Reality Check
@Stats_N_Facts
If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings, not new facts.
Find me another all-time great player, let alone a GOAT-caliber one, who had to endure 24/7 media-driven scrutiny & personal vendettas. For nearly 2 decades! These are 2 of the most prominent sports media talking heads in the US market whose opinions condition millions of viewers
Acting like LeBron isn’t a media darling is hilarious lmaoooo
When Lebron is put at #2, Lebron fans are furious as they can't wrap their head around why the MJ mythology still mesmerizes so many fans. (Media, I know) Imagine what Kobe fans feel when he's misplaced by not 1 but 5-8 places, often outside the Top 10 Sickening. Sheer lunacy.
Here's 5 straight mins of players who played against Michael, LeBron and Kobe telling you that Kobe is a top two player of all-time 🤷🏽♂️ Really the only opinions that matter. Don't fall for the casual and stat nerd bait lists.
Old heads belittle the physicality of Lebron's era for 2 reasons 1. No brawls & scuffles anymore which used to be common practice after hard fouls (Harsh penalties) 2. No media hype & no excessive repitition of cherry-picked plays of hard fouls (although there are just as many)
LeBron's era is the physical era old heads try to claim the 80s-90s were
Top 3 based on talent, skills & popularity. He was well on track until the media changed the criteria in the 2010s because of Lebron & all players were pushed into a vaccuum to compete based on raw & contextless career accomplishments which Kobe has become the greatest victim of.
Dwyane Wade says Kobe is a top 3 player of all time and goes off on Bleacher Report for ranking him 11th on their all-time list. “If you want to ask us hoopers who played against Kob, all of us are going to talk top three [of all time]” (@wynetwork )
Yet Lebron clears him in the Playoffs & the Finals. As a SCORER Let alone from an all-around dominance perspective where the gap becomes even larger When will y'all realize that regular season heroics are inferior to postseason prowess? There's no denying Kobe's greatness tho
Greatest. Scorer. Ever.
Undeniably, Kobe was much more highly regarded all-time by the end of the 2000s, before the media turned up a notch & engineered an unparalleled villain campaign centered around Lebron w/ever-moving goalposts & unprecedented standards which Kobe has become the greatest victim of.
Before the agenda push Bleachers report writers literally called Kobe the greatest player ever in 2010 and 2012.
Lillard will one day have a solid place in NBA history books when it comes to career mismanagement.
BREAKING: Nine-time NBA All-Star Damian Lillard is finalizing a three-year, $42 million contract to return to the Portland Trail Blazers, sources tell ESPN. Deal is expected to include a player option in 2027-28 and a no-trade clause. A storybook reunion home for the 35-year-old.
90% of all-time greats only won when they had the perfect team & were heavy favorites. Never as underdogs & some never even tasted what that was like since they had the "perfect team". Like the greatest gambler & shoe salesman OAT. But not 40-year Lebron. He hasn't earned it.
"LeBron has gone from 'I can win with anyone' to 'I need the perfect team.'" @Chris_Broussard on the report of LeBron's frustration with Lakers' lack of direction post-Russ trade
Mind you, this was Kobe in 2012-13 at age 34. His last truly impactful season at a superstar level, earning MVP votes & an All-NBA selection. He was glorified. Lebron James is still doing it at 40. MVP candidate & earning a spot on an All-NBA team, playing at a superstar level.
When Kobe Bryant did this to Chris Paul 😤
Lebron is the only Lakers legend and Finals MVP who is undefeated in the Finals in purple & gold. Kobe, Shaq, Magic, Kareem and the rest of them all left the Finals as losers. Some lost multiple series. I'm told that's the ultimate measuring stick for grestness. Was I lied to?
Dave Portnoy DESTROYS Lebron 🔥🔥 "Lebron James is one of the greatest losers in the history of the Lakers organization. He literally hasnt won anything, that bubble saved his life. His Lakers teams havent been a threat to do anything, hes been a total bum, a total failure, hes…
Kobe is the biggest loser of the media-driven Jordan fetishism that hijacked the natural progression of the GOAT debate. They turned it into a tug of war, moving goalposts around accolades, stats & records to push Lebron down, & Kobe simply can't keep up with the "new criteria".
Let’s be foreal here WTF is the reason behind this COORDINATED KOBE ATTACK ? Who is behind trying to change the history and why ?
So James who's been an All-NBA/All-Star player receiving MVP votes in recent years with the ultimate goal of winning a championship is just playing for stats but wildly inefficient MJ & Kobe riding into the sunset with nowhere near James' dominance were the ultimate competitors.
Former NBA player Olden Polynice says all Lebron has been doing last couple of years is chasing stats
They claim it because this is what they have been hearing for 30 years. Over and over again. 90s story-telling is beyond compare. The media conditioned sport consumers like never before or since. Sadly, when you try to expose things in retrospect, cognitive dissonance kicks in.
Old heads love to claim MJ got beaten up by the pistons but they can never actually show any footage of it Best they can do is show a few slightly hard fouls (far less than LeBron deals with) in 4 playoff series vs them And then when you show full game clips they claim you…
This list is criminal. Not sure how long this obsession of putting Magic & Kareem into the top 5 while always placing Kobe & Shaq outside the Top 5 will hold water. Having more accomplishments from a less competitive & less advanced era doesn't make you a better player.
TOP 100 NBA PLAYERS OF ALL TIME🐐 1️⃣ MJ 2️⃣ LeBron 3️⃣ Kareem 4️⃣ Magic 5️⃣ Russell 6️⃣ Shaq 7️⃣ Duncan 8️⃣ Bird 9️⃣ Wilt 🔟 Steph 11 Kobe 12 Hakeem 13 KD 14 Oscar 15 West 16 KG 17 Jokić 18 Dirk 19 David Robinson 20 Dr J FULL B/R STAFF RANKINGS HERE: bit.ly/3IqHu2E
Dwight Howard had 6 dunks in this game. The Cavs front court had no answers for him, and their weaknesses got exposed in that series. (Paired with Orlando's 3pt shooting fluke) Fast forward to the Finals vs LA, Howard had his first dunk with 5:43 left in the 3rd qtr. Of Game 2!
Dwight Howard closed out the 2009 Eastern Conference Finals by putting up 40 points and 14 rebounds 🔥
These are some of the hard/dirty fouls from recent years. I bet 99% of NBA fans couldn't recall any of them. You know why? Not because they weren't hard fouls. Because they weren't advertised excessively & consumers weren't force-fed with that narrative. youtu.be/ufOiMggc6pw?si…
All emotions and historical biases aside, these are the 6 BEST players that have ever set foot on a basketball court.
What happened to Steph's GRAVITY? It's not attracting players in the off-season? When KD was a free agent, it was working fine.
The Warriors are the ONLY TEAM IN THE LEAGUE to make ZERO MOVES in free agency 😳
Lebron should have lost the 2018 ECF, instead of winning it heroically. Then he wouldn't have faced the juggernaut Warriors as a huge underdog with no realistic chances of winning But since he WON after being down 2-0 & then 3-2, and dragged his team to the Finals, he is a LOSER
Lebron Speech after reaching his 8th consecutive nba final while putting up numbers of 33PPg 9rpg 8Ast On 52% from the field Looking at the background makes me wonder how did he do it
Not all players have the same level of mental and physical stamina to maintain their individual prowess and drive for 20+ years. It's an extremely rare feat, and the way Lebron has done it, it's unprecedented. 20+ years of MVP/All-NBA level play will likely never be replicated.
"Some people say "i want to go play baseball", and some wanna play 22 straight" -KD