**OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD**

[BIG LEEMELONE]

We going to act like dikembe wasn’t a great center especially in that trash slow paced 2001 season?

Better or worse than capela?

 

[Peep Game]

Too me talent equates to skill + physical ability. Steph comes up short in the physical ability part.

So he needs more girth?

Being a dead eye shooter is definitely a talent but also something that needs to be honed. I realized it was an innate thing when I started hooping with some of my extended family and saw that all of us could shoot . Hand/eye coordination is a gift

Basketball goals have to be set at 10 feet instead of 7.

 

[theregothatman]

live look inside the warriors locker room as the team welcomes back Draymond Green

 

[Nelson C]

I feel bad for laughing.







Nah not really.

 

[freeze]

Is harden really that good tho? Serious question. Is he really a 1 of 1?

If so, why?

Please cite your work to receive full credit.

 

[equality]

How some of y’all put harden over AI is unimaginable. His 2001 run is better than anything Haden’s ever sniffed. Not to mention everything else he achieved.

 

[VARNELL HILL]

VARNELL HILL

How long before Stringer does Stringer things in Philly? Will he clash with Simmons or Embiid first?

I don't know when....but it will happen. And my money's on Simmons.

 

[MVP]

it's crazy bruh. Harden could of easy did what iverson did.
Dude shot 5/27 in a win in the ecf. Guess his team didn't help him win...

Steph shot 3-16 in game 3 last year in the Finals though. Kobe shot 6-24. It happens. Nothing Harden has done in his playoff career stacks up with that 2001 AI run.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Better or worse than capela?

Better

 

[MVP]

Moar health

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Basketball goals have to be set at 10 feet instead of 7.

My hoopmixtape is on the cutting room floor. Just wait on it

 

[theregothatman]

Imagine calling someone who averages
26/5/6 on 50/40/89

For his career in the playoffs Not a playoff performer or top ten in the offs. What world is this. Name ten current players in the NBA with better playoff averages

You sound like the white dude on the show with Chris Carter always throwing out random azzz stats. My eyes don’t lie and KD saved them boys the last two years in the playoffs while Curry was over there trying to figure it out.

 

[Lovetohate3000]

Iverson shot 34 percent from the field those conference finals. If anything his team carried him but ill let yall tell it. Im sure harden could've shot 34 percent for the series.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

So then you're saying he actually enhanced his legacy by going to gsw..

Not sure how you could think otherwise

He has increased EVERYTHING since leaving OKC.

So......yes, he has enhanced his legacy

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Curry is always hurt

 

[everysingletime]

Is there no straight answer for Markelle Fultz's jumper? Nerve damage? Mental health?

I can't even laugh cuz it's sad.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Rangz don't affect how I see Kevin Durant's career at all, so no. I think that the way the people view these things has generally changed, and nuance exists as far as championships, winning, etc. go. It's not just rangz rangz rangz anymore, at least from my view.

So he has increased EVERY statistical category since leaving OKC.

Even if you ERASE the rings, how HASN'T his legacy increased since leaving?

 

[Air Pope]

Curry is always hurt

Unless he put up 40. Then he’s back.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Curry just getting his mandated rest for the season.

 

[dacomeup]

Kobe, Bird..idk?
To say he’s easily top 10 without rings is crazy because there’s nobody in anyone’s top 10 that doesn’t have rings lol

He won the rings and then the narrative shifted to how the team was stacked. It's not about the rings with how people view KD. He'll be a top 10 player of all-time based on what he's done on the court, in my opinion.

 

[sharpshooter718]

Probably been plotting..BI low key look like a goon

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Well that's when you ignore all that noise, be a stronger person and don't seem suspect on social media,a part of KD is playing up whatever people are portraying him to be, that's why it's easy to pick on him.

Dude is winning and still playing a victim, looking mad, and in reality is charging up the burner accounts for weeks to come.
what's funny is that the last part should be played as a joke, should be, but it isn't really.

you already won my man, keep doing you then

If I'm KD man I'm just laughing at Dray, I'm laughing in the presser's, I'm like "Talk to me in June." and put on my Beats

No, I am talking about leaving OKC, period.

I am talking about you saying, If he would have won with the damn Wizards.

At that point, before GSW, I am sure he is thinking, "Man I NEED a ring or I will NEVER hear the end of it."

So he went there, sure he will never hear the end of him going THERE (of all placed) but at least he has his ring.

 

[everysingletime]

Curry just getting his mandated rest for the season.

The man's earned it. He's 30... And he's had 4 deep playoff runs in a row.

 

[dacomeup]

That shouldn't be the question but who is he supplanting out of this top 10 (in no order).

MJ
Kareem
Magic
Kobe
Bron
Shaq
Duncan
Bird
Wilt
Hakeem
Russell


I would say without those chips he's in the Malone, Barkley, West category who were monsters in their own right but a tier lower in the basketball pantheon.

I was told that the rings enhance his standing as an all-time player. I'm asking who he's passing by winning the rings? You hold the rings in this high regard. I think there's guys on that list who KD is better than already. He was better than Barkley and Malone already before winning a championship in my eyes.

 

[sohi 23]

Rip to the Curry 2018-2019 MVP run.

That was quick.