Tony Bobay He doesn’t work for ESPN, but he did create one of their most popular shows-First Take-as well as one of the most popular formats: the sports debate show, or the “take” show.
Still living in a world where Luka has never seen the Kawhi shot. It's almost like he is living in an alternate reality. Eventually he will see it though.
Joseph Vincent makes some of the most cinematic sports videos out there. anyone that people recommend see if he has a video about them. and he does all sports too!
3:32 in response to this: Usually in the nba the first overall pick is a really special guy. There a few situations where first picks have busted buts it’s very rare that the very first pick in the draft completely busts. And of course injuries can ruin careers too, especially if they happen before a young guy really starts to take off. (Oden, Fultz, rose) except even still oden had good start to his career and was a decent role player after his injuries, fultz is back on a good path, and obviously rose is still a special player and was an roty and mvp before being injured. But in general most of the 1st overall picks in the last 15 years have went on to become star players except for like one genuine bust (Anthony Bennett)
Yeah that seemed like a pretty big omission. Frequently argued to be the greatest playoff run of all time. The pressure on LeBron hit it's peak after that. Here's a video about it th-cam.com/video/LvyHM82t0BI/w-d-xo.html
That’s just how that TH-camr does videos. In the Jordan one, he didn’t include the losses to the Pistons or the Magic when Jordan came back even though they’re part of Jordan’s story. It’s just how that guy makes the videos.
@Ryan Wellman “unhealthy cavs team” bruh ur hopping on the narrative being pushed by lebrons media. three of the 5 warriors were considerably actually injured for the second half of the finals including curry/klay/green. learn the facts.
Really like how you 're actually reacting mate, paying attention to what is being said and remembering what you heard and watched at the previous video,people tend to forget what REACTION video means :)
In 2016 the Golden State Warriors set an NBA record for the best regular season win loss record with 73 wins, beating out Michael Jordan and the 1996 Chicago Bulls. Stephen Curry also won the NBA MVP that year. Golden State plowed through the playoffs and faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the playoff Finals. Cleveland were the HEAVY underdogs in that series. Golden State went up 3-1 in the finals. No team in NBA Finals history had ever overcome a 3-1 lead up to that point. The Cavaliers had a comeback story of the ages to win 2 straight games and push the series to game 7. The game was closely contested and near the end LeBron was clutch and had “The Block” on Andre Iguodala. Kyrie then came down the other end and made a 3-pointer over Stephen Curry to win the championship. Cleveland hadn’t won a sports championship in 52 years, in any sport, not just basketball. One of the best stories in United State’s sports history.
Hate to tell you but he's long gone out of the greatness debate you don't lose six NBA finals and not to mention not even be able to get your team into the playoffs when everybody gets into the playoffs in this area you will never be the greatest that that ship has sailed my friend
U have to react to 2016 nba finals, when LeBron and Cleveland came back 3-1 (whoever gets 4 wins) against the greatest team golden state warriors. This was the best championship in nba history and it’s what made LeBron an all time legend
As for the Cavs/Warriors; they played against each other in the NBA finals for 3 seasons in a row. In 2016, the Cavs became the first team to ever come back from a 3-1 deficit in the finals to then win the series 4-3. The playoffs are best of 7. In 2016 the Warriors set an NBA record for the most wins in the regular season with 73-9. As a resident of Cleveland, Ohio myself... the Cavs winning in 2016 was one of the most emotional times for a city to experience together that I will never forget. I was literally crying tears of joy along with my girlfriend and everyone else at the bar. We hated LeBron when he left for Miami, but when he was quickly forgiven when he returned home a few years later; especially after he helped win Cleveland an NBA championship. Kyrie Irving should be mentioned as well as he came up HUGE, hitting the game winning shot in game 7, as well as a 41pt game for both himself and LeBron in game 5. The game at the end was an Olympic game. Every once in awhile a president will attend.
one of the things they didn't mention in the video is he grew up about a half hour south of Cleveland, so he was basically picked by his home town team.
He went to the finals all 4 years he was in Miami and won the 2nd and 3rd year. He then returned to Cleveland where he went to the finals another 4 years in a row (8 years in a row combined, twice as much as even any team has ever gone in a row) and won another ring his second year back.
He grew up 30 minutes from Cleveland and won the city their first professional title in around 50 years and the city of Cleveland also has a baseball and football team so it was huge. Being from Ohio I can say game 7 against warriors was the best sports moment of my life you should watch the video of game 7 it is incredible!!
For international basketball watch Joseph Vincent's "The Dream Team". It's a shortened version of the full documentary but just as good imo. (It is just about America tho not the whole world)
In the 2016 cavs series he was down three games to one. Not only does his team come back from that, the team he beat had the nba’s best record of all time at 73-9. “B-b-but kyrie saved him and he’d leflopp!” Remind me, who got them to the finals? Right.
Regular season wins don't equate to playoff success, for example 2015 Hawks but superstar talent is always superior in the playoffs, the same team but "healthy" was almost beat by KD
The international games are for the Olympics (LeBron was on the 2004, 2008 and 2012 teams) and also the FIBA World Championship (2006) ... aka “the FIBA World Cup”.
👍👍👍👍 Excellent, excellent video Luka. You have the absolute best reactions because you really appreciate the phenomenal skills of these players. I'm some 18 year old soccer/ football prodigy coming into the Premier league and taking over and being compared to the sports greatest player right from the beginning. That's what LeBron has done. And for the most part he has proven himself equal to the task. The guy is a freak of nature. Strong and athletic beyond belief.⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lebron left Cleveland after he had promised them a title because 1. He didn't have a solid team ( without him wouldn't even make the playoffs) 2. A teammate fucked his mum 3. Surely he got frustrated losing so much Then he went to Miami to learn to win championships but was taken down by the legendary Dirk. He won 2 championships after that loss and fell to an amazing San Antonio Spurs again and he left to go back home to Cleveland to fullfill his promise. He went back fell to golden State the first year then in his 2nd go against GSW he pulled off the most legendary championship run against arguably the top basketball team of all time. Then GSW hacked the NBA by putting together the greatest superteam of all time and he fell twice against them in 17 and 18. Then he left again to go to the lakers. His first year he had an injury and didn't make the playoffs and now we're here in 2020 watching what he is going to accomplish. This year is amazing I suggest you start following NBA full time cuz its going to be an interesting year as the Lakers, Clippers, Rockets and Bucks all have championship calibre teams.
Basketball players are definitely looking at the basket when they shoot. They may often jump or begin the process of shooting without looking but that’s because they know where they are on the floor. By the time they release it (unless it’s a reverse layup), they are certainly looking towards the basket.
For some more context... The NBA draft order is determined through a lottery in which the teams that didn’t make the playoffs get a certain chance of getting the number 1 pick. At the time of this draft the worst team according to record would have the best chance, the second worst would have the second best chance and so on. So basically Cleveland had to get lucky in order to win the lottery and draft their hometown superstar even though he isn’t technically from Cleveland but close by. Also this was before the 1 and done rule was implemented where kids could get drafted right out of high school still. Soon after a rule was put in place that forced kids to either attend a year of college or play overseas for a season before being drafted. The rule is still in place but is under a lot of scrutiny more recently because of players finding loopholes and also looking to make money right away which you cannot do in college. All that to say that Cleveland was lucky or were gifted that number one pick. The rest is history
If you want a resume of his career, he was drafted in 2003 by the Cavaliers, reached his first NBA Finals in 2007, lost to the Spurs. After losing in the Conference Finals to the Celtics in 2010, he went to Miami, forming a superteam with Chris Bosh and Dywane Wade, but lost the 2011 Finals to the underdogs Dallas Mavericks of the lonely star Dirk Nowitzki(another amazing player btw), won 2012 over the Thunder, 2013 over the Spurs and lost 2014 to the Spurs. Returned to Cleveland in 2015, lost in the finals to the Warriors of Steph Curry, who was emerging at that time, but there's more to that loss, because Kevin Love was injured during the playoffs and Kyrie Irving was injured in the Finals, so he was alone then. In 2016 he faced the Warriors(which won 73 out of the 82 games of the regular season). Curry this time was injured but he was able to play in the Finals, and it was glorious, the Warriors got a 3-1 lead but Cleveland managed a comeback, the first from down 3-1 in NBA Finals history, with a game where both Kyrie and LeBron scored 40 points, first time in Finals history that two teammates got 40 points in one game, and a game 7 that was decided in the last moments by two plays, a block by LeBron on Iguodala, and a three by Kyrie over Curry. After that the Warriors got Kevin Durant, forming a superteam and defeated the Cavs in the Finals in the next two years, losing last year to the Toronto Raptors of Kawhi Leonard after both Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant suffered major injuries. After his loss to the Warriors in 2018, having carried his worst team to the finals since 2007 Cavaliers, LeBron decided to go to the LA Lakers, still pursuing the title of Greatest Player of All Time.
Yea they have international play for basketball but usually only come out with the top notch roster for the Olympics rather than the world cups and other stuff. 2012 team had Kobe, Lebron, Durant, Westbrook, Harden, and more all on the same team😳there was also the 1992 “dream team” (Larry bird, Michael Jordan, magic Johnson, Charles barkley, Karl malone, etc ) all playing together
In case you did not know, his return in Cleveland, he lost the NBA finals his first year back. The Golden state warriors upset them that time. But next year, the Golden state warriors recorded the best nba regular season record for any team in history 73 wins 9 losses. Of course the odds were in the Warriors' favor. But Cleveland made it to the finals anyway and faced them. In a 7 game finals series, Golden state was up 3-1. They only need to win 1 more game to end the series but LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love fought hard to come back from that deficit and win the title. This is also the first time an nba team came back from a 3-1 deficit if i am not mistaken
Miami is the best point in his career, specifically the 2012-2013 season. His 2008-09 (first MVP) season in Cleveland was statistically great, especially his playoff run, but in Miami his game was more polished. his 2018 playoff run was also godlike though. EDIT: to answer your question about if LeBron and Curry have a rivalry...kinda. The season LeBron came back to Cleveland (2014-15) the Warriors broke out as a team and met the Cavs in the finals. LeBron's other two stars, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were injured and despite the Cavs taking a 2-1 lead, the Warriors won the series 4-2 after winning 3 straight. In 2015-16, the Warriors got better and won 73 out of 82 games in the regular season, the best season ever. 2016 is when the Cavs were down 3-1 then came back to beat them. Then that off season Kevin Durant signed with the Warriors which kinda ruined the league for a bit as they were easily the best team (to put it in perspective, the team that just won 73 games added an MVP to their team) and beat the Cavs easily in the 2017 and 2018 finals.
The thing is, he's built like a power forward but plays like a point guard. He's also a past first guy, who's on the verge of breaking Kareem's scoring record.
Lebron is from akron ohio. Cleveland is his hometown team, which is why him going back (and him leaving) meant so much to the city. When he left it felt like the chosen one who got drafted by his hometown, abandoned them. When he came back it was like from a fairy tale. The chosen one learned how to win and came back to bring a championship to his hometown. The team he beat in the finals, the warriors, were a 73 win team (the winningest team of all time, more wins than jordans bulls). He beat them down 3-1, and became the first team in nba history to win a finals down 3-1, nonetheless against the winningest team of all time (many analysts at the time touted the warriors as the greatest team of all time, before their eventual defeat to lebron). Lebron coming back down 3-1 in the finals against the winningest team of all time, is the greatest accomplishment in nba history. To win for his home town of cleveland, and end the 50 year drought, absolutely mind boggling. In those finals, lebron averaged the most points, assist, rebounds, blocks, and steals, the first player ever to lead both teams in every single statistical category. Overall, while his career might not be as amazing as jordans, the story of lebron is one of the greatest in sports.
Lebron and Steph have (had) a rivalry because they kept meeting in the Finals and Curry won 2 MVPs. People were talking about Curry maybe being the best player in the league over Lebron at the time.
LeBron James is more known to be a complete player in the NBA. He does A LOT of things so well or at improves on things every season. It’s scary how he gets better even in age. Yes, he may not be as powerful or athletic as he was when he was 20 years old. But he’s smarter and picks his spots, if he needs to be the point guard or facilitator to get his team going. He’s more than happy to just pass the ball and find good shots for his team. If they need him to be a scorer, then he’ll do what he has to do to carry his team to a win. He can very well be an all-time scorer if he pushed himself to be one. But LeBron isn’t a scorer despite his how huge his career points are right now. LeBron, has always been a facilitator..a “POINT” forward..he’s the point guard..he likes passing the ball and likes to defer to his team mates especially when it comes to important moments. Which is why many nba fans and analyst said he doesn’t have the CLUTCH or killer instincts like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. LeBron will always look to pass for a better shot..for better words..he doesn’t do HERO BALL, he rather go for TEAM BALL. But like I said, if he is the only option..he will put in everything he’s got to win..and his earlier years in Cavs to his recent run in 2018 playoffs with the Cavs was basically..LeBron giving his all in every damn game despite not having the strongest team and even close to winning at least 1 or 2 games against the Warriors was A SIGHT TO SEE. LeBron’s 2018 playoff run was so IMPRESSIVE..I still don’t know how he was able to push that team to the finals, but he DID. Unfortunately, he couldn’t do it on his own against a super stacked Warriors team and lost. But still the Cavs was literally the underdogs throughout the playoffs, but they made it to the finals...CRAZY.
Bro you gotta react to the TH-cam video “Jordan vs Lebron:the best GOAT comparison”. It’s the best video out there that objectively looks at Jordan and Lebron and whose truly the better player . It’s extremely well made and makes clear that one player comes out ontop by quite a bit .
In almost all cases the hype of how good a player is or their potential could be creates a majority of number 1 picks an unnatanable level of play. Lebron is rare in that he did live up to it. Its important to know that when he was 15-16 years old and a sophomore in high school he was already the obvious best high school basketball player in the us. And it wasn't even close.
Thanks for another great video, please react to Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, completely revitalized the NBA in the 80’s, NBA was not doing well when they came into the league. Two of the best ever.
Gonna repeat someone in the comments section again, you gotta react to Tracy McGrady's top 40 plays!! Dude was a scoring machine back in the early 2000's
Steph and lebron have a rivalry per se because both of them prevented each other from being the most dominant in their decades. Both curry and lebron won 3 titles in the 2010s, and 1 of lebrons and all 3 of Curry’s rings were verses each other. So lebron would have 6 rings if curry didn’t exist, and curry would have 4. Their teams battled over and over for years in the finals. That’s what the rivalry is basically. The 2016 finals, what they were referring to for the lebron win for Cleveland, is widely regarded as the greatest finals of all time. The insanely dominant warriors, who had just had the best winning season of all time, going 73 and 9, beating the 72 and 10 record of Michael Jordan’s bulls, and who were the reigning champions, winning it in 2015 over a Cleveland Cavaliers team basically who only had Lebron since the 2nd and 3rd options in kyrie Irving and Kevin love were both injured, it was bound to be an incredible series, the most winning team of all time vs a cavaliers team hungry for revenge for the almost unfair loss of the previous year, the two titans battled for the first 4 games, but the warriors took a 3-1 lead in the first to 4 game series. Now in basketball, this is a death sentence, as usually by this point the morale is very low on the losing side, and there isn’t much fight left in your team. But something possessed lebron and the cavs, they fought back, somehow won the next two games and tied it 3-3. The final game, the final minutes, the warriors 6th man Andre iguodala goes for a layup and is rejected by lebron in his classic running block that was shown in this vid quite a bit, he is the best player at this kind of block by far. In the last seconds of the game, the cavs are down, but they have possession of the ball, it goes to kyrie Irving, who shoots a buzzer beater 3, makes it, and wins the game. The cavs defeated the most winning team in nba history, and as well became the first team to ever come back from a 3-1 deficit and win. It was Cleveland’s first and only title, and it was the one lebron had been promising them since the moment he joined the team. He is indeed from Cleveland, and an interesting fact, so is steph curry. It was truly a magical series, one that I recommend anyone watch if they are interested. Peace ✌️
Nice vid man, gotta love Lebron! You should react to the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan 🐐, especially the Air Jordan video made by Joseph Vincent!
Please react to the Kawhi shot!! The Toronto Raptors run last year winning the championship was one for the ages. Epic moments for not only a city but an entire nation
Luka The information / folklore of the Nba that you should know is that for nearly 10 years + to win an NBA Championship it is known that you must go through Lebron first, hes the literal gate. Look up his finals record which was between he's been in 9.
Glad for Lebron James to get his own recognition, without Michael Jordan's name being throw in the mix. He isn't on the same level as a Michael Jordan. Now comparisons will be drawn, just not woth the greatest of all times Michael Jordan. He don't have the arsenal on offense, and defense. Theirs clearly a major difference between the two styles of play. He uses the same dunk in all his highlights, they show the same shot blocking at the rim, that's it and no more. The comparisons shouldn't have never been made Lebron and Michael. This video shows their games way different.
AKA the most counterfeit MVP season of all time, or the greatest conscious padding of stats and ball dominance the league has ever seen: 45% ball control and literally boxing out teammates to get rebounds and taking the ball away from teammates on free throw rebounds? The question is, is there a single player in the NBA not named Kyrie Irving who could have the ball in their hands for half the time their team possesses the ball and NOT get 10 assists per game as a natural by-product of the ball either leaving your hands for a shot (a low percentage, low efficient one in the case of Westbrook) or a pass? If he played decent defense, he would be somewhat defendable, but he doesn’t even do that. So what does he do good? Highlight dunks, I guess.
michael mata He was overwhelmingly chosen by the PLAYERS and the FANS and the MEDIA for MVP that season. He averaged 32-10-10 as the league scoring leader, while having one of the most statistically clutch seasons ever, had several 50 point triple doubles, led the league in 4th quarter scoring (more than Isaiah Thomas who was dubbed “king of the fourth” that year), he led many 4th quarter comebacks that season, his teammates also statistically improved when Westbrook was on the floor. It Westbrook passed his team mate the ball, their shooting % increased about 3% on average, as opposed to Harden, who’s team mates shooting % dropped 2-3% in the same circumstance. Harden being the only other real candidate that season (and deservedly so). MOST importantly his season was VERY entertaining to watch, Westbrook’s supreme athleticism was on full display, which was the point of me mentioning it.
Alderak1 And they lost in 5 games in the first round. Westbrook also shot 42% on 24 attempts a game and controlled the ball for a historic amount of time to the detriment of his team and winning basketball philosophy in any era. I never thought I’d see a player as selfish and ball dominant as Kobe Bryant when he was at his worst, yet Westbrook managed to do it. Meanwhile, Kawhi averaged 26 or 27 points a game in less time, on 48% shooting, with less turnovers and ball stopping, offense killing bad decisions, was third in Defensive Player of The Year voting (voters always favor big men because of blocks, but Kawhi has won before) helped the Spurs win 61 games without Tim Duncan, and lost only to Golden State in the Western Conf. Finals-in other words, he added more value to his team, and helped his team have more success. In my lifetime, there has never been an MVP for a crappy or middling team, to the best of my knowlege because basketball IS a sport where one player can make a difference. OKC was a six seed and almost got swept, and thanks to Westbrook, they played an ugly, individualistic brand of basketball and achieved middling success in then regular season, and no success in the post season. Kawhi and Lebron have good stats AND they are not empty, padding type of stats for show-they actually contribute to their teams success to the point that, if you took them off the team, their teams would not even be playoff teams, most likely. You could argue that Westbrook actually hurts teams the way he plays. OKC is playing well this year, and the Rockets are playing worse with Westbrook. Their was a good article in the second to last season on OKC with Durant (it maybe the year before that) where the plus/minus literally had OKC scoring less points with Westbrook on the floor than their backup point guard (maybe Reggie Jackson) and giving up more points on defense with Westbrook on the floor vs the bench player. In other words, the writer was simply pointing out that, statistically, OKC is a better team in both ends of the floor when Westbrook is NOT playing, but that there was no way OKC could do that because of Westbrook’s salary and star status and fan drawing status. That doesn’t sound like an MVP to me, although like I said, this stat was prior to his MVP season. I don’t know if that was true of 2016-2017 because there was no Durant, obviously, but I will always think of that when I think of Westbrook. What I am confident in saying is that he seems to NOT make his teammates better, and does not seem to be a difference maker in his teams success-that is just the evidence we have at this point. I would theorize that that has to do with his ball dominance, which is the opposite of my basketball philosophy and many other basketball experts who believe in ball movement, constant motion and passing, and limited amount of ball stopping one on one isolation and dribbling, which is literally what players like Russell Westbrook and Kyrie Irving do, and Jame Harden to be fair. The difference is, Harden is such an efficient scorer that he can help his team be successful in the regular season. And that same season, Harden was a more efficient scorer and only average something like a 2 points less than Westbrook (but higher shooting percentage and more efficient) and 1 and half less rebounds-something like 29-8-11-and the Rockets spanked OKC in the first round before getting beat by Kawhi and the Spurs. Therefore, I believe the MVP voting if it were legitimate would have Kawhi, Lebron, and Harden ahead of Westbrook, and only because Durant and Curry sort of cancelled each other out. But clearly, all those others players can immediately turn any team into a legitimate contender. The same can’t be said of Weatbrook. He manipulated his stats and created the overblown triple double storyline, however, along with the “Durant left so we’re holding it down” narrative, to fuel a bogus mvp vote that all of the most respected NBA analysts have since pointed out was a bogus MVP (Jalen Rose, Bill Simmons, Brian Windhorst, Zack Lowe, etc). For me, I hate the players like Westbrook, Harden, and Irving play and I don’t think you can win playing that way; and so far, I’ve been proven right. Now the Rockets literally have two of those players, so it will be interesting to see what happens. So far, not so good. The Celtics are better without Irving, and Brooklyn is worse, so far. So statistics and the eye test seem to match-up, in my opinion.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE react to the 1992 Dream team. The most dominant team of basketball ballers ever assembled. They were also instrumental in spreading the game of basketball and getting other countries to really buy into the sport
Two things that always get conveniently left out of LeBron's story are 1) His first stint in Cleveland when they called him a playoff choker, he had absolutely NO help on those teams. He was those teams. And 2) when he went on ESPN to announce his decision to go to Miami, they called it a "narcissistic self-promotional build-up" among other thing, but he donated $2million+ of the proceeds from that to the Boys & Girls Club of America.
Luka, imma gonna harass your videos with a single comment til you let me help ya with some basketball insight lol love your videos dude. like if you got any questions you want answered, lemme know. I’m a walking encyclopedia of basketball knowledge, I can tell you about players from the 60s and 70s to today and how they played, rough estimate of stats too lol. Been watching the sport since I was 5 and I’m 23 and I used to play it, ref it, train people as a side job. Keep up the content bro!
@@hakeemolajuwonBESTROCKET just like the warriors they always win against Injured teams.. 2015 Cavs, 2017 Spurs, and don't forget the rocket's in 2018 when cp3 got injured 😂
hakeem olajuwon BEST ROCKET you mean like when Cavs were the best team in 2015 and didn’t have Kevin love and Kyrie Irving? Cause if bron had either one of them, bron would have another championship. Don’t throw an excuse. Cavs were simply the better team both years.
@@WhyRushHomie no he was up 2-1 before Iggy started in game 4 to where he lossed 3 in a row with Iggy clamping him like crazy 💀💀 if they started Iggy from game 1 it's an easy sweep
Would love to see you watch some Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley etc. highlights. More of the 80's and 90's stuff, just so you can see a bit more of how the game has developed. Hell even watching Pistol Pete, Julius Erving, Oscar Robertson etc. would be worth your while. It will give you a really good idea of the game and how those that came before really paved the way. Even watching the NBA's top 100 greatest plays dvd (th-cam.com/video/2Y_c67mcKA0/w-d-xo.html) will help give you an idea of how you got to the decade that you have started from.
LeBron is, probably, the second greatest. He never had help in Cleveland the first time around, and even in his second go-around with the Cavs, he faced a loaded Warriors team himself due to injuries to his two other star teammates, then game back the second time to win it, and then the Warriors assembled the greatest team with KD. The big blemish I would put on LeBron is the Mavericks series where he had the team and failed. Whereas other greats like Jordan had Pippen, it wasn't until Miami, and now in LA, that LeBron truly has a HOF sidekick. Honestly, the story runs very deep with many different factors. Also, don't listen to much to Skip Bayless, the voice you often hear. He made his career on hating LeBron.
This video really highlights how incompetent sports talk analyst like Skip Bayless truly are.
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The dude make millions playing the "idiot sports bro" in order to ruffle the feathers of people like you and draw in views to ESPN. It's all an act
Not really. it's easy to make a biased video to make a critic look wrong.
Tony Bobay He doesn’t work for ESPN, but he did create one of their most popular shows-First Take-as well as one of the most popular formats: the sports debate show, or the “take” show.
They're not incompetent. They're characters. The incompetent people are the ones that actually takes them seriously.
a man who listens to the people gotta love it!
Tyler Kozer for real. “mans class”
Still living in a world where Luka has never seen the Kawhi shot. It's almost like he is living in an alternate reality. Eventually he will see it though.
Luca told me today that he watched it
I hope he never sees it. I can go on pretending it never happened and live in a fantasy land where The Sixers won it all
Mark Cadden same bro 😂🤒
He needs to see the recent video Joseph Vincent made on Kawhi career
Nah mate that shot doesn’t exist I have no clue what you’re on about
Anyone else not hear sound from 1:15-1:57?
Yes,what was that ???
Maybe Copyright Sound or something
Yee
Parker Ballew his videos really been glitching latley
Yeah
Joseph Vincent makes some of the most cinematic sports videos out there. anyone that people recommend see if he has a video about them. and he does all sports too!
Dude i hate his videos
bill watson ur dumb then
3:32 in response to this:
Usually in the nba the first overall pick is a really special guy. There a few situations where first picks have busted buts it’s very rare that the very first pick in the draft completely busts. And of course injuries can ruin careers too, especially if they happen before a young guy really starts to take off. (Oden, Fultz, rose) except even still oden had good start to his career and was a decent role player after his injuries, fultz is back on a good path, and obviously rose is still a special player and was an roty and mvp before being injured. But in general most of the 1st overall picks in the last 15 years have went on to become star players except for like one genuine bust (Anthony Bennett)
Strange this video didn’t include the 2011 finals
One of the most improbably upsets ever
Yeah that seemed like a pretty big omission. Frequently argued to be the greatest playoff run of all time. The pressure on LeBron hit it's peak after that. Here's a video about it th-cam.com/video/LvyHM82t0BI/w-d-xo.html
improbable upset? That Mavs team SWEPT Kobe and the defending champion Lakers and beat OKC 4-1. Was it an upset? Yes. Was it improbable? No
Eazy-E M2C
I’m not arguing with you but,
What was a bigger finals upset?
That’s just how that TH-camr does videos. In the Jordan one, he didn’t include the losses to the Pistons or the Magic when Jordan came back even though they’re part of Jordan’s story. It’s just how that guy makes the videos.
@Ryan Wellman “unhealthy cavs team” bruh ur hopping on the narrative being pushed by lebrons media. three of the 5 warriors were considerably actually injured for the second half of the finals including curry/klay/green. learn the facts.
He was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, not Cleveland.
but akron is a primary suburb of cleveland
@@SanFranFan30 No Akron is like 40 minutes away from Cleveland. It's not considered part of the Cleveland area.
@@SanFranFan30 Yes, it is and it's not Cleveland.
@@ImOutOfMtDew that's like saying San Jose is not a part of the San Franisco Bay Area because it's 45 minutes away, because that is flat out not true
@@SanFranFan30 I should know bud im from Cleveland. Akron is part of the Akron/Canton area not Cleveland.
Really like how you 're actually reacting mate, paying attention to what is being said and remembering what you heard and watched at the previous video,people tend to forget what REACTION video means :)
REACT TO ZION WILLIAMSON HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
Michael Jordan 🤷♂️
hakeem olajuwon BEST ROCKET nah zion >> >>>>>>>>>>>> jordan
Chill its a joke i like triggering people
Jumping the gun a bit on Zion I think. Considering he hasn't proved himself to be a legit NBA player yet lol
Nah
In 2016 the Golden State Warriors set an NBA record for the best regular season win loss record with 73 wins, beating out Michael Jordan and the 1996 Chicago Bulls.
Stephen Curry also won the NBA MVP that year.
Golden State plowed through the playoffs and faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the playoff Finals. Cleveland were the HEAVY underdogs in that series. Golden State went up 3-1 in the finals. No team in NBA Finals history had ever overcome a 3-1 lead up to that point. The Cavaliers had a comeback story of the ages to win 2 straight games and push the series to game 7. The game was closely contested and near the end LeBron was clutch and had “The Block” on Andre Iguodala. Kyrie then came down the other end and made a 3-pointer over Stephen Curry to win the championship. Cleveland hadn’t won a sports championship in 52 years, in any sport, not just basketball.
One of the best stories in United State’s sports history.
Appreciate the greatness 🙏people
Love to hate on Lebron Bc of his greatness, when it’s all said and done, he WILL be the greatest
Hate to tell you but he's long gone out of the greatness debate you don't lose six NBA finals and not to mention not even be able to get your team into the playoffs when everybody gets into the playoffs in this area you will never be the greatest that that ship has sailed my friend
@@MrDavisSaysHELLYEAH th u don’t know shit about ball lmao cornball keep crying he’s top 2 all time in everyone with creditably bum
U have to react to 2016 nba finals, when LeBron and Cleveland came back 3-1 (whoever gets 4 wins) against the greatest team golden state warriors. This was the best championship in nba history and it’s what made LeBron an all time legend
Watch Joe Vincent “Air Jordan (greatest Jordan video on TH-cam)” it’s like this but a longer video
As for the Cavs/Warriors; they played against each other in the NBA finals for 3 seasons in a row. In 2016, the Cavs became the first team to ever come back from a 3-1 deficit in the finals to then win the series 4-3. The playoffs are best of 7. In 2016 the Warriors set an NBA record for the most wins in the regular season with 73-9. As a resident of Cleveland, Ohio myself... the Cavs winning in 2016 was one of the most emotional times for a city to experience together that I will never forget. I was literally crying tears of joy along with my girlfriend and everyone else at the bar. We hated LeBron when he left for Miami, but when he was quickly forgiven when he returned home a few years later; especially after he helped win Cleveland an NBA championship. Kyrie Irving should be mentioned as well as he came up HUGE, hitting the game winning shot in game 7, as well as a 41pt game for both himself and LeBron in game 5.
The game at the end was an Olympic game. Every once in awhile a president will attend.
one of the things they didn't mention in the video is he grew up about a half hour south of Cleveland, so he was basically picked by his home town team.
Two words.
*ALLEN IVERSON*
The best dribbler in NBA history
MJ first
Misspelled Kyrie Irving champ
Young King no.
That’s true
Caedmon Moore *best crossover not all around handles
"no way he's pulling it back" *hype intensifies*
He went to the finals all 4 years he was in Miami and won the 2nd and 3rd year. He then returned to Cleveland where he went to the finals another 4 years in a row (8 years in a row combined, twice as much as even any team has ever gone in a row) and won another ring his second year back.
He grew up 30 minutes from Cleveland and won the city their first professional title in around 50 years and the city of Cleveland also has a baseball and football team so it was huge. Being from Ohio I can say game 7 against warriors was the best sports moment of my life you should watch the video of game 7 it is incredible!!
For international basketball watch Joseph Vincent's "The Dream Team". It's a shortened version of the full documentary but just as good imo. (It is just about America tho not the whole world)
React to Klay Thompson 37 points in one quarter.
In the 2016 cavs series he was down three games to one. Not only does his team come back from that, the team he beat had the nba’s best record of all time at 73-9.
“B-b-but kyrie saved him and he’d leflopp!” Remind me, who got them to the finals? Right.
Injury riddled team, Kyrie also played really well, don't discredit him
Regular season wins don't equate to playoff success, for example 2015 Hawks but superstar talent is always superior in the playoffs, the same team but "healthy" was almost beat by KD
Lol @ injury excuses for the Warriors. The only time injuries were an excuse was against the Raptors.
hakeem olajuwon BEST ROCKET playing well =/= bringing your team to the finals
Also your name is correct and I appreciate it
React to Kawhi Leonard
Mj
The Joseph Vincent video
Nah. Dude is a part time nba player.
@@edwardocariter99 lmao
Edwardo Cariter full time champion as well
The international games are for the Olympics (LeBron was on the 2004, 2008 and 2012 teams) and also the FIBA World Championship (2006) ... aka “the FIBA World Cup”.
👍👍👍👍 Excellent, excellent video Luka. You have the absolute best reactions because you really appreciate the phenomenal skills of these players. I'm some 18 year old soccer/ football prodigy coming into the Premier league and taking over and being compared to the sports greatest player right from the beginning. That's what LeBron has done. And for the most part he has proven himself equal to the task. The guy is a freak of nature. Strong and athletic beyond belief.⭐⭐⭐⭐
The greatest basketball team ever assembled in human history is the Dream Team. I'm not sure of a specific video, but that will blow your mind.
Lebron left Cleveland after he had promised them a title because
1. He didn't have a solid team ( without him wouldn't even make the playoffs)
2. A teammate fucked his mum
3. Surely he got frustrated losing so much
Then he went to Miami to learn to win championships but was taken down by the legendary Dirk.
He won 2 championships after that loss and fell to an amazing San Antonio Spurs again and he left to go back home to Cleveland to fullfill his promise.
He went back fell to golden State the first year then in his 2nd go against GSW he pulled off the most legendary championship run against arguably the top basketball team of all time. Then GSW hacked the NBA by putting together the greatest superteam of all time and he fell twice against them in 17 and 18. Then he left again to go to the lakers. His first year he had an injury and didn't make the playoffs and now we're here in 2020 watching what he is going to accomplish. This year is amazing I suggest you start following NBA full time cuz its going to be an interesting year as the Lakers, Clippers, Rockets and Bucks all have championship calibre teams.
Basketball players are definitely looking at the basket when they shoot. They may often jump or begin the process of shooting without looking but that’s because they know where they are on the floor. By the time they release it (unless it’s a reverse layup), they are certainly looking towards the basket.
Joseph Vincent’s Mohammed Ali video is probably the best highlight video I’ve ever seen
Day 3 of asking him to react to Klay Thompson’s 37 point quarter.
MJ first
NHL BOB PROBERT...230+ NHL FIGHTS
I watch this mans videos on the regular
For some more context... The NBA draft order is determined through a lottery in which the teams that didn’t make the playoffs get a certain chance of getting the number 1 pick. At the time of this draft the worst team according to record would have the best chance, the second worst would have the second best chance and so on. So basically Cleveland had to get lucky in order to win the lottery and draft their hometown superstar even though he isn’t technically from Cleveland but close by. Also this was before the 1 and done rule was implemented where kids could get drafted right out of high school still. Soon after a rule was put in place that forced kids to either attend a year of college or play overseas for a season before being drafted. The rule is still in place but is under a lot of scrutiny more recently because of players finding loopholes and also looking to make money right away which you cannot do in college. All that to say that Cleveland was lucky or were gifted that number one pick. The rest is history
You are watching the best basketball player ever in this vid.Enjoy that he is still currently playing and still the best 17 yrs in.
If you want a resume of his career, he was drafted in 2003 by the Cavaliers, reached his first NBA Finals in 2007, lost to the Spurs. After losing in the Conference Finals to the Celtics in 2010, he went to Miami, forming a superteam with Chris Bosh and Dywane Wade, but lost the 2011 Finals to the underdogs Dallas Mavericks of the lonely star Dirk Nowitzki(another amazing player btw), won 2012 over the Thunder, 2013 over the Spurs and lost 2014 to the Spurs. Returned to Cleveland in 2015, lost in the finals to the Warriors of Steph Curry, who was emerging at that time, but there's more to that loss, because Kevin Love was injured during the playoffs and Kyrie Irving was injured in the Finals, so he was alone then. In 2016 he faced the Warriors(which won 73 out of the 82 games of the regular season). Curry this time was injured but he was able to play in the Finals, and it was glorious, the Warriors got a 3-1 lead but Cleveland managed a comeback, the first from down 3-1 in NBA Finals history, with a game where both Kyrie and LeBron scored 40 points, first time in Finals history that two teammates got 40 points in one game, and a game 7 that was decided in the last moments by two plays, a block by LeBron on Iguodala, and a three by Kyrie over Curry. After that the Warriors got Kevin Durant, forming a superteam and defeated the Cavs in the Finals in the next two years, losing last year to the Toronto Raptors of Kawhi Leonard after both Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant suffered major injuries. After his loss to the Warriors in 2018, having carried his worst team to the finals since 2007 Cavaliers, LeBron decided to go to the LA Lakers, still pursuing the title of Greatest Player of All Time.
Yea they have international play for basketball but usually only come out with the top notch roster for the Olympics rather than the world cups and other stuff. 2012 team had Kobe, Lebron, Durant, Westbrook, Harden, and more all on the same team😳there was also the 1992 “dream team” (Larry bird, Michael Jordan, magic Johnson, Charles barkley, Karl malone, etc ) all playing together
Allen iverson oh my fucking god
18:29 lmao “That’s the Bamba” instead of “That’s Obama”
In case you did not know, his return in Cleveland, he lost the NBA finals his first year back. The Golden state warriors upset them that time. But next year, the Golden state warriors recorded the best nba regular season record for any team in history 73 wins 9 losses. Of course the odds were in the Warriors' favor. But Cleveland made it to the finals anyway and faced them. In a 7 game finals series, Golden state was up 3-1. They only need to win 1 more game to end the series but LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love fought hard to come back from that deficit and win the title. This is also the first time an nba team came back from a 3-1 deficit if i am not mistaken
Lebron and steph are good friends, just a competitive rivalry between the two for years
Miami is the best point in his career, specifically the 2012-2013 season. His 2008-09 (first MVP) season in Cleveland was statistically great, especially his playoff run, but in Miami his game was more polished. his 2018 playoff run was also godlike though.
EDIT: to answer your question about if LeBron and Curry have a rivalry...kinda. The season LeBron came back to Cleveland (2014-15) the Warriors broke out as a team and met the Cavs in the finals. LeBron's other two stars, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were injured and despite the Cavs taking a 2-1 lead, the Warriors won the series 4-2 after winning 3 straight. In 2015-16, the Warriors got better and won 73 out of 82 games in the regular season, the best season ever. 2016 is when the Cavs were down 3-1 then came back to beat them. Then that off season Kevin Durant signed with the Warriors which kinda ruined the league for a bit as they were easily the best team (to put it in perspective, the team that just won 73 games added an MVP to their team) and beat the Cavs easily in the 2017 and 2018 finals.
Well also.. Lebron is from Akron, which is like 20 minutes away from Cleveland. So it was quite the story.
If you want international basketball, watch the 2008 USA Olympic team. Probably the most dominant performance ever
The thing is, he's built like a power forward but plays like a point guard. He's also a past first guy, who's on the verge of breaking Kareem's scoring record.
Lebron is from akron ohio. Cleveland is his hometown team, which is why him going back (and him leaving) meant so much to the city. When he left it felt like the chosen one who got drafted by his hometown, abandoned them. When he came back it was like from a fairy tale. The chosen one learned how to win and came back to bring a championship to his hometown. The team he beat in the finals, the warriors, were a 73 win team (the winningest team of all time, more wins than jordans bulls). He beat them down 3-1, and became the first team in nba history to win a finals down 3-1, nonetheless against the winningest team of all time (many analysts at the time touted the warriors as the greatest team of all time, before their eventual defeat to lebron). Lebron coming back down 3-1 in the finals against the winningest team of all time, is the greatest accomplishment in nba history. To win for his home town of cleveland, and end the 50 year drought, absolutely mind boggling. In those finals, lebron averaged the most points, assist, rebounds, blocks, and steals, the first player ever to lead both teams in every single statistical category. Overall, while his career might not be as amazing as jordans, the story of lebron is one of the greatest in sports.
The debate is mostly agreed as MJ vs LBJ as the GOATs
Caleb Francis they’re both the king of their generation of basketball
Lebron and Steph have (had) a rivalry because they kept meeting in the Finals and Curry won 2 MVPs. People were talking about Curry maybe being the best player in the league over Lebron at the time.
Those are the Olympic Games when he’s wearing USA Jerseys
you should react to "best NBA ankle breakers" you'll definitely love that
ankle breakers/crossovers
also it was charles barkley saying hes a bigger stronger jordan. hes a legend so it holds weight.
LeBron James is more known to be a complete player in the NBA. He does A LOT of things so well or at improves on things every season. It’s scary how he gets better even in age. Yes, he may not be as powerful or athletic as he was when he was 20 years old. But he’s smarter and picks his spots, if he needs to be the point guard or facilitator to get his team going. He’s more than happy to just pass the ball and find good shots for his team. If they need him to be a scorer, then he’ll do what he has to do to carry his team to a win. He can very well be an all-time scorer if he pushed himself to be one. But LeBron isn’t a scorer despite his how huge his career points are right now. LeBron, has always been a facilitator..a “POINT” forward..he’s the point guard..he likes passing the ball and likes to defer to his team mates especially when it comes to important moments. Which is why many nba fans and analyst said he doesn’t have the CLUTCH or killer instincts like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. LeBron will always look to pass for a better shot..for better words..he doesn’t do HERO BALL, he rather go for TEAM BALL. But like I said, if he is the only option..he will put in everything he’s got to win..and his earlier years in Cavs to his recent run in 2018 playoffs with the Cavs was basically..LeBron giving his all in every damn game despite not having the strongest team and even close to winning at least 1 or 2 games against the Warriors was A SIGHT TO SEE. LeBron’s 2018 playoff run was so IMPRESSIVE..I still don’t know how he was able to push that team to the finals, but he DID. Unfortunately, he couldn’t do it on his own against a super stacked Warriors team and lost. But still the Cavs was literally the underdogs throughout the playoffs, but they made it to the finals...CRAZY.
Man, Lebron going back to Cleveland and winning them a chip is probably the best story in NBA history.
Bro you gotta react to the TH-cam video “Jordan vs Lebron:the best GOAT comparison”. It’s the best video out there that objectively looks at Jordan and Lebron and whose truly the better player . It’s extremely well made and makes clear that one player comes out ontop by quite a bit .
You should watch Cavs final comeback story
In almost all cases the hype of how good a player is or their potential could be creates a majority of number 1 picks an unnatanable level of play. Lebron is rare in that he did live up to it. Its important to know that when he was 15-16 years old and a sophomore in high school he was already the obvious best high school basketball player in the us. And it wasn't even close.
Miami probably his best play but he came back and single handedly won a title for Cleveland.
Thanks for another great video, please react to Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, completely revitalized the NBA in the 80’s, NBA was not doing well when they came into the league. Two of the best ever.
Gonna repeat someone in the comments section again, you gotta react to Tracy McGrady's top 40 plays!! Dude was a scoring machine back in the early 2000's
React to Shawn Kemp top dunks. He was a trailblazer for in game dunks
Goat channel
My top two reaction requests:
1. The Dream Team (original dream team)
2. Dwyane Wade’s Career (especially his performance in the 2006 playoffs/finals)
Steph and lebron have a rivalry per se because both of them prevented each other from being the most dominant in their decades. Both curry and lebron won 3 titles in the 2010s, and 1 of lebrons and all 3 of Curry’s rings were verses each other. So lebron would have 6 rings if curry didn’t exist, and curry would have 4. Their teams battled over and over for years in the finals. That’s what the rivalry is basically. The 2016 finals, what they were referring to for the lebron win for Cleveland, is widely regarded as the greatest finals of all time. The insanely dominant warriors, who had just had the best winning season of all time, going 73 and 9, beating the 72 and 10 record of Michael Jordan’s bulls, and who were the reigning champions, winning it in 2015 over a Cleveland Cavaliers team basically who only had Lebron since the 2nd and 3rd options in kyrie Irving and Kevin love were both injured, it was bound to be an incredible series, the most winning team of all time vs a cavaliers team hungry for revenge for the almost unfair loss of the previous year, the two titans battled for the first 4 games, but the warriors took a 3-1 lead in the first to 4 game series. Now in basketball, this is a death sentence, as usually by this point the morale is very low on the losing side, and there isn’t much fight left in your team. But something possessed lebron and the cavs, they fought back, somehow won the next two games and tied it 3-3. The final game, the final minutes, the warriors 6th man Andre iguodala goes for a layup and is rejected by lebron in his classic running block that was shown in this vid quite a bit, he is the best player at this kind of block by far. In the last seconds of the game, the cavs are down, but they have possession of the ball, it goes to kyrie Irving, who shoots a buzzer beater 3, makes it, and wins the game. The cavs defeated the most winning team in nba history, and as well became the first team to ever come back from a 3-1 deficit and win. It was Cleveland’s first and only title, and it was the one lebron had been promising them since the moment he joined the team. He is indeed from Cleveland, and an interesting fact, so is steph curry. It was truly a magical series, one that I recommend anyone watch if they are interested. Peace ✌️
Nice vid man, gotta love Lebron! You should react to the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan 🐐, especially the Air Jordan video made by Joseph Vincent!
Let’s just say Jordan is Ronaldo and Messi is Lebron
Hell ya, a Joseph Vincent video. Don't know if u read my comment but hell ya.
U should definitely react to more Joseph Vincent!!! You'd really like them. They break down the stories of athletes really well
Can you react to kawhi Leonard defense highlights
you have to do Kobe highlights. His 81 point game is dope, but it doesn't show the type of things that he can actually do.
Amazing video 🙏
I saw his last high school game on ESPN...
Please react to the Kawhi shot!! The Toronto Raptors run last year winning the championship was one for the ages. Epic moments for not only a city but an entire nation
It didn't even show his Game 6 vs Boston in 2012. That was the scariest LeBron I've ever seen
Luka The information / folklore of the Nba that you should know is that for nearly 10 years + to win an NBA Championship it is known that you must go through Lebron first, hes the literal gate. Look up his finals record which was between he's been in 9.
Windy city assassin is a great Derrick Rose Joseph Vincent video
Glad for Lebron James to get his own recognition, without Michael Jordan's name being throw in the mix. He isn't on the same level as a Michael Jordan. Now comparisons will be drawn, just not woth the greatest of all times Michael Jordan. He don't have the arsenal on offense, and defense. Theirs clearly a major difference between the two styles of play. He uses the same dunk in all his highlights, they show the same shot blocking at the rim, that's it and no more. The comparisons shouldn't have never been made Lebron and Michael. This video shows their games way different.
Here is something quite different but quite fun......The Harlem Globetrotters. Thanks!!!!
REACT TO ZION WILLIAMSON SENIOR YEAR MIXTAPE
If you like rivalries, I suggest watching/reacting to some Larry Bird and Magic Johnson highlights from a documentary or something!
React to Russell Westbrook’s MVP season or his most vicious dunks.
AKA the most counterfeit MVP season of all time, or the greatest conscious padding of stats and ball dominance the league has ever seen: 45% ball control and literally boxing out teammates to get rebounds and taking the ball away from teammates on free throw rebounds? The question is, is there a single player in the NBA not named Kyrie Irving who could have the ball in their hands for half the time their team possesses the ball and NOT get 10 assists per game as a natural by-product of the ball either leaving your hands for a shot (a low percentage, low efficient one in the case of Westbrook) or a pass? If he played decent defense, he would be somewhat defendable, but he doesn’t even do that. So what does he do good? Highlight dunks, I guess.
michael mata He was overwhelmingly chosen by the PLAYERS and the FANS and the MEDIA for MVP that season. He averaged 32-10-10 as the league scoring leader, while having one of the most statistically clutch seasons ever, had several 50 point triple doubles, led the league in 4th quarter scoring (more than Isaiah Thomas who was dubbed “king of the fourth” that year), he led many 4th quarter comebacks that season, his teammates also statistically improved when Westbrook was on the floor. It Westbrook passed his team mate the ball, their shooting % increased about 3% on average, as opposed to Harden, who’s team mates shooting % dropped 2-3% in the same circumstance. Harden being the only other real candidate that season (and deservedly so).
MOST importantly his season was VERY entertaining to watch, Westbrook’s supreme athleticism was on full display, which was the point of me mentioning it.
Alderak1 And they lost in 5 games in the first round. Westbrook also shot 42% on 24 attempts a game and controlled the ball for a historic amount of time to the detriment of his team and winning basketball philosophy in any era. I never thought I’d see a player as selfish and ball dominant as Kobe Bryant when he was at his worst, yet Westbrook managed to do it. Meanwhile, Kawhi averaged 26 or 27 points a game in less time, on 48% shooting, with less turnovers and ball stopping, offense killing bad decisions, was third in Defensive Player of The Year voting (voters always favor big men because of blocks, but Kawhi has won before) helped the Spurs win 61 games without Tim Duncan, and lost only to Golden State in the Western Conf. Finals-in other words, he added more value to his team, and helped his team have more success. In my lifetime, there has never been an MVP for a crappy or middling team, to the best of my knowlege because basketball IS a sport where one player can make a difference. OKC was a six seed and almost got swept, and thanks to Westbrook, they played an ugly, individualistic brand of basketball and achieved middling success in then regular season, and no success in the post season. Kawhi and Lebron have good stats AND they are not empty, padding type of stats for show-they actually contribute to their teams success to the point that, if you took them off the team, their teams would not even be playoff teams,
most likely. You could argue that Westbrook actually hurts teams the way he plays. OKC is playing well this year, and the Rockets are playing worse with Westbrook. Their was a good article in the second to last season on OKC with Durant (it maybe the year before that) where the plus/minus literally had OKC scoring less points with Westbrook on the floor than their backup point guard (maybe Reggie Jackson) and giving up more points on defense with Westbrook on the floor vs the bench player. In other words, the writer was simply pointing out that, statistically, OKC is a better team in both ends of the floor when Westbrook is NOT playing, but that there was no way OKC could do that because of Westbrook’s salary and star status and fan drawing status. That doesn’t sound like an MVP to me, although like I said, this stat was prior to his MVP season. I don’t know if that was true of 2016-2017 because there was no Durant, obviously, but I will always think of that when I think of Westbrook. What I am confident in saying is that he seems to NOT make his teammates better, and does not seem to be a difference maker in his teams success-that is just the evidence we have at this point. I would theorize that that has to do with his ball dominance, which is the opposite of my basketball philosophy and many other basketball experts who believe in ball movement, constant motion and passing, and limited amount of ball stopping one on one isolation and dribbling, which is literally what players like Russell Westbrook and Kyrie Irving do, and Jame Harden to be fair. The difference is, Harden is such an efficient scorer that he can help his team be successful in the regular season. And that same season, Harden was a more efficient scorer and only average something like a 2 points less than Westbrook (but higher shooting percentage and more efficient) and 1 and half less rebounds-something like 29-8-11-and the Rockets spanked OKC in the first round before getting beat by Kawhi and the Spurs. Therefore, I believe the MVP voting if it were legitimate would have Kawhi, Lebron, and Harden ahead of Westbrook, and only because Durant and Curry sort of cancelled each other out. But clearly, all those others players can immediately turn any team into a legitimate contender. The same can’t be said of Weatbrook. He manipulated his stats and created the overblown triple double storyline, however, along with the “Durant left so we’re holding it down” narrative, to fuel a bogus mvp vote that all of the most respected NBA analysts have since pointed out was a bogus MVP (Jalen Rose, Bill Simmons, Brian Windhorst, Zack Lowe, etc). For me, I hate the players like Westbrook, Harden, and Irving play and I don’t think you can win playing that way; and so far, I’ve been proven right. Now the Rockets literally have two of those players, so it will be interesting to see what happens. So far, not so good. The Celtics are better without Irving, and Brooklyn is worse, so far. So statistics and the eye test seem to match-up, in my opinion.
michael mata
Damn nigga nobody trynna read all that. Russ really got you in your feelings
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE react to the 1992 Dream team. The most dominant team of basketball ballers ever assembled. They were also instrumental in spreading the game of basketball and getting other countries to really buy into the sport
Two things that always get conveniently left out of LeBron's story are 1) His first stint in Cleveland when they called him a playoff choker, he had absolutely NO help on those teams. He was those teams. And 2) when he went on ESPN to announce his decision to go to Miami, they called it a "narcissistic self-promotional build-up" among other thing, but he donated $2million+ of the proceeds from that to the Boys & Girls Club of America.
day 5 of asking for a russell westbrook top 30 plays of his career reaction
This man has not heard of The Golden State Warriors😳🥶
You should go back and watch San Antonio Spurs basketball clips from 2000-2014 just great basketball
The lebron James Micheal Jordan and Kobe debate is like the Messi and Ronaldo Debate
Luka, imma gonna harass your videos with a single comment til you let me help ya with some basketball insight lol love your videos dude. like if you got any questions you want answered, lemme know. I’m a walking encyclopedia of basketball knowledge, I can tell you about players from the 60s and 70s to today and how they played, rough estimate of stats too lol. Been watching the sport since I was 5 and I’m 23 and I used to play it, ref it, train people as a side job.
Keep up the content bro!
He also played football tight-end NFL still wants him
React to the 2016 NBA finals movie. The greatest finals comeback of all time
Injury riddled team
@@hakeemolajuwonBESTROCKET just like the warriors they always win against Injured teams.. 2015 Cavs, 2017 Spurs, and don't forget the rocket's in 2018 when cp3 got injured 😂
hakeem olajuwon BEST ROCKET you mean like when Cavs were the best team in 2015 and didn’t have Kevin love and Kyrie Irving? Cause if bron had either one of them, bron would have another championship. Don’t throw an excuse. Cavs were simply the better team both years.
@@WhyRushHomie no he was up 2-1 before Iggy started in game 4 to where he lossed 3 in a row with Iggy clamping him like crazy 💀💀 if they started Iggy from game 1 it's an easy sweep
hakeem olajuwon BEST ROCKET and Kyrie and Love we’re both injured. It’s was Warriors vs Lebrons
always react to joseph vincents videos please , they are far above any other highlight videos. keep up the goood content
Dudes ab to win another title this year
Man I love these reactions
Can you react to kawhi leonard defense highlights
Would love to see you watch some Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley etc. highlights. More of the 80's and 90's stuff, just so you can see a bit more of how the game has developed. Hell even watching Pistol Pete, Julius Erving, Oscar Robertson etc. would be worth your while. It will give you a really good idea of the game and how those that came before really paved the way. Even watching the NBA's top 100 greatest plays dvd (th-cam.com/video/2Y_c67mcKA0/w-d-xo.html) will help give you an idea of how you got to the decade that you have started from.
Please reactto steph curry highlights from his unanimous mvp season
goosebumps
LeBron is, probably, the second greatest. He never had help in Cleveland the first time around, and even in his second go-around with the Cavs, he faced a loaded Warriors team himself due to injuries to his two other star teammates, then game back the second time to win it, and then the Warriors assembled the greatest team with KD. The big blemish I would put on LeBron is the Mavericks series where he had the team and failed. Whereas other greats like Jordan had Pippen, it wasn't until Miami, and now in LA, that LeBron truly has a HOF sidekick. Honestly, the story runs very deep with many different factors. Also, don't listen to much to Skip Bayless, the voice you often hear. He made his career on hating LeBron.
I don't care what ya'll say, this is not just a king. The Goat
Do a Spudd Webb and Nate Robinson short guys slam dunk reaction 🤘
Please react to Michael Jordan top 50 plays
LUKA PLEASE REACT TO LEBRON JAMES Best plays of the Decade
Dude he's done lebron 50 times already, please don't turn Luka into a LeBron reaction channel