Clinical Studies!

"Do your homework bruh before you start talking about rings!"

During my extensive career in the pharmaceutical industry, I've read countless medical journals and hundreds of clinical studies. What I learned early on in my career was to never read the conclusion or results section before reading the study protocol, participants and analysis sections. The conclusion doesn't tell the complete story. It only tells the what and never explains the why! Results can be deceiving if you don't know how they actually came up with them.

Well, it's the same way when looking at sports especially when we're talking about Kobe vs. Lebron or Jordan vs. LeBron in terms of titles. The first thing people pull out are the results section of the clinical. Kobe's got 5 rings, Jordan's got 6 rings and LeBron doesn't have any. By throwing those numbers out we're simply looking at the results of the study and not the entire process.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, which ever comes first! For the sake of this argument let’s compare Kobe vs. LeBron. LeBron was drafted #1 overall and Kobe was drafted 13th overall. That is significant because that tells us that LeBron was drafted by the worst team in the league whereas Kobe wasn't. Also the fact that LeBron played seven years for an organization that pretty much left him on an island without any help. Kobe on the other hand, was drafted by the 2nd best franchise in the NBA, the Los Angeles Lakers, that have won 16 titles overall. The best being the Boston Celtics that have won a league high 17 titles. Keep in mind that those two franchises have won more than 50% of all of the titles in the history of the league.

Surely, you couldn't have expected LeBron to show up in Cleveland and win a title when they've never had a history of winning. However, he did take the worst team in the league to the finals within 5 years. Kobe on the other hand was blessed to have had the opportunity to play for the best coach to ever walk the sideline in the history of the NBA and he played with Shaq while in his prime. Therefore, giving him the opportunity to win his first 3 titles. Ya'll do realize that Kobe wasn't the first option while Shaq was with the Lakers, right?

Sure, he won two more titles with Phil only after they all but stole Pal Gasol from Memphis to help them get back on top. Can you remember Kobe begging to be traded the year after Shaq left when they were terrible? Did you ever hear LeBron crying to be traded while he was in lowly Cleveland? So when you open up the clinical data bruh, Kobe has been put in a much better situation to win titles than LeBron has up to this point.

The only real opportunity that LeBron has had in his career to win a championship was last year and they made it to the finals in his first season with Miami. Do you really think Kobe or Mike would have won multiple titles playing by themselves and without Phil? Ya'll do know that Phil was the only one that could have coached and coddled Mike, right? I'm just saying bruh!

Nobody has ever won a title playing alone bruh. Open the data if you don't believe me, Kareem had The Big O in Milwaukee before going to LA and later playing with Magic and Worthy, Jordan had Pippen and Rodman, Bird had McHale and Parrish, Duncan had David Robinson, Shaq had Kobe or vice versa, D Wade had Shaq, KG had Paul Pierce and Ray Allen and so on and so forth! So I think that it's completely unfair to just look at the rings and draw conclusions that the guy isn't a great player because he hasn't won a title yet. He's only 27 and up until last year he's been playing solo. Remember, Jordan was 28 before he won his first title bruh! I'm just sayin'!

So when folks throw out titles it only tells me that they skipped all of the clinical data and just read the conclusions section. If championships told the complete story then Robert Horry with 7 rings would be considered the 2nd best player of all-time behind Bill Russell with 11, right?

Stop reading the cliff notes and look at the circumstances by which these guys have gotten to in their careers. I'm not taking anything away from either Jordan or Kobe but they played for better coaches and organizations than LeBron has had the opportunity to play for. Let's sit back and watch his career as he continues to develop as a player and leader now that he's in a better situation.

Now after you've read the complete set of data and all you can still say is LeBron doesn't have any rings then you're riding the short bus with a helmet and diaper on. I can't help you bruh. It's like saying a person is less intelligent because it took them 10 years to finish college because they had to work and go to school at the same time. Whereas, the kid you're comparing him to grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth and his parents paid for every aspect of his education and he finished in 4 years. On the surface it's looks like the kid that finished in 4 was smarter and the other kid wasn't focused or just plain dumb. However, by reading all of the data you found out that their circumstances were different and that it's completely understandable as to why it took so long for the other kid to graduate.

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