Kobe Bryant is a basketball legend and icon worldwide. We don’t even need to review the luster of his accomplishments – 5x NBA Championships, 2x Finals MVPs, 18 All-Stars, 9x All-Defensive teams, etc. In fact, some of Kobe’s accolades sell him short – he only has 1 MVP to his name, but many consider Kobe […]
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Look at some of the guy who have won rings: Jordan, LeBron, Magic, Bird, Kobe, Shaq, Giannis, Duncan, Hakeem, Curry, Kareem, etc. They each have experienced winning championships as a number 1 option. They all have things in common. We’ll explain what that is in a minute. Generally speaking, there are three fundamental components that
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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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Generally speaking, rings are a reflection of a player’s greatness. (This mostly applies to the NBA, where an individual player does have a large, outsized impact on his team’s ability to win games, and also for NFL QBs, who also have an outlier impact on a team’s ability to win games.) We can call this
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There is often a consensus in sports that some teams are ran terribly, and others are not. Teams that are considered to be dysfunctional include the modern-day Las Vegas Raiders., and the Washington Commanders under Dan Snyder. Good organizations include the Pittsburgh Steelers, and even the Warriors. Well, this is a little bit inaccurate. Yes,
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I’m going to list some contemporary all-time great players who have won rings, and I want you to figure out what they all have in common. Michael Jordan. Isaiah Thomas. Hakeem Olajuwon. Shaquille O’Neal. Dirk Nowitzki. Lebron James. Steph Curry. Kevin Durant. Giannis Antetokounmpo. Jimmy Butler/Nikola Jokic. What do they have in common? A lot
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LeBron James. LeBron. Bron Bron. King James. The GOAT (lol). No matter what nickname you prefer to call him, there’s no denying that LeBron James is one of the best NBA players to ever play the game. The numbers speak for themselves. The man led perhaps the greatest NBA Finals victory in recent memory, coming
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Why use championships to grade players? Is Basketball not a team sport? Are there not other variables involved in the game?
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I love basketball. I love the NBA in particular. I’ve been watching since I was 6. I have been playing since I was 9. I love to write about it. Watch highlights. Play NBA 2K. Everything. But you can’t deny that it has problems. The league is in an odd place. Teams are tanking left
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Throughout the past 2-3 years – or 24-36 months, if you will – there has been a recent flurry of complaints from NBA fans such as “The Warriors are ruining the NBA” and “Kevin Durant ruined the NBA” and “There is no more parity left because of the Warriors” and “Kevin Love should be a
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LeBron James. LeBron. Bron Bron. King James. The GOAT (lol). No matter what nickname you prefer to call him, there’s no denying that LeBron James is one of the best NBA players to ever play the game. The numbers speak for themselves. The man led perhaps the greatest NBA Finals victory in recent memory, coming
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Listen, I’ve been hearing about all of you whining for almost 2 years about KD going to the Warriors and this somehow ruining the league. It’s funny considering the fact that almost every era in the history of the league has been dominated by a few teams with the exception of the parity infested 1970’s
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