lebron is great -- top 5 ever -- but you have to earn GoAT.

lemme repeat that: YOU HAVE TO EARN GOAT

if he's as good as his biggest backers claim he is, he'll have
no problem eventually winning the chips to justify the status
that people are so pressed to preordain upon him.

are you that worried that he won't do it, that you feel the need
to set up all these failsafes and contingencies and even-ifs?

cats are already laying out "even if he loses to the warriors"
escape hatches. th'fuck part of the game is that?

i've never seen elgin baylor, jerry west, wilt, karl malone,
elway, peyton manning etc get 'credit' for finals losses, when
ppl discuss their legacies they generally list those in the minus column.

just have some balls and some confidence in your guy. and say
"yeah, he needs to get to 5 or 6 or whatever to be in the GoAT
convo, AND I'M SURE HE WILL"

because all this other shit is just scared pussy talk imo.

bottom line: if dude finishes his career 2-for-6 in the finals,
no one is going to consider him the consensus greatest basketball
player of all time, regardless of what else he accomplishes.

that's not how this works, never has. rings do matter.