View Full Version : Clippers Is Kawhi already the best basketball player in Los Angeles history?
ElNono
11-02-2019, 12:25 AM
He’s miles better than LeBron, and basically basketball before 2005 or so was simply two notches below the current level of basketball, tbh... slow ass games with big dinosaurs roaming the paint.. Harden would drop 300 points on them right now...
Might be a bit premature until he threepeats with the Clippers and he might also get hurt at some point, but it sounds like a fairly safe bet right now tbh
swrowe78
11-02-2019, 12:30 AM
I say Kareem.
Laker_1995
11-02-2019, 12:38 AM
Go to sleep dumb ass nigga
Yogatti
11-02-2019, 12:49 AM
If he wins a title for the Clippers then yes:toast
Bynumite
11-02-2019, 01:04 AM
Maybe in Fat Antonio. He's not even top 10 in LA until he rings there.
namlook
11-02-2019, 04:10 AM
He’s miles better than LeBron, and basically basketball before 2005 or so was simply two notches below the current level of basketball, tbh... slow ass games with big dinosaurs roaming the paint.. Harden would drop 300 points on them right now...
Might be a bit premature until he threepeats with the Clippers and he might also get hurt at some point, but it sounds like a fairly safe bet right now tbh
Is this a troll thread? You've never heard of a guy named Kareem Abdul-Jabber who has a resume that dwarfs Kawhi? And if you take into account his college career in Los Angeles it's a complete joke. College and NBA considered Kareem is easily the greatest basketball player to walk on this earth.
Killakobe81
11-02-2019, 07:32 AM
Nope. This thread not even worth half a bar...
apalisoc_9
11-02-2019, 07:56 AM
yup. in a vacuum he is.
dumb nikkas. for some reason Basketball is the only sport in the world where players have regressed despite the improvements in
Accessibility
training
nutrition
coaching
The only sport :lmao
apalisoc_9
11-02-2019, 07:58 AM
in a vacuum
Kawhi
Lebron
Davis
Shaq
Kobe
Are the five best LA players ever in that order
Shaq and it's not even close.
Is this a troll thread? You've never heard of a guy named Kareem Abdul-Jabber who has a resume that dwarfs Kawhi? And if you take into account his college career in Los Angeles it's a complete joke. College and NBA considered Kareem is easily the greatest basketball player to walk on this earth.
You cannot even spell the fuckers name so obviously you're not too familiar with him either.
ambchang
11-02-2019, 10:20 AM
Laker fans acting like Jabar didn’t spend his entire prime with the bucks.
Laker fans acting like Jabar didn’t spend his entire prime with the bucks.
When are you 4th world folks going to learn to spell?
The dude wasn't in Lion King, btw.
ambchang
11-02-2019, 11:16 AM
When are you 4th world folks going to learn to spell?
The dude wasn't in Lion King, btw.
We don’t have sausage fingers so we type fast. We also don’t worry about typos on an Internet forum as long as anybody with an iq over 75 would understand what’s going on.
TheGoatishere
11-02-2019, 11:18 AM
in a vacuum
Kawhi
Lebron
Davis
Shaq
Kobe
Are the five best LA players ever in that order
stfu you clown :lmao
swrowe78
11-02-2019, 11:39 AM
Laker fans acting like Jabar didn’t spend his entire prime with the bucks.
Kareem came to Lakers when he was 28
Chris Fall
11-02-2019, 12:13 PM
Lol spelling bee battles
Kobe'sAchilles
11-02-2019, 12:31 PM
He's already the best defender LA has ever had.
He's averaging 29.2 points a game which puts him top 5
He's averaging 6.2 assists per game which makes him only behind Lebron for SF and top 5 overall
Plus he is going to drag the corpse of a franchise known as the Clippers to back to back titles. Everybody wins as a Laker (except Lebron). Nobody won shit as a Clipper. It's more impressive. All this while wearing jogging shoes.
daslicer
11-02-2019, 01:04 PM
I would say Kareem,Magic,Shaq,Wilt are all ahead of him right now.
lefty
11-02-2019, 01:15 PM
Kobe is more in the Michael Cooper, D Fish, Horry tier tbh
Millennial_Messiah
11-02-2019, 01:24 PM
Kobe has 5 rings there is the relatively modern era. 2 as the undisputed alpha and clutch as fuck. Kawhi will be the GOAT of basketball at some point, but he needs to win at least 2 rings with the clippers to surpass Kobe.
Laker_1995
11-02-2019, 01:48 PM
Kobe is more in the Michael Cooper, D Fish, Horry tier tbh
yall niggas know how to troll. I say to myself I won’t cave in but you be pushing it my G lmao
Nono still got it tbh :lol
We don’t have sausage fingers so we type fast. We also don’t worry about typos on an Internet forum as long as anybody with an iq over 75 would understand what’s going on.
So if you were less able to type you'd be better? That sounds like some 4th world logic.
namlook
11-02-2019, 04:10 PM
Prime Shaq and prime Kawhi what fool would take Kawhi?
Chris
11-02-2019, 04:31 PM
Nono still got it tbh :lol
no cure for herpes
ambchang
11-02-2019, 04:52 PM
Kareem came to Lakers when he was 28
Kareem with Bucks averaged >30ppg in 4 out of the 6 seasons. He did that 0 out of 14 times with the Lakers.
6 of his top 7 rebounding seasons were with the Bucks (that's all 6). His best rebounding season is his first season with the Lakers.
His top four WS seasons were with the Bucks.
Unfortunately, VORP and BPM stats weren't kept until his fifth season.
ambchang
11-02-2019, 04:53 PM
Kobe has 5 rings there is the relatively modern era. 2 as the undisputed alpha and clutch as fuck. Kawhi will be the GOAT of basketball at some point, but he needs to win at least 2 rings with the clippers to surpass Kobe.
How can you be the undisputed alpha when you can't even lead your team in most advanced stats?
ambchang
11-02-2019, 04:55 PM
So if you were less able to type you'd be better? That sounds like some 4th world logic.
We people with normal hands just type faster and don't bother to check. I would imagine if I have sausage fingers, I would have 15 seconds to check every single character I type.
And I am proud of you for your ability to type, and living in a first class society you have no part in building. :tu
swrowe78
11-02-2019, 05:19 PM
Kareem with Bucks averaged >30ppg in 4 out of the 6 seasons. He did that 0 out of 14 times with the Lakers.
6 of his top 7 rebounding seasons were with the Bucks (that's all 6). His best rebounding season is his first season with the Lakers.
His top four WS seasons were with the Bucks.
Unfortunately, VORP and BPM stats weren't kept until his fifth season.
Meh, stats don't mean anything. By that logic, Kareem peaked in like his third year in the league at 24 years old because he put up his best numbers in his career.
ElNono
11-02-2019, 08:09 PM
Prime Shaq and prime Kawhi what fool would take Kawhi?
In today’s NBA :lol you take Kawhi every time. Shaq was a monster, but you only had to foul him to make him score 1 out of 2 and can easily out score him from 3...
ElNono
11-02-2019, 08:10 PM
no cure for herpes
The troll thingie
ElNono
11-02-2019, 08:13 PM
Is this a troll thread? You've never heard of a guy named Kareem Abdul-Jabber who has a resume that dwarfs Kawhi? And if you take into account his college career in Los Angeles it's a complete joke. College and NBA considered Kareem is easily the greatest basketball player to walk on this earth.
Never heard of him. Is this when teams where 85% white unathletic players, tbh? I recall some video of Oscar Robertson dribbling like it was a WNBA game...
swrowe78
11-02-2019, 08:45 PM
Never heard of him. Is this when teams where 85% white unathletic players, tbh? I recall some video of Oscar Robertson dribbling like it was a WNBA game...
He played in 80s, toughest decade of basketball.
ambchang
11-02-2019, 09:26 PM
Meh, stats don't mean anything. By that logic, Kareem peaked in like his third year in the league at 24 years old because he put up his best numbers in his career.
So what matters?
Kareem did peak early.
Yogatti
11-02-2019, 09:31 PM
Never heard of him. Is this when teams where 85% white unathletic players, tbh? I recall some video of Oscar Robertson dribbling like it was a WNBA game...
:lol
Mitch
11-02-2019, 10:18 PM
Nono with the low quality bait, but it'll probably work on somebody tbh
ElNono
11-02-2019, 10:31 PM
Nono with the low quality bait, but it'll probably work on somebody tbh
:lol sup Mitch... stay away from the fires tbh
Mitch
11-02-2019, 10:57 PM
:lol sup Mitch... stay away from the fires tbh
No worries, I don't live near that shit. The sodomites in sanfran are getting it :lol
We people with normal hands just type faster and don't bother to check. I would imagine if I have sausage fingers, I would have 15 seconds to check every single character I type.
And I am proud of you for your ability to type, and living in a first class society you have no part in building. :tu
If you were more detail oriented, you probably would have done something to keep you out of that parade to the US border.
namlook
11-03-2019, 02:43 AM
In today’s NBA :lol you take Kawhi every time. Shaq was a monster, but you only had to foul him to make him score 1 out of 2 and can easily out score him from 3...
Prime Shaq would eat Kawhi for lunch.
ElNono
11-03-2019, 04:55 AM
Prime Shaq would eat Kawhi for lunch.
Look, I think prime Shaq is closest, but this overlooks this is a perimeter, 3 point shooting league now. Even the best ‘bigs’ nowadays are 3 point shooters.
swrowe78
11-03-2019, 05:24 AM
So what matters?
Kareem did peak early.
Uh, winning obviously is what matters. Certainly more important than stats.
swrowe78
11-03-2019, 05:26 AM
Look, I think prime Shaq is closest, but this overlooks this is a perimeter, 3 point shooting league now. Even the best ‘bigs’ nowadays are 3 point shooters.
Shaq would be fine without 3 in todays era. Look at Giannis
ElNono
11-03-2019, 05:36 AM
Shaq would be fine without 3 in todays era. Look at Giannis
Giannis got curbstomped by nephew.
swrowe78
11-03-2019, 05:49 AM
Giannis got curbstomped by nephew.
That's because Giannis playstyle is kind of like Shaq. And what did Shaq need to win rings? A clutch guard (Kobe and Wade). Like say in the 4th quarter opposing team hits a 3, you need that guy on your team to hit a 3 right back at them. Giannis obviously isn't that guy. So pair Giannis with a really clutch guard and he will win a ring. And no Middleton isn't that guy either. He needs Kyrie or Dame on his team.
ambchang
11-03-2019, 06:35 AM
If you were more detail oriented, you probably would have done something to keep you out of that parade to the US border.
Not everybody wants to live in a shit hole known as United States.
:lol I have no typos and that’s why I can be a patriotic citizen of United States :cry
ambchang
11-03-2019, 06:36 AM
Uh, winning obviously is what matters. Certainly more important than stats.
You mean being on absolutely loaded teams with refs giving him every call? You realize this is a team game, right?
swrowe78
11-03-2019, 10:26 AM
You mean being on absolutely loaded teams with refs giving him every call? You realize this is a team game, right?
1980 and 1982 championship were not loaded teams. The second best player was a rookie point guard with a broken jumper.
ElNono
11-03-2019, 10:28 AM
That's because Giannis playstyle is kind of like Shaq. And what did Shaq need to win rings? A clutch guard (Kobe and Wade). Like say in the 4th quarter opposing team hits a 3, you need that guy on your team to hit a 3 right back at them. Giannis obviously isn't that guy. So pair Giannis with a really clutch guard and he will win a ring. And no Middleton isn't that guy either. He needs Kyrie or Dame on his team.
That’s exactly my point. Game has evolved into fast-paced high scoring. Everybody and their mother is a 3 point shooter. Hard to compare to the early 2000s era which was slow paced basketball.
Rosewood
11-03-2019, 11:40 AM
When did you become just a troll poster OP?
ElNono
11-03-2019, 02:12 PM
When did you become just a troll poster OP?
1999??
ambchang
11-03-2019, 04:45 PM
1980 and 1982 championship were not loaded teams. The second best player was a rookie point guard with a broken jumper.
You don't know Jamaal Wilkes and Norm Nixon?
So Mavs Kidd > Nets Kidd
99/03 Admiral > MVP Admiral
03-07 Tony > 08 to 12 Tony
Bucks Oscar > Royals Oscar
namlook
11-03-2019, 05:46 PM
This also begs the question: Is Kawhi better now than any player who has ever played for the Spurs? And how the hell do you lose the best player in your franchise's history?
baseline bum
11-03-2019, 05:46 PM
Kobe is more in the Michael Cooper, D Fish, Horry tier tbh
Nonsense, Cooper and Horry were quality defensive players.
baseline bum
11-03-2019, 05:53 PM
1980 and 1982 championship were not loaded teams. The second best player was a rookie point guard with a broken jumper.
And AIDS too
lefty
11-03-2019, 06:18 PM
Nonsense, Cooper and Horry were quality defensive players.
True true
ElNono
11-03-2019, 11:17 PM
This also begs the question: Is Kawhi better now than any player who has ever played for the Spurs? And how the hell do you lose the best player in your franchise's history?
Yes and yes
ndbutch
11-04-2019, 10:13 AM
He’s miles better than LeBron, and basically basketball before 2005 or so was simply two notches below the current level of basketball, tbh... slow ass games with big dinosaurs roaming the paint.. Harden would drop 300 points on them right now...
Might be a bit premature until he threepeats with the Clippers and he might also get hurt at some point, but it sounds like a fairly safe bet right now tbh
You're confusing the fact todays big men that aren't very good (with apologies to Anthony Davis and Joel Embild) with some seismic shift in how basketball is played. The 1982 Lakers or 1986 Celtics might seriously win 80 games watching small ball teams struggling with an aging Dwight Howard as well as making Ivica Zubac look like 1977 Bill Walton. Duncan and Robinson would dominate the league now. The Warriors started this myth that the NBA had "changed". Even they made Timothy Mozgov look good enough one championship series to make Jim Buss stupid. It's been done before by a better team. The 1970's era Celtics with Dave Cowens at C played "small ball".
Its a ludicrous suggestion with regard to Kareem or Kobe. 33/34 year old LeBron? Okay. LeBron in Miami? No.
lebomb
11-04-2019, 01:21 PM
Kawhi isnt even the greatest Los Angeles Clipper in History.
Blake Griffin and Chris Paul are in the conversation, and then!
Bob McAdoo had a sensational career in the NBA and is the greatest player in the franchise’s history. McAdoo won three straight scoring titles as a Buffalo Brave, from 1973-74 through 1975-76. He also won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, made First- and Second-Team All-NBA and was named Rookie of the Year.
McAdoo could do it all. He could run the floor, hit open jumpers and play harder than most centers in the league. He recorded the three most impressive seasons in team history, although none better than when he scored 34.5 points and grabbed 14.1 rebounds in 1974-75.
ElNono
11-04-2019, 03:56 PM
:lol they could all win 80 games but nobody did... this is at a time when players would score 100 points while being guarded by slow ass midget white men that at best were traffic cones. Please.
And don’t get me started on the 90s. Can you imagine John Starks or Charles Oakley playing now? They wouldn’t get out of the DLeague. :lol
whitemamba
11-04-2019, 04:07 PM
OP.... sugar rush again..
This also begs the question: Is Kawhi better now than any player who has ever played for the Spurs? And how the hell do you lose the best player in your franchise's history?
I’d like to say hello.
:pop:
Ed Helicopter Jones
11-04-2019, 04:23 PM
Too easy, ElNono.
KimmyGib
11-04-2019, 06:24 PM
Not the best basketball player in LA history, however, he is the third best basketball player currently in LA and that is very darn impressive! Kudos to Number 2!
Play Boban
11-04-2019, 06:25 PM
MVPau was better tbh
lefty
11-04-2019, 06:27 PM
:lol they could all win 80 games but nobody did... this is at a time when players would score 100 points while being guarded by slow ass midget white men that at best were traffic cones. Please.
And don’t get me started on the 90s. Can you imagine John Starks or Charles Oakley playing now? They wouldn’t get out of the DLeague. :lol
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ElNono
11-04-2019, 08:43 PM
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:lol
This also begs the question: Is Kawhi better now than any player who has ever played for the Spurs? And how the hell do you lose the best player in your franchise's history?
Only if you don't know what "begging the question" means.
OP.... sugar rush again..
Churros
ElNono
11-05-2019, 07:56 AM
Churros
Fuck yeah.
whitemamba
11-05-2019, 12:21 PM
Churros
dipped in vanilla ice cream
Laker_1995
11-05-2019, 06:55 PM
Disneyland churros are a top 10 food of all time. Them bitches go down quick no homo. Whatever you do avoid those strawberry ones their terrible .
Rosewood
11-05-2019, 09:08 PM
He's not better than Shaq, Kobe, Magic or Kareem tbh.
Millennials love to overrate current-day players. That's why 3 years ago you had people thinking Steph Curry was as good as even some roleplayers in the 90s.
He is a great player though, and is better than Scottie Pippen already I'd say.
daslicer
11-05-2019, 11:16 PM
He's not better than Shaq, Kobe, Magic or Kareem tbh.
Millennials love to overrate current-day players. That's why 3 years ago you had people thinking Steph Curry was as good as even some roleplayers in the 90s.
He is a great player though, and is better than Scottie Pippen already I'd say.
He is better than Kobe and I say this as someone who despises #2. What sets #2 apart from Kobe is that he's much more efficient when it comes to FG percentages. Kobe during his best year's never shot above 46 percent while #2 has on multiple occasions.
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