Lebron is a funny case for me. So much of what he does gets on my nerves. I kind of hate the control freak way he plays, where he dribbles the ball for 18 seconds looking to make one pass or settle in to a step back. I kind of hate how his teams are always surrounded by drama. I kind of hate how they almost always underperform in the regular season and flip the switch in the post season. I hate his ref complaining, and his injury faking. I kind of hate the corporate spokesperson way he talks about things. There are just so many things about him to annoy me.
Nevertheless, when it gets down it, I always find myself rooting for Lebron, every playoffs, without fail. I've been in on the guy since game 1 against the Kings (who were my original rooting interest, until I moved to Portland and decided I didn't need to keep punishing myself with Kings fandom). I rooted for him in Miami. I rooted for him in Cleveland, and somehow he has made me root for the Lakers too. I know part of it is that Lebron and I were born like just a month apart, and somehow, stupidly, his continued dominance has attached itself in my psyche as a proxy for my own youth and mortality. A big part of it is the passing skill, which I can't ever get mad at. I know I want him to end up with more titles than Jordan, no matter how unlikely that is. I know I want him to prove himself as the greatest of all time.
Damn you Lebron, no matter how much you get on my nerves, I just can't quit you.
See for me it’s most of what you listed, but without the personal attachment. I respect him and what he’s done (and I would never hold it against a player to put himself in a position best for himself) and think that the influence he has had in allowing players to have more freedom via shorter contracts and their destinations is positive looking toward the future. His philanthropic and civil rights work gives a chance to so many people.
But the flopping and excuses get ooooold.
Success is Lebron’s, failure is his teammates. “I’ve never been on a super team.” Coming out in a cast after the finals. The China statement was a really bad. He’s undermined coaches and forced teams to make trades that actually ended up hurting his chances. Same with going with the hard salary cap jump over softening it before a big contract.
This might make me come across as a hater and I want to emphasise it’s not really that, just that since I didn’t see the early part of the career during the first stint in Cleveland I don’t have the attachment to him and I’ve seen more of the bad than the good while I’ve been watching him.
Harden and Westbrook I wanted to see bounced, followed by Paul and at this stage the Lakers are the only team I don’t want to see advance.
Denver are fun and unique to watch and Miami play some amazing basketball with the cutting, passing and shooting, they’re a little reminiscent of the early Warriors teams.
If a team were to win in a year where the trophy doesn’t really mean anything those are the two teams I’d like to see take it and spur a young team to potentially greater heights.
Lebron is the GOAT and I’m just sick of people holding against him his 4 finals losses dragging either sorry ass Cavs teams there or one time leading a good Cavs team that just happened to run into peak Durant Dubs, one of the 2 greatest teams ever
He is simultaneously an incredibly smart/wise and incredibly petty/boneheaded leader
Love what he’s done to empower players and hope he buys a team and/or gets more politically active when he retires from playing
Its always kind of easy to project great things during a blowout, but the energy, force and ball movement the Lakers are bringing to the game are starting to make them look like .the prohibitive favorite.
The Heat look great too, but when the Lakers play with this kind of force and creativity, its hard to imagine their little guys hanging in there
I don't really have much of an opinion of Lebron. He's great but I think he benefits from just shoving people out of the way too much.
However, I am the type of idiot that generally supports players after they leave the Celtics (there are exceptions, Kyrie) so I will still root for Rondo. I even like that we're playing against Crowder and Olynyk. I just really like seeing where the pieces from our team fit when they move to other places and I have a hard time rooting against someone like Rondo who I loved as a Celtic.
I don't really have much of an opinion of Lebron. He's great but I think he benefits from just shoving people out of the way too much.
However, I am the type of idiot that generally supports players after they leave the Celtics (there are exceptions, Kyrie) so I will still root for Rondo. I even like that we're playing against Crowder and Olynyk. I just really like seeing where the pieces from our team fit when they move to other places and I have a hard time rooting against someone like Rondo who I loved as a Celtic.
I'm the same with Blazers. I was rooting for Milwaukee for all the ex Blazers (Rolon connaughton, Wes). For some reason, Meyers Leonard is the exception, not because he's a bad guy or I hate him, but just because its obvious that he just doesn't have basketball mind that I hate the idea of him getting a chip before Dame. Meyers is just, like, the 28.8k modem of NBA players. The processing is just so slow and demonstrative.
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i honestly don't understand it - 60% of the heat starting lineup are atrocious shooters. if crowder and butler could just regress to the mean from 3, that would be nice. it is my humble request
also, please start calling fouls correctly. thank you
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Smart must have thought he was trying to take out Adebayo again but it was actually Kemba.
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wouldve certainly cushioned the blow of losing this series
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Think of all the existential questions it would cause Celtics fans to have to root against that!
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I wouldn't mind if walker got a ring tho he seems rad but also f u Boston!
Jim Butts is a cheesy anti-hero
Jokic and Murray are rad af
I want Lebron to get more rings
Playoff Lists:
Fun but irrelevant
Milwaukee
Utah
Indiana
OKC w/out Chris Paul
Wait, who’s in the playoffs again?
Orlando
Dame and Doncic are not mortal
Portland
Dallas
It’s hard not to feel schadenfreude
Philly
I hate them already
Brooklyn
Get fucked, you irritating assholes
Chris Paul
Houston
LAC
Ruined Minnesota and Philly
Jimmy and the Cheesebutts
Fun team, shitty fans, features a damp spot on the floor where a formerly promising young player used to be
Boston
Is there still room on the bandwagon?
Denver
Secretly rooting for them (well, just Lebron)
LAL
I somehow can't disagree with any of this.
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Nevertheless, when it gets down it, I always find myself rooting for Lebron, every playoffs, without fail. I've been in on the guy since game 1 against the Kings (who were my original rooting interest, until I moved to Portland and decided I didn't need to keep punishing myself with Kings fandom). I rooted for him in Miami. I rooted for him in Cleveland, and somehow he has made me root for the Lakers too. I know part of it is that Lebron and I were born like just a month apart, and somehow, stupidly, his continued dominance has attached itself in my psyche as a proxy for my own youth and mortality. A big part of it is the passing skill, which I can't ever get mad at. I know I want him to end up with more titles than Jordan, no matter how unlikely that is. I know I want him to prove himself as the greatest of all time.
Damn you Lebron, no matter how much you get on my nerves, I just can't quit you.
But the flopping and excuses get ooooold.
Success is Lebron’s, failure is his teammates. “I’ve never been on a super team.” Coming out in a cast after the finals. The China statement was a really bad. He’s undermined coaches and forced teams to make trades that actually ended up hurting his chances. Same with going with the hard salary cap jump over softening it before a big contract.
This might make me come across as a hater and I want to emphasise it’s not really that, just that since I didn’t see the early part of the career during the first stint in Cleveland I don’t have the attachment to him and I’ve seen more of the bad than the good while I’ve been watching him.
Harden and Westbrook I wanted to see bounced, followed by Paul and at this stage the Lakers are the only team I don’t want to see advance.
Denver are fun and unique to watch and Miami play some amazing basketball with the cutting, passing and shooting, they’re a little reminiscent of the early Warriors teams.
If a team were to win in a year where the trophy doesn’t really mean anything those are the two teams I’d like to see take it and spur a young team to potentially greater heights.
He is simultaneously an incredibly smart/wise and incredibly petty/boneheaded leader
Love what he’s done to empower players and hope he buys a team and/or gets more politically active when he retires from playing
The Heat look great too, but when the Lakers play with this kind of force and creativity, its hard to imagine their little guys hanging in there
That alley-oop should have been unreachable and he just grabs it and puts it in.
The rebound and shot surrounded by three Nuggets was also impressive as hell.
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However, I am the type of idiot that generally supports players after they leave the Celtics (there are exceptions, Kyrie) so I will still root for Rondo. I even like that we're playing against Crowder and Olynyk. I just really like seeing where the pieces from our team fit when they move to other places and I have a hard time rooting against someone like Rondo who I loved as a Celtic.
I'm the same with Blazers. I was rooting for Milwaukee for all the ex Blazers (Rolon connaughton, Wes). For some reason, Meyers Leonard is the exception, not because he's a bad guy or I hate him, but just because its obvious that he just doesn't have basketball mind that I hate the idea of him getting a chip before Dame. Meyers is just, like, the 28.8k modem of NBA players. The processing is just so slow and demonstrative.
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also, please start calling fouls correctly. thank you
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