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        It's time you kids nowadays start learning the fundamentals or 1. you will lose your job, 2. this sport will disappear soon (they killed the competitiveness already exposing it to retarded, slow, one sided, unskilled teens).

        That's Scottie, the beard trimmer for you, millennials!

NBA Stories: The 20+ years dominant mentality of Pop's San Antonio Spurs

     This video explains all the intricacies of the San Antonio Spurs basketball system and how it was possible for Gregg Popovich to orchestrate this kind of dominant (pun intended!) mentality for more than two decades(!). This is a bit long and full of unnecessary references (no wonder the YouTuber got caught with some copyright infringement) but overall was great so thumbs up for the effort.

     Now...it is true Pop is...Pop and he acts like an army general but just look at the young players and the media nowadays. The majority are CLUELESS about life and their jobs! I personally love when Pop trolls the moronic comments on TV. As a coach, he is brilliant proving that old-school fundamental basketball beats "new" run and gun basketball. I bet you didn't know but Pop is bringing back this season (2018-19) the midrange shots with a fast pace and the defense to slow down the running-everybody-shooting-threes "modern" strategy (which people forget was created by Phoenix Suns BEFORE the "7 second or less" D'Antoni - yes, I am a PHX fan since 1992).

     And...Kawhi is a fantastic player with a great personality. You clowns were laughing at his laugh for a month or so but Kawhi doesn't care about fools, he is in the NBA to play his game. NO ONE except MJ could play that well in defense and offense! Kawhi found that balance that only Jordan had naturally. After the retirement of Steve Nash and other great old-school players, I am left with only one player to watch and admire at the end of this decade and that is Kawhi Leonard. 

     We know Kawhi was wrongly diagnosed and forced to play with an injury by Pop. It was even more shameful that a Hall Of Fame ex-player like David Robinson whom some of us had the chance to watch him in the early 90s, came on TV to ask Kawhi personally to reconsider his decision and play for the Spurs (this is something you forgot to add to this video!). So the Spurs deserve to have lost one of the top 3 NBA stars this decade. Let Kawhi shine in Toronto this year because he is free now!

NBA Stories: Media people and their agenda: sad and shameful.

     I keep saying these media dudes have no clue. They are the first generation media people who were not really specialized or passionate about sports 20-30 years ago. So many of them were working odd jobs and actually admit they were lucky all this media shit had started and gave them jobs. Anyway, it's shameful and sad but hey, at least they bring in the players those who WERE passionate about sports adored many years ago. So let's be thankful and hope for the best. :)

    Here is a retired Ray Allen talking about the game and his career. And...a moronic Dan Patrick asking silly questions. For example trashing Ray after only 2 minutes pretending Ray Allen couldn't dunk like Vince Carter. So I had to comment on his YouTube with this: "Poor Dan, doesn't know Ray Allen was a devastating dunker in the mid-90s. Fans already commenting...

    "Is it just me..I don't think Dan is giving Ray enough respect as a basketball player"

     "I hate how DP asks his guests questions then interrupts them when they're not advancing his agenda. We come here to listen to the guests, if we wanted your predictions, agenda, ideas, etc, we'd tune into your TV or radio show live."

    "The host is rubbish."

    "OMG Dan Patrick is so ignorant and so disrespectful!"

     But I will forgive Dan Patrick for all his nonsense talk for mentioning the best shooting point guard in the history of the game when he talked with Reggie Miller.

     On the other hand, real sportsmen can have a real talk about sports and the lifestyle around sports. My favorite TV program is NBA Open Court where players whom I admired when they played now come on the show and tell stories from their lifetime. Like a youtuber said on one of those videos "I can't get over the fact that these legends are talking about their legends. Listening to real basketball players talk about basketball is far superior to all those sports writers and broadcasters who have probably never even touched a basketball since grade school." Amen! Here is one of them:

NBA Stories: "The GOAT"...

     People keep comparing apples with oranges comparing LeBron James with Michael Jordan or viceversa. Firstly, you have to be a moron to even start comparing these two! Of course 90% of the people are...morons. They played in different eras in a league with different trends and very different opposing players. You CANNOT COMPARE MJ and LBJ! But ya'll bored so that's what you do all day...

    Secondly yes, you can compare stats (a monkey could do that easily by looking at the numbers). I would compare their personalities and winning mentalities instead 'cause that's something doesn't get affected in 5000 years. In this case, MJ will come out as a "better" player because he hated to win and he could literally kill someone for the sake of winning. LBJ plays for fun most of the time and to make his teammates better. I prefer the human; robots will dominate the planet later we like it or not so I'm not in a hurry to get there.

     Well let me explain this once and for all as I watched both players in their prime.

     LeBron James was facing the champion team Golden State Warriors by himself in 2018. He did that before and not just once. In Jalen Rose's words: "my back hurts from watching him carrying those dudes". :))) Secondly, MJ never played alone, he had the perfect teammates where everybody had a clear role to back him up, from Stacey King and Tucker to Longley and Kerr or even the obscure Buechler.

     Also MJ had the best coach in the history of the game (no offence, Pop!) while T. Lue the actual coach of Cleveland Cavaliers can't even call a timeout when his team gets the ball with 3.7 seconds left on the clock...

     Oh yeah, and NBA referees were on MJ's side all his career; definitely not on LBJ's side in the last 10 years of his career.

     At this point you can STOP COMPARING MJ with LBJ, 'aight? They might be the same if you want to talk about them in practice and training but not in the game. There are two completely different circumstances. We can all have personal preferences but that is another topic and shouldn't have the word GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) written all over it.

Levy's 2002-03 DLC is launched (as a tribute to the G.O.A.T., Michael Jordan)

              Here we go again! A brand new DLC is launched today: Levy's 2002-03 DLC. This will go as a tribute to Michael Jordan who played his last season with Washington Wizards in the 2002-2003 NBA Season.

              As much as I hated Michael Jordan for winning the 1993 NBA Championship against my favorite team Phoenix Suns, I always admired his godlike basketball skills. The 1992 Dream Team at the Olympic Games at Barcelona looked so cool in those white uniforms having MJ as the leader of the new generation! That will be the iconic team of perfect basketball…although they lost to the American college team that year (allegedly they let them win).

          Jordan had a long, successful career. He retired twice and came back just as many times. His last run with the Washington Wizards was a proof that a perfect athlete can compete even at the age of 39-40. Now, that brings us to the raw, nasty side of Jordan’s personality. He was psycho enemy team killer. Some called him a sociopath. And that is not far from the truth.

         The referees were helping him winning? Yes, for sure. Could anyone stop him from destroying individuals on the court and teams? No.

               

             Recently I watched several YouTube videos about what contemporary NBA players called the killer instinct of Michael Jordan. Simply put, you couldn’t provoke His Airness without getting humiliated in the end.

         But sometimes, MJ was funny and looked friendly out there to some of the less threatening players like Sam Cassell.