I think you're still sour from the Spurs' embarrassing performance against the Heat in 2013 or whenever it was. Probably the worst choke job ever, even more than the Falcons' choke job.

Point is, LBJ has the league on lock down for at least seven years now. In the modern era, don't know if we've seen anything like it. He's more successful than both Kobe and Shaq after they broke up with one another, and he's still got about three more years to add to his legacy.

You gotta try harder at trolling. It was obvious even you didn't believe that first paragraph, and the Spurs got one of the more memorable revenges any team ever has the next season.

He's had the league on lock? That's an odd way to describe a guy who loses in the Finals more often than not.

Here’s what the world was like the last time LeBron wasn’t playing in the Finals

JEREMY WOO
Friday May 26th, 2017

It’s been a really long time since LeBron James wasn’t playing in the Finals.

It was 2010, and we were all so young, and LeBron had just flamed out against the Celtics in the conference semifinals. Boston met Los Angeles in the the 2010 Finals, which began June 3 of that year.

Here’s a slice of what life was like on that day, nearly seven years ago.

• Barack Obama was the president, and democrats controlled both houses of congress.

• Donald Trump was about to start his final season of The Apprentice.

• The Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world, had recently opened.

• Less than 24 hours prior to the start of the Finals, Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers had lost his perfect game on an incorrect call on the last play of the ninth inning.

• The Chicago Blackhawks were less than a week from winning the first of their trio of Stanley Cups.

• The Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico not two months earlier.

• Spain was about to win its first World Cup. Italy was the defending champion.

• Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber had recently met for the first time. Gomez called Bieber her “little brother.”

• Brett Favre was still playing football, and had started every game he played in over the past 19 seasons.

• Ken Griffey Jr. had just retired from baseball on June 2.

• John Wall wasn’t in the NBA yet.

• Reggie Bush had not yet forfeited his Heisman Trophy.

• Derrick Rose was healthy.

• “OMG” by Usher and will.i.am. was the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. (Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh)

• George Steinbrenner was still alive.

• UConn women had just completed their second consecutive 39–0 season.

• Shrek: Forever After was the No. 1 movie in America.

• I had not yet applied to college.

• LeBron hadn’t left the Cavaliers yet.

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So he's at 14 seasons now, eight of which he's made the finals as the franchise player of the team. So for more than half of his career to date he's played in the finals. Not a great record of course (3-4-?) but still dominant.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Making the Finals in a weak conf with teams that were supposed to make the Finals isn't that big a deal. The teams that he lapped to get here have been pretty shitty. If he'd accomplished it in the West it would be a much bigger deal.

Before Vegan pulls a WYC I think the East is closing the gap but it's really due to the faltering of the West. The West looks pretty shitty these days too.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

Just a random question LTG, and I'm not trying to argue anything, where do you think next year's T'Wolves would finish in the east with the same healthy roaster?

I honestly think they should be playing in the east anyway.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

Making the Finals in a weak conf with teams that were supposed to make the Finals isn't that big a deal. The teams that he lapped to get here have been pretty shitty. If he'd accomplished it in the West it would be a much bigger deal.

Before Vegan pulls a WYC I think the East is closing the gap but it's really due to the faltering of the West. The West looks pretty shitty these days too.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

Vegan wants so badly to just come out and say LeBron is better than Jordan but he won't

All this talk and yet I guess Kareem Abdul Jabbar never existed.

If you believe Kareem is the GOAT more power to you. I know a guy who thinks Shaq is. We all have our opinions.

The only reason he was "supposed" to make the Finals is because he was on the team.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Just a random question LTG, and I'm not trying to argue anything, where do you think next year's T'Wolves would finish in the east with the same healthy roaster?

I honestly think they should be playing in the east anyway.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Off the top and this is a good question about 6 or 7. I'd have to think on it a little more. I'd have to think about teams on the rise like my Sixers lol and teams already in the playoffs.

Teams definitely better

Cavs
Wizards
Raptor
Celtics
Bucks

Other teams better
Sixers
Hawks
Charlotte

9 or 10.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Of course it's a huge deal. Anyone who tries to act like making the Finals this many times is no big deal is retarded.

What is the point of this league even

Next year if they over achieved I'd have them at 5 or 6. The Raptors could get blown up this summer. Milwaukee/ Minny would be a good playoff matchup. I think the Hawks are mediocre with a good coach. Charlotte is hit or miss each year. A healthy Sixers team is still something I need to see to properly evaluate them.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

It isn't a huge deal. If he had no rings we would be laughing at him.

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What?

Only the wins matter. No one would be praising him for being the Buffalo Bills.

Only the wins matter. No one would be praising him for being the Buffalo Bills.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

I was going to mention the Bills - I praise them for what they did (or rather what they almost did four years in a row). It's different in basketball of course. I think at the very least, even if he went 0-8 in the finals, he validated all the hype that surrounded him two years before he even played his first NBA game (the chosen one, etc.). Again, he's been in the finals as the lead dog of a team for more than half his career. The one constant in the NBA over the past seven years has been whatever team LBJ is on is going to the finals.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

I was going to mention the Bills - I praise them for what they did (or rather what they almost did four years in a row). It's different in basketball of course. I think at the very least, even if he went 0-8 in the finals, he validated all the hype that surrounded him two years before he even played his first NBA game (the chosen one, etc.). Again, he's been in the finals as the lead dog of a team for more than half his career. The one constant in the NBA over the past seven years has been whatever team LBJ is on is going to the finals.