Charles Barkley: LeBron James will never be a top-five NBA great

I'm not avoiding anything. Just the fact you called Gilbert a 'fuckboy' shows you don't know what was going on around here. I don't know which sports teams you ride for, but I damn sure wouldn't tell you the business about your sports teams if you had a history going back YEARS before the event we were discussing. I'd defer to you because you have more than a decade posting about the stuff.

This wasn't nor is it a typical owner and employee relationship. Lebron signs like a normal free agent and there isn't a letter. What's so hard to understand about that?

Still avoiding shit like the plague. The issue here isnt to question if Gilbert would have written the letter had LeBron not had the decision. Its to question whether he was within his rights to do it at all.

The decision wasnt meant to cause harm. The letter was nothing but that. I asked you to address that simple, direct point and you still cant do it.

But ill explain further. When i say LeBron is an employee and Gilbert is an owner, Im not talking about their relationship. Im talking about their own public relations responsabilities towards the NBA and the fans. Gilbert's responsabilities are MUCH bigger then LeBron's and is held to a MUCH higher standard in that regard. A simple example of this is Donald Sterling, if a player got caught saying what he said he would still be in the league today. Theres a reason why you dont usually see owners put shit out in the streets like that.

That still valid regardless of what their relationship was. You going back on you having inside info but ive never even refuted anything you said about that.

When i say Gilbert was a fuck boy im referring to him handing over HIS franchise to an early 20s young man and when that young man predictably fucked up, Gilbert didnt want to look in the mirror. Thats on top of never surrounding LeBron with the vets that could show him the way as a kid straight out of high school.
 
Real discussion here. I know all the Bill Russell shit but was there any real comp back then or just a bunch of clown white boys that any of us could dominate?

Shit, did they even have a 24 second clock when Russell played? I'm sure nobody here was alive to watch Russell play but yet everyone always puts him in the top few players.

We all know without a doubt why Jordan, Kobe, Magic, etc are great. What made Russell that great?

Robert horray has 6 or 7 rings. Is he an all time great? Someone pleas explain this.

He averaged 15 points 22 rebounds for his career. This tells me that he was just bigger and stronger than the majority cacs thatch were in the league at that Tim. Imagine if shaq played back then. He'd have 20 rings and average 70/40
 
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