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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
Larry Bird is one of the most clutch players in history, so much so, he used to tell the opposing players where exactly he was going to get the ball to win the game and then he'd do just what he said, and win the game. Lebron misses all kinds of shots in crucial situations and has his teammates bail him out. Bird's trash talk alone would have Lebron cowering in the corner crying, and most don't consider Bird the GOAT as good as he was. MJ would drop 40 on you if you looked at him wrong.
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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
I wonder how often LeBron would foul out in the 80's NBA? His game is so much about his physicality, and while guys like Bird and Majic played physically, they also dominated with other aspects of the game. The Hick from French Lick was no slouch.
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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
Larry Bird is a top 5 player without a doubt. Not a smarter player ever. If he played today, all of today’s so called “best” would be looking up at him. James saying that just solidifies what is wrong with the argument that he is the greatest. The statement about Jordan and pissing him off... that’s so true. You’re not going to score if MJ decides you can’t. And when Giannis surpasses lebron, I’ll smile...
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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
You can access Bill Simmons' all time rankings here back in 2010. https://www.basketball-referen...simmons_pyramid.html He's often full of himself, but at least Simmons makes an effort to provide his rationale. He had Lebron at #20 back then - pre-titles. I think he has Bill Russell too high (#2), but I otherwise mostly agree with him. The question is where to put the guys after this decade - Lebron, Durant, Curry. I'd drop Russell to about #5 or #6 on the list. I'd put Lebron after Kobe at...
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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
Lebron is a physical beast, but you have to wonder how he'd have fared if teams were allowed to do some Pistons "Jordan Rules" stuff to him. Jordan was a mean SOB and did everything with an edge. He was pathologically addicted to winning and would do anything to succeed. That made him the GOAT athlete and a POS human being at times, but there aren't many wired like him. Maybe peak Tiger Woods comes close. The Pistons beat the shit out of him physically for years and he kept picking himself...
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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
That’s a really good point about the rule changes. The hand check alone changed things forever especially for guards. Guys like Oscar and MJ and Bird and Stockton put up huge numbers when defenders could have their hands all over them. I’m not sure Curry or LeBron or Harden would have survived as teams would have worked them over. Westbrook probably could have because despite his quirks he’s one tough and physical SOB. Gary Payton probably wouldn’t have a job in today’s NBA.
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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
Durant would have trouble also. Mahorn or Oakley would have broken him in half.
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Re: LeBron James: “That one right there made you the greatest of all time”
I think he belongs in the 6-10 range. I know at times, LeBron has taken over games in clutch situations, but I have seen him at other times absolutely not want to take the shot in other clutch situations. Jordan, Magic, Bird, Jabbar - they all are more clutch, imo. I even get irritated by the "James is GOAT" talk. No way.
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Re: Super Bowl 53.......
I lived in Massachusetts for close to 30 years. It may have changed, but historically Red Sox have always been #1 with the Bruins a strong #2. Before Bird came along, I don't know, but after his arrival, football may have been #4 as preferred professional sports teams. Actually, I have no idea where bruins rank these days.
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Re: Kobe Bryant (RIP)
Kobe was one of the most complicated professional athletes in my lifetime. Probably the only guy at this level of complication is Tiger Woods. Kobe had great academic test scores coming out of high school. With his drive and intelligence, he could have gone to law school or been the CEO of a big company. Maybe a surgeon. He would have been good at whatever profession he decided to pursue. He was intelligent, articulate, and driven. He was thoughtful in the manner of Kareem or Bill Russell.
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Re: Kobe Bryant (RIP)
If they are going to change the logo, I'd like to see them go to a "Mt. Rushmore" style logo. Put the silhouettes of 4-5 guys on it. Keep Jerry West and add Kareem doing a sky hook, MJ flying through the air from the FT line, etc. Have the fans vote on it. Kobe was a top 10 player all-time, but if he wouldn't have died tragically, he wouldn't even be in the conversation for the logo. Here's Bill Simmons' effort to rank the top players of all-time in 2010 (the last year Kobe won a title). If...
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Re: Packers named Most Likable Team in the NFL
Originally Posted by Thunderbird: I looked at the other 7 away games for the Packers (at StubHub), and compared them to the rest of the season's games. Thx a million for taking the time to pull it together and share it T-bird, good stuff.
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Re: Birds vs Turds game thread
Friday January 14th 2011. Hudson Grill in Atlanta. Packer Pep Rally. Two floors of Packer fans wall to wall just dying to take over the Georgia Dome. I was pinned at the bar tossing down cocktail after cocktail trying to listen to Majkowski fire up a small armada. Air Tran the next day and the flight attendant telling me to shut my damn phone off the second Atlanta went up 14-7. The guys in row 24 that somehow got an Internet connection at 33,000 feet and all of us lost our damned minds...
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Re: '70-71 Bucks 7th best team ever
I remember the year (1982) the Bucks SWEPT the Larry Bird Celtics. That was incredible. But, then they had to play the Malone 76'ers. Fo fo fo changed to fo fi fo with Bucks winning one game though the first game in Philly was only a 2 point OT loss. How could any team have to beat Celtics, 6'ers, and Lakers in back to back to back 7 game series? And yeah, I sure remember the 71 team.
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Re: The Greatest PF of All Time
While it is true Bird had a much better cast than Lebron, the quality of the top teams was also much greater (Lakers, Sixers as well as Bucks and Spurs). My issue with Lebron is I think he has come up small at a fairly high clip in huge moments. Not all the time, but enough times. This past Game 7, I think he had 2 FT's in the final 4.5 minutes. No field goals. Those are the moments Bird generally shown.
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Re: TNF: Raven-Symoné at Bengulls
Shame on me. Fedya, thanks for steping in... Mrs. Blair Kiel and I are in Utah...those 6:20 P.M. TNF starts barely let an old couple get home in time from the early bird dinner special at Brigham' Favorite Wife Steakhouse .
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Re: Green Bay Packers and Jermichael Finley Agree on 2 Year $15 Milion Contract
Finley's contract is an old bird. 2 years no guarentees money. Early in the process, what they had another two weeks to work on the deal. The Packers have a history of waiting to the last couple of days before a deadline before doing these kind of deals. For some reason the PAckers wanted the Finley contract put to bed, Maybe a tag on Flynn, maybe they are planning to do somthing schocking like going after a big time free agent. tom silverstein@TomSilversteinReply I anticipate the #Packers...
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Re: Positives/Negatives Packers vs Derp Chicago's
One positive is getting to poop all over VaJayJay once again. What a classy guy. I wonder if walking a cat makes a guy want to flip anyone who sees him the bird... Perhaps he learned that from Mrs. VaJayJay...
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Re: Positives/Negatives Packers vs Derp Chicago's
Re: Positives/Negatives Packers vs Derp Chicago's
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Re: Crosby Planted Too Close To Ball On Late Miss Against Colts
Count me in - no confidence. It's totally mental. The difference between his non-clutch performance and his clutch performance is off the charts. He's like an anti-Larry Bird.
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Re: da" announcers
Best color comment ever? When Monday Night Football cut to a shot of a bored/pissed off fan in the stands while his team was losing, he flipped the bird to the camera. Don Meredith didn't miss a beat and said "He's just saying the Oilers are Number 1!"
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Re: da" announcers
I'll never forget that. That really was great. Dandy Don, Gifford and Cossell were a combo that will be hard to beat, even though Howard could be annoying as hell; that was part of the fun listening to Don and Frank try to pop Howard's grandiose balloons.
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Re: I'll Admit It: These Days, I'm a Favre Fan First
You know Madden - Once he gets started he just can't stop. There are so many factors - tangible and intangible - that contributed to the loss of this game, pointing them out and picking them apart would be frustrating and pointless. If you are one of the people who are content to hang the dead bird around Brett's neck, fine. But then you also have to blame him for the leadership and skill that left us with an amazing season. Besides - Everybody knows the Lambeau crowd was to blame.
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Re: AJ Hawk
The Shocker? Remember, this is the same guy who flashed the bird almost exactly a year ago.
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Re: Wi @ (2) Ind
He also said that some of the shots that the Badgers were making were like the shots in the MacDonald's commercial that Jordan and Bird made.
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Re: Flacco wants $20 million
Great comparison! Not sure if it is a good one but using Jon Koncack of all people is pure jeenyus. Anyway, who cares. Flacco will be the highest paid QB until the next one is. EDIT: Makes sense now...Koncak was born in Cedar Rapids... Though a reliable defender for much of his career, Koncak is perhaps best remembered for the six-year, US$ 13 million contract he received from the Hawks in 1989 – an unprecedented total for a reserve. The deal was roundly criticized since it paid Koncak more...
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Re: Report: Favre to sign with Vikes today. 12 million incentive deal...
I will go outside at around 1 pm EST and flip the bird in the direction of Minnesota. He is officially DEAD to me.
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Re: **Glazer Reports Lynch traded to Seahawks**
I also agree a lot of our running game woes comes from lack of a good OL, or at least parts of it, anyway. I say stick Bulaga in right now, it will at least give Cliffy some time to heal. Give Tausch another game to see how he does, make a switch to Lang if necessary. By the trading deadline, we'll have a better idea of what we have in our current running backs and our offensive tackles. If our running game still stinks with better run blockers, I say make the move for Lynch even if it does...
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Re: **Glazer Reports Lynch traded to Seahawks**
you be lovin the rankings. i can only suspect that you must think bjack/kuhn is a bigger thread than addai. no wait, it's because m3 doesn't give them a chance. any way you would be open to the opinion that they don't get a chance because they aren't any good? all people want to do is improve this team. i will assume that tt is exploring this heavily as well he should be. if someone is available, he should upgrade unless he has to DRASTICALLY overpay. i bet he won't. however, you keep...
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Re: 95 season
The numbers don't lie but I doubt anybody thinks the Dirty Birds are in the same stratosphere as the Pokes back in those days. That was a dynasty and they made the Pack their personal whipping boy. There was also some major bad blood with Reggie going nuts after the field goal game, the chop blocks on Jurko, etc. Those were also two very good teams and some of those Dirty Bird games recently were somewhat meaningless in the sense that neither or one of the teams wasn't considered a serious ...
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Re: 95 season
True, I was grasping .... trying to find that "us against the world" underdog angle
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Re: NOT CAPERS FAULT!
Yes we have one of the younger rosters, but that's where better teaching comes into play. Our primary defensive player group looks like this: Aiyewa - 1 year of experience (new to us this year?) Banjo - rookie (although one could argue that by the end of the year no one is a rookie any more) Boyd - R Burnett - 4 Bush - 8 Daniels - 2 Hawk - 8 House - 3 Hyde - R Jennings - 3 Jones, B. - 5 Jones, D. - R Lattimore - 3 Matthews - 5 Mulumba - R Neal - 4 Palmer - R Perry - 2 Pickett - 13 Raji - 5...
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Re: Falcon fans, afraid of Green Bay? Read on...
Bird media has to write something. What a turd.
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Re: I love me some Jordy
That's a bold statement. Larry Bird is considered on of the best Basketball Players of all time. So you think Jordy has a chance to be one of the best receivers of all time? Jennings is clearly better and up to this point Driver has been more reliable on third downs.
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Re: Pawsitives & Things We Need To Get Fixed after STL
Re: Pawsitives & Things We Need To Get Fixed after STL
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Re: Hawk agrees to restructuring
He got a sack IIRC then flipped the bird to his teammates who were heckling him. It was an inside joke I believe .
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Re: BJ Raji offered 8 mil a year
man, can't believe he wouldn't jump on that. the ol' bird in the hand business and all...
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Re: Who is the scrappiest player on the team?
Originally Posted by GBFanForLife: Does he have special order extensions on his headset? His toupee has the headset built in. I think a white cartoon dog with black ears and a little yellow bird are in there somewhere too.
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Re: Report: Packers to be "big players" in FA. Raji out?
TT isn't going to **** the bed and sign a big name FA to a huge contact... There will be no bidding wars for the likes of Larry Bird from Buffalo. I wish he would... but I don't see it happening.
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Re: Axford to St Louis
Seeing the Axman as a Dirty Bird is going to be combination of painful, disturbing, heartbreaking and gross...
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Re: 2016 (Team 96) PRE WK4 GB @ SF Gameday Thread
Watching Tampa and the Brownies. I'm never going to be a fan because of the FSU shenanigans but Jameis Winston is one of those guys who just knows how to play quarterback. A rare bird especially amongst those kids coming out of college in recent years.
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Re: Is it a new NBA?
Originally Posted by Music City: Stern is widely credited with elevating the league through big market and star appeal. That was during a time when the world was far more segregated. It's funny- I watch that Bird/Magic documentary and chuckle when Bird talks about going to the paper the next day to check a box score to see how Magic played that night. What a different world it is today. So now you have a global marketing plan, and an example to follow with the NFL. Silver gets it. He knows...
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Re: Is it a new NBA?
Stern is widely credited with elevating the league through big market and star appeal. That was during a time when the world was far more segregated. It's funny- I watch that Bird/Magic documentary and chuckle when Bird talks about going to the paper the next day to check a box score to see how Magic played that night. What a different world it is today. So now you have a global marketing plan, and an example to follow with the NFL. Silver gets it. He knows it's about having a larger framed...