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Durin' my extensive career in the pharmaceutical industry, I've read countless medical journals and hundreds of clinical studies. What I learned early on was to never read the conclusion or results section before readin' 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 deceivin' playboy if you don't know how they actually came up with them.
Well playas...it's the same way when lookin' at sports especially when we're talkin' about a boy's greatness as it relates to championships. For example, boyz get caught up comparin' duns like Kobe vs. Lebron or Jordan vs. LeBron and get it twisted soley based on titles. The first thing people pull out are the results section of the clinical is Kobe's got 5 rings, Jordan's got 6 rings and LeBron has 2. First of all playa, the first two cat's careers are over and the other dun is still playin' with at least 6 more years to play. But by throwin' those numbers out we're simply lookin' at the results of the study and not the entire process by which the study was performed.
Let's keep it real or all the way 100, which ever comes 1st! For the sake of this argument let’s compare Kobe vs. LeBron. LeBron was drafted #1 overall and Kobe was drafted 13th overall. That's 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 initially 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 Charlotte and immediately trade to the 2nd best franchise in NBA history, the Los Angeles Lakers, that have won 16 titles overall. The best bein' the Boston Celtics, in terms of titles, because they've 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 winnin' jack squat. It's literally been one of the worst franchises in the league for decades. Well...until Jordan took over the Bobcats a few years ago and ran those duns into the ground before he made them more respectable. Now you've got the dull 76ers runnin' game on the league.
However, LeBron did take the worst team in the league to the finals within 4 years at the mere age of 22. 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 in his PRIME! And in my opinion, he's probably the best center to ever play the game. I'm just sayin'!
Yeah I know that boyz will agrue, Kareem, Wilt, Hakeem/Akeem, dependin' upon how old you are and how true to the game you are! But Shaq was the best cat I'VE ever seen in the blocks just over powerin' boyz and dunkin' at will! Therefore, givin' Kobe the opportunity to win his first 3 titles early in his career. Ya'll do realize that Kobe wasn't the first option while Shaq was with the Lakers, right? Just checkin' pimpin'!
Sure, he won two more titles with Phil, I might add, only after they all but stole Pal Gasol from Memphis to help them get back on top. Can you remember Kobe beggin' boyz to be traded the year after Shaq left when they were terrible? Did you ever hear LeBron cryin' to be traded while he was in lowly Cleveland? Naw, he just went to work and played his heart out. So when you open up the clinical data bruh, Kobe had always been in a much better situation to win titles than LeBron or Jordan.
Jordan had to endure 5 years of foolishness in Chicago before Phil showed up. The Bulls were, in my Charles Barkley voice, "TERRIBLE!" They were so bad before Mike got there that we could take our sneakers to Chicago Stadium with the right box top and get some playin' time with ole dull "gettin' high" Quinton Dailey, ole gunnin' Reggie Theus and duns like Dave Corzine. So when Mike showed up he had to struggle for a minute too. Boyz that don't know the history of the game glaze over that part of Jordan's career. Do you realize that Mike didn't get out of the first round of the playoffs until he got Scottie Pippin' 3 years after he came into the league? Do your research bruh. I'm just sayin'!
The first real opportunity LeBron had in his career to win a championship was his first year in Miami and he made it to the finals and wet the bed. There's no gettin' around that. Oh he completely soiled the mattress. Then he won the next two. Yeah, I hear these cats hollerin' that he's 2-4 in the Finals but he should only legitimately be 3-3 in the Finals because he lost to much better TEAMS when he got there bruh. Both Spurs teams he lost to were much better than the duns he showed up with and you had to be smokin' crack and shootin' heroin if you thought that he had a shot at beatin' Golden State once Kyrie and Kevin Love went down.
Do you really think Kobe and Mike would have won multiple titles playin' without another superstar and without Phil? Ya'll do know that Phil was the only cat that could have coached and kept both Mike and Kobe in check, right? Y'all do realize that Kobe has played for 8 coaches in LA and he's only been able to win with Phil, right? Look it up bruh if you think that I'm lyin'. As a matter of fact, just pop this link of my Hot Joint entitled, "Lil' Ole Me" that I wrote last week breakin' it down for you.
Nobody has ever won a title playin' by themselves bruh. Oh, I'm talkin' crazy? Open up the data if you think I'm lyin' again pimpin'; Kareem had The Big O in Milwaukee before going to LA and later played with Magic and Worthy, Jordan had Pippen and both Pippen and Rodman, Bird had McHale and Parrish, Duncan had David Robinson, Dr. J had Moses, Shaq had Kobe or vice versa, D. Wade had Shaq and LeBron, Hakeem/Akeem had Clyde, KG had Paul Pierce and Ray Allen and so on and so forth! I could go on for hours but I won't.
So it's completely unfair to just look at the rings and draw conclusions that certain boyz are greater because they have more titles than the next cat. Like I keep tellin' all of these simple minded individuals, a title is a TEAM award! Not "Who's the best player award" because it takes an entire team to win one.
So when folks throw out titles it only tells me that they skipped all of the clinical data and just read the conclusion or results section. If championships are the standard then why do boyz keep talkin' about Jordan and not Bill Russell who has 11 of those joints? How in the world do you just disregard the O.G. with the nappy beard and fall to Mike if championships is all that counts?
How do you not talk about the other 7 duns along with Bill that have more titles than Jordan if we're usin' titles as the standard? You gotta talk about Sam Jones 10, John Havlicek 8, Tom "Satch" Sanders 8, Robert Horry 7, James Loscutoff 7, Frank Ramsey 7 before we even get to Jordan's neighborhood pimpin'! Then you got Kareem, Bob Cousy and Pippen livin' in the same house with Jordan with 6 too!
So you mean to tell me that EVERY one of these cats are better than Larry Bird because he's only got 3? Tim Duncan has 5, Wilt Chamberlain only has 2, Oscar Robertson and the NBA Logo himself Jerry West only have 1? So the championship argument completely goes out of the window bruh! That's if we're keepin' it real! When you don't go to class it's easy to run with foolish information that some clown that was half payin' attention sittin' in the back of the room sleep gave you!
So you're tellin' me that Elgin Baylor, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Walt Bellamy, Charles Barkley, Pete Maravich, Reggie Miller, Bob Lanier, George Gervin, Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson weren't great players or to be more specific, weren't better than duns like Tom "Satch" Sanders because they didn't win a title? Are you kiddin' me? You wouldn't know that dun if he walked up to you and stole your bike.
Stop readin' the cliff notes and look at the circumstances that allowed cats to win or not. I'm not takin' anything away from some of these cats that have multiple titles but many times they played for better coaches and organizations than cats that don't have titles at all.
Now after you've checked out the complete set of data on boyz and all you can still say is the that the only thing that counts is the amount of championships a boy has, something's wrong with you playa.
Let me put it in real life terms for you playa. Kobe was born into a wealthy suburban family with two parents playin' for the Lakers. His dad (Phil) was like the Steve Jobs of his industry. So he was supposed to win out the gate! Why? Because he doesn't know what struggle looks like.
Whereas, LeBron was raised in the middle of the ghetto in the projects (worse team in the league) with no parents (No coaches at all) playin' in Cleveland and he still doesn't. Then he got adopted by a wealthy family on Star Island and got the opportunity to shine in Miami. Now with the confidence of bein' in a nuturin' environment for 4 years he was able to go back to the projects and lift boyz out of the slums because he understands how to shine. UNLIKE in real life, in the NBA you CAN NOT win without parents (good coaching), strong siblings (another superstar) and a strong organization around you! Championships aren't won alone playboy. Stop me when I start lyin'!
PS: Look here bruh, I'm just stallin' until football season starts because there's ABSOLUTELY nothin' goin' on in sports right now! Hang in there with me! I'm strugglin' too!
Playa-saurus:
1) Spit some serious fire: verb phrase - to say something of extreme importance.
2) Dun: noun - the person or persons in question, dude, guy, girl, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about bruh.
3) Jack Squat: adjective - nothin'!
4) Pimpin': noun - the person that I'm passionately tryin' to get my point across to.
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