LABron James Discussion: The Final Year?

Dude is turning 40 this month. We are playing him at 5! That s*** is crazy.

Damn....look at how far we've fallen since the bubble! We expect the oldest dude in the League to be our best scorer, facilitator , and one of our two most physical players. Every single game! We are living in the Twilight Zone.

 

He's paid like a player you described , can't pull off the" he's 40 soon" card while he's earning the biggest salary on the roster

 

The fact remains the same, we knew how old he was going into the season. We haven't done anything to address this issue. Trying to ignore that, and fall back on how much he gets paid, doesn't solve anything either.

 

AD's our best scorer and most physical player. reaves, russell, and knecht can score, and the former two facilitate. we're asking lebron to be the second-best player on a playoff team, and he's been struggling to fill the role lately.

and yes, the salary matters here, imo. but he's 40! al horford's 38 or whatever, but he makes 10 million per so his team can afford to pay A LOT for their 4th and 5th best players. because lebron makes 50 million, we can't do that. so he has to play like three al horfords. he is not.

 

No. Lebron is still more reliable scoring, than anyone else on the team. Especially in the playoffs. He is also still by far, the 2nd best player on the team , struggling at the moment or not.

Al Horford isn't even in the same universe as Lebron James.We chose to cut loose some contracts, that would have allowed us, to sign some better players too.That's not on Lebron.

We are the Lakers, not some Mickey Mouse outfit. We chase stars, that's in our DNA. What kind of signal are you sending to post Lebron Superstars, that might be looking at coming here?

" Hey we'll pay YOU, but we're not keen on paying anyone else to come here and support you".

Bump that noise. Again there is enough money going out as is, to be a strong contender, it just needs to be going to some other players, that aren't currently on our roster.

 

Lebron is a scrub.

this week

he’ll be back

but the scrub moments will increase in frequency. It’s the nature of the beast.

 

Tom Brady took a pay cut ! Kobe took a pay cut ! MJ took a pay cut ! LeOverrated is a selfish prick

 

impact-wise, this year, he most certainly is. and it's a down year for horford, too. just not as huge a drop as lebron's.

you're right that ownership could have ponied up more money like phx, boston, gs, the clips, the nets, etc., though. that's true.

but i'll always point to dirk and duncan. when they got old and realized their team couldn't compete with them making superstar money, they took substantially less money so they could compete. money where their mouths were.

 

WTF

 

NO..NO..NO..Blasphemy at play here man..you should be ashamed. James is going to make you eat those words by the end of the season

I still think Dirk and Duncan were stupid. They left generational wealth on the table. The owners don't leave generational wealth on the table, neither should the players IMO. An owner can expire and his grandkids can still own the team. A player has a very short life span earning big bucks in this game.

 

So.So.So and NO.

 

LeBron finally overcome Korver . Today all starters combined scored more than LeBron by 7 Seven !! f***ing points..

 

wish he'd retire already so they can tear it all down and start from scratch. this team is going nowhere when they're having to rely on the oldest player in the league to carry them every night

 

kobe took a paycut?

 

i hope he does. we need him to be a lot more effective than horford than he has been so far.

yeah...pretty sure dirk and duncan have generational wealth to spare. being a billionaire sort of makes no sense, tbh.

i'm with you on eff the owners, too. if jeanie wanted a better team, she had a path to just spend for one, but we let 35 million dollars expire. this was pre-second apron, too!

doesn't change the fact that if lebron only wanted another title, he had ways to help bring it about and chose not to do that. fine, his choice, but it was a choice.

 

I can respect that.

 

Left Foot Soreness for LBJ.

 

The Hawks are on a 5 game win streak, they just ended the Bucks 8 game win streak. Might wanna sit AD too.