MMMMM HMMMM.

Has any player ever talked more about another player than KG and Peezy do about Lebron?

And has anyone ever flipped the script and punished the haters with progressively greater righteous smiting than the KANG?

Remember when these dudes were jawing at Wade during games, telling him he picked the wrong guy? Three years later, Wade got three, Ray Allen got two, and those are running totals.

KG and Peezy got one, forever and ever, amen.

And yet they STILL TALK.

Why did Peezy ask for that assignment? Wasn't 2012 Game 6 enough? Didn't he learn his lesson that he fat and slow? Shouldn't he have figured out that he's now old too?

Peezy couldn't do that. Because #dathate is powerful, and #dathate is the defining feature of his career. Not the one...measly...ring he has. Not them points. Not even getting stabbed like a punk. Peezy's lasting legacy will be picking a fight with a dude he, on his best day, wasn't half as good as. He can't help himself, because once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

Kang was happy though. He's a generous, benevolent Kang, not prone to sticking a foot up the ass of the elderly, particularly when they've never even seen his level. But rocks at the throne and such.

It's only the Boston bias of the white media that keeps this from getting the attention it deserves, btw. Really white people love Boston, due to its incredibly effective marketing and government efforts to minimize the nonwhite presence more than any other city. So when people do things in Boston, even if it's as ridiculous as Paul Pierce rocking that Melo babyfat for his entire career or KG's schtick, they'll generally let it go, because Boston uber alles and all.

A truly unbiased media would talk about how increasingly silly KG and Peezy look speaking as if the Kang is or ever has been a rival, rather than they just vassals like everybody else. Bron gets the VIP treatment at the HOF and pops bottles with Wilt. These dudes are general admission waiting in line with Clyde Drexler at the bar

Incidentally, really white people love Chicago for the same reason, just not quite as much, because not as many white people go to college there and because the Midwest is boring. Chicago does its best to fight that boredom, but there's only so much you can do.