BykeLaByke:
Zach Lavine.

In front of the home fans, this performance by their superstars is embarrassing.

Finally, Trae came up clutch when it mattered. Gritty comeback.

Okongwu will make it in the NBA.

Heats in 5.

birdman:


When did this happen? If so, then its worse than I thought

The issues started in the preseason.

SlyCharlie:
this......



a few moments later.....




ladies and gentlemen i presnt to u ... THE FAN. looooll

Human nature. Variableness. Shadow of turning.

BykeLaByke:

Omo guy.

I was banging my head in that first half.

Didn't know the king of the 4th had other plans.

Derozan's entire legacy and rep was on the line if he didn't show up big in this play off. Last game, he was just bricking everything. Glad he found his mojo.

A40:
Of course he was not entirely faultless but this is a veteran veteran team. They should have been able to police themselves

Those players quit on themselves. Remember when Fizdale stepped in, they were still losing

There was a lack of accountability from top to bottom. People were scared to get in each other's face instead passing subliminals to each other via the media

It's tough to do anything with that collection of players

Veterans-superstars-role players-coach fit matters. That's the lesson.

I remember D.Wade and Lebron discussing how they settled for Bosh in forming the Miami big 3. They said they chose him specifically because they knew he was so cool headed and drama free and would complement them well.

A40:

The problem was not stacking stars. It was not doing the work to build an identity and thinking the league would just roll over and fold because Lakers, they had this arrogance and assuming energy. You listened to their press conferences from LeNomad to AD to Westbrook. They took the warning signs for granted right from preseason where they lost every single game. That should have rung alarm bells but they stayed snoozing. I said it here that teams seemed to be intentionally raising their game just to humiliate the Lakers. This was kinda what Shaq was talking about. Though in a slightly different context, nobody was scared of this team

I don't know that anyone expected them to fail this badly. It's hard to convince me that you believed a team with AD, Lebron and Westbrook would not finish top 10 in the conference. Not even the most doomday scenario could have seen this happening. Vogel has already proven himself as an elite defensive coach when he had the personnel. The problem is the ingredients Pelinka handed him did not give the man a fighting chance

Lebron was caught up in proving he was still that guy and stopped defending, the man was launching 8 3's a game. Assist numbers dropped and this whole myth of how he makes others better was further rubbished this season. His usual passive aggressive vibe instead of being the bad guy with his chest like Kobe or the GOAT would do caused further issues. You recruited a guy you couldn't tame and get to buy in to what you were trying to achieve. It remains to be seen who gets Westbrook cause I wouldn't give away a tuber of yam for Westbrook

Vogel was not faultless. The report is that Vogel's flaws showed up once this team came together. There were reports of him saying A and some people insisting on C.

An early example was, Vogel wanted to implement a policy of whoever rebounds the ball should bring the ball up the floor, but Russ insisted it was his job and would not budge no matter what and eventually had his way.

He could not handle the egos of the multiple galacticos. Cracks developed, feelings festered and he lost the authority and the dressing room not too long after.

AntiMen:


At first I liked him..
Until he started giving me unnecessary attention,that's when crushing began.

As I talk to you, I'm in church ,I try as much as possible to focus on my purpose for coming but my mind keeps wandering cos he's here....

I think the best bet is to tell him to avoid me, probably that will make me feel better....
Or I pray he gets transferred from here.

Lol @ pray he gets transferred. Can you pray about this crushing? If you can, then you can confess it as a sin to the Lord using Psalm 51 and nail the feelings on the cross and uproot the roots of such unholy emotions. Just focus earnestly on that emotion and you can disempower it till or kill it. Also, use the blood of Jesus as a universal solvent to melt away the stubborn emotion.

I could go on but there are 1001 things I can do to myself to make such feeling go away.

Hope this helps.

birdman:


How do you dance to that song
We all know Ronaldo na stat padder, come and beat me if you disagree
Ali's career didnt end well. The mouth no work in the last part of his career

Lebron needs tough love right now, not excuses. Guy man was waxing poems about playing with his son while Lakers was burning.That is a lack of focus and situational awareness. This is not what we want from GOAT

Haaa bro, if the spirit is willing enough you can dance to any song.

You last paragraph, fully endorsed.

steady986:


Lol. In other words you're saying the blame should go to LeBron because he talked too much. Perhaps he would receive less blame if he didn't talk too much. LeBron is LeBron, what he said is irrelevant. Everything should be analysed from a basketball point of view. When you pay three people over 80% of the team's salary, you know the rest of the team would be trash. The only scenario where this team would have functioned properly is if the three of them were healthy and playing. As fas as I'm concerned LeBron has an excuse. And people should realise this isn't 2016. This is 2022. LeBron is 37 years old and in his 19th season. We've seen LeBron carry worse teams to the playoffs before. The receipts are there. Everybody knows it. But that was in his physical prime. He played 56 games this season, not because of choice but because of injuries here and there. I dare say that if AD was playing and the team was doing OK, LeBron would have sat out more games. I don't get how people cannot understand that the end is near for LeBron.

Don't be surprised that during the off season, people like Stephen A would tip LeBron as the player with the most to prove going into the new season. A 38 year old man in his 20th season would have the most to prove going into the season. I'll be here to remind you when that happens. Bros, the real analysts out there are blaming everything but LeBron. The only thing they blame LeBron for is putting the team together. It's the Jordan fanboys that are blaming LeBron because of their insecurity.

*PS, if you watched NBA countdown a couple of days back, the same Stephen A had an entirely different view about the Lakers' failure this season. That man just loves to have notorious takes on his own show.

I will say he deserves at least half of the tonnes of criticism so far. If what Magic Johnson said is true that Demar Derozan was about coming to Lakers until Lebron started talking with Russ, and I'm sure Lakers top echelon must have asked him to leak that to the press, then Lebron should take more responsibility for how everything panned out, in his utterances, in his comportment.

Lebron, AD, Pelinka and Buss should share the blame for how the season turned out. Period.

Does it detract from his greatness? No. It just shows he has weaknesses like all the rest.

Sad no one in that organization had the cojones to stop him from blocking his own success and the team's.

birdman:


The biggest blame goes to Lebron himself. See, when you talk too much, you better back it up. That is why even Steve Kerr was throwing shade openly. I have been following Lebron for a minute, and he tends to do badly when people are heaping praises on him. He needs this dose of humility, after all this foolish goat talk.

No GOAT refers to themselves as GOAT. It is a conferred title, it is not you that will use your hand and take it. I hope people keep throwing shade all off-season. It will get so hot all the sycophants will leave and we can get a grounded Lebron next year.

Like Muhammad Ali? Like Cristiano Ronaldo who keeps saying it and thrusting himself into the goat conversation?

I am sure many of you crucifying Lebron here for hyping himself are big fans of these two 'braggarts'.

Abegi, let me dance to R. Kelly's The World's Greatest.

Nairalandhotboy:
DOS now working with soludo.. Lol.. The spirit of Biafra is with simon ekpa who knows KANU will b proud of him. A day sit at home won't kill anybody, someone is paying the price to freedom, Respect that!!!
Make FG give them Biafra abeg..

Mpama, for which freedom? Any freedom for Biafra acquired by MNK and his co-devils and co-killers will be like Taliban's freedom in Afghanistan or Boko Haram's freedom in the North or Hitler's freedom in the then Germany. It will be a nightmarish bondage. Except you are too brainwashed to know it.

Tueh! God forbid!

heniford2:
am healed already but i usually see her in my dreams will be 30yrs this sptmber yet seeing her in my dreams use to be the worst day of my life anytime.

That you are still still seeing her in your dreams can only mean one thing. That event still has a spiritual hold on you.

If I were you I would not rest till I cut off every chord tying her to me, till all my dreams are completely free of her sinister darkness.

heniford2:
Was just 9years old went to visit one of our family friends in Calabar then,the experience is crazy even as am now older i keep seeing it in my dreams, at first i never understand why she was kind to me and i really fate more comfortable around her than my own parents,

one day our school just closed and we went on break she demanded i come visit her at first my dad would not accept it but with me and my mom plead he has no choice than to accept. the say the "devil usually buys your heart before it start to hunt you" the first week was amazing went to parks,she bought Sage game very expensive then with nice cloths she stays alone comfortable for a single spinster and has this slow voice that looks innocent, but behind that voice is the monster you don't want to unleash,

one tuesday night she called me over her bed start touching my prick and removed her cloth i was scared have never seen a grown woman naked i closed my eyes, she said i should not worry i should open my eyes she said i should lay down, she tied my hands backward and
opening her legs wide and sat ass upon my face asking me to lick her virginia i could not breath, she held my dick hard and was demanding i lick faster i could not breath my dick was paining me i kept praying to God to save me please God!! because i could not talk i started crying when someone knocked at the door

Sad things are happening everywhere. The paedo first coldly groomed you and once she had you cornered and alone she went for the kill.

Don't know why but your story broke me.

I send healing thoughts to your heart.

DuvanZappatta:
Worst thing is that I can't talk to a therapist about that because I can't bring myself to mention.. it's easy on here because this is a faceless media. My elder sister is married with kids she grew up and act like that never happened when we were growing up yet I remain the damaged one till today. My cousin married too and I'm not good enough for my future wife. I know only God can help me out

Good you let it out here. Next is summon enough liver and see that therapist and open up. Your future and freedom deserve the investment of such courage.

hammer567:



WHAT IS THAT AT THE END OF YOUR RANTING?


ABOKI!

Ndi MNK gbuwara isi. Can't think for yourself to save your life. Channeling hate a mad man sucked into you. Making Igbos poorer. Enslaving your own people. Brothers killing brothers. Is that not aru?

May God judge all of you dancing this surugede in Igboland. And may His judgment be swift.

hammer567:



KUMUYI WAS PREACHING ONE NIGERIA TO IGBO CONGREGATION.


SIMON EKPA IS DEALING WITH PASTORS IN THE EAST.


UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT IPOB, IF YOU CROSS THEM, THEY WILL COME FOR YOU.


GO AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO SOLUDO.

You and all your people bringing Igboland on its knees will get your reward on this earth. Your judgment will be swift. Ndi uchu.

naptu2:
If gidgiddy had checked the link that I posted he would have seen the video in which Nnamdi Kanu said, "If your pastor is Yoruba you are worse than Boko Haram. You are an slowpoke. You are not fit to be a human being. If you are attending a Pentecostal church headed by a Yoruba, you are foolish. An slowpoke".

Why do you think he incited his followers to attack Kumuyi if he came to the East? Why do you think one of his followers (on Nnamdi Kanu's radio show) promised to kill Kumuyi?

Then he is asking me if William Kumuyi is a tribe.

Can you imagine?

Brotherly, they've been brainwashed with MNK's hate and bile. They can't think. Kanu and his disciples have destroyed our beloved Igboland. May they all get their just desserts Ndi ara!

gidgiddy:
Anyone comparing Adeyinka Grandson and Nnamdi Kanu must be a fool

Adeyinka Grandson was inciting racial hatred. An example is when he kept saying that Yorubas should kill Igbos and chase them out of Yoruba land

He even gave ultimatum that Igbos should leave the South west on a certain date or be killed

Nnamdi Kanu on the other hand never incited anyone against any tribe

Kanu never gave any tribe ultimatum to leave the east or be killed

He never asked Igbos to attack any tribe

Ewu Gambia, but he ordered hits against the police and the army and against 'saboteurs' among many others, okwa ya? Ndi ara!

MNK didn't only preach hate , he was hate personified and had brainwashed and hardwired his disciples with the same hate and now things are no longer at ease in Igboland.

May his day come quickly too. Ndi uchu!

Ojiofor:


Who is shouting one Nigeria?
My shouting is against home grown terrorist groups affiliated with Ipob to stop killing our people and disrupting their daily activities.
Dr Chike Akunyili was not killed in Kano he died in the street of Nkpo through a bullet fired by a local terrorist.
Just yesterday they killed a pharmacist in Onisha for daring to open his business on a monday but you won't be concerned about that.
I am against all form of violence.Ndi Igbo deserve to feel safe and secured in Igboland.
The Northerners who pampered their home grown terrorist in the begining are today living at their mercy.
That is exactly what IPOB is turning out to be,a thorn in the flesh of umu Igbo.

Our people are so consumed by myopia that they cannot see your point of view. In the guise of freedom fighters, IPOB, as a group, was sent by the devil to emasculate and chain the Igbo nation to a scary kind of bondage. A homegrown bondage. Just like Boko haram, they will not stop till they hold the Igbo nation by the balls and castrate its very existence.

Ndi uchu ekwensu dara nma oku n'obi.

Kobojunkie:
There is no hasty generalization here.

When I said all, I meant all of your Pastors, mogs , prophets etc. Every single last one or them are the false teachers and false prophets, the antiChrists, Jesus Christ warned His followers to beware of, your bimbo odukuya also one of them if she also goes around acting in much the same way as your other pastors and mogs.

Some things are just fit for the trash can. Here is one of them.

Kobojunkie:
1. Being protective of a loved one is one thing, fixing him/her up is another issue entirely. You express frustration at the fact that your husband is not ambitious even though you met him that way and it seems that frustration is part reason for your exhaustion too. So, please do not ignore the professional mental health therapy suggestion abeg. You need to dig down to the bottom of the frustration so you can become free and begin to enjoy life as you ought to.

2. Do not get pastors tangled up in your personal issues abeg. Those men are unqualified as counselors, mental and otherwise.

Also, "shaming" your husband by reporting him to outsiders isn't always a good approach to fixing folks. You are more likely to create animosity between you and your loved ones by that approach.. you can however change your own approach to dealing with them instead and renegotiating your marriage agreement is a good place to start.

Auntie, fallacy of hasty generalization. All pastors? Do you know the legendary Bimbo Odukoya was a pastor? All pastors?

SirBlack999:
The people I pity in all these are sthe stupid Igbo efulelefus and otelectual that think they're safe. From Soludo to Onye Nkụzi, Chxta, Afam and . Lol


Nigeria will touch everyone. MNK warned but they ignored him. And Peter Obi is running for presidency I wonder who will vote for him

MNK and his disciples that are busy killing and impoverishing Igbos all over Igboland are the ones Igbos should listen to for their safety, okwa ya? Ndi uchu! Tufia!

kelvindj98:


Stfu, it's baldness, it's not a serious medical condition. See how u r disgracing your family. U too deserve a brain resetting slap.

Pally, for a lot of women, alopecia is a serious condition. Baldness could lead them to clinical depression and low self esteem and all the concomitant symptoms and trauma.

For a woman, she is raised to believe her hair is her crown and glory and beauty. To lose it could be devastating to them.

There are videos of Jada detailing the pain she went through dealing with her hair loss.

It was a bad joke by Chris but Will went overboard. You don't do that at the Oscars.

A40:
Lool another night of stat padding by LeNomad. 23 point lead successfully blown

You too dey fear. That Nets team is too porous defensively. Na their game I dey watch so

Fear God small na. Lebron and Lakers were balling and 23 points ahead in the first quarter till Lebron injured his ankle and started hobbling and everything went south from there. What's statpadding about that?

You are one of the more knowledgeable bball folks here yet sometimes the things you utter here make me speechless. Na wah o.

Kellzzyy:

I was not necessarily holding brief for the guy.
Its common place nowadays for idiots to form woke and demand the most, even when putting in the least amount of work.
I maintain that the report was exaggerated.

Only an idiot wouldn't understand what it means to run a startup in Nigeria under intense amounts of pressure.

Ebun, I hail. Thank God you have realized your brutish ways and are now seeking for help. You can drive your people hard without being a monster. It's not rocket science.

May God help you on your way back from all these.

stagger:


You should stick to issues you are familiar with. I am guessing you were either not born in 1991 when the USSR collapsed, and so did not know what transpired between 1991 and 1994 when the Budapest Memorandum was signed. Maybe you were still a toddler wearing napkin or you were at best in primary school. So you do not know why Russia invaded Crimea.

Bro, he is right too. Budapest Memorandum says Ukraine should hand over all its nuclear weapons in exchange for a guarantee that they would not be invaded nor would their sovereignty be threatened by Russia. Guess who violated the agreement with impunity again and again? Yes, almighty imperial Russia.

Masturbation galore by sworn Lebron haters. "Hating Lebron is oxygen. In it we breathe, we sleep, we w*ank," they say.

From the degree of bile you wouldn't know this same Lebron just delivered a ring to the Lakers franchise this past 2 seasons. This is preposterous.

Put some respect to that name abeg.

steady986:


It's like you're not even aware of what the DeRozan situation was then. The only way we could have traded for him was a sign and trade (assuming SA was willing to do that. And why would they?), and doing that would have hard capped us. And he wasn't going to take a MLE from us to put us within cap

But I learnt it would still have cost the Lakers in the end almost the same pieces as Westbrook.

Also, I heard DeRozan wanted a 3-year contract and the Lakers refused.

And I think Pelinka overvalued THT which otherwise would have netted the Lakers more power during negotiations.

Roland17:


Brodie is not the entire problem, that roster is bad and poorly constructed and you are right, LeBum played a big role in the construction of that roster but guess what? He may abandon ship and blame everyone else but himself.

A roster that has Melo (37), Trevor Ariza (36), Dwight Howard (36) D'Andre Jordan (33), Kent Bazemore (32), Avert Bradley (32) all on veterans minimum I guess but are supposed to be supporting casts for player who turn LeBum (38), Russ (34), Anthony Davies (29) by the the end of this season! It can't work! No one is interested in playing defense or pushing themselves. Most of them are on their last legs.

Yet someone is saying they have 2 more years to go, in the same dreaded Western conference that has the likes of the Suns/ Warriors/ Memphis/ Mavericks/ Jazz/ Nuggets.

If they had traded for Derozan, who was available for far less, they would have still had enough to make other good trades and retain valuable role players like Caruso and all of this will not have happened. Acquiring Brodie came at too high a cost prompting management to fill up the roster with any available FA who would accept the minimum and most of them happened to be ring-chasing aged veterans.

Lebron should share part of the blame, period.

Shit attracts flies. If only Lebron had chosen wisely this past off season none of this masturbation will be happening. That bonehead mkpurummiri-inspired move for Westbrook compelled this abrupt downward trajectory of the Lakers.

Village people, wehdone o.

I would really love to be that fly on the wall that witnessed that conclave that, having considered all the pros and cons and the variables, decided Brodie was it.

Lebron, AD, Pelinka, Buss. How?

If AD continues with this injury streak you aren't getting much for him o. That guy na plastic legs and hands as it is. You can't build a franchise around him and teams will be wary of his fracture-laden history.

Unless he miraculously gets a miracle.