Why black folks from the ghetto should be ashamed of hatin' onLeBron! "The Blueprint"

"All of these belong to the same woman I'm married to bruh! But you hate me tho!" 

Ray Comfort, the famous evangelist, once said, “Rhetoric, which is the use of  language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it's used by others.” Francois La Rochefoucauld, the 15th century French author,  had boyz in the barber shop quiet when he dropped this one, “The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

The dull media has fooled boyz into believin' that LeBron is the enemy ever since he took his talents to South Beach. It’s amazin' that years later cats keep fallin' for it but in this world it's easy to tell folks somethin' crazy and they’ll run with it because there are very few independent thinkers out here. Most people let others dictate what they should think. Therefore, we have the hatred for LeBron James.

When the media tells you that you should hate on this cat because he’s not somethin' that you should admire you do it without question. However, if you’re black and from the ghetto something inside of you SHOULD resist the temptation because he’s settin' the example for all of our ghetto black children. 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Outside of the fact that I believe that he's the best ALL-AROUND basketball player we've ever seen. I like the kid because he was born and raised in the ghetto in a very unstable environment with a single parent that wasn’t really a parent at all. Durin' his ENTIRE career he's NEVER once been on the police blotter or in the news for doin' anythin' other than playin' basketball. Keep in mind that he signed a $90 million Nike deal before he had even graduated from high school! How many duns would have given up as soon as the huge check came in? We’ve watched Derrick Rose do it already playboy! This cat was filthy rich two months before he became the 1st pick of the 2003 NBA draft? Wheredeydodatat and not lose their minds?

Now I would expect all of the hate to come from folks that grew up in the suburbs that can't begin to imagine how difficult it is for a black male to get out of the war zone alive at 18. Not to mention bein' a 16 year old on the cover of Sports Illustrated still livin' in the middle of the war zone with all of the active land mines waitin' for him. I'm blown away at the amount of duns that grew up with the same story as LeBron that won't support him. If you grew up in the ghetto and you can't appreciate what this cat has done on and off of the court you're a fool!

This cat changed the NBA right before our eyes and Joe’s are too ignorant see it. For years the league has told players where they could and could not play. All player moves had been organization driven until he changed the game. The owners dictated where boyz had to play without conversation especially if they were still under contract and to some degree boyz that weren't under contract because of the power of influence. Stop me when I start lyin' playboy!

Then a 25 year old black kid from the ghetto, at the time, decided that he wasn’t goin' to waste his career in a dump of an organization AFTER he had played out TWO contracts so he put together his own player movement and the world frowned upon it. EVEN black folks in the ghetto. What should he have done, wasted his career playin' for teams that couldn't put together title teams like Reggie Miller in Indiana, Barkley in Philly, Malone in Utah, Ewing in New York etc. because the world said that you can't play where you wanna play even if you're a free agent? That's foolish thinkin' playa!

If God gives us the ability to think for ourselves then why not use it! LeBron used it and folks went nuts! Do you realize that they train a captive elephant to be a limited thinker from birth. When it's very small they put a chain around it's leg and put a stake in the ground to keep it from runnin' off. They do that for it's entire life. However, the elephant is much stronger and very capable of pullin' the stake out of the ground and walkin' off but because their minds are limited they never realize the power that they have to walk away and pursue their dreams. 

That's black folks in the ghetto sittin' around hatin' on LeBron for bein' able to understand the power that he has in the NBA. But boyz in the hood and let's keep it real, whites folks in the suburbs, want him to wait on some white man to tell him what he can and cannot do with his career. Why? Because it's always been that way.

  
Now I expected that reaction from mainstream America but not from the brothers from the hood. The old timers used to call it "slave mentality" because as long as someone was thinkin' for you it was OK. Now that this brother is thinkin' for himself it's not OK? You can stop me when I start trippin real bad! You know how boyz start lyin' so bad that they start spittin' too?  When I get close to that I'll shut up but I doubt very seriously I'm even close.

Don’t give me the line, “It was the way he did it with the whole “Decision” on ESPN!” First of all, how was the Decision any different than puttin' these high school kids on TV with 3 hats in front of them to tell the world where they’re goin' to play college football. Secondly, didn’t ESPN broadcast the joint and give him 2 hrs of pre-show air time and then an hour of live TV? But they were the very duns tellin' you that they didn’t like the way he did it. Am I the only one conscious around this piece?

You love Jordan but he won't touch the ghetto with a ten foot pole. He'll sell the hood shoes but won't show up to speak to the very kids wearin' them. You love Kobe but he’s the same cat that got arrested for sexual assault and threw Shaq under the bus when he wasn't even there. They call that being a snitch where I’m from and that's an unforgivable offense in the ghetto but y'all forgot all about that. 

You love the neighborhood drug dealer that's destroyin' lives for generations to come. Think about this, some kid has to go to school today with learnin' disabilities because the cat YOU admire sold his mother drugs while she was pregnant. So now with some hope and a whole lot of prayers he may be able to at least function as an adult one day. 

But you hate LeBron for playin' the game of basketball, bein' a pioneer and takin' free agency to another level. You hate LeBron for bein' in the league for 13 years and never havin' an ounce of scandal behind his name. He married his high school sweetheart, had children that live under HIS roof and had been an active father that not only raises them but looks out for the hood's kids too. 

Last year he pledged to send 221 kids from his home town of Akron to college for free!! That's a $41million investment into somebody else's children not his own but you hate him and love Jordan that won't spit on your child if he was on fire. Because believe me playboy our children are on fire right now in the ghetto. But as they are burnin' up MJ is puttin' a new pair of sneakers on their feet to take them nowhere. While LeBron is busy pullin' them out of the fire, cleanin' them up and sendin' them to college. 

Here's my idiot that can't think for himself, "That ain't it dawg! He went and hooked up with his boyz! That wasn't cool!" Again, you can't get past a young black man thinkin' for himself. There is no rule that says that he couldn’t call his patna’s and team up.  It's called free agency bruh! Kevin Durant is doin' the same thing right now! How is what KD doin' today any different than what LeBron did? If that dun goes to Golden State it would be a Superteam just like the Heat was or the Lakers with Magic/Kareem/Worthy, Shaq/Kobe, Kobe/Gasol/Odom or the Celtics with Bird/McHale/Parrish or the Rockets with Akeem/Clyde etc. Whether it was done by trades or free agency it was done bruh. And it was done by the organization. So again, you think that it's cool if the owner does it but a young black man can't. Okay, name me one superstar that has ever won a title by himself? Crickets!!

The Lakers have been teamin' up the best players in the league for years and boyz never complained about it. Almost annually they make a trade for a superstar or talk a free agent into comin' to LA to sure up another title, 16 in all. They’ve had nearly every superstar big man to ever play the game in LA. That wasn’t by accident bruh!

These same cats that complained about LeBron and D. Wade hookin' up are running an AAU team or some little league team and stackin' the joint! Y'all know how boyz do! The 4 best kids in the league end up on the same team to dominate because their dads hooked up on purpose to win a championship but you don't like LeBron. Give me a break!

You also love the cat that just spent 20 years in prison for murder because he's REAL in your opinion. You’ll give him love on the street but LeBron settin' the example on how to come out of the ghetto and succeed can’t? This is bigger than basketball playboy and you refuse to see it because the dull media told you that it wasn’t! 

You cats are so busy hatin' that you can't see that now only did LeBron get out of the ghetto he sent all of his boyz to college so that they could be self sufficient and independent too! They are the duns runnin' his business now! That's straight up gangsta! He's givin' you the blue print on how to operate but you'd rather hate him and love cats that hate you. Wheredeydodat? 

There are a whole lot of things to dislike in the world but not a kid that has overcome all sorts of obstacles even before enterin' the league like poverty and an unstable home etc. He's the kid that all of these single mothers in the ghetto should be encouragin' their young sons to pay attention to because he didn't have a father either but look at what he's done with his life. Instead, they're teachin' their sons to love the neighborhood drug dealer and the dun that keeps sellin' them sneakers they can't afford that some fool can possibly kill them over. 

I had a boy tell me that the Pacers shouldn't let me in their locker room anymore because I love LeBron! I love any cat that's handlin' his business bruh! If this dun is the real deal and I didn't keep it real about him then what kind of journalist would I be? The only reason boyz keep up with me is because Ima give it to them raw!

You've got the audacity to hate on a boy that told an ENTIRE city that he was gonna put them on his back and win a championship that hadn't been done in 52 years and he came through on that promise! And most of you cats can't come through on a promise to take your own freakin' kids to McDonald's! But you hate LeBron!
You know you're a hater when you've read this joint and still say, "Man whatever, I still don't like him!" Just like my man Francois said, “The intellect is always fooled by the heart.” 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. 

3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it. 

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Inside the Irrational Minds of Diehard Jordan Fans! "Numbers Don'tCount"

"I got all these boyz fooled bruh!" 

Ben Carson once said, " Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home." Antonya Nelson, the famous writer, gave it to us like this, "The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical." Sargent Shriver, the politician, hit a boy in the dome when he spit, "Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices." 

Well playas...add the diehard Michael Jordan fans to that list too. They are the most irrational and illogical group of people walkin' the face of the earth bruh! Now that the Cavs have won the 2016 NBA title behind the ridiculous efforts of LeBron James it's crazy to listen to these cats refuse to give LeBron his props for bein' the best ALL-AROUND player in the history of the league. It only makes sense that boyz will compare the greatness of LeBron to Mike because they're both transcendent players! However, which one of these duns is the most complete player? That's the question!  

Now let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! It's great conversation and it really doesn't matter what a boy thinks. The fun in havin' the argument is to hear the logic that goes into comin' to the conclusion as to why a boy thinks the way he does about the subject. However, when talkin' to Jordan fans all rational thinkin' goes out of the window. It's like their butt naked foamin' at the mouth at the thought that someone could be better than their beloved MJ! 

Jordan is the GREATEST SCORER of ALL-TIME there is no questionin' that! NOBODY in the history of the game scored the basketball better than Mike at 30.1 ppg! That's why the dun has 10 scorin' titles! His job was to score points!!! However, in order to be the GREATEST ALL-AROUND PLAYER of ALL-TIME you've got to be more than just a scorer and in Mike's case a great defender too. 

If we're talkin' about him bein' the G.O.A.T. then he's got to be able to play more than 1 or 2 positions and be able to rebound, assist, block and steal better than EVERYBODY else in the history of the game. Or at least do more of those things better than everybody else in the history of the game. 

But when I'm talkin' to these cats they go nuts and start talkin' crazy because they refuse to listen to logic! I had a boy tell me with a straight face that LeBron was nothin' more than a complimentary player. What!? I had a boy tell me that LeBron could get you to the Finals but he couldn't win by himself. These were his words bruh, "LeBron's always needed somebody to close out the game for him. He can't win by himself bruh." 

This is the foolishness that comes out of these people's mouths! LeBron is a complimentary player?  Where are these people from? LeBron can't win by himself? NOBODY can win by themselves you moron? Name me one player in the history of the game that has won a championship by himself? You can't even get to the Finals without a another superstar. The only player in the history of the game to do that was LeBron and he did it twice!!! In 2007 at 22 years old when he took some bums to the Finals and in 2015 when he drug Cleveland to the Finals without both Kyrie and Kevin Love. Oh, excuse me! Kyrie played in Game 1. Stop it! 

Then these cats take their large and small intestines out and say something as stupid as "Mike never went to a Game 7 and that he went 6-0 Finals! So he has to be better!" Listen bruh, it's a TEAM sport and in this particular team sport the BEST TEAM 99.9999% of the time wins the NBA title. Why? Because it's a best of 7 series all the way through the playoffs. So there are no surprises. This ain't the NCAA Tournament bruh. 

So with Mike always bein' on the BEST TEAM when he showed up to the Finals it makes sense that the Bulls didn't go to a Game 7 and won every Finals they went to! He had the best coach to EVER walk the sidelines, the best wingman in the game at the time (Scottie), the best 3-point shooter (Kerr) from a percentage standpoint in history and he had the best rebounder in the game for 3 of those runs (Rodman). 

They always wanna fall back on Mike goin' 6-0 in the Finals on the BEST TEAM but when I ask the ultimate question they get quiet. "How many Finals did Mike get to without Scottie and Phil?" I'll even go easy on you by askin' you this, "How many times did Mike get out of the first round of the playoffs without Scottie?" Since these boyz are foamin' at the mouth mad, I'll answer that for you! ZERO TIMES playboy!!! 

But you're tryin' to tell me that MJ is the G.O.A.T. The greatest of all time should be able to get out of the first round by himself bruh! LeBron did it and went to the Finals twice with no help! 

Then duns will say that MJ made those teams great! "It was all Jordan bruh!" They'll swear that those teams weren't anything without Jordan. But when I bring up the fact that the Bulls won 3 straight titles with Jordan and then the year after he retired they lost 2 additional games without him, they've got no answer.  They won 57 games in the regular season with him and they won 55 without him. That doesn't sound like the G.O.A.T. made that much of a difference other than gettin' them to the title. 

However, those same people will say that LeBron needed other players to win and that his impact on the team wasn't as great as Jordan's. However, LeBron took some bums to the Finals at only 22 years old. When he left the Cavs they became the worst team in the league the followin' year but Jordan's Bull only lost 2 more games without him but MJ had a greater impact on his team. 

When I tell them that LeBron took Miami to 4 straight Finals and when he left that followin' year they didn't even make the playoffs I hear crickets! And don't give me that, "Bosh was out and D. Wade was banged up" foolishness. They still should have made the playoffs as an 8th seed. Why? Because Bosh wasn't worth two dead flies smashed and D.Wade wasn't healthy in 2014 when they went to the Finals but LeBron drug them there. But again, Mike's team lost only two additional games without him!! 

I don't care which player you think is the better ALL-AROUND player just give me some logic to go along with your claim. Don't tell me that Mike was more clutch because you "feel" like he was. Give me the FACTS to back up your argument. The FACTS say that in elimination games LeBron has the highest points per game scorin' average at 33 than ANY player in the history of the game. Not Mike! For all of your simple minded individuals, that means the game that will end the series not just a Game 7! LeBron has scored more points per game than ANYBODY in the history of the game in those situations and that includes Mike!!! I'm not givin' you my opinion bruh these are the FACTS! Take your feelings out of it!!! 

The one that completely blows my mind is the come back that boyz always give you when they run out of things to say, "It's not about the NUMBERS Jay!! You relyin' too heavily on the numbers!!" So when I ask them how did you determine that Jordan was the G.O.A.T.?" Their response to a man is, "He's a killer and he went 6-0 in the Finals!" (Keep in mind that MJ didn't go 6-0 in the Finals until he was 36 years old! At 31 years old he'd only been to 3 Finals and won 3 titles! LeBron's been to 7 and won 3 titles at 31). I'm just sayin'! 

So if he's a killer and went 6-0 in the Finals then the numbers make up your rationale. Bein' a killer means that he was scorin' points right? Yes! Points are numbers right? Yes! Because otherwise, they wouldn't have a scoreboard in the buildin'. Goin' 6-0 in the Finals is scorin' more points in the game than the opponent right? So in order to win the games to go 6-0 in the Finals the numbers have to count right? So why are you tellin' me that the numbers don't count?  

Numbers like rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, free throws, turnovers, points in the paint etc.etc.etc are all relevant to the success of the TEAM!

EVERY coach and player in this league won't conduct an interview post-game without first sayin' "Hold up dawg I need to see the numbers first!" 

So the NUMBERS do count! Since we finally agree that the numbers play a significant factor in whether a TEAM wins or loses. Then the person that effects more of those numbers would be considered the best all-around player to play the game. Right? Not the dun that is just a scorer and defender right? 

The cat that leads his TEAM in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks more often than not would be the person that has a greater impact on the game would be the best ALL-AROUND player wouldn't you agree? For example, when we all saw LeBron in Game 6 of the Finals score or assist on EVERY point in the second half but 1 he had a greater impact on the game than Jordan ever did. Why? Jordan NEVER did that. How do I know that? Because the numbers don't say that he did bruh!

When we see LeBron score 208 points, 79 rebounds, 62 assists, 16 blocks and 18 steals in the Finals where all of those NUMBERS are ranked No.1 in Finals history. You can't act like it didn't happen because it did. However, Jordan fans will watch the same effort and say that Kyrie should have been the MVP!  All you can do is shake your darn head because these people are brain washed by the Brand! How can a dun put up ALL-TIME NUMBERS throughout the course of the Finals and boyz tell you that you didn't see what you saw? 

Don't be so stubborn that you can't see history bein' made right in front of you. We've never seen a player do as much on the floor as LeBron does bruh! He affects EVERY aspect of the game! Jordan didn't because he couldn't do everything. LeBron can play all five and guard all five! Mike couldn't because if he could have we would have seen him do it! Stop it! You sound crazy! 

I warn you bruh, don't ever try to reason with these people because rational thinkin' left the buildin' years ago. And most of these duns didn't even see Jordan play! Boyz have been watchin' highlights for so long they believe that he never missed a shot. I'd have more respect for these cats if they would just come out and say I'm brainwashed and can't help it. Then we can stop debatin' this foolishness because makin' up ignorant reasons as to why he's not better is crazy. 

And let me say this playboy! My loyalty is not to MJ or LeBron. My loyalty is to the reader! It doesn't make since for me to know this information and not share it with you. Most people that cover sports know this same information but they wanna be friends with the players and not piss anybody off especially Mike! Well guess pimpin', I'm from G.I.(Gary, In.) and I'm not afraid to say what's real when everybody else is. I don't care two dead flies smashed about bein' MJ's friend or sittin' down and gettin' an interview with him. The truth is the truth and I'm obligated to tell you what's real. And what's real is that Mike isn't the best ALL-AROUND player to ever play this game! He's the best SCORER or ALL-TIME! He's not the best all-around player because he couldn't do everything on the floor and LeBron can. 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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How LeBron is under MORE pressure to win than ANY player in history! "Diamonds"

It ain't over yet bruh!" 

Sigmund Freud, the foundin' 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 buildin' 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 Sunday night LeBron James fulfilled a dream/promise to bring a championship home to Cleveland! Two summers ago this dun put the ENTIRE city on his back and told boyz to ride with him because he's got it. Pressure like no other playboy. To tell a city that hasn't seen a professional sports championship in 52 years that's he's got it is enormous if not impossible. A few years ago the ESPN The Magazine did a cover story with ole boy sittin' down with Chris Broussard. They talked about a number of things from his fear of failure, his relationship with Jordan or lack thereof and growin' up an MJ and AI fan. But what they didn’t talk about is all of the pressure that this dun faced comin' 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 Michael Jeffery Jordan!  

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Boyz have been pilin' 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 leavin' Cleveland after playin' through two contracts and hookin' 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 comin' 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 playin' 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 sayin' that in order for him to be great he’s got to win at least 11 championships. They weren’t sayin' that if he doesn’t at least match Bill in titles he’ll be a failure. They weren’t comparin' him to the Big O and sayin' 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 goin' to win "A" title not 6?” because boyz like Magic, Bird and Zeke were already winnin' 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 acceptin' 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 blastin' him about why he left Cleveland to play with his boyz etc. But nobody seems to deal in the reality of LeBron James!

After playin' through two contracts with some bums and no help comin' 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 goin' 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 me put it where the goats could get it bruh. 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 and the ignorant fans that believe everything a dun on TV says because he's, well, on TV.  They've  brain washed the fans into believin' that if LeBron doesn’t win at least 6 championships he’s a failure. Nobody has ever had that type of pressure! Not Wilt, Bill, Magic, Bird or Jordan! 

Sure, LeBron added to that 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 doggin' 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 playin'. So their resumes were still bein' formed. Therefore, Mike didn’t play under the same microscope that LeBron has been playin' under. 

Not only was LBJ dealin' with the pressure to win. He increased it by tellin' a fan base that hasn't won a title in 52 years and had NEVER seen a basketball title that he was comin' to the crib to win one for them. And in two years he did it in the most amazin' manner. He led his team in darn near EVERY statistical category known to man. Not only did they win the title. They beat arguably the best statistical team in the history of the league with the best shooter of all-time after bein' down 3-1. He led the team in points (208), rebounds (79), assists (62), blocks (16) and steals (18). All of those numbers were No.1 in the History of the Finals! Pressure!

But check this out bruh! He’s lived up to the hype and at age 31 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 7 Finals, won 3 of them and he’s won 3 Finals MVP's and 4 league MVP’s. Mike at the same age had only been to 3 Finals, had 3 titles and won 3 MVP's. 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 tellin' me about Mike never losin' in the Finals because up to this point in his life he'd only been to 3! At the same age LeBron's been to 7 with three different teams and two franchises! And he's got at least 4 or 5 good years left in him bruh! 

Think about this playboy! Every dun that LeBron had played with has already overachieved in life! Not one of those cats came into the league with the media expectation of havin' to win a title not even D. Wade that has 3 rings to his credit. If he had never won a title comin' out of Marquette nobody would have cared. Duns like Bosh, Kyrie, Kevin Love etc. have become rich beyond their wildest dreams, datin' 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 winnin' a championship because of LeBron. Cats like Iman Schumpert and JR Smith were traded to Cleveland for a 2nd round pick in 2019 bruh! They are now NBA Champions now. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? So the only cat in the car that still has somewhere to go is LeBron. Why? Because the pressure to win ain't goin' nowhere like Puff Daddy! 

Everybody else is just ridin’ bruh. If they make it to another Finals cool, if not… oh well they’ve already overachieved. 

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 when you see this cat on the street just give him a pound because he's doin' the impossible under the pressure continues to make diamonds! 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. 
3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to make it as simple as pie. To lower it to the most elementary level of understandin'. To put it in the ground so it can be reached. 

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How to REALLY know when you're a bonafide LeBron HATER! "Plain & Simple"

"Git off me!!" 

Albert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Marcus Aurelius, the ancient Roman Emperor, gave it to us like this, "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." Then Steve Jobs broke it down so that it would forever be broken when he spit, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

Well playas...99.9999 percent of duns walkin' the face of this earth can't think for themselves. It doesn't matter what subject you're talkin' about there will be people deep in the conversation that think they know what their talkin' about without a thread of knowledge of what's really goin' on. And the sad part about it is that the other duns talkin' to him don't know either. So more often than not you've got fools talkin' to fools. 

When LeBron decided to leave Cleveland back in 2010 after playin' there for 7 years without a stitch of help from the front office in getting' him players to make the TEAM better. After watchin' them fire his head coach and then two weeks later seein' his general manager quit ole boy bein' an unrestricted free agent decided that it it made good sense to dip. ESPN and the ENTIRE sports media industry set up the "Decision" as a national television event for an ENTIRE year by constantly talkin' about it. These was no way around the "Decision" and they knew it. That's why they produced the freakin' event. Then turned on LeBron like it was all on him and 99.9999 percent of the fools watchin' it fell for the Oaky Doke. Why? Because NOBODY thinks.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I could give two dead flies smashed about LeBron bruh! My favorite player of all time is Kevin Garnett!! Why? Because I'm drawn to people with unbelievable passion for what they do. KG would play a Tuesday night in February like it was Game 7 of the Finals! That's why I've got so much respect for him. 

However, I started defendin' LeBron with more than 84 Hot Joints over the years because people constantly sound ignorant hatin' on this cat without havin' facts to back up what they're sayin'. I'm a thinker by nature bruh that happens to be a sports fan. So when a boy jumps out of the birthday cake and says something ignorant. I've got to address it with facts because I believe that all opinion should be grounded in FACTS!! You can't draw an opinion without the facts because otherwise you're just talkin' and soundin' like a fool. 

For example, not 24 hours after LeBron led the Cavs to their first NBA title I saw boyz sayin' ignorant stuff like "No disrespect to LeBron but he doesn't win the title without Kyrie!" And what's so crazy is that once somebody says it then everybody else starts repeatin' this foolishness like they've never watched the NBA before. 

No disrespect to anybody that's EVER won an NBA title but without their counterpart NOBODY would win the title! IT'S A TEAM SPORT BRUH! You can't win an NBA championship without another superstar! Since you cats don't wanna think on your own let me do it for you! 

The Big O couldn't win without Kareem in Milwaukee playboy! Did you forget that Magic had both Kareem and James Worthy! Larry Bird didn't just show up butt naked with some tube socks on by himself in Boston! He had Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish. Oh and did I forget to mention Dennis Johnson!!! Zeke wasn't killin' boyz in Detroit by himself! He had Bill Lambeer, Dennis Rodman and Rick MaHorn!! C'mon bruh where YOU from? 

David Robinson was just the Admiral without Tim Duncan. He wasn't a champion. Then Tim needed boyz like Tony Parker, Manu Ginobli and Kawhi Leonard to get it done!! As dominant as Shaq was in Orlando he didn't win until he got with Kobe and vice versa! Then Kobe was screamin' to be traded after he ran Shaq out of town and could no longer win until he got Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom! D. Wade was ringless until Shaq went to South Beach! C'mon bruh you've been watchin' this foolishness for way too long to be ignorant of the facts. 

Dr. J needed Moses and as great of a player as KG was in Minnesota he couldn't touch an NBA Finals or win a championship without Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. 

And all you cats wanna act like Jordan showed up like Jesse Owens,  Carl Lewis or somebody and won championships with a do-rag on, some Stacey Adams and a Members Only jacket on and won by his darn self! And that's the edited version. Mike ALWAYS had Scottie! Let's not forget that. He ALWAYS had a dead eye shooter in B.J. Armstrong, Craig Hodges, John Paxson or Steve Kerr! He had Horace Grant and then Dennis Rodman!  And PLEASE don't EVER forget that he walked in with Phil EVERY time he got off of the bus in the Finals! 

So for you cats to act like LeBron is the ONLY person in the freakin' HISTORY of the game that's supposed to win all by his lonesome is crazy!! For this cat to put a team on his back the way he did in this Finals was remarkable and as close to by himself as they come. They were down 3-1 in the FINALS against the NBA's greatest team in history from a statistical standpoint; 73-9 regular season record and shootin' percentage. They had GREATEST shooter of all-time and this dun led the Finals in EVERY offensive category possible. Not only did he lead this Finals he led in all five categories in the HISTORY OF THE FINALS!!! 

This cat put up 208 points, grabbed 79 rebounds, threw 62 dimes, had 16 blocks and carjacked a boy for 18 steals! That wasn't even physically possible before he did it bruh and you wanna scream that Kyrie should have won the MVP? You sound like a complete fool even suggestin' such a thing.  And many of these so-called paid media-types where sayin' it too. 

Don't be such a hater that you can't think straight. What kills me is that NOBODY ever wants to admit to bein' a hater like folks with bein' racist. People act like all of the racist people live on an island somewhere locked away and they come out from time to time and say or do something crazy. If you say something crazy or condone that foolishness you're a racist! And if you're talkin' crazy about LeBron without any knowledge of what you're talkin' about then you're a hater too!  Plain and Simple! 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 it's non-gender specific.
3) Dip: verb - to leave
4)

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The REAL reason you're watchin' the G.O.A.T. RIGHT NOW BRUH! "Bentleys & 300"

"Y'all better start listenin' to Jay Graves bruh!" 

William Shakespeare once said, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the ancient Roman philosopher, gave it to us like this, "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." Then the big homie, Bob Marley, broke it down like a playa at a pimp convention rockin' some Detroit gators when he spit, "The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively." 

Well playas...LeBron James has proven that he has the ability to affect those around him positively because the ENTIRE state of Ohio has been revitalized by an NBA Championship comin' home to Northeast Ohio and more specifically CLEVELAND!! This dun put all of these boyz on his back and pulled off the IMPOSSIBLE! He brought the Cavs back from a 3-1 deficit in the FINALS against the BEST statistical TEAM in NBA history with the BEST shooter of All-Time and beat them at the crib 93-89! 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Like I've been tellin' you boyz for the past 6 years and more than 82 Hot Joints later on this very subject, LeBron James is the GREATEST All-AROUND BASKETBALL PLAYER WE'VE EVER SEEN. Stop it! You sound crazy tryin' to debate it. Why? Because the numbers don't lie! The eye ball test doesn't lie and the facts slap you in the back of the head like Big Momma in the grocery store. 

All year long these fake media-types have been tryin' to discount this cat by lyin' to you by sayin' that Steph Curry was the best player in the league and you believed them. He proved last year in the Finals that he wasn't the best player in the league because he disappeared. Golden State won the title because he was on the BEST TEAM. Then he showed up this year and completely disappeared again. 

Ima put it where the goats can get it bruh! You always hear duns in the hood hypin' a boy up by tellin' him that his Chrysler 300 looks like a Bentley and he believes that foolishness until a Bentley actually pulls up. Well playboy, a Bentley pulled up on Steph and he saw his reflection in the right quarter panel. Self reflection is a beast.  

And for all of you LeBron hater/Jordan lovers that have been in the emergency room with the uncontrollable bubble guts since the final buzzer went off. I know that it was hard to watch that dun hoist the Larry O'Brien trophy but let me take you to school real quick. You are watchin' the G.O.A.T.  right now bruh! What this cat is doin' has never been done before. I know that you've been watchin' highlights where Jordan hasn't missed a shot in 20 years but that's why they're called highlight bruh. They only show the best plays and he doesn't miss in the highlights. I know you've got the old school DVD on watchin' Space Jam and you're even rockin' a fresh pair of J's.   

Don't let the Brand lie to you and please stop listenin' to these fake media-types lie to you because they're afraid to make the Institution mad. Well playa, I care nothin' about interviewin  Mike or bein' his friend. My loyalty is to the reader and givin' them the truth. So here it is playa. 

If you wanna know who the greatest player is just look at the facts. At 16 Mike was cut from his high school team! LeBron was on the cover of Sports Illustrated labeled as "The Chosen One!" At 18 Mike was the third option on his COLLEGE team! LeBron was the No.1 pick overall in the NBA draft and was named the Rookie of the Year. At 22 Mike's Bulls were gettin' tossed in the 1st round of the NBA Playoffs. LeBron took some bums to the Finals and got swept by one of the greatest teams in NBA history, the San Antonio Spurs. Key word here is FINALS at 22 years old bruh.

Stay with me pimpin' because it gets real! At 27 Mike was still tryin' to get to a Finals! Lebron had already won a championship and been to three. At 31 Mike had been to the Finals 3 times and won 3 playin' on the best TEAM in the league. He'd won 3 Finals MVP's and 3 league MVP's. Impressive right? Well playa, at the same age LeBron has been to 7 Finals with two different teams with 6 in a row and won 3! He has the same amount of Finals MVP's and he's got one more league MVP. AT THE SAME AGE BRUH! 

Here's my diehard Jordan fan that can't think straight this mornin' because he's been on the toilet since midnight. "Mike went 6-0 in the Finals!" You know that's their only come back and it makes no sense. Mike was 36 years old before he went 6-0 in the Finals bruh. And he should have gone 6-0 because he was ALWAYS on the BEST team when he got there. However, at 31 Mike had only been to 3 so stop soundin' like a fool because you've run out of excuses to discount this Philistine. And unless he runs into a boy that's handy with a sling shot he's not goin' down any time soon. 

Here's where it really goes off of the rails my dude. LeBron is not only carryin' his teams but he's doin' EVERYTHING. Mike didn't have to do everything because he was always on a complete team when he showed up. Let's even include the 6 championship teams for the sake of argument. 

He was SUPPOSED to go 6-0 because he was ALWAYS on the BEST TEAM when he showed up and they were ALWAYS healthy. He ALWAYS had a dead eye shooter in either, B.J. Armstrong, Craig Hodges, John Paxson or Steve Kerr. So when he needed one or two shots knocked down it got handled. He ALWAYS had the best wing man in the game in Scottie. He had duns like Horace Grant who was a MONSTER and then when he left he had the BEST REBOUNDER in the league in Dennis Rodman. Then to top all of that foolishness off he ALWAYS had the BEST COACH to EVER walk the sideline. AND he was the BEST PLAYER in the league! He was SUPPOSED to go 6-0 in the Finals you idiot! 

LeBron is doin' work with a tenth of the talent Mike had to work with. Let's take what this fool just did in this Finals alone and we can stop talkin' about it because the more I give you facts the angrier you get. LeBron just beat the best Statistical TEAM in NBA history 4-3 after bein' down 3-1 which had NEVER been done in the HISTORY of the league. Not only did he led his team to victory, he led them in EVERY statistical category. Excuse me, I'm sorry, he led both teams and he's ranked No.1 in those categories in NBA FINALS HISTORY! He put up 208 points, grabbed 79 rebounds, threw 62 assists, had 16 blocks and 18 steals on the lesser TEAM!!! Mike wasn't capable of doin' that bruh even if he wanted to. Oh he wanted to because he had the killer instinct. He just couldn't because he didn't have he DNA to pull it off. Not at 6'6" 210lbs. 

Did I forget to mention that LeBron pulled off only the third triple double in a "Po Pimp" Do or Die situation in NBA Finals history? This dun had 27 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists on the road in a Game 7 hostile environment. The only other cats to do that was Jerry West in '68 and Magic in '88! Mike ain't on that list playa just in case you were lookin' for him.  

LeBron's already got more playoffs wins than Mike with as many champions, far more points, rebounds and assists at the same age and he's got 4 or 5 more good years left in him. So y'all can keep tellin' boyz that the300 looks like a Bentley if you want to but the Bentley just pulled up. Self reflection is a beast my dude! Stop me when I start lyin'!

Oh and fa da cats that don't read here's the podcast: "The REAL Playa Podcast"

Playas Thesaurus: 
1) Detroit Gators: noun - alligator shoes commonly worn in Detroit 
2) Spit: verb - to say
3) Crib: noun - home 
4) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific.  
5) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to simplify it to the easiest level. To make it elementary. To put it at the lowest level so you can reach it.   

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How LeBron keeps eatin' away at the haters ammunition! "Fa Haters Only"

"I see you hatin' bruh but Ima do me!" 

Charles Simmons, the famous novelist, once said, "True greatness consists in being great in little things." William Shakespeare gave it to us like this, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Then William Hazlitt, the English writer, broke it down like a playa at a pimp convention when he spit, "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history." 

Well playas...that page just added LeBron James to a special section called "Fa Haters Only!" After he and his Cavs teammates bounced Toronto in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals 113-87 it has now become OFFICIAL that ole boy will be headed to his 6th straight NBA Finals!!! Only seven other duns have EVER done that and it's been 50 years since it's happened bruh!!! 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! The other cats that have done it all played with Bill Russell when they went to 8 straight durin' a time when Bill ultimately won 11 championships. Here's what boyz don't realize though. When the Celtics were killin' boyz in the league back then there were only 11 freakin' teams in the NBA and they had Bill!! 

Before you put on your playa hater's hat, scarf and gloves think about what LeBron has done bruh. He's taken two different franchises to the Finals on his back. He went to Miami in 2010 and took those boyz to the Ship in year one when everybody and their baby's momma's momma, Ms. Jackson, that knew anything about sports and team chemistry figured that they wouldn't get there at least until year two. Naw playboy, they went in year one! Then ended up goin' 4 straight times winnin' 2! 

He left that joint and they didn't even sniff the playoffs the followin' year and please don't holler that Chris Bosh was hurt. If he takes a team to 4 straight Finals, at the very least, even without Bosh they should have made the playoffs bruh! Stop it! You sound crazy!!

Then the dun shows up in Cleveland, which was one of the worst teams in the league since he bounced in 2010 and took them straight to the Finals in year one with a bunch of bums!! Kyrie only played in regulation of Game 1 of the Finals and he missed the overtime joint. Kevin Love got WWE'd in the first round. So LeBron had these boyz on his back and at one point was up 2-1 in the series but he's human and ran out of gas!! And now he's back again! Are your freakin' kidding' me? 

Only a REAL bonafide card carryin' Playa Hater can throw shade on that bruh! The stuff this cat is doin' we've NEVER seen before bruh. He's already moved past Shaq into 4th place on the All-Time Postseason scorin' list behind Jordan, Kareem and Kobe. He just recently moved past Jason Kidd on the All-Time Postseason Assists list into third place behind Magic and John Stockton. He's already passed Jordan in postseason wins etc. And at the rate he's goin' accordin' to the experts he's goin' to end his career as the All-Time leading scorer. I'm just sayin' what I've been tellin' you boyz for the past 5 years and at some point y'all gone start listenin' to me. 

Now what you boyz don't realize is that he's still got 4 or 5 more GOOD years left in him bruh! He's only 31 years old! Think about that! He's been to 7 Finals by the time he's 31! Boyz forgot that he took Cleveland to the Ship in 2007 with the darn Cosby Kids and the duns from the Electric Company. 

He's still got time to play and guess what? All of the other cats on those lists aren't playin' anymore so his numbers will keep risin' while they're numbers remain stagnant. It's gonna be NUTS!!! Not only is he scorin' but he's throwin' dimes and reboundin'! He's on the verge of doin' the freakin' IMPOSSIBLE! Winnin' a championship in CLEVELAND!!!! That trumps EVERYTHING! The possibility of winnin' a title in Cleveland? There's nothin' else to say! What are the perennial haters goin' to say then? 

I hear them now standin' up screamin' to the top of their lungs, "Jordan was 6-0 in the Finals!" Which is the dumbest thing ever recited because Jordan was always on the best team when he showed up to the Finals! The Bulls were favored in EVERY single Finals appearance! Why? Because they had the best player, Jordan himself! The best wing man in the game at the time, the best 3-point shootin' percent cat in the history of the NBA in Steve Kerr, the best rebounder in the basketball at the time, Dennis Rodman and the best coach of ALL-TIME. Sure, they didn't have Kerr or Rodman for all 6 Finals but they always had Jordan, Pippen and Phil. So it makes sense that Jordan went 6-0 in the Finals. 

However, he didn't go to 6 straight with 2 completely different teams and sets of players. What LeBron is doin' is nothin' short of remarkable. And I tell you what pimpin', if he wins a title in Cleveland that's worth 6 anywhere else. Trust me on that bruh! CLEVELAND? 

Y'all don't hear me doe! CLEVELAND hasn't won a professional sports championship in 52 years!! Yeah bruh, that cancels out any and all arguments about how great LeBron is and where he'll end up on the All-Time Greatest Player list once he retires. It wouldn't be up for discussion EVER again! Just stop it! And the perrenial LeBron haters know that. So that's why they're on the edges of their seats hopin' that Golden State can some kind of way pull a miracle out of their hats and beat OKC. Because you and I know that Cleveland is a terrible match up problem for OKC and KD can't do a thing with LeBron. 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.  

3) Pimpin': noun -the person that I'm passionately tryin' to get my point across to. 

4)