G.O.A.T. Feed (Why Barkley's Mt Rushmore logic to keep LeBron off issimply asinine)

Sam Jones: "Hey bruh I got 10! Why boyz ain't talkin' about me? If it's about rings!"

Mark Twain once said, “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” George Orwell, the English novelist,  put his drink down and said, “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Then Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosohper,  stood up and shouted, “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

The more I listen to sports radio and watch these clowns on television talk sports the more I’m convinced that 98% of these cats only know what somebody has told them. Also on some real talk, the more I listen to these former players like Charles Barkley the more I'm convinced that they don't know any history of the game either. More than anything these duns speak from ego than from logic. 

Barkley was on NBATV just before the TNT pre-game joint Thursday night talking about LeBron and his Mount Rushmore list. He goes on to say that ole boy will NEVER make it to his mountain top because he already has boyz like Oscar, Jordan, Wilt, Kareem and somebody else I can't remember at the top. First of all, you can't have but four people on it and he had five. The point is, it makes absolutely no sense when he says that LeBron will NEVER get there because you have no idea what the boy is going to do over the next 7 to 8 years bruh! He's only 29!!

To say that no one can EVER be better is like some old timer trying to tell me that the 19" color television is always gonna be the best TV ever made. When I'm sittin' here watching a 72" high definition boy hangin' on the freakin' wall. That's ignorant!

Then he goes on to say that LeBron has to get past Kobe first who has 5 rings because he only has 2. So the number of championships is the criteria? If that's the case why is Oscar and Wilt even on the mountain playboy because they've only got one and two respectively! That's what I'm talkin' about bruh, these duns just be talkin' and hatin' all at the same time; and boyz are running around repeating this foolishness.

Now if you think Oscar and Wilt should be on there that's cool but championships can't be the criteria if you're telling me that LeBron doesn't have enough. Either you're hatin', flat out can't count or don't know the history of the game. And on some real talk, it's all three!

 To compare LeBron's career to Kobe's is asinine to say the least because Kobe's been in the league for 17 years and championships are a TEAM award! It doesn't tell you how much better a player is over another! Are you kidding me? 

 None of these duns ever bother to do any research on anything. They just simply repeat foolishness because it sounds good.

For the past 3 or 4 years boyz have been knee deep in the LeBron vs. Jordan debate and instead of looking at their complete games at the same age every fool that opens his or her mouth goes right to number of championships including these dull Hall of Famer's that don't know any better either.

Now I’m cool with that if championships are the standard! And keep in mind playboy, that this has nothing to do with LeBron or Jordan. It has everything to do with giving folks the right information to form a valid opinion. Otherwise, you're just lyin' to folks bruh.  

 If championships are the standard then why are we even talking about Jordan in the first place? Bill Russell should be cursing everybody out because he's the G.O.A.T. if titles is the criteria. Also there are 9 other duns that have more championships than Jordan does playa but most fools talking about it don’t know that.  Sit down and let me put it where the goats can get it pimpin' because these other duns in the media don’t have the capacity to.

Why isn’t anybody talking about 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 and  Frank Ramsey 7 if championships are the standard?  Then boyz act like Kareem 6, Bob Cousy 6 and Scottie Pippen 6 live on Mars somewhere! That’s 12 cats with as many or more championships than Jordan but boyz act like they don’t exist when the first thing that pops out of their mouths is championships.

Now at least 5 of these cats you wouldn’t know if they walked up and punched you in the mouth, gave you a wet willy and stole your freakin' bicycle bruh! So to keep talking about Jordan and using championships as the standard is asinine.

I completely agree that Mike is the G.O.A.T. but his 6 championships have very little to do with it. It was his capacity to play the game throughout his career! Not the freaking 6 rings because that’s middle of the road relatively speaking bruh when it comes to cats with rings. He could have won 3 or 4 and that wouldn’t have changed the outcome in terms of his greatness. That's just a ploy for boyz to hate on LeBron with because he's still playing!

What did the big homie Schopenhauer just say a minute ago bruh? "All truth passes through three stages" and we're the the second joint now because it's being violently opposed and you sit in the cut and keep watchin' it gonna become self evident!

Using the foolish argument of rings means that Robert Horry with 7 is better than Larry Bird that only has 3 or that Tom Heinsohn with 8 is better than Karl Malone that doesn’t have any! Not only that, you’re telling the world that Tom “Satch” Sanders with 8 was better than Jerry West, the NBA logo, who only has 1 and so on and so forth!

So to apply Barkley's Mount Rushmore logic would be to say that Bill Russell, Sam Jones, John Havlicek and either Tom Heinsohn, K.C. Jones or Tom "Satch" Sanders would be on the mountain top! How dumb does that sound bruh? You cannot use that logic to exclude LeBron and use another set of standards to include Oscar, Wilt or anyone else for that matter. Now you're picking and choosing how you're gonna hate on this young boy and then you got these idiots out here running with that logic and that's crazy.

My problem with these so-called experts is that they sit up and give millions of sports fans bad information. Then cats that don't even know better start repeating that foolishness just to sound intelligent but to those of us that are inquisitive thinkers they sound stupid. The problem is, very few people in the world can think for themselves.

Championships have nothing to do with a players individual ability to play the game. Winning titles are a TEAM award. So to tell boyz any different and for folks to believe it, is foolishness!

Do you really think Jordan would have 6 rings if he'd played his entire career in Milwaukee? Do you think Kobe would have 5 joints if he were in Denver playboy? Do you think either one of those duns would have won anything without the Zen Master as selfish as they both are? Are you freakin' kidding me?

 The only reason I started TheJayGravesReport was because there wasn’t a single journalist out here that kept it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st ! That means that they did some REAL research or were willing to challenge the established thinking that was out there instead of lyin’ to folks to fit their own opinions or agendas.

We already know that most of these ole heads like Dominique and Barkley are speaking from ego instead of logic. If they'd just have an out of body experience and simply listen to the foolishness that they're saying they'd stop talking because they sound stupid.  Sometime I think that these cats must be on the Jordan payroll to keep boyz from thinking otherwise. To say that a player that has just reached his prime will never get any better is simply ridiculous.   

My background is in sales and more specifically pharmaceutical sales and sales of insulin in particular. If I ever told a physician a straight up lie I would lose all of my credibility and the account forever. Also if they ever trusted me and listened to that lie and went with the bad information that I gave them then someone could die. That’s how serious it is out here for me bruh! But these cats on the radio and TV can lie to you and nobody dies so to them it’s no big deal. Because I’ve only been able to make a living by telling the truth and doing my research, that’s what Ima keep doin' pimpin’!

So you can keep listening to those duns if you want to but if you want the truth Holla At Ya Boy and this has nothing to do with LeBron or Jordan!  Ima just give you the facts and you do with it what you will but you can't say that I didn't put you up on it before you made a fool of yourself. Stop me when I start lyin' playboy!  

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Clinical Studies

"Do your homework playboy and stop just repeating foolishness!"

During 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 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 has 1. By throwing those numbers out we're simply looking 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 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'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 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 then trade to the 2nd best franchise in NBA history, 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. It's literally been one of the worst franchises in the league for decades. We'll...until Jordan took over the Bobcats but that's another talk show. However, he did take the worst team in the league to the finals within 4 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 that's probably the best center to ever play the game. 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, I might add, 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? Naw, he just went to work and played his heart out. 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 his first year in Miami and they made it to the finals and the very next year he and his teammates won the joint. Do you really think Kobe or Mike would have won multiple titles playing without a superstar and without Phil? Ya'll do know that Phil was the only one that could have coached and coddled Mike, right?

Nobody has ever won a title playing alone playboy. Open up the data if you think I'm lyin'; Kareem had The Big O in Milwaukee before going to LA and later played 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 it's completely unfair to just look at the rings and draw conclusions that the guy isn't great or better because he hasn't won as many titles yet. Like I keep telling all of these cats with 3rd grade comprehension skills, Jordan didn't win a title until he was 28! LeBron is just now 28 and look at what he's been able to accomplish!

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 talking about Jordan and not Bill Russell that has 11 on them joints? How in the world do you just disregard the O.G. and fall to Mike if championships is all that counts?

How do you not talk about the other 7 duns as well that have more titles than Jordan if we're using titles as the standard? Gotta talk about John Havlicek 8, Sam Jones 10, 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 living next door with 6 too!

So you mean to tell me that EVERY one of these duns are better than Larry Bird because he's only got 3? Tim Duncan has 4, 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! When you don't go to class it's easy to run with foolish information that some clown that was half paying attention sitting in the back of the room gave you!

So you're telling 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 because they didn't win a title? Are you kidding me?

Stop reading the cliff notes and look at the circumstances by which these duns have been able to win or not. I'm not taking anything away from either Jordan or Kobe but they played for better coaches and organizations than LeBron or any of these other cats 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 the only thing that counts is championships but you aren't talking about Bill then you're riding the short bus on the west side of Chicago with a Jump Man 23 warm up, some Jordan's and an extremely tight pair of Haynes underwear on watching Space Jam. I can't help you bruh.

Let me give it to you where you can really smell it homie. Kobe was born into a wealthy suburban family with two parents playing for the Lakers. His dad (Phil) was like the Steve Jobs of his industry. So he was supposed to win out the gate!

Whereas, LeBron was raised in the middle of the ghetto in the projects (worse team in the league) with no parents playing for Cleveland. He just recently got adopted by a wealthy family on Star Island and has just now been given the opportunity 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! Stop me when I start lyin'!

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"Air Tight"

"You know I wanna tell 'em LeBron but I gotta live there bruh!"

The critically acclaimed author Naim Akbar once wrote that there is a huge difference between a student and a scholar. A student will religiously go to class and absorb the information that the professor teaches and masterfully regurgitate it on command. However, a scholar will take that same information and test the validity of it all while learning how to apply it in it’s proper context. In other words, students are more likely to get hustled and scholars are more likely to recognize game.

Earlier this week both Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim were interviewed on ESPN Radio about their Olympic experience and what it was like to coach LeBron. Coach K had this to say, “He is the most unique player to EVER play basketball because he can play every position both offensively and defensively.” Now this ain't some cat coaching AAU ball down at the YMCA bruh! This is the Hall of Fame Coach K that is the winningest active coach in the game(927 wins) that has won 4 National Championships, been to 11 Final Four's, has won 12 ACC regular season titles, 13 ACC Tournament titles and two Gold Olympic medals talking. This cat has been around the game of basketball longer than most cats have been alive and has forgotten more about the game than most folks have ever known bruh, so to use the word “EVER” is to use the word “BEST.”

Kryzyzewski didn’t use “BEST” because he’s smarter than the average bear and knows that he wouldn’t get any sleep from the media trying to clarify whether he thought that LeBron was better than Jordan. Secondly, he lives in North Carolina and is the head coach at Duke! The rivalry on Tobacco Road is enough to deal with without having to live the rest of his life dodging LeBron vs. Jordan questions. He's a scholar bruh!

Jim Boeheim, who is 2nd among active coaches with 880 wins one more than Dean Smith, had this to say, “I’ve always felt that Michael Jordan was the best player that I’d ever seen. I always have, and I didn’t think it was close- and I’m not so sure anymore, and I love Michael Jordan…and (James) is getting better…He’s like Magic with Michael Jordan-type skills as well.”

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! These two guys are what you would call experts in analyzing and teaching the game of basketball. As Malcolm Gladwell explains in his best seller "Outliers" The Story of Success, in order to be considered an expert in any field you must spend more than 10,000 hours in your craft. I would say that these two cats reached that plateau years ago bruh! They are no different from an experienced lawyer teaching Law at Harvard or Steve Jobs and Bill Gates lecturing on computer technology. You simply CANNOT dismiss the knowledge these boyz just spit!

Now y’all can sit back and act like y’all can’t understand what these cats are saying if you want to! But I can read, comprehend, watch Sports Center, count money, play domino's and decipher a hustle at 3 o’clock in the morning all at the same time bruh. I’ve been telling you boyz for at least a year that LeBron was better than Jordan but when I say it, it's blasphemy. I’ve already authored the Hottest Joint ever written that points out all of the facts to substantiate my claim in "Bamboozled" but you acted like I wrote that joint in Swahili.

I heard Stephen A. Smith wrestling with Skip Bayless on First take and neither one of these duns have a clue. Stephen A. keeps bringing up the 6 NBA titles that Jordan has as the litmus test for greatness but doesn’t understand that Jordan is only one of 12 cats on the list with 6 titles or more. How can titles be the determining factor when there are plenty of guys that have won just as many or more that we never even talk about bruh?

Sit down and let me take you to school pimpin‘! If titles are the criteria we’re using to unlock the door to greatness then why aren’t we talking about 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 6, Bob Cousy 6 and Scottie Pippen 6! Now 5 of these Joe’s I wouldn’t know if they walked up to me and punched me in the mouth, gave me a wet willy and stole my bike bruh! So don’t talk to me about winning titles as the criteria for being the greatest player of all-time.

 It’s asinine to believe that nobody will ever dethrone Jordan as the G.O.A.T. LeBron at 27 has already accomplished more than Jordan did at 27 and he’s just getting started bruh. Remember, Jordan didn’t win his first title until he was 28! Stop it! Just Stop it!

I know you’re reading this joint with a pair of Jordan’s and a Jump Man 23 warm up on but LeBron is a far better basketball player than Michael Jordan. Stop watching highlights of Mike and look at this cat play all five positions on both ends of the floor. Then go back to the highlights and tell me if Jordan was ever wrestling in the paint with James Worthy(small forward), posting up with Kareem(Center), guarding Magic(point guard) and averaging 30 and 13 in the Finals!  If he wasn’t doing that at 6’8” 260 with a 42 inch vertical then all you’re doing is talking and swinging on his jock. Like I keep saying “Stop asking LeBron at 27 to be more accomplished than Jordan was at 34! It’s ignorant to do so bruh!

That's like me comparing my W2 or resume with some hot shot 27 year old salesman. He can't hold a stick to my pay check regardless of how good he is because I've been doing it longer. Of course, I've got more accomplishments than he does because I'm older than is he but is he better than I was at 27? Well...let's look at what I was able to accomplish up to that point, if he's accomplished more and is better skilled than I was at 27 then ABSOLUTELY! This is why it shows you that Jordan is a selfish clown because he just won't admit it. We can't compare their careers post 27 because they don't exist for the sake of the comparison.

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Rings vs. Greatness

"Why isn't Bill Russell considered the greatest?"

I wrote an article entitled "LeBron is Better Than Jordan (At 26)" comparing the careers of both players. I looked at both careers up to age 26 because of LeBron's current age during the 2011 season. For the past year everyone that has commented or called me has said the same thing, "What about Jordan's 6 titles?" Like I've always said, Jordan didn't win an NBA title until he was 28 years old bruh. So for the sake of this argument they don't exist. Lebron is only 27 years old bruh! People act the kid is 35 and is about to retire. I can remember when I caught a lot of heat when I said that Kobe was better than Jordan at 22! It's flat out true bruh. People are stuck on the entire career of Jordan and can't understand that his career was built one brick at a time. Like boyz completely forget that Magic played in 9 Finals, lost 4 of them and played terribly in 2. It takes time to win championships bruh. That's why they call them titles!!! They don't just give them joints away at the flea market!   

However, since everyone wants to use titles to measure the greatness of a player let's take a look at it. Here is a sampling of some of the greatest players to ever play the game that have won multiple titles:

1. Bill Russell -11
2. Kareem Abdul Jabbar- 6
3. Michael Jordan- 6
4. Magic Johnson-5
5. Kobe Bryant- 5
6. Tim Duncan-4
7. Larry Bird-3
8. Wilt Chamberlain-2

So if we're only looking at titles why aren't people talking about Bill Russell or Kareem as opposed to Jordan? Better yet, why not Robert Horry who has 7 rings? While you're at it throw in Derrick Fisher who has 5 or John "Freaking" Salley who has 4! My point exactly! If we were only looking at titles we'd have to put Horry in the discussion and we all know that that doesn't make any sense. He was just a guy that was lucky enough to get on the right boat 7 times.

Titles don't always tell the story of greatness because Dan Marino was probably the most gifted quarterback to ever play the game and he never won a title. Can you say that Joe Montana was better than Marino or Peyton Manning because he won 4 Super Bowls? Absolutely not! He was just blessed to be throwing to the best receiver to ever play the game in Jerry Rice and coached by the inventor of the west coast offense, Bill Walsh!

Along those same lines we saw the same thing happen in the NBA with the Bulls. Not only did Jordan have Scottie and Rodman, they played for probably the best coach to ever walk the side lines. So to win 6 titles with that cast of characters wasn't impossible bruh. Do you really think the Jordan would have won 6 titles if he were playing in Milwaukee without Scottie or Phil bruh? Really?

 Rings don't always tell the story of greatness because Jerry West, who is the Logo of the NBA, only has one. I think that people loved Jordan so much that after he started winning titles they started equating greatness with championship rings. Like I said before if that is the case, then Robert Horry is the 2nd greatest player in NBA history. Now how stupid does that sound?

Greatness comes down to a players complete game and what they bring to a team. Is the team better with a particular player on the field or on the court? But the amount of titles that a guy wins isn't the deciding factor because it's a team award. If that were the case they should change the NBA Logo to Bill Russell or Robert Horry! So to say that a person with more titles is greater based on the rings alone is completely ridiculous. By using that logic what you'll be saying is that Reggie Miller, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Dominique Wilkins, Allen Iverson and Patrick Ewing weren't great players! C'mon bruh!

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The Firm!

"This is really where titles are won bruh!"

So many people watch professional sports, the NBA in particular and never begin to understand how important the front office is to winning championships. I'm constantly blown away by how many people make the comment that LeBron James isn't a great player because he's never won an NBA title. Not realizing that as a player he really doesn't control the outcome of that dream. Players don't win titles, organizations do!

I don't care how good a player is if he isn't put in the right situation to win by the front office he could realistically spend his career in the twilight zone. As good as Jordan was, he spent his first 7 years in the league breaking boyz off with 60 point scoring nights at times; wooing crowds with unbelievable dunks and crazy baseline moves never to make it to the Finals. Jordan was literally fighting his teammates at practice bruh!

It wasn't until the organization recognized that he needed help and that Doug Collins couldn't coach him. He needed players around him that would compliment both his playing style and especially his ego. So they drafted Scottie Pippen in 1987 and then two years later hired Phil Jackson. Every player that they would eventually add was told what their roles had to be in order to play with Mike and they were fine with it. It wasn't until then that they peeled off 3 straight! They later added Rodman for the second leg of the tour and won 3 more. It wasn't all MJ that made the Bulls click it was the front office that put the puzzle together that made them champions.

Don't think for one minute that Jordan would have won 6 titles playing in a joint like Atlanta because not everyone understood how to handle him. However, Chicago did at that time. There is a reason why more than 50% of all the NBA titles have been won by either LA (16) or Boston (17). They are organizationally better than the rest of the league more often than not. Do you really think Kobe would have 5 rings if he'd been playing somewhere like Denver? Not a chance because Denver is and always will be Denver! Just like places like Charlotte, Milwaukee, Toronto and oh yes New York! I said it, NEW YORK!

Do you really think Pat Ewing wasn't good enough to win a title? He was one of the all time greats and played for a front office that couldn't seem to unlock the safe. He wasted all of that talent and his career in the “world's greatest city” that hasn't won a title since 1973. Don’t get it twisted; there is a reason for that bruh. It’s called the front office. Please don’t try to tell me that he didn’t win because Jordan was winning all of the titles because MJ only won 6. Ewing played for 17 years so there was room enough for him to win at least one but not in New York.

It was the organization that recognized that Kobe and Shaq could no longer co-exist and decided to ship the "Big Fella" to Miami and not Kobe. They understood that their future was in the younger of the two even though they had already won 3 titles together. They knew that to force it would be tragic so they rebuilt the car around the new engine and won two more.

Players just play the game that they've been blessed to play with no more or less intensity. It's the front office that has to buy the groceries to make it a 5 star restaurant bruh. Nobody can win a championship without smart people evaluating talent and personalities to put them together in the right situation.

Don't fool yourself into thinking that Kevin Garnett all of a sudden started playing with that unbridled passion when he got to Boston! He's been playing with that same intensity since his days at Farragut Career Academy in Chicago. I know because I watched him play. He finally got with an organization that understood how to put the pieces together to win a title. If he'd stayed in Minnesota he would have wasted away with the same passion that he eventually won a championship with.

Charles Barkley and Karl Malone, two of the best to ever play the game, don't have rings because they spent nearly their entire careers playing for mediocre organizations in Philly and Utah. Their talents allowed them to win games and make it to the playoffs but without a smart enough front office putting the right pieces together at the right time they kept falling short. Like I said before, Jordan didn’t win it all of the time because Barkley played 16 years and Malone played for 19. So there was room to get at least one but not with those franchises. While you're at it, throw in Reggie Miller too. He was one of the best ever but happened to play in Indiana.

So to blame LeBron for not winning a title to this point in his career when he's played every year but the past two of them for probably the worst organization historically in the league is asinine! His talent allowed him to take the worse team in the league within a span of five years to the Finals(2007). Don’t hate on him for being smart enough at 26 years old to understand what most people never figure out, including LeBron hatin’ fans!

However, in year one with the Heat they've gone to the Finals and are destroying boyz in route to another one this year and more than likely the title! Why, because the Heat front office understands what it takes to win. After all, they are the same guys that brought in Shaq to play with D. Wade at the right time! Right? That's why players don't win titles, organizations do bruh!

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