🆕DWade Exposes Lebron James Haters 👉 "Hate For Lebron Not Basketball Related" | FYF Sports Debates

What's up YF Sports, my name is Lamont and we are back with another news video. I just wanted to bring you guys this video today, I thought it was just a very interesting take on topics that we speak on a lot, especially when I go speak on other YouTube channels who have live debates and live chats. This topic seems to come up a lot and so a lot of people have assumptions and presumptions about certain things that happen with NBA players when they make moves to certain teams. Now we have the opportunity to hear directly from a player involved in a very, I would say it was a very sensitive subject for fans when this move actually happened. So before we get started, make sure you guys like, comment, subscribe, hit the notification bell to the video if you have not done so already. The notification bell is going to be really helpful when we go live. We're going to start going live two hours before every game of the NBA Finals. You're going to want to be involved in those live debates, you can win cash prizes if you bring the best arguments. The only way you know when we go live, hit the notification bell. But other than that, we're going to get to this story right here and again, as I was just saying earlier, when we're talking about LeBron James and why LeBron went to Miami, why do a lot of fans, especially 90s fans or 80s fans, fans who weren't really privy to NBA players controlling their own destinies and moving on their own as free agents. Why is there so much vitriol and hate towards LeBron James? Because he decided to take his own career into his own hands as opposed to waiting it out and hoping that the right GM comes along and builds the correct team around him. So this is a conversation between JJ Redick and Dwyane Wade. He's asking these difficult questions. So we're going to hear directly from Dwyane Wade. We know that Dwyane Wade, he was already in Miami. So that was essentially his team. They'd already won a championship. That Miami Heat team brought in two players. They brought in LeBron James and Chris Bosh to form that super team. Now, was this the first super team that the NBA has seen? No. This marked one of the first times where we saw a super team formed by free agents coming together to play at one central team to form their own super team because individually, especially with Chris Bosh and LeBron James, those two particular teams, Cleveland and Toronto, hadn't done enough to help those teams have a lot of success or anything promising in the future. So both of those players decided to move away from those organizations. They decided to join the Miami Heat with Dwyane Wade to form their own super team. Again, this is taking the destiny in our own hands. But again, that's just my opinion of the situation. What we want to hear is, and again, we're going to go through this interview. We're going to pause it. We're going to talk about some of the things that we hear. But we're just going to listen to what Dwyane Wade directly has to say. And just again, we want to hear from the horse's mouth. We want to hear, what do these players think about this situation? What's true and what's not? But we're going to go ahead and get to the interview. Why do you think the reaction to you guys deciding to join up in Miami was so different? We'll use another example. Let's use Danny Ainge trading for Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett and forming that big three Which, by the way, was only like three seasons prior to you guys making that decision to join up. Why do you think the reaction was so different? Do you think it was because it was LeBron and he was sort of the best player in the game? And he was supposed to do what Jordan did and not team up with other superstars to win? I definitely feel that was a big part of it. I don't want to throw it all on Brian. But I definitely feel that, you know, the fans, the fan base, the basketball fan base had an idea of how LeBron's career was supposed to go. And it was supposed to go like Michael Jordan's career. You're supposed to stay in Cleveland his entire time and win six to seven rings, right? And he had other ideas for his career. And people at the time didn't understand why would he do that, right? They looked at it as a weak move. It's a weak move that he'd go team up with another all-star and another all-star. So, yes, that was a big part of it. I think at the same time as well, they wasn't used to playing. At that time, it wasn't used to players having control. You know what I mean? Organizations made trades. That's what happened. You really, free agency before that was not really that sexy like that, you know? And even though it was some guys who, you know, like the, I think it was Orlando Magic who had an opportunity to do some sexy stuff with Tim Duncan possibly and Grant Hill and T-Mac. Like that would have been sexy, but that didn't happen. And it just wasn't something that was really the sexy thing to do. And at that moment when we made a decision as players and kind of put the control in a player's hand and change the dynamics of what people are used to, you always going to get hate, you know? It's like Allen Iverson came in with braids and tattoos and sleeves. And everybody's like, this is not how the best player in the game looks. They look like Michael Jordan. They don't have tattoos. They don't. And that wasn't Allen Iverson. So you get hate when you're the first ones to do it in the way we did it. And so we understand it. You know, eventually we understood it because we kind of opened up this path for players to do it for a period of time and it became the way. And I'm glad we did. I'm glad we took the hate. But I see some real hatred out there, JJ. I'm talking about I see some ugliness and from fans that I didn't know that I didn't know existed. And I come from the inner city of Chicago, and I didn't know some of this ugliness existed in the world. And when we talk about racism, we talk about the things that people said to us, it was on display night after night. I just want to touch on that. I'm a pause it briefly, real quick, because what Dwyane Wade is saying is absolute fact. What he's saying right there is absolute fact. What LeBron James and Chris Bosh did when they teamed up in Miami, it wasn't how things were traditionally done in the NBA. Now, there was potential for big threes to be formulated in this particular manner, as he spoke on before with Tim Duncan going to Orlando Magic. And that's that's one of the potential scenarios that nobody really likes to talk about because Tim Duncan is known for what? He's known for staying with one team for his entire career. And he did it the more traditional way, the way that you saw in the 90s. He sacrificed a lot of money to stay with one team. And it actually panned out. He had a Hall of Fame coach. He had Hall of Fame players around him. And it was just a winning situation. Now, when we talk about LeBron James and we talk about Chris Bosh in Toronto, I don't they weren't necessarily blessed with the great front office that the Spurs had. They weren't blessed with the Hall of Fame coach and Greg Popovich. They weren't blessed with the Hall of Fame players like Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker to get drafted into that organization. So whenever you're not drafted into that particular situation, because that's all luck of the draw, typically in the 80s and 90s and 70s, you were just kind of stuck on that same team. As Dwyane Wade said, it just wasn't. It wasn't the norm to leave and free agency. I mean, it just wasn't the thing to do for whatever reason. And so when LeBron James did it, it was just so new to people that people chose to hate him for it. And I like that. I like the example that he used with Allen Iverson. And Allen Iverson came into the league. We weren't used to seeing that. And so there were a lot of people who hated Allen Iverson because of the tattoos, because of the way he dressed in the postgame. Even the NBA went as far. It's changing the dress code because of Allen Iverson when you're before and after games, you know, because this is not something that they were used to seeing. And so whenever you are the first one, just like he said, whenever you're the first one to do something, you're probably going to be looked at as the villain for making that particular move. But well, let's go ahead and hear him out, because I know him and JJ Redick. It's a very it's a very intricate conversation. I like the inside information that he's given us. And hopefully it can give some of you guys a different perspective on the move that LeBron James made, especially if you're one of those fans that are spewing hate towards him because he chose to take his future into his own hands and go to a team like Miami to to win championships. This is at the arena. This is not just people trolling on social media. You're saying this is at the arena. You're hearing stuff being said. Yeah, this is this is at the arenas. This is in our everyday life, right, of us traveling, going places. I mean, people at that time, we had to have so much security around us because the hate was real, you know, and people would say some of the things that you would just look at them and say, like, you don't even know me, like how you speak of me in this. How can you speak of me in this way? But I would never forget the Cleveland game. The first time we went back to Cleveland, I would never forget being in the locker room. And that was the time I looked at LeBron. I was like, OK, this guy's not he's not normal. He's really not normal. I've always said it, but I really felt it. But the hatred that I heard in the locker room, I've never heard hate before. You know what I mean? Like you can hear someone say something, but if you ever heard the sound of hate, it is the most like uncomfortable thing to experience. And I remember walking out of the tunnel and it wasn't just booze and it wasn't just I hate you. It was the look on people's faces. It was the thing that was coming out of a mouse and like how rage they were, like an anger that I said, I will never forget this moment a day in my life about, you know, how someone can really hate you for making a basketball decision that you felt was best for yourself. Your family is crazy. And again, I like I like how he's elaborating on the hate because a lot of the hate that's aimed at LeBron James, I would say 90% of it is not even basketball related. A lot of the hate that LeBron James gets is because of non basketball things such as the move to Miami. It's not about how he played while he was at Miami. It's about the move to Miami. When he went back to Cleveland, it's not about the move back to Cleveland. It's more so about how he played when he you know, it's not about how he played when he went back to Cleveland, bringing the championship to that state. It's about the move. The same thing with Kevin, Kevin Durant. We see that, you know, when we when we talk about Kevin Durant, a lot of people don't talk about how he played when he was with Golden State, how he was the best player with that team, how he took, you know, he took grasp, you know, he took rams of that organization. He led that team to two championships, potentially three if he doesn't tear his Achilles. But we find ourselves talking about the move, the non basketball related stuff because, again, we're in a different era. Players in this particular era can control their own destinies. And because of that, it's putting it's putting teams on notice. Team, you know, teams like the Milwaukee Bucks, you can't be mediocre for 10, 12 years and take advantage of having a great player. You can't be mediocre when you have these great players. You have to go out. You have to make moves. You have to try to develop and build teams around these guys. You actually have to be good at your job. Otherwise, you're going to lose these great talents. And in this day and age, when you lose those types of talents, you're losing hundreds of millions of dollars, especially when you're dealing with a guy like Giannis, who has so much marketing power in that in that economy. The same thing with other players in other economies. These guys have massive marketing appeal, massive, you know, the ability to affect marketing dollars in those communities. So teams now have to do more. I mean, look, when we look at Washington, Washington, Washington's eventually going to have to do more to hold on to a guy like Bradley Bill. I mean, people could say that he wants to stay, but we've already seen comments and tweets about how he would potentially consider, you know, moves to other teams or how, you know, when they talk about how certain trade scenarios would look. You know, he's eyeing that. And so, again, I feel like in the 90s, even the 80s and 70s, I feel like too many teams got away with being jet bad GMs. We we we never really criticize. We never spend enough time criticizing some of these front offices for being extremely mediocre, below average, which is not very good at all for not just two or three years. We're talking five and 10 year stretches. I mean, if we look at the Dallas Mavericks, Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings in the 90s, these teams weren't just bad in the 90s. These teams are horrendous over four or five, six, seven year periods. And we let these we let these front office guys off the hook. You know, we always when we speak about basketball, when a coach, a coach might make a wrong substitution in a playoff series and he might blunder the playoff series. We're immediately saying, fire him, fire the coach. Just like that over one mistake. But we allow these GMs to make mistake after mistake, bad signing after bad signing, not signing this guy, not bringing this guy in. We allow these front offices to make horrible mistakes. For example, when we look at Milwaukee, by them allowing Malcolm Brogdon to walk when they could have signed them. But just by going into the salary cap, because to be a championship team, you actually have to go into that salary cap. You have to pay guys to stay in. And because they did not, they wanted to be thrifty. They didn't want to spend money to keep Malcolm Brogdon. They let a very good guard, a guard who could have helped them in this particular playoffs. They let him walk for nothing. They got they really didn't get anything in return for him. Not anything of value, not anything of comparable value. So so if Giannis Antetokounmpo decides to leave, the Milwaukee Bucks have nobody else to blame but themselves. And the reason is because they've had opportunities to bring in guys to put a winning team around Giannis Antetokounmpo. And if you want him to stay there, if you want him to continue to bring hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars into your organization and community, then you have to put a team around them. That's going to be competitive because we're in an age now where guys can be free agents and guys will leave and guys won't just leave. They will be able to handpick their own winning situation. And that's just what it is. Now, I wish guys in the 90s would have had that capability. Unfortunately for the guys in the 90s, guys in the 90s were known for signing horrendous contracts, long contracts. You're talking about five, six, seven year contracts paying very little money compared to the market. You know what changed? What changed that? When we saw guys like LeBron James, even Michael Jordan, we saw these guys signing what? We saw these guys signing one year deals or one in one deals. Why? Because the NBA market changes on a year to year basis. If you want to maximize your money, if you want to capitalize on, you know, on free agency, if you want to get your value as an athlete, then now you can take you can take control of your future by signing shorter deals. You're not stuck in a long term contract. You can leave and you can go to other teams and put yourself in a winning situation. All right. We see it all the time. You know, we see Anthony Davis because of his star power. He forced a trade out of a bad situation in New Orleans to the Los Angeles Lakers. You know, he never made a Western Conference finals up until this year because he forced his self forced away to Los Angeles to pay with LeBron James and look at where it look. Look at where they are now. And does it doesn't necessarily hurt the competitive balance in NBA? I wouldn't think so, because even when you look at our young teams, even when you look at our young teams, the trailblazers, Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings, all of these teams still have young stars that could potentially bloom and blossom in the superstars at any given time. So there's still plenty of talent to go around the league. You're not you're not watering any particular team down. These teams still have draft picks. These still these teams still have young, great players. A lot of these young, great players are already all stars that you can build upon. So it's not necessarily about watering the league down. There's just too much talent in this league today. It's about holding these teams accountable. These teams make billions off of these players. So it's unacceptable to allow these teams. It's unacceptable to allow these owners and GM's to just collect money off of you and not put you in a winning situation. So I don't really want to hear that noise about. I don't want to hear that noise about just stay and do it the hard way, because at the end of the day, when you're in the NBA, it's about getting as much money as you can, because, again, this is just a game too. And if you're playing for your legacy, then do everything you can to create the best legacy possible, which is putting yourself in a winning situation. I mean, these are things that are very these these are only this is logical. This is all common sense things. These are things that we all would do. You know, if I'm working at Walmart, right, if I'm working at Walmart and I'm not tied down to any particular contract and and target calls, it says we want you over here. Well, you have a choice to go to target. If it pays more, if it's better workers, if it's a better environment, if it's closer to where you live, you have that option to move like people up and change jobs at any given time. And no one is criticized for but athletes. Athletes are the only ones who are criticized for changing jobs, for going to work for another team. They're criticized for their characters are assassinated for it. You know, I constantly hear, you know, I'm not even a LeBron James fan, but I constantly hear people attacking LeBron James character as a man because he went he went from Cleveland to the Miami Heat. You know, it's sad. It's sad to hate that comes out of some people's mouths over a game. It's sad how personal some people get over the game of basketball. And at the end of the day, it's just a game. All right. They're they're playing for our entertainment. All right. And we we look at it as if. It's something that's going to affect us in our day to day lives when it's really not right. So I really I really this is and I really want to people who spew that hate towards LeBron James to see it from this particular perspective, because it's not as serious as what you're making it out to be. And again, just respect the fact that these young guys are changing the game in another way. And this is actually for a positive. We want to see more young black men be able to take control of their own destiny, their own future, their own legacies. And at the same time, applying pressure to these team holders and GMs that make billions off these players, because now you're holding them accountable to actually do their job correctly. Because if a player doesn't do their job correctly, when we look at a guy like DeMar DeRozan, a guy like DeMar DeRozan, where they promised him, they promised him that he would be in Toronto for life. They promised him a statue as soon as he didn't play up to their standards. All those promises went out the door. They traded him. We look at Harrison Barnes. You know, he gave a lot to that Dallas Maverick team. He sacrificed money. He took a pay cut. And what happened with Harrison Barnes? He was traded mid game in the middle of playing a game. They told him, you have to set out the rest of this game. You're now traded. Like what type of like where's you know, where's the loyalty there? You know, is there is there there's no loyalty like it can't be one sided. You can't tell the players to be loyal to a team when you're when the owners and GMs will never be loyal to players. You can't tell players to stick it out and stay. But then you don't hold the owners and GMs accountable. For not putting talent or even, you know, drafting the right players that can help this guy succeed. You know, I never hear any like I never hear anybody remember the name of a GM or owner and say there's only one fan base that actually critique critiques their ownership and GM group more than anybody. That's the New York Knicks. And that's just because they've been horrendous for so long. Like we don't know the GM of OKC. You know, we don't know the name of the GM in Milwaukee. You know, a lot of people don't know the name of the GM in Chicago, you know, and nobody's holding these people accountable for the poor job that they've been doing over the last five years. So so I'm not going to be upset when players decide to leave those situations, create their own destiny, destiny, destiny and put themselves in a position to win. All right. But we're going to go ahead and finish. And I know I was talking a lot. I went on a diatribe about that, but I just had to get that out. Because again, the the logic on this is so lopsided. You know, a lot of people have this mythical idea about how NBA players are supposed to do things. But as Dwyane Wade said, those days are over with. Players are taking control of their own destiny. I don't want to I'm not going to plug myself here. But please plug yourself. No, I so I I went on Taylor Rooks show on Bleacher Report. She did a whole series on race in America. For some reason, she asked me to come on the show. And one of the things that I said on the show and one of the things that I said on my podcast with Yahoo back in 2016, when Kevin Durant made his decision, is that the the reaction to LeBron leaving and Kevin leaving is because there is a group of sports fans that are and will always be uncomfortable with powerful black men making decisions for themselves, taking empowerment and taking control of their careers. Now, I of course, the the you know, the blogs or whatever said that I said that it was racist. I'm not going to go that far. But what I will say is I will stand by those words. I think, of course, an element of Kevin getting backlash was because he went and joined the team that just beat him in the conference finals. Of course, part of the backlash with LeBron was because he wasn't following the same route as Jordan. And that that's supposed to be the definition of greatness. But the other component to that is what I just said. And I and I firmly believe that. Listen, you you hit the nail on the head. And if you think about it, no one gets backlash to any championships that Larry Bird won, that Magic Johnson won, that Michael Jordan won. Michael Jordan played with other Hall of Famers. You know, I mean, like guys, you don't win championships without playing with other guys that are great, first of all. But it wasn't done in the way that LeBron did it in the way that we did it. It was done from organizations. The organizations made sure that Larry Bird had McHale, Robert Parrish, Dennis Johnson, you know what I mean? Like all these Hall of Famers. And it was you know, so it was different. And I agree with you, man. And we we I didn't say that. I'm glad you said that. But we felt that way. We knew that some of the hate was because of our skin color, because of being black men and deciding to control the fate of our careers because because organizations will do it quickly. They will trade a Dwyane Wade in a heartbeat. If you're not getting if you're not getting it, if you're not accomplishing what they want you to accomplish. So when we had the power, when we had the moment, we took it. But some of the hate came because of we were three black guys who decided and we changed the way that the NBA probably would ever be right because of that decision. So I agree with you, man, 100 percent. I appreciate everything he just said. He broke it down perfectly. And, you know, I'll take it a step further. I know J.J. Reddick, you know, J.J. Reddick spoke on the racial aspect of it. And he's a white guy. He's a white person who deals with white people in a white America. And he admittedly states that part of this undertone or part of this negative connotation that's associated with guys like LeBron James and Kevin Durant being able to choose their own destiny, move millions of dollars from one place to another, their ability to control marketplaces like this. It's something that a lot of people in white America or that have racial hatred, they don't like to see it. And that's a fact that exists. But I'll double down on that. I feel that there are also black people that don't like to see other black people succeed and do better for themselves as well. And so a lot of it is also hate from us as well, because a lot of the vitriol and hate that I see when I see these personal attacks against LeBron James, you know, there are a lot of players making moves. There are a lot of, you know, Kimball Walker left in free agency and went to the Celtics. He doesn't have that vitriol and hate. He doesn't. He went to a great team. He went to a Celtics team that's already been to the Western Conference Finals. He went to a Celtics team that's already been great. He went to a loaded Celtics team that has Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Gordon Hayward. But we don't we don't. Why? Where's the vitriol for Kimball Walker for going to a loaded Celtics team? See, it's about the best player in the game controlling his own destiny, destiny and putting himself in a position to win championships. So because when you're the best in the game and you do it. So LeBron is going to forever be linked to Michael Jordan because people of this era compare him to who they compare him to other greats like Jordan, like Kobe, like Magic Johnson. And so in that comparison to Michael Jordan, what are people going to do? They're going to look at how Jordan did it. Jordan was with one team. Jordan won all six championships with one team. All right. But people don't understand that the climate of the game in the 90s was different. What one of the reasons that Jordan has so much success in the 90s was because players did not move around and create a more competitive team on other teams by grouping up. This is one of the reasons why this is also one of the reasons why Jordan succeeded, because players did not control their own destiny. That destiny. And instead of leaving some of these bad teams like Mitch Richmond with Sacramento, like Dee Brown, when he's with the Celtics, you know, like Jim Jackson, Jamal Mashburn and Jason Kidd, when they were all with Dallas, when you have Chris Webber with the Bullets, Juwan Howard with the Bullets. You know, we can go we can go on and on and on. We can name a long list of players who never had success in the NBA, primarily because of bad front offices. You know, until until the Sacramento Kings were purchased, the Kings were terrible in the 90s until they got an ownership group and a GM in there that actually wanted to win and spend money on players. That's when we saw Sacramento start winning. Why? Because those owners knew that to to win, you have to spend money. You have to be able to buy and bring players in. So do we do we look at that sack? Do we look at that Sacramento team that was great in the early 2000s? And do we say that all this team was comprised of a lot of free agents? A lot of these guys weren't drafted in. You know, we had to trade for Mike Bibby. We had to go. We had to trade to get a Chris Webber. You know, how many of those guys were actually drafted into the organization that were the best players on that team? So again, it all comes down to having a great organization. And that's what that's what Dwayne Wayne spoke about. Miami Heat, the Miami Heat are doing so well now in the playoffs. Why? Because that's a great organization. You have a great you have a great GM. You have a great owner. You have a great coach. These guys are doing their job behind the scenes. What did they what did they go out and do? They went out and paid to bring a guy like Jimmy Butler in. Why? Because they know you're not going to just win in the NBA by just trying to do it through the draft or so-called trying to do it the right way, which a lot of people, you know, which a lot of which I think that's just a myth. I think people just say that just to say people just say the right way because they want to give it a negative connotation because LeBron James actually did it. And he didn't just do it. He did it successfully because he won championships. He went to Miami and the move was successful. He won two championships. He went back to Cleveland to play with Kyrie and Kevin Love. It was successful. He brought Cleveland his first championship. That community is still reaping the financial benefits of that one single championship. That's how valuable a championship is. You know, when you look at the Toronto Raptors, why did they betray DeMar DeRozan? They betrayed DeMar DeRozan. They traded him after promising him that they wouldn't trade him. Why did they trade him? Because the value of a championship far supersedes any particular promise you can make to one particular player. So it's OK for the Toronto Raptors to to backstab a player, lie to him and trade him to bring a guy like Kawhi Leonard in to win a championship. So it's OK. It's OK to backstab and really blindside people and families when the GM's do it, when the organization do it, when the man does it. But when black players decide to control their own destiny and move and go win, go get bigger paychecks, sign one in one deal so they can capitalize on the market every year that it grows. Oh, now it's something wrong with it. So yes, fans, I think especially the black fans out there, I think you really need to be really careful how you criticize some of these players, criticize them for what they do on the court, criticize their ability to make threes, criticize their ability not to score in the clutch. I can accept that. But when you get to talking about things off the court, especially things off the court that you only hear, which are rumors. Now, now, now you're just, you know, now you're just being toxic. And again, it comes down to just this toxic atmosphere. We love that toxic narrative. We love toxic news. You know, it's become it's become the cool thing to hate LeBron. You know, you have people who are self-proclaimed LeBron James haters. You know, how can you be a student of the game? How can you respect the game when you have hate for great players, when you have hate for any particular player? How can you ever fairly critique any particular player if you hate this particular player? If you criticize everything he does, that's not even basketball related. How can your criticism? How can your criticism of anything be credible? You lose all credibility when you start dealing in hate. You know, we have guys like straight Ray Elder. Elder speaks on hate all the time. He talks about it all the time. When you deal in hate, it makes everything around you toxic. Nothing around you can be credible. You know, now when you criticize, you know, now when you speak on other players, it sounds as if it's hate towards LeBron James. You know, because once you start hating on LeBron James, especially to that toxic level, everything that you do from that point forward, people will now have to look at you with a side eye. They're saying, are you saying this because you hate LeBron James? Are you cheering for Jamal Murray now because you hate LeBron James? Are you cheering for Jimmy Butler now because you hate LeBron James? Are you saying these things to boost Jimmy Butler because you hate LeBron James? Are you saying Jamal Murray is better than James Harden and all these other players because you hate LeBron James? Because a lot of these things that you're saying, when you say Jimmy Butler is going to be the best player in the league, when you say Jamal Murray is better than an MVP player like James Harden it sounds ridiculous and it is ridiculous why because we can clearly tell that you're only saying these things because of your hate for a player like LeBron James so you you lose credibility so even if you genuinely feel that way you lose credibility because you have so much hate for LeBron James it can't be trusted you know when we saw Damian Lillard go crazy early in towards the end of the playoff bubble when he put Memphis out you know these guys played a great string of games was the was this all fake love to Damian Lillard what was it all fake praise because you were just saying these things because you don't like LeBron James are you saying these things because he was just the next player up that could potentially beat LeBron James you know when we talk about the Houston Rockets when they failed miserably to take down LeBron James were you were you so critical of the Houston Rockets are you so critical of Russell Westbrook because they failed to do the job because they failed to take down LeBron James or will or will we just simply say that the Lakers just play stifling defense they stepped up and they were playing the greatest player this era and that's what happens when you play the greatest player this era sometimes but we have denigrate guys and you can you can identify each incident when we look at this particular series especially when you start seeing a lot of recency bias you know I heard things about Jamal Murray he's better than James Harden he's better than so-and-so he's better than this Jamal Murray's been playing great in this NBA bubble but when you start hearing people him to the level of a James Harden well then what you're doing is it looks fake it looks like fake love because once Jamal Murray fails you're not gonna speak about Jamal Murray anymore in fact you're gonna double down on your hate for Jamal Murray because he failed how do we know we saw this with Kawhi Lennon people will boost Kawhi Lennon up he was the next up Kawhi Lennon and Paul George were next up at taking down LeBron James they failed to beat the Denver Nuggets Kawhi Lennon and Paul George faced ten times more more venom and vitriol that they would have if there wasn't so much hate towards LeBron James why because it was expected that the Clippers beat LeBron James this was the team to take down the King LeBron James and when they couldn't get it done because they fail at even advancing to the next round now we have hate and vitriol towards Kawhi Lennon now Kawhi Lennon is not as good now Kawhi Lennon is not a top five player now Paul George might be the next Dwight Howard all because they didn't take down LeBron James again the hate makes you not very credible and this is why you when you're when you're talking to me I I contest I ask anyone of you out there find a player that I hate you know some will say Hakeem it can't be Hakeem I have Hakeem in my top ten I just don't like how he won his championships that's my critique of the game how he won his championships that's not a personal attack towards Hakeem because I can speak on Hakeem's greatness I can speak on how great he was how great his footwork was how talented he was and I can still put him on in my top ten based on his talent and not what I'm critiquing him on because I'm being honest about the game that's called removing your emotions from something because my emotions tell me that I don't think he would have won the championship if Jordan hadn't retired but my basketball mind tells me this is a top ten talent of all time so I have to put him in my top ten that's called being reasonable I'm not gonna take shots at him you know I'm not gonna take personal attacks at him I'm not gonna start digging into his personal life I'm just giving a critique of the game like I dare you to find a player that I actually hate because again if you hate a player you cannot assess the game fairly you will have a bias and you will have a skewed opinion and what and what starts to happen is everything that you say it's formulated it can be formulated back towards hate towards one particular player because every take that you say from that point forward is going to be outlandish and skewed with bias and hate and you start saying stupid stuff Jamal Murray is not a James Harden he never will be this is the first time we've seen him excel in the playoffs let's just appreciate it for what it is we saw Donovan Mitchell have a great playoff run his rookie year but how did Donovan Mitchell follow it up he followed it up in a year where he disappeared was extremely inconsistent and didn't perform at all this is why you you can't have recency bias so with Damian Lillard all the praise that those guys gave Damian Lillard as soon as he lost no one's talking about Damian Lillard anymore it was all fake love Kawhi Leonard he's the best player in the league he's next up Paul George as soon as they lose Paul George now Paul George is now the next Dwight Howard Kawhi Leonard you're not the king of LA anymore you lost and now we shame Kawhi Leonard now we want to fire Doc Rivers it's just sad some of the basketball takes and that's why again if you're a basketball fan take hate out of your arguments because again you cannot win any basketball debate if you hate a particular player I don't care who that player is you can always you should be able to criticize their game and not the person because at the end of the day we don't know any of these people off the court any situation that you might see on TMZ any situation with a player and fan or interaction that you might see we only see a glimpse of it we only see what people want you to see we don't see what led up to it we don't hear what was said before we don't hear what was said after you got to take everything with a grain of salt that you see from the media because it's toxic the hateful LeBron James is toxic and I'm not even a LeBron James fan I'm just watching from both sides I have to watch LeBron James fans not have a little not they don't have to defend LeBron James on stuff that's bad they don't have to defend LeBron James poor free throw shooting in the fourth they don't have to defend LeBron James poor clutch performances they have to defend LeBron James from choosing to go to Miami to play as a free agent they have to defend LeBron James for what he said in a press conference they have to defend LeBron James for supposedly not cheering with his team after a game-winning bucket was made and now we know what's going on inside of his mind he really didn't like it it's so much stuff that's not basketball related when we talk about LeBron James it's starting to become funny I want you guys to let me know what you think about this situation where do you think all of this toxic stuff with LeBron James is coming from and again let me know what you think again I can criticize LeBron James's game there are a lot of things that he does wrong on the court there are a lot of things he does right on the court but at the end of the day regardless of regardless of how I feel emotionally I have to use my brain I have to take all hate out of it and I have to know I have this easily say for me he's in my top ten and I always say that six through ten in my list is interchangeable based on who you like it's just all interchangeable but if you're in the top ten I got to respect your game no players gonna be perfect every player has flaws I'm not gonna I don't LeBron James may never develop a perfect jump shot he doesn't need to but we don't we don't ask that of every single player again it's just just got to get your hate got we if you want to critique basketball properly you got to stop you got to get the hate out of your arguments you got to get the emotional aspect of it out of your arguments 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