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I'm just pointing it out there before the Raptors win tonight.
**NBA FINALS THREAD - RAPTORS DEFY GRAVITY**
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The bay will never die! Like roaches, just if they had gentrified and call themselves "light adverse beings" now.
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Dudes still don’t get it 
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Oh I know. I’m just piggy backing off your post. Like hate KD and Bron all you want on the court for whatever reason but those dudes were doomed to fail as kids and beat the odds.
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Patrick Ewing Jr never had sleep for dinner and he's killing the league.
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People always assume success comes easier for folks who grow up wealthy. I get they have access and means that the less fortunate don’t but this isn’t like the college admissions scandal where Steph was gifted a spot in the league just because of his pops 
To say that he was expected to be where he is now or even close up until 2015 or so is a lie hence where being an underdog comes in because no one expected this level of greatness and success.
To say that he was expected to be where he is now or even close up until 2015 or so is a lie hence where being an underdog comes in because no one expected this level of greatness and success.
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Jordan was getting drunk chasing white wimmin instead of passing the torch to his seeds.jordan sons aint ****. they even closed trophy room
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I'd like to think that everyone knows what it takes to make it to the top now. You've go to have that edge, that thing that you check into. It is a mean thing where you want to destroy everyone, a chip on the shoulder that you carry for the rest of your life, not only your career. I am willing to bet that Steph Curry is meaner than his brother, and that is the difference maker. Steph smiles a lot, does not look threatening, but he also seems to want to slit your through at the same time. Jordan had it, and he never backed down against bullies. He wasn't afraid of nobody. Ali had that thing, even entertainers have that edge. Miles Davis was a mean mofo. People who become great not only are gifted through genes, but they also want to kick everyone in the ***. Serena Williams has it much more than her sister Venus. You'd think that Serena will walk across the court, then hit someone with a racket. I love that. Steph is putting it up from half court, in a game no less, with the damned game on the line.
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he wasnt even scouted man. that name got him nothing. Davidson was a nobody school. Dude is from carolina and got no love from duke or unc.
His own mom didn't even believe he'd make it. He was so small. 6'2 160. all that other stuff only gets you so far. You gotta create your own opportunities.
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The odds are definitely stacked, and advantages are there, but that resolve is also there. I believe it is inherent in our human beings being. If these players didn't have it, none would make a free throw with thousands of people booing them. No matter if rich, poor, or middle class. You can have a million people tell you your great, but if you don't believe it...same as if you have a million people tell you your horrible and you do.
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Missing all those meals sure fueled Kobe to greatness
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No wonder him and shaq got along so well, lol.
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Mans like Pascal Siakam were playing soccer on a dirt field and studying to become a priest when he was 16
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Michael jordan aint grow up a bum either. Neither did magic. The way yall quantify who earned what is dumb as hell.
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steph only in the league due to the college admissions scandal. dell curry paid william singer to get steph a spot on the crew team for the perennial powerhouse known as davidson college. but steph ****** around and ended up playing basketball. as it stands, dell is currently paying adam silver and joe lacob to let steph be a starter on the warriors and all star teams.
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Who said it’s easier? Who said it was gifted to him? Who said no basketball related work needed to be done?People always assume success comes easier for folks who grow up wealthy. I get they have access and means that the less fortunate don’t but this isn’t like the college admissions scandal where Steph was gifted a spot in the league just because of his pops
The point is you have it easier in a sense where life is all and only basketball while others have it harder growing up in poverty having to deal with those real life situations. You guys are willing to say life rich/well off is the same as life in poverty? Don’t even answer that
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Jordan was getting drunk chasing white wimmin instead of passing the torch to his seeds.
GOAT
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i'm failing to hear how that makes him an underdog. It was a choice based on where he was.
Dont forget he's also 6'9 and crazy athletic. It's not like he's 5'9 and was studying to be a priet until he accidentally walked into a practice..stayed and watched and loved the game. I'm sure sports found him.
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steph put in that work against all odds
was barely recruited and undersized
had his own style where critics said would not translate in the nba and dubs banked on it
put some respek on that man
my GOAT
was barely recruited and undersized
had his own style where critics said would not translate in the nba and dubs banked on it
put some respek on that man
my GOAT
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Marc Davis reffing tonight?
Congrats to the raptors
Congrats to the raptors
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Not even electroshock therapy could convert bistephsuals.
Y’all different
Y’all different
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Imagine how good MJ would have been had he grew up poor and missed a few meals
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In what world is 6’3 undersized for a point guard?
I swear y’all out here trying to portray him as his pops teammate Mugsy Bogues
I swear y’all out here trying to portray him as his pops teammate Mugsy Bogues
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All beginning on a contract he signed because he had to prove himself.
