In sports, there are always jobbers. (Sorry for basically repeating the title). We always discuss how competitive the league is nowadays and how there’s no way any player is going to win up to 4 or 5 championships. Then, 6 years pass by and one player already has 2 or 3, while the other competition […]
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In the NBA, a wide variety of players exist (even though they all shoot threes nowadays ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). Many of these players have made a name for themselves by being incredibly skillful – think LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant, James Harden, Anthony Davis, Wardell Stephen Curry – but despite all these players being great,
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Many sports fans that watch the NBA and NFL often fall into 2 groups: those who generally use rings to judge players (they put a LOT of weight on rings), and those who generally don’t like to weigh rings as highly, and prefer to weigh stats much more. (In the NFL, this is usually pivoted
Players That Didn’t Win Rings Usually Just Weren’t Good Enough Read More »
We had an article defining choking, that, in the last paragraph, acknowledged that choking could just be a sign of a player’s flaws. When a player has bad playoff performances, we call them a choker. We imply that the moment is too big for them, but it may be more accurate that they simply get
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One of the most annoying things in sports fandom and sports discussion – or rather, two of the most annoying things – is people denying that chokers exist, and people misusing choking. To cut to the chase, choking is a real thing. There are players whose quality of play drops in the playoffs, especially as
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Stephen Wardell “Chef” “Baby-faced assassin” Curry is a NBA player for the Golden State Warriors. He is a 3x NBA champion, he is 2x MVP (including 1 unanimous), a member of the 50/40/90 club. And is often considered the greatest shooter ever. Like many great players, Curry has his fair share of haters. But most
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