J. Cole has signed a contract to play in the Chinese Basketball Association with the Nanjing Monkey Kings, per ESPN sources. The multi-time Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum artist had committed to playing a few games for the Chinese team last year, and now follows through.
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks and owner Patrick Dumont are expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison at a 10 am central time meeting on Tuesday, sources tell me and Tim MacMahon.
Lakers' LeBron James has officially been cleared for contact basketball activities and will be re-evaluated in one to two weeks. Next step, ramping up to 5-on-5 action.
@TheHoopCentral@theballoutmedia And every summer since it was built. I live here still and train every summer. Got damn yall bored man! Go get a plate of food somewhere and enjoy the 4th of July!
It doesn't matter how many rings Lebron wins. It really doesn't. What he did in his era, along with the situations he was in, makes him the GOAT. Thrived against the toughest competition, thrived in a slow pace era, thrived in the fast pace era. He did more with less. There is only one finals you can argue he should've won, and multiple you can argue he easily should've lost (2013, 2016).
People who believe Jordan is the GOAT say Jordan's 6 titles mean more than Bill Russell's 11, John Havlicek's 8, because Jordan faced more competition. Is that not fair to say for Lebron as well? It's simply not possible to win two threepeats now. With how competitive it is, it's been difficult for teams to even repeat, the arguably most talented team ever had to be assembled for it to happen once in the last decade.
Think about it not as in how many titles he won, but how many titles he gave his teams chances to win. So many of his teams had no business chasing a title. He wasn't gifted an incredible defensive team with elite costars and coaching. Even when he formed a "superteam", his teammates production wasn't on the level of the non superteam stars costars (for example, Pippen, Gasol/Odom).
Lebron is simply the most well-rounded player ever, too. Elite playmaking, rebounding, shooting, passing, scoring, defense. His game is also incredibly adaptable and consistent. Compare him to players such as Kobe and Jordan, who relied on tough shotmaking to impact games. Lebron's ability to get to the basket and make plays has been ridiculed (because its not "pretty 💅", but it made him so much more reliable. Look at his Olympic stats compared to theirs. It's laughable.
Everything he has been doing since 2020 in these olden years has just been to add to his legacy. He's been more than impressive in these years. He's basically been in the Jordan Wizards phase of his career. Even if his next game is his last his legacy is cemented.