They probably have a private offering to meet the demands of anything Harden wants.

Some try to say that officiating pro sports is hard, but if this is considered acceptable, then I’m pretty sure I’m qualified.

Shout out to the fools at least year’s deadline, who argued the Bulls should make a push for the playoffs with this pile of slop.

It’s no one right now. I’d say maybe 4 players would have some claims to it, but they have flaws:

Ben Simmons: Defensively as capable as LeBron. He can be a comparable facilitator on offense. However, even at his best, Ben Simmons had zero interest in having a legitimate jumper. Even if he didn’t regress on offense, he’d still struggle to be more than an occasional bucket in the post (53.5% of his career FGA are within 3 feet). He’d need a monumental offensive explosion that was never going to happen.

Zion Williamson: Like Simmons, he lacks any semblance of range (67.3% of his FGA are iwthin 3 feet!). However, his raw athleticism and size were what you’d probably envision is “LeBron+.” Even bigger, but still agile and can use both the size and speed to make offensive plays few can. Zion with real discipline would have been incredibly intriguing for this, even without a jumper, just from the perspective of what his athleticism provides.

Giannis Antetokounmpo: Again, unimpressive range (though the FGA inside of 3 feet is a reasonable 48.3%). He at least will TAKE 3s. He’s, like Zion, more size than LeBron and an athletic ability to will scoring opportunities with the physical assets. If he ever developed beyond the atrocious 28.7% 3PT%, he’d maybe be it. Big, strong, defensively capable, and is involved in the offense on many levels.

Nikola Jokic: Again, we’re talking someone who puts up freakshow stats for his archetype. Insane BBIQ on offense. Total opposite of the other guys (only 28.5% of his FGA are within 3 feet as a 7 footer?). His passing is increible. His rebounding is incredible. He’s got LeBron’s shooting efficiency (5% FG% advantage, 3PT% .4% better). He doesn’t have the athleticism or defensive involvement of LeBron.

None of them get there though. LeBron’s just an unbelievable mix of offense and defense. Ben Simmons has too many holes. Zion too. Giannis with a jumper would do it. Jokic probably has the closest degree of impact on the whole, but it’s skewed to offensive impact vs. LeBron’s ability to have a presence almost anywhere on both sides of the floor.

You say that like they held at least year’s deadline, went nowhere, then decide to run it back with a non-factor team.

I still can’t believe people thought blowing this team up last deadline was a bad idea and that they should run it back with these dudes.

I’m so fucking confused why and how this was done. I had to look these up because I was so dumbfounded:

• The Bucks don’t have an NBA logo at center court.

• The Bucks don’t have a logo at their FT line.

• The painted area in their arena is green with white lines, not empty with black lines.

• The Bucks worse green jerseys that said “Milwaukee,” not black ones that say “Bucks.”

• The away jersey they DID put in doesn’t have the graphics on the sides like it’s supposed to.

• You can still see the edges of the Blazers’ red on the sleeves.

• They bothered to swap the right logos (Jumpman and Motorola) onto the jersy, even though they didn’t bother to get the paint, center logo, jersey color, jersey graphics, legging color, and more wrong.

I can’t even begin to understand what the fuck the purpose of this is or why they’d do such a bad job with it. Like, is it a test of the Mandela Effect? You have him in a MFing AWAY JERSEY THAT ISN’T RIGHT and it’s a home game.