacers, when Butler’s forceful play turned what was supposed to be a heated showdown against the Pacers’ T.J. Warren into a nonevent. My best read is that most people outside (and even inside) N.B.A. circles refuse to believe Butler when he says that, but he had me convinced after an afternoon visit in late August.
The esteem Butler holds among his peers — which was high long before the bubble — is such that he needn’t worry much about how basketball pundits rate him. I saw it firsthand over the course of an hourlong sit-down with Butler in my favorite bubble hallway adjacent to three of the seven practice courts that sprouted on the N.B.A. campus.
From left to right: Robin Lopez, Rajon Rondo, Dwyane Wade, Jimmy Butler in November 2016.Lynne Sladky/Associated Press
The hallway with the garish orange carpet at the Coronado Springs convention center was the only place in the bubble where reporters could expect to have unsupervised chance interactions with players, coaches and other team personnel. It was also a main thoroughfare to the meal rooms for the league’s top teams, who were all staying at Disney’s Gran Destino tower.
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While I talked with Butler, Milwaukee’s Wes Matthews stopped by to reminisce with him about their days at Marquette. Pat Connaughton, Matthews’ Bucks teammate, tried in vain to arrange a discount from Butler’s Big Face Coffee venture, even though Milwaukee and Miami would soon begin a second-round playoff series. Boston Celtics Coach Brad Stevens made sure that Butler heard him say hello.
After a number of Lakers players enthusiastically greeted Butler, Rajon Rondo lingered to rehash how dangerous they were together in Chicago in the 2017 playoffs. Rondo, Butler and the No. 8 Bulls took a surprising 2-0 series lead over the top-seeded Celtics that year by winning the first two games in Boston — and let’s just say they both strongly believe that the Celtics would have never rallied if Rondo hadn’t fractured his right thumb in Game 2.
Lakers Coach Frank Vogel also soon appeared to share how much he enjoyed Butler’s Michelob Ultra commercial, which features Butler singing the Hall & Oates song “You Make My Dreams Come True.” Then, like Connaughton, Vogel tried to cut his own coffee deal.
Milwaukee’s Robin Lopez, another former Bulls teammate of Butler’s, was the last in a procession of well-wishers. As he walked away toward the Gran Destino, Lopez turned back, pointed to Butler and announced: “This man is a treasure.”
More N.B.A. players than not feel that way about Butler.
You see it in the way Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid pines for Butler through cryptic social media posts, after the 76ers prioritized signing Al Horford in 2019 free agency and helped Butler get to Miami in a sign-and-trade deal when the Heat had no salary-cap space. You saw it again Monday when Pau Gasol posted a warm tribute to Butler on social media. Gasol most closely associates himself with the Lakers after winning two championships alongside Kobe Bryant, but he also played with Butler in Chicago.
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“I wanted to take a moment and acknowledge how proud I am of @JimmyButler,” Gasol wrote on Twitter. “You’re one of the best players in the world, and a great leader!”
Gasol added: “Love you little bro!”
Combine all that with the unmitigated manner in which Miami has embraced Butler, abrasive as he can sometimes be, and I’m not sure he needs the public’s validation.
“I’m so comfortable with being myself — more than I’ve ever been,” Butler said before the finals. “Not saying I’ve ever not wanted to be myself, but now I know ‘myself’ is the right way.”
“He’s such a likable guy,” Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He won’t want anybody to know that, I guess. He’s totally cool with the young guys growing — he’s not territorial about it at all. He’s just about winning. He understands that he needs guys with him. All the big winners get that.”
Miami’s Jimmy Butler, left, had teammates like Bam Adebayo, right, believing they belonged in the finals and could take down Anthony Davis, center, and the No.1-seeded Lakers.Douglas P. Defelice/Getty Images
Kentucky Coach John Calipari shared similar sentiments when we spoke last month. Of Butler’s reputation for dishing out too-tough love to teammates and the impact he has had on two former Kentucky stars, Adebayo and Tyler Herro, Calipari said: “I think Jimmy Butler has convinced both of my guys to believe more.”
Nothing, of course, speaks louder than the two-way brilliance Butler delivered against the Lakers and James after leading the Heat to the title round. He was the first player in league history to post two triple-doubles in his first trip to the finals. Butler averaged a heady 29.0 points, 10.2 assists, 8.6 rebounds and 2.6 steals through the first five games before he wearily produced 12 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds in the Game 6 finale.
That Butler faded at the finish was understandable. He guarded James for nearly 43 minutes for the series; next in line were Adebayo and Andre Iguodala at eight-plus minutes each.
Twice on the league’s highest stage, with James and Anthony Davis nearby, Butler was the best player on the floor. He also captained the team that, along with the Lakers, bonded the best in the bubble’s demanding conditions. It would appear that Kawhi Leonard was on to something (I previously reported that he tried to persuade Butler to join him with the Los Angeles Clippers before the Clippers’ pursuit of Paul George) and so were the Houston Rockets (they offered Minnesota four first-round picks to try to trade for Butler in October 2018).
Further clues about Butler’s stature were available — some of us just didn’t look in the right places. In September 2018, not long before he forced his way out of Minnesota via trade and stoked all the leaguewide chatter about how problematic he was, Butler received the key to the city in Tyler, Texas. The former N.F.L. great Earl Campbell was born in Tyler and played high school football there; Butler developed into a top college basketball prospect after one season at Tyler Junior College under Coach Mike Marquis.
“Even Earl Campbell doesn’t have a key to the city,” Marquis said.
Hard to Handle the tale of Jimmy Butler
By Marc Stein
People laughed at the story about Jimmy Butler getting a visit from hotel security because he was dribbling a basketball too loudly in his room. They laughed at the idea of Butler peddling $20 cups of his branded coffee to his Miami Heat teammates. They laughed at how unruly his mustache got as he steadfastly refused to see a barber.
So much about Butler’s stay inside the N.B.A. bubble at Walt Disney World in Florida was a source of humor.
People were laughing with Butler for the first time in his career, because he was more effective and consistent than ever with the serious stuff.
With the longest season in league history finally complete, it is no joke to assert that no player in the bubble enhanced his reputation as much as Butler did. Miami lost the N.B.A. finals to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in six games, but Butler — playing for much of the series without the injured Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic alongside him — won the bubble as much as any individual could.
When the season began, more than 12 months ago, Butler was widely regarded as a perennial All-Star whose headstrong, confrontational ways made him a complicated fit in most N.B.A. locker rooms. A year later, after he led the Heat to the N.B.A. finals as a No. 5 seed and outdueled James twice in the championship series, Butler has the look (and commands the respect) of one of the league’s top 10 players.
Will it last? Will the success and adulation change him? Or did we actually have it wrong about him all along? These are the sorts of questions Butler, 31, inspires now after a post-30, Steve Nash-ian breakthrough to elite status in his ninth season.
Continue reading the main story
ADVERTISEMENT
“Believe me when I tell you that I do not care what people say about me,” Butler said. “I truly don’t care.”
That was his message to me after Miami’s first-round sweep of the Indiana Pacers, when Butler’s forceful play turned what was supposed to be a heated showdown against the Pacers’ T.J. Warren into a nonevent. My best read is that most people outside (and even inside) N.B.A. circles refuse to believe Butler when he says that, but he had me convinced after an afternoon visit in late August.
The esteem Butler holds among his peers — which was high long before the bubble — is such that he needn’t worry much about how basketball pundits rate him. I saw it firsthand over the course of an hourlong sit-down with Butler in my favorite bubble hallway adjacent to three of the seven practice courts that sprouted on the N.B.A. campus.
From left to right: Robin Lopez, Rajon Rondo, Dwyane Wade, Jimmy Butler in November 2016.Lynne Sladky/Associated Press
The hallway with the garish orange carpet at the Coronado Springs convention center was the only place in the bubble where reporters could expect to have unsupervised chance interactions with players, coaches and other team personnel. It was also a main thoroughfare to the meal rooms for the league’s top teams, who were all staying at Disney’s Gran Destino tower.
Continue reading the main story
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While I talked with Butler, Milwaukee’s Wes Matthews stopped by to reminisce with him about their days at Marquette. Pat Connaughton, Matthews’ Bucks teammate, tried in vain to arrange a discount from Butler’s Big Face Coffee venture, even though Milwaukee and Miami would soon begin a second-round playoff series. Boston Celtics Coach Brad Stevens made sure that Butler heard him say hello.
After a number of Lakers players enthusiastically greeted Butler, Rajon Rondo lingered to rehash how dangerous they were together in Chicago in the 2017 playoffs. Rondo, Butler and the No. 8 Bulls took a surprising 2-0 series lead over the top-seeded Celtics that year by winning the first two games in Boston — and let’s just say they both strongly believe that the Celtics would have never rallied if Rondo hadn’t fractured his right thumb in Game 2.
Lakers Coach Frank Vogel also soon appeared to share how much he enjoyed Butler’s Michelob Ultra commercial, which features Butler singing the Hall & Oates song “You Make My Dreams Come True.” Then, like Connaughton, Vogel tried to cut his own coffee deal.
Milwaukee’s Robin Lopez, another former Bulls teammate of Butler’s, was the last in a procession of well-wishers. As he walked away toward the Gran Destino, Lopez turned back, pointed to Butler and announced: “This man is a treasure.”
More N.B.A. players than not feel that way about Butler.
You see it in the way Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid pines for Butler through cryptic social media posts, after the 76ers prioritized signing Al Horford in 2019 free agency and helped Butler get to Miami in a sign-and-trade deal when the Heat had no salary-cap space. You saw it again Monday when Pau Gasol posted a warm tribute to Butler on social media. Gasol most closely associates himself with the Lakers after winning two championships alongside Kobe Bryant, but he also played with Butler in Chicago.
Continue reading the main story
ADVERTISEMENT
“I wanted to take a moment and acknowledge how proud I am of @JimmyButler,” Gasol wrote on Twitter. “You’re one of the best players in the world, and a great leader!”
Gasol added: “Love you little bro!”
Combine all that with the unmitigated manner in which Miami has embraced Butler, abrasive as he can sometimes be, and I’m not sure he needs the public’s validation.
“I’m so comfortable with being myself — more than I’ve ever been,” Butler said before the finals. “Not saying I’ve ever not wanted to be myself, but now I know ‘myself’ is the right way.”
“He’s such a likable guy,” Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He won’t want anybody to know that, I guess. He’s totally cool with the young guys growing — he’s not territorial about it at all. He’s just about winning. He understands that he needs guys with him. All the big winners get that.”
Miami’s Jimmy Butler, left, had teammates like Bam Adebayo, right, believing they belonged in the finals and could take down Anthony Davis, center, and the No.1-seeded Lakers.Douglas P. Defelice/Getty Images
Kentucky Coach John Calipari shared similar sentiments when we spoke last month. Of Butler’s reputation for dishing out too-tough love to teammates and the impact he has had on two former Kentucky stars, Adebayo and Tyler Herro, Calipari said: “I think Jimmy Butler has convinced both of my guys to believe more.”
Nothing, of course, speaks louder than the two-way brilliance Butler delivered against the Lakers and James after leading the Heat to the title round. He was the first player in league history to post two triple-doubles in his first trip to the finals. Butler averaged a heady 29.0 points, 10.2 assists, 8.6 rebounds and 2.6 steals through the first five games before he wearily produced 12 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds in the Game 6 finale.
That Butler faded at the finish was understandable. He guarded James for nearly 43 minutes for the series; next in line were Adebayo and Andre Iguodala at eight-plus minutes each.
Twice on the league’s highest stage, with James and Anthony Davis nearby, Butler was the best player on the floor. He also captained the team that, along with the Lakers, bonded the best in the bubble’s demanding conditions. It would appear that Kawhi Leonard was on to something (I previously reported that he tried to persuade Butler to join him with the Los Angeles Clippers before the Clippers’ pursuit of Paul George) and so were the Houston Rockets (they offered Minnesota four first-round picks to try to trade for Butler in October 2018).
Further clues about Butler’s stature were available — some of us just didn’t look in the right places. In September 2018, not long before he forced his way out of Minnesota via trade and stoked all the leaguewide chatter about how problematic he was, Butler received the key to the city in Tyler, Texas. The former N.F.L. great Earl Campbell was born in Tyler and played high school football there; Butler developed into a top college basketball prospect after one season at Tyler Junior College under Coach Mike Marquis.
“Even Earl Campbell doesn’t have a key to the city,” Marquis said.
LeBron James has to get on a waiting list if he wants a spot on the Mount Rushmore of Lakers greats. From left to right: Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the late musician Bill Withers, Shaquille O’Neal
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Jimmy Butler’s three teams before Miami — Chicago, Minnesota and Philadelphia — have combined to win zero playoff games since Butler left, and only the Sixers have made the playoffs. Philadelphia was swept by Boston in this season’s opening round after making it to the second round last season, where they almost defeated the eventual champion, Toronto. |
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Alvin Gentry, who last week joined the Sacramento Kings as associate head coach, has been an N.B.A. head coach with five teams. That includes his last stop in New Orleans and previous stints with Miami, Detroit, the Los Angeles Clippers and Phoenix. |
I love the Lake show but Jerry West was 1 and 8 for the chips. I would take Bron all day every day over West and I respect the logo. And since I brought up the logo, Kobe should be the new logo.
LeBron James has to get on a waiting list if he wants a spot on the Mount Rushmore of Lakers greats. From left to right: Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the late musician Bill Withers, Shaquille O’Neal
wow I just realized all 3 of the big three left on bad terms with Riley
But wade and Bosh are both back on good terms with the team.
wow I just realized all 3 of the big three left on bad terms with Riley
Bosh really cant be that mad though. Fool wanted to die on the court
I agree .agreed and I think Lebron will too
its just interesting how that even happened
The time will come when pat and lebron will sit down and talk.
Shit ray left on bad terms too if I remember correctly. I think he clashed with spo
@therealjondoe
consider this...
Rondo and Ray Allen
all time great Celtics
Allen gets low balled and Rondo gets traded off
both mortal enemies
and the immature antics of all those vets is the reason that the Celtic super team never will REALLY get the love and respect it deserves
(f*ck you Simmons)
BOTH are DIRECTLY responsible for winning Lebron a championship
Paul Pierce mortal enemy
So what type of feeble minded mental broken gymnastics is Pierce and Garnett gonna due to rationalize THAT sh*t?
consider this...
Rondo and Ray Allen
all time great Celtics
Allen gets low balled and Rondo gets traded off
both mortal enemies
and the immature antics of all those vets is the reason that the Celtic super team never will REALLY get the love and respect it deserves
(f*ck you Simmons)
BOTH are DIRECTLY responsible for winning Lebron a championship
Paul Pierce mortal enemy
So what type of feeble minded mental broken gymnastics is Pierce and Garnett gonna due to rationalize THAT sh*t?
oh and GO HEAT!!!!!
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