He’s a lob threat on a team with 1 legit playmaker.

Put him in Boston, GSW, Nuggets and he’d be the top scorer on the team again.

I was told that reaves was better than Beal by several lakers fans

Westbrook

No

curry

Yes

harden

No

Booker

I think KD was hurt in the playoffs.

You’d get a supermax lol.

They’d have you run off a screen or take a handoff and then you’d just throw it up and it would somehow go in (even if it has to bounce off someone’s hand).

You’d be dogshit on defense but you wouldn’t give up a guaranteed 2 points every play and scoring in halfcourt every single play is still not super easy especially when I can just load up on elite defensive players (what’s the point of offensive guys when I have a guaranteed 2 points per possession).

Ben, bron, prince, rip, Chauncey.

Elite shooters to come off of lebron, and Ben+bron+prince on defense means that no team is even scoring 60 on these guys.

They win a title the first 3 years in a landslide. Against Boston I think it’s close due to their defense and Ben Wallace leaving but Detroit still takes it in 7.

At that point he’s got 4 rings but his core is ancient. Idk what happens next.

Tatum, bam, lebron, kawhi (if healthy).

You want physically strong guys in the 6-8/6-10 range who can push him around.

Gilbert arenas pointed it out?

And I don’t see why kyrie can’t say it. Plenty of other players like grant Williams and claxton have commented on his dirty plays too. It’s not like this is a one-off event.

it’s really common

Yeah it’s common when the paint is crowded, not on a barely contested layup (jrue had like a hand up facing the wrong direction) and you shuffle your feet trying to get under the other guy. Looked like a paint version of the zaza injury to me.

It’s especially funny because Giannis is a guy who has a history of trying to injure people when he’s losing.

He did the “clothesline a player on a fast break” on Tatum when losing to Boston/halfway through the Phoenix series to dbook.

He also tried to rip Clax and grant Williams arms off Kelly olynyk style.

tell me you’ve never played basketball

You should tell that to the various NBA players who all agree that Giannis undercut him on purpose lol.

Or guys like claxton who he tried to injure over the past season out of frustration.

It’s funny because you’ll probably agree with me in 2-3 years after Giannis leaves milwuakee

mostly healthy teams

mostly

lakers

injuries made AD go from a top 3 player and top 3 pf of all time into a fringe top 10 guy.

bucks

They only got past the second round because Giannis injured kyrie out of frustration (and because harden pulled his hammy). I think most people were aware that the bucks ring was one of those “once in a lifetime” events.

Nobody considered them the best team in the league and nobody outside of Milwaukee considered Giannis to be the best player in the league after KD outplayed him.

On the other hand the nuggets bodied a mostly healthy suns, lakers, heat with jokic looking like he was easily the best in the world.

As long as jokic, Jamal, Gordon stay healthy, nuggets will continue to contend.

Yeah but the difference is that Giannis needed to injure kyrie (in addition to a non-contact harden injury) to win. Back then everyone knew that the bucks ring was not likely to happen again and that they weren’t the best team.

Jokic rolled a bunch of mostly healthy teams.

great

There’s 1 player in that entire draft who’s broken 25 ppg btw.