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SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 11:48am On Jul 05
Secondly, no matter how you slice it and whether it was fair or not, Stephen a was right, the reason Jaylen brown didn't make the Olympic team was for non basketball reasons. 4 of his teammates made it and he was left at home. Are there 4 Celtics teammates better than Jaylen brown?
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 11:37am On Jul 05
Ridwan1821:
He's not only a champion and a millionaire but also a human, and humans have feelings.
It is quite easy for the media to peddle an agenda against a player without any backlash but we call for the player's head when he responds.
Many people hide behind "unanimous sources" to push their controversial takes so as to avoid the backlash that will come with it.

We need to get JB right pls.
He said it on his stream that anyone can criticize his game and that's totally fine by him. He has no issues with you criticizing his game. Where he draws the line is the attack on his person. He won't take people criticizing his personality, calling him "not marketable" or saying "he's a disease" and all that. He started streaming to tell the true story of himself and not let the media control the narratives.
Again, all I see is a coordinated media campaign against Brown who dared them.
We have the likes of LeBron James, Draymond Green and Paul George running podcasts with no issue so Brown having a stream shouldn't be a problem so long it doesn't affect his game.
There is no smoke without fire. If all is fine with JB, the Celtics won't trade him in his prime for a bag of chips.
I am pretty sure some of those anonymous sources are Brad Stevens and his crew. It's also interesting that none of Jaylen brown's team mate ever came out publicly to defend him.
When Stephen A was criticizing Mikal bridges for his poor play earlier on in the season, Josh Hart came out and had his back.
None of the Celtics teammates pushed back on the narratives.

I don't think all the fault is with Jaylen brown but I also don't think he's blameless in this fallout
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 9:43am On Jul 05
Ridwan1821:
I disagree though. This is not the first time Stephen A is coming at Jaylen Brown.
All I see is a coordinated attack on Brown's personality not only by SAS but the media.
His issues with Stephen A started when he didn't make the Olympic squad, back then Stephen a said a source told him that the reason J brown was not taken along was due to his marketability and off court behavior.
Instead of introspecting and taking criticism he started attacking Stephen A that there was no source.
Instead of asking himself why his team is always trying to trade him away after just having the best season of his life he kept on attacking members of the media.

The truth is the media always have an agenda and they can be offensive but you have to learn to manage them. At JB's level he's no more a businessman he himself is a Business brand. This young cats nowadays are too thin skinned.

They want all the praises all the time (e.g when Stephen a was pushing jaylen brown MVP agenda) but once they get a small critic they set tripod and start podcasting or tweeting.

JB has not received one tenth of the criticism that likes of Kobe, LeBron, Steph, Dirk even more recently KAT.

You're a champion, a millionaire with a 300 million dollar contract, Intelligent but you still dy do victim Olympics
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 5:46am On Jul 02
People hate on Stephen A. Smith but on this Jaleyn brown issue he was clearly right.

He must have had sources from the front office telling him how abrasive their relationship with jaleyn was going.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 10:00am On May 31
How can a basketball fan that has watched the last 15 years say Caruso is a greater role player than Draymond.
We have too many prisoners of the moment folks here.
I hate Draymond's antics and his actions have probably costed the warriors more titles.
But make no mistake, there is not warriors dynasty without Draymond.
He's as much a product of the warriors as the warriors were a product of him.

Draymond didn't defend 1-5 to be compared to Caruso.
The reason the warriors could even play small ball was because he could defend and lock up centers and forwards who were 4-6 inches taller than him.

You can't compare a DPOY winner and a runner up 4 times to Caruso . What an insult.

And offensively they are not mates.

Prime Draymond averaged double digits point four times in his career , Caruso has done that once and let's not even mention his assist. Draymond and Caruso are not mates in creativity.

SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy:
God is humorous, as LeBron dy commot he send us wemby grin

The problem for the league is that , he's getting more experienced and developing more self belief very fast in this playoffs.

Barring injury, he will be more dominant next season.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 9:00pm On May 01
A40:
Always considered the Celtics a tad bit overrated. Their 3pt spamming don cast. White has regressed and Holiday is gone.

Any team with a half decent big will smoke them as Embiid is showing. Vucevic and Hauser are not stopping anybody

Tatum and Brown have been super inefficient and I can see Nick Nurse outsmarting Mazulla in Game 7. Celtics also have a poor record at home so their home court advantage is nil
Honestly I will fault Tatum and Jalen Brown. You're two 6 ft 8, MVP caliber studs, no coach will stop you from mixing it up. Even the god or the three ball, Steph mixes it up when the three ball is not falling.

Kobe Bryant would had a stroke watching Tatum and Brown spamming threes grin
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 11:30pm On Apr 26
I think a team in the West has to trade for Giannis to counteract the wemby defense conundrum in the paint.
A fit Giannis is probably the only player I see giving wemby problems.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 11:27pm On Apr 26
As long as wemby stays fit, his defense alone will be a problem for a long time.
Your only hope against the Spurs is elite perimeter shooting, you see that paint area, it's gone. grin
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 7:41am On Apr 25
The KD sexuals have been awfully quiet. angry grin

The rockets team is obviously very flawed and he got injured at the wrong time.
But what this series has demonstrated is the Gulf in the leadership skills & basketball IQ between Lebron and KD.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 10:52pm On Mar 08
etidy:
Nobody is addressing the stink brewing in LaLa land grin
Lebron comes back from injury and the chemistry suddenly gets ruined.

I don't think the Lakers can survive fielding three passengers on defense (Lebron, Doncic and Reaves) against a solid team.

We know who has to leave soon.
Lakers suddenly playing well today, guess who's absent grin
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 4:49am On Feb 22
birdman:
you want it to look like KD was the issue in golden state dont you? There is no proof on this twitter thing, so you are on a long thing there.

And go look again, he is leading the team. They playing different after his open criticisms, not twitter nonsense
If no be say I don see your post for here before and you usually make sense, I for no reply you grin
Who mentioned golden state agenda now?

Someone had issues at OKC, Golden state, Brooklyn nets, Phoenix suns and now is yabbing his teammates with burner accounts at Houston but na golden state be your problem. It shows where your bias is at.
Out of all those teams, the only place he's guaranteed a statue and Jersey retirement is golden state and you think Golden state is his problem?
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 6:43am On Feb 20
birdman:
There is no need to pull down one player to make another look good. KD's issue with a young rockets team is expected.
Which kind fanboy analogy be this? Who is being made to look good but pointing out the irresponsible actions of KD.
You're supposed to be the leader in the team, even if you have frustrations with some of the young players is it on social media you should be airing them?
What happened to calling them out in the locker room?
And oh somehow you have frustrations with everyone you have ever played with.

Like I said, great player, poor and insecure leader and that's why he hasn't be able to "lead" a team to the title by himself.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 10:04pm On Feb 18
The KDs stans on this group have gone quiet.

Only you get problem with Westbrook and OKC, Draymond and the warriors, Low-key beefing Steph from your burner accounts, beefing Kyrie from your burner, Beefing harden, beefing Brooklyn nets, beefing phoenix suns, you're not even a full season into your Houston rockets tenure you don they thrash your team mates.

Great basketballer, poor leader and a very insecure person.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 10:37am On Jan 20
Jimmy Butler has blown his ACL damn shocked
There is no way back for the warriors, they may as well blow up this team and get some draft capital. But the emotional attachment to Steph won't allow them.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 8:57am On Dec 26, 2025
Nobody is addressing the stink brewing in LaLa land grin
Lebron comes back from injury and the chemistry suddenly gets ruined.

I don't think the Lakers can survive fielding three passengers on defense (Lebron, Doncic and Reaves) against a solid team.

We know who has to leave soon.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 11:00pm On Dec 25, 2025
The Spurs guards attacking the paint is a big problem for the OKC and then they have the athleticism and grit to make things difficult on the defensive end. The OKC can't use athleticism to bully them like other teams.

The only advantage OkC have over them is three point shooting and it's not like OKC is a great three point shooting team.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 3:00pm On Dec 24, 2025
greypencils:
Another ring wont make Durant crack top 10. Curry in many circles hasn't cracked top 10. I don't see anyone placing a Durant above Curry. Curry and Durant in top 10 is displacing which legends among these 9;
MJ, Bron, Kareem, Shaq, Kobe, Wilt, Duncan, Magic, Russell? I deliberately left Bird and Olajuwon out of the top 10.

You would have to choose one between Curry and Durant to fill in the 10th position and that is the very best shot, no more.
Sadly, I think Wilt shouldn't be top 10 , he didn't win enough and his competition was suspect.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 9:01am On Dec 24, 2025
Android17:
73-9?

Do am if e easy. grin

GSW were 29-1 after 30 games in 15-16.
Na bipolar Draymond, blind Harrison barnes and prime Lebron/Kyrie I blame for the disrespect to that warriors team. Everyone was lining up to stop them with their best efforts.

People underestimate the greatness of that 73-9 warriors. They did it in a League with prime Lebron/Kyrie Cavs, prime KD/Westbrook/Ibaka OKC, Prime Harden Houston rockets, Prime Kawhi Spurs.
The league was stacked that year
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy:
SmooshCHN:
See ehn, KD has come a long way.
All that post season hustle at a young age vs Spurs, Memphis, Miami, Dallas, Lakers.

NBA MVP: 2014
NBA Champion: 2× (2017, 2018) | Finals MVP: 2× (2017, 2018) if e reach your turn no add am
Scoring titles: 4 freaking times (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)
All-Star: 15x
All-NBA: 11x
Rookie of the Year: 2008

He did most of these consistently when you had to work for every point not now when no one can't breathe around you. Dude straight up just comes to play and go home. No flopping, flailing or looking for loopholes in the rule. He just plays.

People need to be realistic abeg.



And for you and your OKC boys, I honestly didn't care too much about you guys last season but good lord what are those boys doing now??
I hope your boys break the Warriors regular season record. I don't think I want you guys to win a championship if you break the record.
The disrespect will be too much. They will come and put asterisks on Steph, Klay and Draymond's legacy grin

And for real, fans like you deserve to be happy (just a little bit sha) for real. People like us, we be old taker. All my hope in the Warriors died when they let Draymond get away with harassing KD and punching J.Poole.
You're shying from the truth.

There was an asterisk on Steph curry's career until he won the last title in 2022.

At that point he had won 2 MVPs (one of which was unanimous), two scoring titles, several all stars yet he had to show his first title without durant wasn't a fluke.

The Greatest fact that supports the argument that another title will change Durant's legacy is that it will immediately move him up from being Top 15 to top 7 or top 5 all time.
That's a massive Jump.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 10:02pm On Dec 12, 2025
The problem I see here is that you guys are not being objective
You assume two things anyone who says Durant still has something to prove is
1. A warriors fan
2. Is not a Kevin Durant fan.
That's fanboy behaviour.

For the record, i am a fan of Kevin Durant, in my opinion he's one of the greats. He's at least top 15 all time in terms of his legacy, Top 2 or 3 in terms of his scoring ability and overall skill set.

However, Talent and Skillset is different from legacy and that's why fan boys Who view things from the lens of Good or bad get things wrong.
You can absolutely give Kevin Durant his flowers while pointing out where he has failed. His failure is part of his overall legacy.

IS DURANT ONE OF THE GREATS? YES, HOWEVER WHEN COMPARING THE GREATS, THE FINE DETAILS OF HOW MANY AND HOW DIFFICULT THE TITLES THEY WON MATTERS.

Joining a 73 win team who has been to back to back finals, who had a reigning back to back MVP and three active all stars skewed the league. You can't erase that from his legacy.
Did they win those titles because of him? Yes he was a critical factor. Regardless those titles don't carry the same weight as that of Giannis or Jokic.
ALL TITLES DON'T WEIGHT THE SAME.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy:
SmooshCHN:
Broski, we left all that in 2018. We are not kids anymore.

It's 2025; if you're KD, you have nothing in this life and the next to prove to anybody in the World, USA, NBA; let alone NL concerning basketball.

Anyone seriously bringing up this topic has to be doing it for clout or TV time. It can't be a real conversation. It can't.
All this one na fanboy talk. This would have been valid if we are talking about a tier b or c star.
KD is in the debate of the greats (Top 10 or 15 all time) and invariably they are held to a higher standard

1. Kobe had to prove he could win without Shaq, we knew he was great but he still had to do it.
2. Steph had to prove his first title without Durant wasn't a fluke and that he could replicate and most importantly win the finals MVP
3. LeBron had to prove he could win outside Miami and Pat Riley/Wade which was why part of why the title at Cleveland was so significant
4. Magic had to show he could beat Bird to be the GOAT of his own era.

All the greatest had a monkey, they had to get off their shoulder and durant is no exception.

Deep down Durant himself knows it, Assuming he had a couple of deep playoffs run post golden state this may have been a non issue.
But he has repeatedly stacked teams and failed to get anywhere.

Durant needs to show he can win outside golden state, whether he likes it or not, its important to his legacy.

Giannis and Jokic have one title each but most consensus agree that those titles are greater than both titles Durant won at Golden state.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 10:34am On Nov 21, 2025
larride:
They should cash out the only player thats actually balling for them.

Make sense.

Night after Night Harden shows up, its not his fault if the other bums that surround him can't hit a nickel even if their lives depend on it.
That's exactly the point, you don't have valuable picks, the team is shit and not going anywhere. The clippers will definitely not make the playoffs his season.

The only way to recoup some assets is to trade harden before he also begins to decline in value otherwise the clippers will be mediocre for a long time.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 8:18am On Nov 21, 2025
Clippers now 1-9 in their last 10 games. Beal out of the season, Kawhi is a no show and OKC owns their unprotected first round pick cheesy Sam presti God will judge you grin grin

This dudes better cash out on harden to get some picks
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 6:48am On Nov 18, 2025
I don't understand the stubbornness of some teams. Clippers and pelicans are overdue for a rebuild yet the persist with damaged star players.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 9:15am On Sep 04, 2025
Clippers gonna clip : Aristotle (350BC) grin
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 9:12pm On Jun 27, 2025
birdman:
Tmac is better than Luka will ever dream of lol. With today's rules, Tmac go dey drop 40 nightly. Not to mention with his wingspan he was a naturally good defender. What part of the game will you say Luka is better than tmac other than shooting higher clip at the 3 pt line
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 9:12pm On Jun 27, 2025
birdman:
Tmac is better than Luka will ever dream of lol. With today's rules, Tmac go dey drop 40 nightly. Not to mention with his wingspan he was a naturally good defender. What part of the game will you say Luka is better than tmac other than shooting higher clip at the 3 pt line
I love how T mac recently misyarn about Kobe and he's been ethered by NBA fans.
The same way we have recency bias , we also have nostalgia bias.
Some of our childhood idols are not as great as we imagined to be in our heads.

Imagine, comparing a player who couldn't win one playoff series in his career to another who at 26yrs has led his teams to two conferences finals, one NBA final and several playoffs series win.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 10:23pm On May 13, 2025
We could see SGA, Ant man, Brunson and Haliburton playing for their first NBA Title in a few weeks shocked
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 5:43am On May 08, 2025
This has been the best NBA playoffs in a long time. Gritty play, solid defense, low scoring affairs, last second game winners, so many upsets, lots of small market teams doing well.
Cavs and Celtics are 2 game down and if Steph wasn't injured wolves could be down bad tomorrow too.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 7:34am On May 03, 2025
SmooshCHN:
You get the point that I never made. I was never sold on the Butler trade—credit to him, he’s been impressive—but we still have no interior defense. Steven Adams absolutely feasted on the offensive glass. As if we could just Playoff Jimmy our way to championship. To make matters worse, Steph and Draymond looked like they couldn’t wait to be done with the series—playing irritated right from tip-off. We had no business letting this series go to a Game 7. At this point, I’d honestly rather see the Rockets advance. I don’t want to give myself any false hope this season.
The fact that the warriors have never gotten just even an average center to pair with Steph for almost a decade is criminal at this point grin.

I think fans of LeBron and Steph have to accept that all good things come to an end. Enjoy their last few years.
They came, slayed, conquered but it's time for newer legends to be made.
It's rare to have such legendary stars competing deep into the playoffs at their age.
SportsRe: The NBA Begins by etidy: 11:52am On Apr 30, 2025
Tell me about he's unskilled and didn't developed his game. undecided

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