Heat No Oladipo, Nets No Kyrie & Harden, Hawks no Trae. ASTERISK RING for Giannis

[k0kakw0rld]

For GIANNIS right? :confusedshrug:

That's the game y'all love to play so let's talk about it.
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[HylianNightmare]

Better him than lebron

[Ghost1]

No Kawhit in the finals...

He even got lucky with his own injury:lol

[Bronbron23]

For GIANNIS right? :confusedshrug:

That's the game y'all love to play so let's talk about it.
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Yeah definitely. As far as asterisk chips go this would be up there

[k0kakw0rld]

Better him than lebron
You are a deranged man.

[ImKobe]

Giannis got injured himself as well as Divincenzo so it's not an asterisk.

[k0kakw0rld]

Giannis got injured himself as well as Divincenzo so it's not an asterisk.
Divinwho? You are not to be considered seriously. Giannis was fully healthy against the Heat and The Nets. We know damn well the Nets would have won the championship if all were healthy. Stop playing dumb, please. He did get injured but that was against the Hawks who also lost Trae. Jrue Holiday and Middleton won the series without the presence of Giannis. So how do you call that?

[And1AllDay]

Better him than lebron

this guy having king bran nightmares left and right :oldlol:

[tpols]

Kawhi, AD, Harden, Kyrie, and Curry basically all missed the playoffs. There's never been a year where this many superstars were cut out of the picture. The Hawks and Suns weren't even favored to get out of the 1st round before the tidal wave of injuries.

[tpols]

Giannis got injured himself as well as Divincenzo so it's not an asterisk.

And the bucks won without him. Just saying.

[HunterSThompson]

And the bucks won without him. Just saying.

giannis was coaching from the sidelines. he runs the offense on the court. why not off it as well

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notice hes calling a play for them. set #3

he should get 2 rings

[Axe]

Lol only oladipo missed playing the whole playoffs while the three have played some games when they faced him at least.

[HunterSThompson]

there is no such thing as asterisk rings

all rings count and they're only a small fraction of what makes a player great.


#1 - playoff totals
#2 - finals appearances
#3 - MVP/FMVP totals combined
#4 - triple doubles
#5 - versatility
#6 - longevity
#7 - court vision
#8 - top box office movies
#9 - leading a team in every category in the finals
#10 - never being a sidekick ( don't even think of bringing up 2011 or 2020 )
#11 - hairlines ( never went bald like baldan or chuckbe )
#12 - manhood
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[Spurs m8]

This little guy is seething

[HylianNightmare]

this guy having king bran nightmares left and right :oldlol:

Lefalseking

[Real Men Wear Green]

So of this is an asterisk ring how is the Raptor ring not?

[RRR3]

Lefalseking
This guy can’t even type in complete sentences. Legit one of the dumbest posters here.

[RRR3]

So of this is an asterisk ring how is the Raptor ring not?
Because he likes the Raptors.

[bladefd]

They are beating a healthy Suns team though. I realize Suns had the same luck themselves with all their opponents with major injuries too so that's something worth considering too.

[HunterSThompson]

So of this is an asterisk ring how is the Raptor ring not?


some dumba** is gonna come in here and say because the Craptors played 82 games and it wasn't some rushed shortened season with unnatural elevated risks of injury.

but injuries are part of the game

we don't make excuses for Kang because we eaten good either way


right boyz


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but it woulda been nice to get that short break to heal up before the playoffs like last year. all we're looking for is a bit of consistency

[Axe]

So of this is an asterisk ring how is the Raptor ring not?
Thread backfire :(

[k0kakw0rld]

So of this is an asterisk ring how is the Raptor ring not?

Apparently Orlando was going to beat us in the first round and it did not happen.
Fully Healthy Sixers were supposed to beat us in the second round as well and it did not happen.
Fully Healthy Bucks were up 2-0 and people said it was over and what happened?

The only injured team we faced was the defending champions in the finals. After them playing in their 5th straight finals.

Every single team the Bucks have faced from the first round to the conference finals was not 100%.
Hawks missed DeAndre Hunter as well and Trae was not 100% midway through the series and Cam Reddish same as well.

So no the Raptors ring was well deserved.

The warriors on the other end are well known for playing injured teams and run through the west because of that.

[k0kakw0rld]

Thread backfire :(

Slow down, give me a chance to respond. We suppose to be on the same team, moron lol

[Spurs m8]

So of this is an asterisk ring how is the Raptor ring not?

The Raptors one absolutely is

Not as bad as Mickey Mouse ring, but close

[Axe]

Slow down, give me a chance to respond. We suppose to be on the same team, moron lol
I know but i just don't want you to get careless my man. Anyway, would you go and clown that rudeboy kid? He's being petty af rn lmfao.

[bobopenguin]

Divinwho? You are not to be considered seriously. Giannis was fully healthy against the Heat and The Nets. We know damn well the Nets would have won the championship if all were healthy. Stop playing dumb, please. He did get injured but that was against the Hawks who also lost Trae. Jrue Holiday and Middleton won the series without the presence of Giannis. So how do you call that?

wrong,
lakers would have won if all were healthy.

[Real Men Wear Green]

The only injured team we faced was the defending champions in the finals. After them playing in their 5th straight finals.
So the Bucks facing an injured team in an early round is important but the Raptors facing a team whose three best players missed games matters made no difference? Do you think the Warriors would have made the Finals without Curry, Thompson and Durant? Or do you contend that the players they faced doesn't matter, that all that matters is that they won the Finals?

If injuries mean that a series victory deserves an asterisk then the Raptor championship is tainted. I don't believe in discrediting a team's accomplishments for that as its in unfair to hold another team's misfortune against them. But you are choosing to hold it against the Bucks then you should be made to understand that if the Warriors were healthy TO would have been destroyed.

[ArbitraryWater]

Kyrie played 4 games and they were tied 2-2, Heat never had Dipo anyway and were worse with him, Trae missed less games than Giannis himself...


bye bitch.

[bullettooth]

Better him than lebron

Or some Canadian team.

[Jasper]

For GIANNIS right? :confusedshrug:

That's the game y'all love to play so let's talk about it.
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lmao

[HunterSThompson]

OP forgot


CP3 = no manhood


another asterisk series

[ShawkFactory]

Kawhi, AD, Harden, Kyrie, and Curry basically all missed the playoffs. There's never been a year where this many superstars were cut out of the picture. The Hawks and Suns weren't even favored to get out of the 1st round before the tidal wave of injuries.

What injury helped the Hawks get out?

[HylianNightmare]

This guy can’t even type in complete sentences. Legit one of the dumbest posters here.

Lecrymore

[HylianNightmare]

Or some Canadian team.

Yesssssir

[Shogon]

Anyone who thinks the Raptors were going to beat the 2019 Warriors with a healthy Durant and healthy Klay is actually ****ing borderline brain dead. I mean they honestly should probably be put on life support, because they're close to checking out from such a heavy level of retardation.

[Mr. Woke]

It's hilarious how some folks give the Bucks props for barely beating a depleted Nets team.

There was nothing impressive about that victory.

[bullettooth]

It's hilarious how some folks give the Bucks props for barely beating a depleted Nets team.

There was nothing impressive about that victory.

There would have been nothing impressive about a healthy Nets team steamrolling through the competition.

[Mr. Woke]

There would have been nothing impressive about a healthy Nets team steamrolling through the competition.

Sweeping a series is not easy to do. That would have been hella impressive.

The Bucks got super lucky that Harden and Kyrie got injured in the series.

[tontoz]

Kyrie has been an injury prone flake his whole career. Harden came into camp fat and out of shape trying to force his way out of Houston. KD was coming off a major injury and hadn't played in two years

It would have been a fluke if all 3 guys were healthy for the postseason.

[k0kakw0rld]

Anyone who thinks the Raptors were going to beat the 2019 Warriors with a healthy Durant and healthy Klay is actually ****ing borderline brain dead. I mean they honestly should probably be put on life support, because they're close to checking out from such a heavy level of retardation.
That's not the point here.

In order to reach the NBA finals, he did not face any healthy team. The same argument you are bringing against the Raptors is the same argument I am using against Giannis.
Now, at least the Raptors beat the Magic, the 76ers (Simmons, Embiid, Butler, Reddick) basically a super team as well as the Bucks, fair and square. And that is the point of my THREAD.
The world knows, including yourself that a healthy Nets team would have won against the Bucks.

[Spurs m8]

This bump shows how cut up you are hahaaha

Giannis still getting the kind of respect bron never got...regardless and it kills you and the alts hahaaha

[Manny98]

Reminder the Craptors would still have 0 championships if not for this


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[k0kakw0rld]

Reminder the Craptors would still have 0 championships if not for this


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And Kevin Durant would have been ringless if he didn't sell his soul to become the athlete with the weakest move in sports history. Despite that he took a Kawhi injury for him to win his first ring. He is a b-tch so are you.

Imagine Malone joining MJ in 1998 after losing first time in 1997.

Imagine Barkley doing the same and joining the Bulls.
Tue respect is out of the door

[kawhileonard2]

But fans. That is more legit.

[Axe]

Imagine thinking the 2019 sixers aka "warriors of the east" being a super team. :roll:

[dankok8]

Anyone who thinks the Raptors were going to beat the 2019 Warriors with a healthy Durant and healthy Klay is actually ****ing borderline brain dead. I mean they honestly should probably be put on life support, because they're close to checking out from such a heavy level of retardation.

To be fair, Klay did play 5/6 games and averaged 26 ppg on great efficiency. But yea with a healthy KD they would have beaten us. I have no problem admitting that.

[k0kakw0rld]

Imagine thinking the 2019 sixers aka "warriors of the east" being a super team. :roll:
Jimmy Butler / Embiid / Simmons / obias HArris

4 all-stars. You are in denial or you know nothing about basketball.

[k0kakw0rld]

To be fair, Klay did play 5/6 games and averaged 26 ppg on great efficiency. But yea with a healthy KD they would have beaten us. I have no problem admitting that.

The same way the Spurs were going to beat the very same team if Zaza pachiula did not injure Kawhi. We can all play this dumb game.

[Real Men Wear Green]

The same way the Spurs were going to beat the very same team if Zaza pachiula did not injure Kawhi. We can all play this dumb game.
And you played it to perfection.

[k0kakw0rld]

And you played it to perfection.
I took a few pages out of your book.

[Ryoka Narusawa]

Strong thread title, not so strong nba title.

[Druckenmiller]

Forgot Phoenix no Chris Paul since he forgot to show up

[Derka]

There's no such thing as an asterisk ring. It is the invention of sad grown men who argue on the internet over millionaires who play a children's game.

[k0kakw0rld]

There's no such thing as an asterisk ring. It is the invention of sad grown men who argue on the internet over millionaires who play a children's game.
Others are getting paid millions to say the same shit on TV, your point? GTFOH


If you want to be the best you need to beat the best at their full strength. So yes, ASTERISK applies on this one. Because all the shots the man has been sending to other players is laughable to me. Like bro, we all know if the NETS were fully healthy your ass would have never been able to even reach the conference final.

[tontoz]

Others are getting paid millions to say the same shit on TV, your point? GTFOH


If you want to be the best you need to beat the best at their full strength. So yes, ASTERISK applies on this one. Because all the shots the man has been sending to other players is laughable to me.

Like beating GS without Durant and Klay? :facepalm


Like bro, we all know if the NETS were fully healthy your ass would have never been able to even reach the conference final.

The Nets weren't fully healthy all year. Their big 3 missed a combined 94 games during the regular season. It wasn't luck that they were hurt against the Bucks. It was inevitable that they wouldn't be full strength.

[Derka]

Others are getting paid millions to say the same shit on TV, your point? GTFOH


If you want to be the best you need to beat the best at their full strength. So yes, ASTERISK applies on this one. Because all the shots the man has been sending to other players is laughable to me. Like bro, we all know if the NETS were fully healthy your ass would have never been able to even reach the conference final.
And look! A sad grown man in his natural habitat!

[k0kakw0rld]

Like beating GS without Durant and Klay? :facepalm



The Nets weren't fully healthy all year. Their big 3 missed a combined 94 games during the regular season. It wasn't luck that they were hurt against the Bucks. It was inevitable that they wouldn't be full strength.
We are talking about one team.

We faced the Sixers, Giannis and the Bucks as well, (full strength. That's already a better championship run than Giannis or anything the Warriors had to be honest.

[k0kakw0rld]

And look! A sad grown man in his natural habitat!
Nothing else to say but BS. Keep it moving b-a-n

[tontoz]

We are talking about one team.

We faced the Sixers, Giannis and the Bucks as well, (full strength. That's already a better championship run than Giannis or anything the Warriors had to be honest.

Yeah because the sixers have been so strong in the playoffs. Couldn't even get past the Hawks.

The Bucks faced a healthy team in the finals that had the 2nd best record in the league playing in the tougher conference.

Let's not forget that Giannis missed the last two games of the ECF.

[k0kakw0rld]

Yeah because the sixers have been so strong in the playoffs. Couldn't even get past the Hawks.

The Bucks faced a healthy team in the finals that had the 2nd best record in the league playing in the tougher conference.

Let's not forget that Giannis missed the last two games of the ECF.
Shut the fk up idiot. Every damn team we faced in 2019 was supposed to beat the Raptors because no one believed in us.
That Sixers team with Embiid / Simmons / Butler / Tobias Harris / J.J. Reddick should have been the favorites to win it all.

[Axe]

Jimmy Butler / Embiid / Simmons / obias HArris

4 all-stars. You are in denial or you know nothing about basketball.
I mean hbk dimwit told us this before when he bragged about raptors kawhi. You didn't hear of it? :confusedshrug:

[tontoz]

Shut the fk up idiot. Every damn team we faced in 2019 was supposed to beat the Raptors because no one believed in us.
That Sixers team with Embiid / Simmons / Butler / Tobias Harris / J.J. Reddick should have been the favorites to win it all.


How many series were the Bucks favored? People here were talking about them losing to the Hawks, who took out the Sixers.

Did you really just list Redick as if he is some type of star?

Embiid was in the MVP race all year. Not so much in 2019.:lol

[k0kakw0rld]

How many series were the Bucks favored? People here were talking about them losing to the Hawks, who took out the Sixers.

Did you really just list Redick as if he is some type of star?

Embiid was in the MVP race all year. Not so much in 2019.:lol

In 2019, no one believed the Raptors would make it to the finals. Because of two teams. The Sixers and the Bucks. Now y'all want to play dumb? :oldlol::roll:

[tontoz]

In 2019, no one believed the Raptors would make it to the finals. Because of two teams. The Sixers and the Bucks. Now y'all want to play dumb? :oldlol::roll:

I never said people were expecting the Raps to make the Finals. However they did have the advantage of Manny picking against them in every round which can't be underestimated. No way would the Raps have gotten past the Sixers without Manny's assistance.

But Durant going down in the Finals was the ultimate gift, something the Bucks didnt get this year. People weren't picking the Bucks to win this year.

[k0kakw0rld]

I never said people were expecting the Raps to make the Finals. However they did have the advantage of Manny picking against them in every round which can't be underestimated. No way would the Raps have gotten past the Sixers without Manny's assistance.

But Durant going down in the Finals was the ultimate gift, something the Bucks didnt get this year. People weren't picking the Bucks to win this year.
Why would anybody take you seriously after saying something stupid shit like that?

My issue is what: We get it! Giannis won. But stop acting like he destroyed all super teams on his way to a championship. He did not face any.

People weren't picking the Raptors to win the East in 2019, your point?

[tontoz]

Why would anybody take you seriously after saying something stupid shit like that?

My issue is what: We get it! Giannis won. But stop acting like he destroyed all super teams on his way to a championship. He did not face any.

People weren't picking the Raptors to win the East in 2019, your point?



They weren't picking the Bucks either. There were several on here picking the Hawks to beat the Bucks. And the Bucks beat a healthy team in the finals as the underdog.

The Suns had the best record in the league, only 1 game out of 1st, while playing in the tougher conference.

[k0kakw0rld]

They weren't picking the Bucks either. There were several on here picking the Hawks to beat the Bucks. And the Bucks beat a healthy team in the finals as the underdog.

The Suns had the best record in the league, only 1 game out of 1st, while playing in the tougher conference.
The same Suns no one believed they would beat the Lakers even with an injured AD? LOL

Again AD plays no way the suns are beating the Lakers and you know that.

[tontoz]

The same Suns no one believed they would beat the Lakers even with an injured AD? LOL

Again AD plays no way the suns are beating the Lakers and you know that.


So if a guy with a history of being injury prone, and was questionable for game 4 even before pulling his groin, was miraculously healthy then the Suns wouldn't have beaten them?

Both AD and Lebron struggled with injuries during the regular season so saying "if they were healthy" doesn't make sense. If they were healthy during the regular season then the "what ifs" would have some validity.

Remember that the Lakers got to the playoffs through the play in game, on a Lebron buzzer beater several feet behind the line.

[Axe]

In 2019, no one believed the Raptors would make it to the finals. Because of two teams. The Sixers and the Bucks. Now y'all want to play dumb? :oldlol::roll:
Can't forget that 2019 was also the same year that stephen curry made former d-league player fred vanvleet look like an all-star in the finals while also gifting him an iconic playoff moment at the same time.

[k0kakw0rld]

Can't forget that 2019 was also the same year that stephen curry made former d-league player fred vanvleet look like an all-star in the finals while also gifting him an iconic playoff moment at the same time.
VanVleet was an all-star candidate in the east last season, idiot.

[Mr. Woke]

The Bucks were gifted the championship when both Harden and Kyrie got injured in the second round.

There was nothing impressive about them beating a depleted Nets team.

[Axe]

VanVleet was an all-star candidate in the east last season, idiot.
I was talking about 2019 tho, you jizzrag.

[k0kakw0rld]

The Bucks were gifted the championship when both Harden and Kyrie got injured in the second round.

There was nothing impressive about them beating a depleted Nets team.
Somone who finally gets it. Amen!

[tontoz]

Somone who finally gets it. Amen!


Right, it is just luck that Harden (who played only 2 of the Nets last last 24 regular season games) and Kyrie (injury prone going all the way back to Duke) couldn't stay healthy in the playoffs. Kyrie only played 20 games last season.

When their big 3 isn't healthy next season i am sure clowns in here will again act like whoever won the title got lucky.

[k0kakw0rld]

Right, it is just luck that Harden (who played only 2 of the Nets last last 24 regular season games) and Kyrie (injury prone going all the way back to Duke) couldn't stay healthy in the playoffs. Kyrie only played 20 games last season.

When their big 3 isn't healthy next season i am sure clowns in here will again act like whoever won the title got lucky.

DUUUUUUH!

At the beginning of last season, the Lakers were favorites then the Bucks, then the Clippers until the Nets decided to bring in Blake, Aldridge, Harden.
The Nets became instant favorites to win the East. That's now two teams favored to win the championship over the Bucks. And this is the reason why it's hard to really give Giannis all the credit that he wants to take. We get it he won, I am just tired of the ''Superteam Killer'' Label he wants to run away with.
Halfway through the season which two teams were considered favorites over the Bucks? Who no one believed in, because of Giannis's playoff flaws.

[tontoz]

Part of being an all time great is actually showing up and playing. Look at the greats down through history not many of them were injury prone.

Kyrie has been hurt in the playoffs with the Cavs and the Celtics. Why would it be different with the Nets? Durant played only half the season after missing all of last season. Harden came into camp fat and out of shape trying to force a trade, pulled his hamstring and missed the last few weeks of the season.

It wasn't surprising at all they weren't healthy in the playoffs. Colin Cowherd predicted the Bucks would win the title before the playoffs started in part because their guys have a history of durability.

[Rick Bottom]

...Oladipo..? Victor Oladipo? What're you talking about??

[k0kakw0rld]

...Oladipo..? Victor Oladipo? What're you talking about??
He was a member of the Heat when they faced the Bucks in the first round last season. And still is a Heat player.

[bullettooth]

LeBum fans desperate for damage control.

Losers.