Why LeBron's GREATNESS doesn't translate into better teams! "In The Way"

"What position am I goin' to play this quarter bruh? 

Arnold Glasow, the famous businessman, once said, "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." Nelson Mandela gave it to us like this, "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership." Then John Quincy Adams poured out a lil' liquor for all the dead homies when he said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." 

Well playas...if great leaders inspire dreamers to dream, learn, do and become more we've got a problem with LeBron James. He doesn't do either of those with his teammates. For years I've been tellin' you boyz that he's the best all-around basketball player we've ever seen. However, because he's so good he's become a detriment to his team and doesn't make the guys around him better. 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! The dun is so good that he can play multiple positions durin' the course of a freakin' game at any point and he often does. The fact that he can get down like that and will, allows him to stunt the growth of the duns he's playin' with. He's one of the only cats in the history of the league that can do it. Oh, I'm just talkin' bruh? Here's what he's been able to accomplish in NBA history and be the only one to it: 

• 1st place all-time in career assists by a forward.

• 1st place all-time being named Conference player of the Week with 51 nominations.

• 1st place all-time being named Conference player of the Month with 30 nominations.

• 1st place all-time in points scored in All-Star games with 291.

• Only player in NBA history to average at least 27 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists for their career.

• Only player in NBA history to post at least 2000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists, and 100 steals in four consecutive seasons.

• Only player in NBA history to post at least 2000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists, and 100 steals in a single season for at least seven seasons.

• Only player in NBA history to post at least 2000 points, 500 rebounds, and 500 assists in a single season for at least seven seasons.

• Only player in NBA history to win the NBA Player of the Month Award four times in two consecutive seasons.

• Only player in NBA history to change teams after averaging at least 27 points, twice.^[29]

• Only player in NBA history to average at least 25 points, 6 rebounds, and 6 assists for 11 consecutive seasons.

Now there are multiple reasons as to why he's the ONLY player in NBA history to do all of those things. A) He's the only cat that could consistently do it.  B) He's the only cat that has had to do it because other than the Miami teams he's had no help. But MOST IMPORTANTLY and  C) He keeps jumpin' in and out of boyz way durin' the regular season to the point where he's stuntin' the growth of his role players. At some point you've got to trust a boy to do his freakin' job and make the players around him better.

Kyrie hasn't gotten any better since LeBron has arrived in Cleveland and why isn't Kevin Love any better today than he was 2 years ago? I could argue that he's worse today than he was 2 years ago. Why? Because his attitude is a mess because LeBron is in his way. Love was frustrated most of last season because he never knew where he fit in the offense. 

Jordan never got into Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Dennis Rodman or Steve Kerr's way. Kobe didn't show up to work and jump into Derek Fisher and Lamar Odom's cubical and take over. Naw playa, they let boyz do their jobs and they got better at them all season long. Naw playa, they demanded that boyz got better! So when they showed up to the Finals EVERYBODY knew what they were expected to do and they went out and did it.  

Let's take last year's Finals for example. LeBron HAD to do EVERYTHING just to keep the water out of the boat. Now logical minds can and will argue that if he hadn't done everything they wouldn't have even made it to the Finals. And that is 100 percent correct, especially with boyz hurt. However, when you've got to do EVERYTHING you can't win championships because the duns you're playin' with don't ever get comfortable in their roles. Why? Because the dun doin' everything is gettin' in their way. It's IMPOSSIBLE for you to win in the Finals if only one cat is ballin'.

It's like the dun that owns the bakery down the street tryin' to compete with the best bakery downtown. My man down the street has crazy skills but won't let his employees do their jobs. He's got a dun that specializes in icing and decorations another cat that bakes only and a boy that does presentations. But when it comes down to the final competition my guy down the street takes over and does everything. But the downtown bakery allows the specialists to do their respective jobs and they win every time bruh. Why? Because one cat can't beat a team of specialists no matter how good he is. Jordan could play the wing but he couldn't defend it better than Scottie! Jordan could rebound but he couldn't rebound better than Rodman. So guess what? He let them do their freakin' jobs.  

I pulled up the SBNation Finals Guide from last year and it confirmed what I've been tellin' you boyz. It said that only LeBron and Jerry West has had a triple-double in the Finals while scorin' as many as 39 points. Which is NUTS!! It went on to say that ole boy had a usage rate of 41.4 percent in the Finals. Now for all of you cats that don't know, the usage rate is an estimate of the percentage of a team's possessions ended by a single player via a shot, drawn foul or turnover while he was on the floor. Let me give you an idea of how nuts his was bruh. Kobe has the highest joint ever recorded for the regular season is 38. 74 durin' the 2005-06 season. The highest ever in the playoffs before LeBron was 39.3 by Tony Parker in 2009. 

What am I sayin' bruh? He's doin' too much and his teammates aren't gettin' better. He'll continue to get to the Finals but he'll continue to lose in the Finals. Why? Because you can't win championships havin' to do EVERYTHING. You gotta give him credit for bein' able to do more with less. But you can't win titles with less! 

This ain't the NCAA Tournament where you can show up and win one game and win it all. You've got to win the best of 7 playboy and the best TEAM always wins. 

Duns like Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, Jordan, Kareem, Kobe, etc. etc. etc. stayed in their lanes and won. Why? Because the players around them were better by the time they showed up in the Finals. Did I also mention that he's been in the league for 12 years without a coach and doin' everything? That's a problem too. 

Now don't get it twisted bruh, LeBron will probably go down as the greatest individual basketball player we've ever seen because the numbers won't lie. However, he won't be one of the greatest champions we've ever seen because he doesn't make his teammates better. Therefore, he's not playin' on better TEAMS. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 

1) Spit: verb - to say

2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific.  

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Why LeBron's trip to Miami and his dull tweet were both Sucka Movesbruh! "Walkin'"

"Mistake bruh? And you admittin' it before the season is over?

Leonardo de Vinci once said, "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." Luc de Clapiers, the 18th century French writer, gave it to us like this, "The art of pleasing is the art of deception." Then Maximillian Degenerez, the Portuguese artist, put it where the goats could get it when he spit, "Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception." 

Well playas...if you can't listen intently to the spoken word you can always look at a boyz Twitter page. On Wednesday LeBron took to Twitter to tell the world "It's ok to know you've made a mistake. Cause we all do at times. Just be ready to live with whatever that comes with it and be with those who will protect you at all cost!" WHAT!!!?? A true competitor would NEVER formulate that thought. Now he can act like he wasn't talkin' about goin' back to the crib if he wants to. But all of the real G's know better. 

Now keep in mind this dun sent that joint while he was in Miami on his off day workin' out with his boy D. Wade. Now I initially sat in the cut and didn't blast him for goin' to Miami on his two days off and for sendin' the dull tweet because I wanted to think it through first. Well playboy, I'm finished thinkin'!

Let's keep it real or all the way 100 whichever comes 1st! Like Biggie Smalls once said in the hot joint One More Chance, "First things first!" If things are as bad as boyz keep leakin' that they are in the Cleveland locker room then why is this dun in Miami workin' out with D. Wade instead of tryin' to get boyz together in Cleveland. That's like tellin' me that you're havin' some problems at the crib with the old lady but you're goin' on vacation with your side piece to figure things out! 

It would seem that if the team has two days off this week, the freakin' leader of that team would gather boyz up to work through whatever problems they're havin' to move forward to get ready for the playoffs. Not run down to Miami to holler at some cat that has nothin' to do with his team. Then the tweet was the nail in the coffin for this dun EVER makin' me look like a fool again for ridin' with him. Let's just be straight up bruh!! That was a sucka move if I've ever seen one. 

Now I look like the dun that boyz have been tellin' for years that his girl was dirty but wouldn't believe 'um. That tweet was me walkin' in on her and the dun she's creepin' with. I knew she was foul but I had to see it for myself in order to believe it. 

Boyz have been tellin' me for years to get out of the car with that dun because he's not like us bruh. He's from the hood but "he ain't got that hood instinct." He's a great player because of DNA alone playboy. Not because he has that dawg in him. That dawg wouldn't allow him to go to Miami on an off day and it definitely wouldn't let him send that soft tweet.

Now don't get me wrong playa, he's still the best ALL AROUND basketball player I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of boyz lace them up. Jordan is only 4 years older than I am so that includes him too. 

The numbers don't lie! Pull up the stats for any and everybody in the history of the game to March of their 31st year on earth. And for y'all that's checkin', at this same age Jordan only had 1 more title than LeBron and 3 less Finals appearances. Jordan just played on better TEAMS than LeBron by the time he started goin' to the Finals and he had a better coach. But bein' a great player has nothin' to do with how many championships a boy wins because winnin' titles is a TEAM award. And there are 12 cats in the history of the league that have won as many or more rings as Jordan and we don't ever talk about them. 

As a matter of fact, there are 8 cats with more hardware than Jordan and 99.9999% of you duns can't name but two of them; Bill Russell 11 and Robert Horry 7. Do your homework playa, look up the other 6 and Holla At Ya Boy! Well...since I know you duns won't look it up here you go: Sam Jones 10, John Havlicek 8, Tom Heinsohn 8, K.C. Jones 8, Tom “Satch” Sanders 8, James Loscutoff 7 and  Frank Ramsey 7. You wouldn't recognize half of those cats if they ran up on you and stole your bike. So stop hollerin' about championships. By the way, Kareem, Bob Cousy and Scottie Pippen all have just as many as Mike.  

I put my seat belt on extra tight when he decided to bounce and take his talents to South Beach in 2010 because the Caveliers organization completely failed him on for 7 years. Ole boy never had a coach or role players to win at the level necessary to compete for championships like other great players before him. So it made sense to dip. Anybody arguin' that doesn't know the game of basketball. There's not a player dead or alive that has won a championship alone. If you find that dun let me know. 

I told you boyz just three days ago in the crazy Hot Joint entitled "Sacrifice" that LeBron's biggest mistake was goin' back to Cleveland even before the dun tweeted it out on Wednesday. Y'all better start listenin' to me bruh. Why was it a huge mistake? Because he's gotta do EVERYTHING in order for them to even make it to the Finals. He's coachin', playin' GM, runnin' the point, shootin' the rock, playin' the wing and the 5. And did I mention that he's gotta play 45 plus minutes a night once he  gets to the Finals? And once they get there he's gotta play 5 on 1 and it's not humanly possible.Even the great Michael Jordan never had to do all of that playa.

My biggest problem with him ain't that though!!! It's that I've been tellin' boyz that he has more all around talent than any player to ever play this game and he does. But he doesn't have that dawg, that killer, that assassin to compete like Jordan or Kobe. My boyz have been tellin' me that for years but him goin' to Miami and sendin' out that weak tweet solidified their argument and I can no longer keep fightin' for him. And now it looks like he's lookin' for an exit strategy to get out of Cleveland. He can't be that weak minded bruh or can he?

Listen up LeBron, the windows are sealed and the doors are welded shut in Cleveland! You can't go ANYWHERE at this point because you'll look like a complete sucka if you do! You thought that it was more important for boyz to like you than to stay in Miami. So now in my Ray Charles voice,  "You gotta make it do what it do."  But you ain't gone keep makin' a fool out of me. I'll tell you that pimpin'!" Until you find that dawg, that killer instinct, that assassin on a clearance rack at Good Will somewhere! I'm walkin' to the crib! And I've got to apologize to duns like Jordan, Kobe and Kareem for thinkin' that talent alone would suffice for than dun. He's got better DNA but without the killer instinct and the propensity to flip flop on where he needs to be takes him off of the potential GOAT list. Stop me when I start lyin'!

Playas Thesaurus:
1) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to break it down to it's simplest form. To make it elementary, to put it on the ground so boyz could eat it like the goats do.
2) Spit: verb - to say
3) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific.
4) dip: verb - to leave

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Huh? (Why the facts keep tellin' boyz that LeBron is the best we'veEVER seen do this)

"And I ain't finished yet bruh!"

Normally when I write a joint I start off with three quotes to set the tone. But you cats just don't seem to pay attention so with this joint Ima just hit you with the facts and go to the crib. When I tell you boyz that LeBron is the best basketball player that we've EVER seen, I'm not just makin' up some foolishness bruh! His career isn't over and he's already accomplished this:

*Only player in NBA history to average at least 27 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists for their career.
*Only player in NBA history to post at least 2000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists, and 100 steals in four straight seasons.
*Only player in NBA history to post at least 2000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists, and 100 steals in a single season for at least seven seasons.
*Only player in NBA history to post at least 2000 points, 500 rebounds, and 500 assists in a single season for at least seven seasons.
*Only player in NBA history to win the NBA Player of the Month Award four times in two consecutive seasons.

*Only player in NBA history to change teams after averaging 27 points, twice.
*One of two players in NBA history to average at least 27 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists for six consecutive seasons. Includes Oscar Robertson, who achieved this eight consecutive times.
*One of two players in NBA history to average at least 27 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists in a single season for at least eight seasons. Includes Oscar Robertson.
*One of two players in NBA history to average at least 25 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists in a season for at least six seasons. Includes Oscar Robertson.
*One of two players in NBA history to win four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards in a span of five years. Includes Bill Russell.

*One of two players in NBA history to win at least two NBA Most Valuable Player Award for two different franchises. Includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
*One of two players in NBA history to lead NBA Finals in scoring, but play on a different team the following season. Includes Shaquille O'Neal.
*One of two players in NBA history to win NBA MVP, Finals MVP, and an Olympic Gold Medal in the same year. Includes Michael Jordan (1992).
*One of three players in NBA history to win NBA MVP with a team, leave, and then come back.Includes Allen Iverson and Moses Malone.
*One of three players in NBA history to win NBA MVP and Finals MVP in the same season twice. Includes Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.

*One of three players in NBA history to win NBA MVP and win NBA championship in two consecutive seasons. Includes Bill Russell and Michael Jordan.
*One of four players in NBA history to average at least 25 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists for their career.[citation needed] Includes Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Michael Jordan.
*One of four players in NBA history to score at least 2000 points in a single season for at least nine seasons.[38] Includes Michael Jordan (12 seasons), Karl Malone (11) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (9).
*One of five players in NBA history to score at least 10 points in 500 consecutive games. Includes Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone and Karl Malone.
*One of five players in NBA history to win consecutive Finals MVP Awards. Includes Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Kobe Bryant.
*One of five players in NBA history to win four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards. Includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, and Wilt Chamberlain.

*One of five players in NBA history to change teams after leading the league in triple-doubles. Includes Wilt Chamberlain, Mickey Johnson, Jason Kidd, and Lance Stephenson.
*One of five players in NBA history to score 50+ points multiple times for two different teams. Includes Wilt Chamberlain, Pete Maravich, Bernard King, and Carmelo Anthony.
*One of six players in NBA history to average at least 27 points for their career. Includes Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Kevin Durant.
*One of eight players in NBA history to lead a franchise in points, rebounds, and assists. Includes Kevin Garnett, Michael Jordan, Reggie Miller, Gary Payton, Randy Smith (basketball), Isiah Thomas, and Dwyane Wade.

*One of ten players in NBA history to win 2 NBA Finals MVP Awards. Includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, Kobe Bryant, Willis Reed, and Tim Duncan.
*Only player in NBA History to win the NBA Player of the Month Award five times in a single season.
*Only player in NBA history to post 30 or more points and shoot over 60 percent for six consecutive games in a single season.
*One of two players in NBA history to receive all but one vote for the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in a single season.[47] Includes Shaquille O'Neal.

*One of three players in NBA history to average at least 30 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists in a single season. Includes Oscar Robertson (achieved this five times) and Michael Jordan.
*One of four players in NBA history to average at least 20 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists in their rookie season.[49] Includes Oscar Robertson, Michael Jordan, and Tyreke Evans.
*One of four players in NBA history to average at least 31 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists in a single season. Includes Oscar Robertson (achieved this twice), Jerry West, and Michael Jordan.
*One of four players in NBA history to lead their team in all five major statistical categories (total points, rebounds, assists, blocks and steals) in a single season (2008–09 season). Includes Dave Cowens (1977–78), Scottie Pippen (1994–95) and Kevin Garnett (2002–03).

*One of seven players in NBA history to record 2,000 points and 600 assists in a single season. Includes Oscar Robertson (achieved this seven times), John Havlicek (achieved this twice), Tiny Archibald (achieved this twice), Mack Calvin, Derrick Rose, and Michael Jordan.
*Only player in NBA history to record at least 43 points, 13 rebounds, and 15 assists in a game.
*Only player in NBA history to record at least 31 points, 19 rebounds, 8 assists, and 4 steals in a game.

*One of three players in NBA history to record at least 33 points, 12 assists, and 9 rebounds in a game. Includes Michael Jordan and Nate Robinson.
*One of four players in NBA history to record at least 61 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists in a game. Includes Michael Jordan, David Robinson, and Tracy McGrady.

Playoffs
Career
*1st place all-time for scoring average in elimination games with 31.7 points per game.
*1st place all-time for playoff games with at least 25 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists with 75.
*1st place all-time for playoff games with at least 25 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists with 32.
*1st place all-time for playoff games with at least 30 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists with 23.
*2nd place all-time for consecutive 20-point games to start a playoff career with 19. Behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 27 consecutive games.
*3rd place all-time for consecutive 20-point playoff games with 54. Behind Wilt Chamberlain's 126 and 92 consecutive games.

*3rd place all-time for playoff games with at least 45 points with 7. Tied with Allen Iverson.
Behind Michael Jordan (23) and Wilt Chamberlain (8)
*3rd place all time for scoring average in first 150 playoff games with 28.1. Behind Michael Jordan and Jerry West.
*Only player in NBA history to shoot at least 50 percent in 9 consecutive playoff games while attempting at least 15 FGs.
*One of two players in NBA history to average 30 points and 10 rebounds when facing elimination.[64] Includes Wilt Chamberlain.

*One of three players in NBA history to post at least 4,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 1,000 assists in their playoff career. Includes Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
*Only player in NBA history to average at least 25 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists in an NBA Finals series (accomplished this twice).
*One of three players in NBA history to average at least 30 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists in a playoff series. Includes Oscar Robertson and Larry Bird.

These are the facts playboy! Not my opinion! Count how many times you see Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant listed in these categories! I'm just sayin'! AND LeBron's STILL PLAYIN'!!!!!!!!! Stop it you sound crazy! And don't give me the championship nonsense! He's still playin' and championships are TEAM awards! Jordan played on better teams and had a better coach when he was winnin'! Without Phil Mike wasn't winnin' anything but scorin' titles bruh! As a matter of fact, he had the BEST coach to EVER coach the game! LeBron has never had a freakin' coach and he's doin' this bruh! And at 30 he has as many rings as Jordan did at 30! Again, stop it! You sound crazy!!!!!!

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Idiot Proof (Why boyz will skew the facts to Hate on LeBron but MJ &Kobe get a pass)

"I'm just sayin' bruh!"

Samuel Butler, the Victorian-era English author once said, “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.” Josh Billings, the famous 19th century writer, gave it to us like this, “There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.” Then Josefina Vazquez Mota, the Mexican businesswoman and politician, shut the building down with, “There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.”

What blows my mind is the amount of people walkin’ around this country that call themselves educated that can’t figure out when a boy is lyin’ to them. But what makes it worse is that they’ll spread the same lie to another cat without blinkin’! Yes I’m talkin’ about the duns out here that make up stats and foolishness to blast LeBron for simply playin’ the game of basketball.

Before I go in on these boyz let me preface it by sayin’ that my favorite player of all-time is Kevin Garnett because of the passion that he plays the game with. No other player in history plays as hard as he does every single night. I’m talkin’ regular season and playoffs but that’s just my opinion. That’s why he’s my guy.

I defend LeBron because of the idiots and haters that continue to lie and make up “stuff” to make their favorite player look better. And that’s the edited version playboy! You don’t have to make stats up to make your guy look better. The facts don’t lie!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! I’m talkin’ about the idiots that put together these freakin’ charts after the Finals were over on Monday and sends them out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and the clown that looks at it and forwarded it to his friends not understandin’ that it’s foolishness. It has Jordan, Tim Duncan, Kobe and LeBron’s resumes with titles, MVP’s etc.

First of all playa, you can’t compare a completed resume to an incomplete resume. For all of you simple minded individuals you can’t pull up what a boy accomplished by the time he was 40 to a boy that’s 29! You do realize that Mike played until 2003 and he was born in 1963! Tim Duncan is 38 and Kobe is freakin’ 35! This isn’t an argument about whose better or worse bruh. This is about logic and not bein’ stupid when you open your mouth to argue somethin’. Always deal in the facts.

To compare beyond age 29 for any one of these guys is asinine because LeBron is just 29! That’s like me postin’ my resume on Facebook next to my 17 year old son’s. You would laugh me off of the joint because you can’t expect my son to have as much on his resume as I do! Stop bein’ stupid.

Then if you’re gonna post somethin’ hollerin’ about rings because 90 percent of the time that’s what these fools do. At least do your homework and realize that Mike is middle of the road when it comes to championships. Post a joint with Bill Russell 11, Sam Jones 10, John Havlicek 8, Tom Heinsohn 8, K.C. Jones 8, Tom “Satch” Sanders 8, Robert Horry 7, James Loscutoff 7, Frank Ramsey 7, Kareem Abdul Jabbar 6, Michael Jordan 6, Scottie Pippen 6 if you’re gonna talk stuff. And that’s the edited version.

You look like the idiot that stands up in front of an audience tryin’ to use big words to impress people but there’s always somebody in the crowd that’s smarter than you that realizes that you’re mispronouncin’ the freakin’ words and usin’ them out of context.

Let’s go in on the fool that says, “I hate LeBron because he left Cleveland because Magic, Jordan or Bird didn’t leave to go win a championship.” Now he’s either too young to understand or he rode the short bus to school growin’ up. These duns didn’t have to leave because the situation worked out with the teams that drafted them.

Within three years of Mike bein’ in the Chi Scottie, the best wingman in the game at the time, got in the ride. Within five years Phil (the best coach to ever walk the sidelines) got in the driver’s seat and they always had shooters hangin’ out of the window pickin’ boyz off pimpin’! Am I lyin’? They had Craig Hodges ( the best three point assassin in the game at the time), then duns like B.J. Armstrong, Paxson and Kerr. Not to mention boyz linin’ up to play with him like Ron Harper and Dennis Rodman (the best rebounder to ever live). Are you serious?

When Magic got to LA Kareem was waitin’ for him bruh with a 1971 ring already in his pocket. Within two years he got Pat Riley! Are you serious? Larry Bird showed up in Boston and within a year they traded for Robert Parish and drafted Kevin McHale two eventual Hall of Famers. Are you freakin’ serious?

LeBron spent seven years in Cleveland with no help, no coach and no signs of boyz comin’ to help or coach! They brought in an end of the road Shaq and Antione Jamison to help this dun bruh. Then they fired what little of a coach he did have and his GM walked off of the job just before he became a free agent. What did you expect? Only a fool would stay in that situation.

That's like gettin' mad at a boy for movin' out of the projects because he wanted more out of life and comparin' him to a dun that grew up in the suburbs and sayin' that he didn't have to leave his hood to win in life! You sound stupid!!!!

They call it free agency for a reason playa and don’t get mad because a boy was smarter than the organization and decided that he was in control of his future and not the franchise. I had a dun tell me that LeBron had to sit in a back room with his boyz and put a team together. What? That’s how all teams are put together you idiot!! It’s just done by the front office and not the players. It showed me that LeBron at 25 was smarter than the freakin’ front offices of 90 percent of the league.

You didn’t trip when Karl Malone and Gary Payton ran out to LA to jump on the bandwagon to win a title that didn’t happen. You didn’t trip when Steve Nash ran out there either! I didn’t hear boyz hatin’ on Barkley for runnin’ not only to Phoenix but to Houston only to come up short. But that dun was on the Dan Patrick show this past Monday hollerin’ about how much he doesn’t respect LeBron because he left to play with his boyz. What? But everybody listenin’ to that foolishness agreed and gave that dun a pass. Wheredeydodatat?

If you’re gonna hate this young boy come up with a real reason to dislike him. Tell me that the dun broke into your garage when you were 10 and stole your reflectors off of your bike. Tell me that he knocked down your girl when you were 16 and you just can’t get over it. Tell me that he backed into your ole man’s Eldorado in the Wal-mart parkin’ lot and didn’t stop. But DO NOT tell me that you hate him because he was smarter than any other basketball player that you’ve ever seen about his OWN future. Do Not tell me that because he understood at 25 years old that Cleveland was a dumpster fire that was bein’ run by a complete idiot that you don’t like him. Tell me anything but that!

Here’s my Jordan and Kobe fans hollerin’ at me. “Aw Jay why you don’t like Mike or Kobe bruh? Cuz I know you don’t like them!” You wanna know playboy? I’ll tell you why.

My reason for not liking those duns has absolutely nothin’ to do with the game of basketball playa. Although, I've got TALL respect for their games! As a matter of fact, I've got ridiculous respect for them because MJ is the GOAT!!! However, Mike is the most influential athlete on the planet and has been for darn near 30 years and for 30 years that dun has NEVER spoken up or had an opinion about anything that didn’t have to do with him or the Jordan Brand.

He’s sellin’ sneakers in every hood in America and it wasn’t until last week that I’ve heard of that cat showin’ up to a school in the hood to encourage some kids. Don’t tell me that he does it all of the time because he’s Mike and we’d know about it. I grew up 10 minutes from Chicago playa. I was in high school when Jordan showed up and he wasn’t touchin’ the ghetto with a ten foot pole. He got our money but never gave us his time! That’s why I don’t like him. Agree or disagree with me but at least I've got a legitimate reason for not likin' that dun.

I don’t like Kobe because he violated the Brotherhood Code of Conduct Rule 1 Section 1 Article 1 “Never bring another man's business into your foolishness.” When he got arrested on the rape charge and threw Shaq under the bus he was in direct violation of the code. You can never get in the ride with some real G’s again operatin’ like that homeboy. If I was ridin' dirty and Kobe was my next door neighbor and I saw that dun walkin' I wouldn't give him a ride because he'd tell it all if we got pulled over. That is a legitimate reason for not likin' a boy too. If his name wasn't Kobe 98 percent of you cats would've been off of him too but you're blinded by his game.

What do both of these duns have in common? Selfishness! That’s a legitimate reason not to like a boy. You can agree or disagree but it’s real and not made up by some fool postin’ lies to Facebook.

It’s not somethin’ petty like 'he took his talents to South Beach." What cats don’t realize is that he took his boyz out the hood, taught them the marketin’ game and now they’re millionaires too. He’s never once been in trouble and he’s givin’ you simple minded the individuals the blue print on how to get bread and you’re actin’ like crabs in a bucket. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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Diamonds (The Pressure of Being LeBron)

"There's only one reason to even get out of the bed in the morning...To WIN!" 

Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, once said, “We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher, laid it out like this, “The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man…It is more powerful than external circumstances.” Then Peter Marshall, the famous preacher, shut the building down with, “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

On Friday the ESPN The Magazine cover story with LeBron sitting down with Chris Broussard hits the streets. They talk about a number of things from LeBron's fear of failure, his relationship with Jordan or lack thereof and growing up an MJ and AI fan. But what they don’t talk about is all of the pressure that this dun faced coming into the league that was created by the very people who put him on a pedestal at 16.

What boyz have never seemed to realize about LeBron James is that he came into the NBA with more pressure than any player that has EVER been drafted. And oh yes playa… that includes the G.O.A.T., Michael Jeffery Jordan!

Boyz have been piling on this cat for years about why he couldn’t lead the Cavs (some BUMS) past the veteran San Antonio Spurs in the Finals when he was just 22 years old. They blasted him for leaving Cleveland after playing through two contracts and hooking up with his boys down on South Beach as well. What duns fail to realize, especially Jordan fans, is that their boy Mike never had the pressure that LeBron had to win multiple championships when he walked into the league. There was no expectation for Mike to win titles coming out of North Carolina. He went to the Bulls bruh! As a kid I could go over to the Bulls games, bring my sneakers and get some playing time! Nobody expected that dun to win out the gate! Don't ever forget that playa!

Even though there had been legends like Bill Russell that had come before Jordan his legacy from day one wasn’t compared to Russell’s. When Mike was drafted boyz weren’t saying that in order for him to be great he’s got to win at least 11 championships. They weren’t saying that if he doesn’t at least match Bill in titles he’ll be a failure. They weren’t comparing him to the Big O and saying that if he didn’t average a triple double for at least a season he’s not worth the price of admission. Naw playboy! You didn’t hear that!

The media didn’t say when Kobe came out of Lower Marion High School that if he didn’t win as many as Jordan he would be considered a failure. But from day one LeBron had to be better than Jordan or bust because the media said so and because very few human beings actually think for themselves the fans accepted it as fact.

When Jordan came into the league as a very inconsistent shooter that couldn’t go to his left they didn't say that he was a bust because there were parts of his game that needed work. They did begin to ask the question, “When is he going to win "A" title not 6?” because boyz like Magic, Bird and Zeke were already winning and Mike was such a prolific scorer. They didn’t say, “When is he gonna win 11?” No, they let that young boy develop into the player that he eventually became. Nobody said once he won his first joint in ’91 that he’s got to win 10 more to be the greatest player we’ve ever seen! Stop me when I start lyin’ now!

However, LeBron came into the league with the expectation from all of the media that named him “The Chosen One” that if he didn’t live up to it he’d be a failure. What blows me away is that the same media that named him “The Chosen One” got upset with the kid when he put it on his back. The same duns that called him “King James” even before he’d won anything got mad at him because he ran with the moniker like every other kid that gets a nickname from the media.

He didn’t come up with his own nickname any more than Magic, The Ice Man, Pistol Pete, Chocolate Thunder or Air Jordan came up with theirs. But the world frowned upon this cat for accepting the pressure that came with the name.

So if you never take time to understand the pressure that this dun had on him to win from day one you’ll never begin to understand why he’s made the decisions that he’s made about his future. You hear cats blasting him about why he left Cleveland to play with his boyz etc. But nobody seems to deal in the reality of LeBron James!

After playing through two contracts with some bums and no help coming in the foreseeable future, his coach had just been fired and his GM had just quit. Why stay? Because the pressure to win and become better than Jordan wasn’t going anywhere. That train had already left the station when he was 16 years old playboy and nobody was gonna let him off of the hook and he knew that.

No other player in the history of the game had been put on the cover of Sports Illustrated and named “The Chosen One!” Not even the great Michael Jordan! Why? Because he wasn’t the greatest high school basketball player the world had ever seen.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! There has never been a kid drafted into the NBA that HAD to win 5,6,7 championships just to get the respect of the dull media that hyped him up and brain washed the fans into believing that if he didn’t win at least that many championships he’s a failure. Not Wilt, Bill, Magic, Bird or Jordan!

Sure, LeBron added to the pressure when he did the dull pep rally in Miami and got caught up in the hype and said, “Not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7!” That was stupid because now boyz are gonna hold you to it. But don’t get it twisted, that expectation had already been set on the table the day he walked into the league in 2003 because they constantly compared him to Jordan before he'd even signed a contract.

So when LeBron made the decision to leave Cleveland not one of the duns dogging him about why he left ever once thought about the pressure that this cat was under to win! See if Jordan had only won 2 titles boyz wouldn’t have tripped. Why? Because there was no expectation for him to win 11 championships when he was drafted. There was no expectation for him to be better than Wilt, Bill or the Big O etc. Magic and Bird were still playing. So their resumes were still being formed. Therefore, Mike didn’t play under the same microscope that LeBron has been playing under.

But check this out bruh! He’s lived up to the hype and at age 28 he’s a far better player and he’s more accomplished than Jordan was at the same age. Simple numbers playboy, he can play all 5 positions and guard them, he’s been to 4 Finals, won 2 of them and he’s won 4 MVP’s. Mike at the same age had only been to 1 Final, had 1 title and won 1 MVP. He only won 5 MVP's in his whole career bruh! LeBron's sittin' on 4 already! And oh yeah, MJ could only play 2 positions!

Stop telling me about Mike never losing in the Finals because up to this point in his life he'd only been to one! At the same age LeBron's been to 4! You have no idea what he's going to do post 28 bruh!

Think about this playboy! Every dun on LeBron’s team right now has already overachieved in life! Not one cat on that roster came into the league with the media expectation of having to win a title not even D. Wade that has 3 rings to his credit. If he had never won a title coming out of Marquette nobody would have cared. Every cat on the Heat’s roster is rich beyond their wildest dreams, dating or married to some broad that they never would have met had it not been for the bread they’ve made as a result of the NBA and they’ve won at least 1 ring. So the only cat in the car that still has somewhere to go is LeBron.

Everybody else is just ridin’ bruh. If they make it to their final destination this year cool. If not… oh well they’ve already overachieved. Nobody expected them to play this long or win a title at all so everybody is good except for LeBron.

So now you can understand the pressure that this cat is playing under that nobody in the history of the game ever had to deal with. Not even the great Michael Jordan. So sit in the cut the summer of 2014 pimpin’! His decision to stay or leave Miami will be based solely on whether or not he can win more championships.

Jordan never had to make decisions like that because there was no pressure for him to win 11 which was the standard for the greatest at the time and I don’t know how 6 became the standard like Bill never even played the freakin’ game. On some real talk, championships are team awards not a determination of how good an individual player is but some idiot journalist said it and boyz ran with it. But that’s a whole "nother" talk show right there.

Mike never had to leave the Chi because he already had the best coach in the league (Phil), the best wing man in the league (Scottie) and always had the best 3-point shooter in the league (Craig Hodges, Steve Kerr, John Paxson) and then he ended up with the best rebounder in the game (Dennis Rodman)!

When it’s all said and done I’m quite sure LeBron will have no problem with the process because when you bury a boy under pressure, "Heat" and time it forms diamonds! Just don’t bet against it playboy!

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Perception

"I just play the game the way it's supposed to be played bruh!"

Oprah Winfrey once said, “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” Victor Hugo, the French poet, got up and said, “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.” The famous actress, Laura Linney, got fired up and shouted, “Doing the right thing has power.” Big Momma shut the building down by saying, “Baby, don’t worry about what folks say about you, just always do the right thing and everything will work out for you.”

During the Miami Heat’s press conference with the media on Saturday, LeBron James was asked about the perception that he needs to be more aggressive at times. Simple and sweet ole boy answered the question by saying, “I’ve done more and lost before.”

"When I was in Cleveland, we played Orlando in the Eastern Conference finals and I think I averaged 38, 36, or whatever I averaged," James said, referring to the 2009 series where he averaged 38.5 points, 8.3 rebounds and eight assists. "I guess I should have done more in that series as well. But I can't. ... I do what's best for the team. What's best for the team, it doesn't always result in a win."

When he answered that joint I started thinking, what if LeBron had come along before Jordan and Kobe? When John Naismith invented the game of basketball he wanted it played a certain way. He decided on 5 players for a reason and that it would be a TEAM sport for a reason as well. He could have easily made it an individual sport or simply a 2 or 3 player game but he didn’t. So I would think that his desire would be for all players on the floor to be important to the game at all times.

If LeBron had come before Jordan or Kobe our perception of him ALWAYS looking to make the right basketball play would be different. As a matter of fact, we would probably embrace him more as the ULTIMATE PLAYER because he plays the game the way the inventor envisioned it to be played.

See Mike and Kobe were selfish people by nature and they played the game of basketball selfishly as well. No disrespect to them or their games because they were both beasts. They were able to win championships and that is the ultimate reward in playing the game. However, would our perception of them be different had LeBron come along first making the right basketball plays and winning either more or less titles along the way?  

My only point here is to simply get people to think about why they believe LeBron isn’t doing the right thing by making the right basketball plays when he clearly is. This isn’t a comparison as to who the better player is. It’s just me putting something on your mind playboy to think about.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! If the goal is to make money! Then you would think that the richest cat in the room has always played by the rules of the game. However, that isn’t typically the case! Just because you’ve got more bread doesn’t mean that you’re playing the “GAME” the way it’s supposed to be played.

Sometimes playing the game the right way is the right thing to do playboy! Just like Big Momma said earlier, “Baby, don’t worry about what folks say about you, just always do the right thing and everything will work out for you.”  Playing the game of basketball the right way will ultimately benefit this young cat and those playing with him.

Only time will tell just how many championships he’ll win. However, if he had come before Jordan and Kobe our perception of him and the way he plays the game would be completely different because we wouldn't have selfish players to compare him to. Keep in mind that Magic won 5 titles and was a very unselfish player. Even though he played in 9 Finals it doesn't taint his legacy because he played the game the way it was supposed to be played! Stop me when I start lyin’!

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Lies Playboy! All Lies!

This entire chart is suspect bruh and I'll prove it with facts not opinion!

Vladimir Lenin said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Then Stephen King got up and said, “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.” The German philosohpor, Immanuel Kant, shouted, “By a lie, a man…annihilates his dignity as a man!” Big Momma just sat there and said, “If you a lie you a cheat, if you a cheat you a steal!” Then they all poured out a lil' liquor for the brothers that ain’t here and went to the crib.

I’m always blown away by how boyz will go to extreme lengths to make Jordan appear to be better than he actually was. Now don’t get it twisted, Mike is still the G.O.A.T. because of his CAREER accomplishments and they SHOULD be able to stand alone without duns making things up.

However, don’t think for one minute that this young boy ain’t gonna knock him off of the that throne when it’s all said and done. The chart above is being emailed, Tweeted and Facebook-ed to death and it’s full of lies! I know that some cat loyal to the Jordan Brand must have put it together because it looks like the work of a delusional Michael Jordan fan!

Let’s break this joint down like a G! Just from a quick eye ball test I knew it was bogus because under LeBron’s name it said “Stats not yet done” however they’ve included stats for both Mike and Kobe for the end of the season and playoffs at age 28! You can’t include their playoff stats for that time period because LeBron is just now playing his age 28 playoffs now.

So if were gonna say "stats not yet done" you’ve got to take all of the stats that both Mike and Kobe have in those playoffs off of the joint and only include 2 games worth to be fair! Stop me when I start lyin’ playboy! For that reason alone the entire chart is suspect going forward but for the sake of argument I'll continue.  

You gotta take off a ring for both MJ and the Black Mamba because the playoffs are still ongoing. So therefore, Mike has zero rings and Kobe only has 2 at this point in the playoffs at age 28 whereas LeBron still has one because he won that joint at 27! That’s just from the quick eye ball test across the joint. Also take the Finals MVP for Jordan off too because that goes with the ring bruh! Then keep in mind that Kobe was the 2^nd option on both of those rings listed because Shaq led the Lakers to those titles not Kobe! If we gone keep it real then let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st playboy!

Now let’s analyze the bogus numbers that boyz put up for Jordan alone. It says that MJ played 589 regular season games by age 28. By that time he’d only been in the league for 7 years pimipin’! Everybody and their momma knows that they play 82 regular season games. So therefore, he played 574 games not 589! That’s using simple math playa. Then it says that he scored 19,000 points. Jordan averaged 30.1 ppg throughout his career. So let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say that’s what he was averaging up to that point. Simple math, not crack head math, gives you 17,277 points not 19,000 points.

The complete mind blower here is that it has Mike playing in 92 playoff games up to this point. Now unless they’re including all of his high school and college joints they’re doing crack head math again. During Mike’s first 3 years he got bounced in the 1^st round of the playoffs and back then they only played a best of 5 and he got swept in two of 'em bruh. He went 1-3, 0-3, 0-3 out the gate! That’s only a total of 10 playoff games during his first 3 years in the league!

 So how could he have played 82 more playoff games in the next 4 years if he never made it to the Finals until he was 28? He actually only played 53 playoff games up to age 28 because again the playoff numbers for him at 28 don’t exist yet because it’s just now April and we’re only 2 games into the playoffs of LeBron’s season at age 28! So Jordan actually has 55 playoff games if we’re at game 2 now. Stop me when I start lyin’ playboy! If I’m moving too fast for you, you’re just plain stupid! In my Jay-Z voice, "I got 99 problems but counting ain't one!"  If I can't do nothing I can count playa!

Now let’s break down these playoff points just like we did with the regular season foolishness. If we have agreed that Mike has only played 55 playoff games at his career average of 30.1 ppg using simple math not crack head math. Then he only scored 1,655 points not 3,184 points that these duns want you to believe on this chart.

None of this is my opinion bruh! It’s all fact. Let me be clear again to all of you cats reading this joint wearing a pair of Jordan’s, a Jump Man 23 warm up, Haynes underwear and watching Space Jam with a pair of Jordan goggles on. My favorite player of ALL-TIME is Kevin Garnett because of his intense work ethic. I only defend LeBron because boyz keep hatin’ on this young cat. It is what it is playboy. He’s the best we’ve EVER seen play the game of basketball.

When my children are old they’ll be talking about LeBron not Jordan as being the G.O.A.T.! Because whether you eye ball it or look at the numbers King James will be sitting on top when it’s all said and done and right now at age 28 he’s killin’ Jordan at age 28!  Stop me when I start lyin' and while you're at it get the Pulitzer folks on the phone because I'm on fire right now playboy!

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Fire?

Until you see this look EVERY night he'll never reach HIS full potnetial!

Confucius says, “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” Winston Churchill broke it down like this, “Continuous effort- not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” Mr. Ricky at the shoe shine joint said it best with, “As good as you are you’ll only be measured by what you should have been and only God himself will be able to tell you that.”

LeBron James will probably finish his career someday as the greatest basketball player we’ve ever seen; only time will tell. However, I don’t believe that he will ever become the greatest basketball player that HE could become because he doesn’t possess that fire that will push him to HIS limit.  Understand this playboy, his 75% is better than most cats 100%. So he’s gonna be better than everybody else on the floor when he wakes up in the morning because of genetics alone.

However, in the grand scheme of things that doesn’t mean anything. To chase what Kobe or Mike has been able to accomplish is fruitless because they’ve run their race with their own personal limitations.

See Jordan completely maximized his potential because he always had something to prove and played with a fire that we’ve never seen before. Mike didn’t want to lose a card game bruh. He gave you everything he had every night because he reached down into that place that very few are willing to explore. When he was cut from the high school team and eventually had to go to UNC for three years where he wasn’t the 1st option as a freshman that gave him a chip to play with. When he came into the league he couldn’t go to his left and was an inconsistent shooter that allowed Zeke and Co. to take advantage of him and that made him dig even deeper to ignite an even bigger fire.

When Kobe was drafted 13th instead of 1st and had to come off of the bench initially in his career he had to explore that abyss as well. When Jerry Rice didn’t get recruited by all of the big time football powerhouses, had to go to Mississippi Valley State and play on what looks like a cow pasture the fire began to heat up inside of him too. Coming into the NFL from a small black college he had plenty to prove.

When boyz come from the ghetto, land a good job and make good on that promise they're playing with that same fire I'm talking about.

Having to prove that you are better than you are perceived to be forces you to go somewhere internally that allows you to unlock that hidden treasure we call potential. LeBron has never had to do that because he’s always been better than his competition since day one. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated labeled as "The Chosen One" at 16 bruh! It's hard to push beyond normal limits after that type of introduction!

See when race horses compete they have on blinders so they aren’t really competing. They’re just running as fast as THEY can to finish the line. In track you’re taught that you’re not running against the cat next to you. You’re running against the clock. So in order to be great you have to be as good as YOU can be. Greatness isn’t measured by how well you do against your competition or how well you stack up against what others have been able to do before you.

So even if LeBron breaks every record known to man or wins the 6 titles that boyz say that he has to win in order to become the G.O.A.T., which is a stupid argument because Bill Russell has 11 of those joints, but we’ll go with it. Will he ever become as GREAT as he should have been?

The only time we’ve ever seen this cat play with the fire necessary to maximize HIS potential is during game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals last year when he put up 45 points grabbed 15 rebounds and threw 5 dimes to force a game 7 with the Celtics. It wasn’t about the stats, it was about the look in his eye that night. He had finally gone to that place that everyone NEEDS to go to in order to get everything out of them that God has put in them.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Until he plays every night with that look in his eye he’ll never use all of the gifts that God has blessed him with and I don’t care if he’s able to surpass what Jordan, Bill or Kobe has been able to accomplish because he was never supposed to be chasing them anyway.

This is coming from one of the biggest supporters of LeBron out here bruh! I've written more Hot Joints in support of this dun than I care to count but I'm just keeping it a hundred! At some point he's got to figure out how to consistently go to that place to maximize all of that talent.

When I die I don’t want to sit before my maker and he says these words,”Jay you were able to accomplish a lot of things, you won several awards and the world thought you were the very best at what you did but you fell short of what I had reserved for you because you never tapped into your full potential.” It's sinful not to use all of the gifts that God has given you because you got caught up in trying to compete with someone else's limited potential. I think I just said something playboy!

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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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"The Infamous Trait!"

"It's 4.5 seconds left so I gotta get my teammates involved, right?"

When we all started kindergarten we were taught to share and play nice. At the beginning we wanted the other kids to like us so we did everything we could to make friends. When we learned to play sports we passed the ball around so that all of the kids could get a shot because it was the right thing to do. Then one day the game got real when they started keeping score and your whole outlook changed.

Somewhere along the line when the game changed from being fun to real LeBron was asleep. He's still trying to share the ball with all of the kids instead of being selfish at the end of games when he should be taking the shot.

On Friday night LeBron passed up yet another opportunity to take the last shot with 4.5 seconds left. Instead, he passed to a WIDE OPEN Udonis Haslem as he missed the long jumper just before the buzzer. The Utah Jazz held on for a 99-98 victory snapping the Heat's nine-game winning streak.

The problem isn't that the Heat lost the ball game bruh! The problem is that LeBron's got to realize that all great athletes, business people and natural born hustlers have the same trait. You've got to become selfish when the game is on the line. You have to believe in your ability to get it done over anybody else's and not care what your teammates think about it when it's over.

"I just try to make the right plays and do what it takes to win basketball games," James said. "At the end of the day, games are not lost on one shot at the end or me not taking a shot. But I know the chatter will begin. I wanted that game as bad as anyone else on that floor."

Yeah, I realize that D. Wade missed a free throw with 14 seconds left and Haslem missed the jumper but now it’s on you. If you wanted it that bad bruh you've got to trust yourself to close the door. You can’t keep wasting opportunities trying to get people to like you. Michael Jordan is probably one of the most selfish and self-centered people on the planet and while you're at throw in Kobe Bryant too. Of course, that is a huge flaw for them off of the court but on the court it's ideal. Fortunately, having that trait made them the best finishers in the game.

I wouldn't hang out with either of them because of it. I know ya'll remember when Kobe got caught up with the whole sexual assault case and he brought up Shaq's infidelities to the arresting officers. That was that trait bruh! You wouldn't want him in the car with you if you got pulled over because he'll do whatever to make himself look good and throw you under the bus. Well, it works on the court but not in real life.

Don't think for one minute that their teammates loved either of them. They tolerated them because they won games bruh. I applaud LeBron for trying to play the game the right way but that doesn't win big games down the stretch! At some point you have to take over at the end of games.

I thought he was about to because he had 35 points with 17 of them joints in the fourth quarter along with 10 rebounds, six assists and three blocked shots for the game. Then somewhere along the way caring about his teammates got in the way.

At the end of games everybody in the building knew who was getting the rock including the other team when Phil was coaching. The instructions on the sideline with both Jordan and Kobe were simple, "Everybody else just get out of the way!" That’s what LeBron’s got to do to get over the hump regardless of what play Spoelstra calls.  As a matter of fact, he shouldn't be able to call the play! LeBron should be calling the play bruh! Phil just called the timeouts for everybody to rest in those situations.

You gotta stop worrying about whether people like you or not because when you're good very few people will anyway. I always say, if 50% of the people in the room aren't hatin' on you, you need to step your game up. So since more than 90% of people in the joint are hatin' on LeBron anyway, take the shot and then he can reduce it back to 50% bruh! Most cats don’t like him because he won’t take that joint.

Social and civil rights activist Benjamin Mays once said, "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure but low aim is a sin." What he’s saying in ghetto basketball terms is this, "Not taking the shot when you had the rock in your hands is blasphemous bruh!

Let me break it down this way young blood! Your teammates just want to win titles they don't want to hang out with you. Do you honestly believe that Steve Kerr, Dennis Hopson or Cliff Livingston liked Jordan? Do you think that Adam Morrison, Luke Walton and Josh Powell ran around LA with Kobe? Not at all, but they love the rings that both Jordan and Kobe helped them win. So pull out the selfish trait and start finishing games bruh! You're the best player in the league! Now that won't keep the Heat from winning the title because they're the best team in the league and normally the best team wins the best out of 7 game series.

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Jay Graves
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