Dr. J becoming known for his retarded basketball takes. Just an objectively awful opinion, love or hate Lebron
Is it?
Did you watch the NBA before and during the Jordan era? Back when teams still played defense, as opposed today's ballerina basketball?
Overrated whiny soft-ass bitch would not have won a single championship.
Not one.
Dr. J omits LeBron James from his all-time first and second NBA teams
Forget the GOAT, according to one NBA legend, LeBron James is not even a top-10 player of all time.
Hall of Famer Julius Erving omitted James when he was asked to list who would be on his first and second all-time NBA teams during an appearance on the podcast “Posted Up with Chris Haynes.”
Dr. J said his first team would consist of Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell and Jerry West. His second team would include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Karl Malone.
James is often debated with Jordan (who was curiously on Erving’s second team) as the greatest basketball player of all time and still has a few more years left to cement his legacy.
But Erving explained why he omitted James:
“When you look at LeBron, and anybody that he sort of picks with him … He’s the guy who has led the charge in terms of super teams being put together,” Erving said. “When he put together the team in Miami. He put together the team in Cleveland as well, and he put together the team in Los Angeles.”
Haynes noted to Erving that super teams have always existed in some form or another, to which Dr. J replied, “They weren’t picking their own teams.”
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</aside>Erving appeared to favor players of his generation, though, and did not include any player who played after the year 2004 on his list. Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and Tim Duncan could also make a strong case to be included on either of those teams.
Scoring is about the same now as it was in the 80s, aka when they played “defense.”
More physical play was definitely allowed in the past, but the talent level now is easily superior to the talent level of the past. Sometimes people who used to play are biased toward older eras.
Classic example is Charles Barkley basically critiquing the Warriors for being a “jump-shooting team”, even though that “soft style” got them three championships.
Dr. J has had awful basketball takes before, so this is hardly a surprise coming out of his mouth. Loved him as a player though
Cop consults with LeBitch before he gets involved with a knife attack:
LeBron gets a lot of points through layups and dunks. The defense lets him drive because of the new rules and the restricted area under the hoop. There are many good 3 point shooters today and it opens up the court. Imo, many would be better than LeBron back in the day.
There's a reason players like Charles Barkley mock the current generation. He played in that era and knows the price he had to pay on every drive, the of kind physical relentless battering and bruising which takes a toll in a long playoff series. LeBitch had to be carried off the court because of a leg cramp - he wouldn't have lasted even half a series in that era.
Steph Curry reminds me more of Screech from Saved By The Bell than a basketball player.
The constant "Jordan versus LeBron" comparisons are beyond laughable, which is why many players like Dr J. don't even have LeBitch in their top 10.