Kobe fans acting like DWade is DeMar DeRozan or something. DWade looked Kobe in the eye many times and outplayed him. He won a finals MVP before him. He led the 2008 Olympic team in scoring while coming off the bench. Yall lucky he had glass knees
They will never admit it.
Yet they admitted it to me the biggest name in sports media who works for the biggest network.
Who also doesn’t like LeBron James.
Magic retired at 36, Bird retired at 35,
Jordan at 38 (we call ceremonial years)
Kobe at 37 farewell tour and praised, Tim Duncan retired at 40 and his last couple years he was allowed to just be and play. No expectations. Dirk made all star game at 40 averaging 7 and 3 because he was appreciated and honored. Draymond says LeBron deserves that and people get in an uproar. It happens to all the greats. Why is it a problem with a LeBron?
Anyway
LeBron at 41 expected to compete to win it all. Ridiculed if he doesn’t. KD at 37 expected to compete to win it all. Ridiculed if he doesn’t. Steph at 38 team ridiculed for being in play in. I don’t know when we got here but we live in the era of discredit and hypocrisy; but how quickly we forget how we treated the greats of old. 🤷🏾♂️
I see today is going to be “Blame the Rockets!” day rather than maybe a little introspection from folks who at various times this year said with absolute and total conviction…
•LeBron’s contract is an albatross/Lakers should be desperate to move off him.
•The Lakers are better without LeBron on the court.
•KD & Steph are clearly better than LeBron at this point.
•LeBron was a primary problem with the Lakers defense.
•This offseason any serious team shouldn’t offer LeBron more than the mid-level exception.
•The Rockets had 5 of the 6 best players in the series & should sweep the Lakers.
These takes were EVERYWHERE all year long. You were considered delusional/fanboy if you pushed back at all.
And this morning, instead of recognizing that folks are somehow STILL wildly underrating/underestimating the 🐐, they’re just yelling at Durant & Udoka. 😂😂😂
Checking in on the NBA’s old timers…
Durant’s flirting with 10 turnovers in his first playoff game as a Rocket.
Steph’s at Coachella.
Kawhi’s planting trees.
LeBron is averaging 39 MPG & 24-8-10 to go up 2-0 without his team’s 2 leading scorers.
🐐🐐🐐