LABron James Discussion: What Next?

Don’t worry I’m gonna message you again about some trades I would like to do this off-season. Just to keep your basketball fanhood exciting

 

Bron for Giannis? hahahaha

 

Yes something like that

 

we'll throw in his son for a couple of 1st rounders



It'll be like you're stealing from us

 

Always someone making an argument

There's so much hate in this world

 

Honestly it's exhausting and the few that spit that rhetoric I've found it's better to just ignore them then to engage with the trolls.

 

You didn’t look hard enough. That wasn’t one of them.

 

Do we really want to invite sirron to do a deep dive and muck this thread up now? Leave him be with his forever dislike/hate of LeBron and frequent “sniping”. Better than the first option in my opinion.

 

NSFW: LANGUAGE

 

If you don’t recall some of the tweets and the things that he has said, I don’t know that I actually care enough to go looking for them. He deleted most of his comments after the fact, so you actually have to find the people who saved them and did the screenshots while they were up. Then he thinks better about how it comes across with public perception and deletes them.

it’s not something I say lightly, but I do have a busy couple months ahead of me as I look to move and relocate, so I probably won’t spend the time to go fishing for the info. Had I kept the website up and running, it would be pretty easy to reference. I know this because I posted it on that website.

for those who don’t believe it or can’t remember it, I don’t really care. My goal is not to make you hate LeBron James. I don’t care if you dislike him at any level. He’s a phenomenal, all-time player, and the Lakers have been lucky to have him on their team.

but he is who he is. I don’t feel the need to sugarcoat it.

 

didn't like his "lose as a team" answer, tbh. he's not wrong, but it just felt more like deflection via the use of an obvious fact. nash's face kind of confirms that for me. like he was expecting a more interesting, thoughtful answer, and lebron wanted to be let off the hook, so they moved on.

it would have been interesting to hear lebron reflect on what nash was actually asking about--what happens to narratives when "lakers" is attached? you can tell nash was probably speaking from experience (i.e., how much struggles were magnified when he came here after playing in dallas and phx). the reason this interests me is that luka is going to deal with it now. you can already see it on this forum, where his entire thread is about him being a fat loser instead of one of the best players in the league for many years running.

anyway, i think lebron's at peace with losing to minny because he got hurt and he knew reaves was hurt, we were centerless, and we weren't going to win three more rounds in the playoffs even if we did win the first one.

 

Yeah, he was a bit too quick to pull the "lose as a team" card for my taste too. Because if they won, he'll be front and center taking plenty of credit. Like the series that made him the greatest of all time in his mind. How about his teammates. Can't have it both ways all the time. Too many people have receipts on what you say.

 

FWIW, I have read a number of things he has said over the years that I did not like, nor support. I still am glad he has been a Laker and have mostly enjoyed his time here. That being said, I never wait to listen to what he has to say about the world. He shows up getting quotes on various news shows and I literally turn it off ASAP. He seems like he would be right at home working for Al Sharpton. Whatever, I don't care much, but I have NEVER been one of those guys who idle worships people. Lebron is a great basketball player, I wouldn't vote for him to run my state or country. Everyone has their opinion, who cares!??

 

What was he supposed to say? " We lost, it's my fault"? Whoopee doo..who cares? I mean what is saying that going to change? We lost, better luck next season.

 

yes.

 

He needs to say 2026 is his last year. Most of us don’t give a s*** beyond that. His constant choking at the end of almost every close game has run its course.

 

When did he choke? Furthermore if he retired today, what do you reasonably expect to get, for that full MLE it opened up? Another Lebron James caliber player, 40 or not?

He's still significantly better than everyone else on the team, besides Luka.

 

kind of yes? i mean, he starts saying you can question what you did here or there, but in the end, it's really everybody else, right?

no. everyone can question what they did, including you throwing the ball to the other team.

he could have walked through specific moments where he fell short and then just said he knows his teammates are doing the same thing.