This will always be a flawed logic, because ultimately you can say this about so many players on so many championship teams. Kobe probably wasn't winning his 4th and 5th rings, or at least one of them without Derek Fisher because Fish hit some clutch shots in both 2009 and 2010 finals.
The...
Steve Nash is still much, much closer to Shaq and Kobe in terms of individual greatness than Robert Horry is to Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Julius Erving, Karl Malone, John Stockton and Patrick Ewing despite having as many rings as all of these players combined.
The bottom line is that the...
Several star perimeter players had great numbers in the playoffs. Iverson and Carter were exchanging 50 point games. McGrady averaged 34, 31 and 32 points per game in the three first rounds he had with the Magic. Jason Kidd averaged a triple touble some playoff series. But in the end, only one...
What were the great Kobe's averages in the WCF against the Blazers in 2000? You're quite simply a troll if you don't believe that other star perimeter players couldn't have matched those numbers. They faced their toughest overall opponent in 2000 - the 2000 Blazers. They faced their toughest...
I am not saying Kobe didn't play a part in those championships. I am saying that the fact that Shaq was able to win with Kobe averaging 15.6 points on .367 shooting in the 2000 finals shows that he could've won championships with many other star perimeter players in the league at the time...
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Cedric Maxwell: 1 Finals MVP, 2 championships, 3 Finals appearances
Jo Jo White: 1 Finals MVP, 2 championships, 2 Finals appearances
Charles Barkley: 0 Finals MVPs, 0 championships, 1 Finals appearance
Damn Sir Charles, never realized how much more work you had to do in order to have the...
Neymar has been phenomenal so far.
I still won't consider a relatively pointless tournament like this where crazy stuff like the U.S. knocking Spain out of the tournament in the semis happens as a great way of evaluating him, because as I mentioned Adriano who dominated the 2005 Confederations...
:lol The Knicks. They were beating everyone with three point barrages at one point in the season and then they choked. The Heat beat the Spurs without LeBron and Wade in the middle of San Antonio in a regular season game, and they barely beat them in the end.
The Knicks offense is so...
Am I the only one who thought that Manu wasn't all THAT bad in game 7? I mean, he was bad, but Danny Green and Tony Parker were worse. Apparently so invisible that they are immune to criticism.
Manu had two terrible turnovers that look way more spectacular as a wasted offensive possession than...
Wow, has it really been this long? Greg Oden hasn't played since 2010 - 3 full basketball seasons. Since before the big 3 got together - plus more than half of the previous season as well.
I still think they should sign him. He's still only 25. And he did the right thing, unlike Grant Hill and...
Actually, even when it comes to war, in the old days opposing generals would hold extravagant dinner parties with each other after the battle.
He set a record for most 3 pointers scored in a finals series and was actually the Spurs MVP as late as after game 5 of the series. What more did he...
The Lakers will not be making the finals, or make it further than the second round for that matter. They made some huge changes prior to last season, made a super team of their own which for whatever reason for infinitely more acceptable than Bron/Wade/Bosh teaming up, but they still needed a...
Actually, it couldn't be more perfect that those two game sevens are the #1 and #2, so that the highest amount of people saw Kobe's 6-24 chokeage and bailout by Gasol and Artest in that game 7 as opposed to the brilliance of LeBron James yesterday right down to the dagger with 30 seconds left...
How the hell does any part of your post prove that those bum Cavs supporting players can be even remotely compared to the 2004 Pistons?
A team consisting of John Stockton, Reggie Miller, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Bill Russell would know their roles as well.
They're not Lakers fans.
Rooting for the Celtics to beat a team the Lakers have virtually no historical rivalry with for two straight playoffs exposed them for what they really are.
What about Mike Miller himself? You do realize how ridiculous it sounds to emphasize others on the team on a night when LeBron only had 4 players from his roster score a point. And one of those 4 only scored 3 points.