2715183, where is this mythical decade you're talking about?
Posted by pretentious username, Fri May-22-20 02:07 PM
are you talking about Bron vs. Pierce or Bron vs. the Celtics regardless of if they had Pierce? The latter is closeish to true, the former is not.
Also the 2012 and 2018 series went 7 games, so your notion that it "wasn't even close" from 2011 onward isn't even true.
>There's this narrative that Pierce was somehow on par with
>Bron and gave it to him in head to head matchups - but that's
>a myth. In the 30 playoff games against Pierce, James
>averaged 29.1 points, 5.3 assists, and 8.4 rebounds, while
>Pierce averaged 17.0 points, 2.8 assist, and 4.8 rebounds.
No one except Pierce believes he's on par with Bron. Even me, one of the biggest Pierce fans on the planet, can laugh off some of his statements... but he was a killer. That much is true.
I believe Bron is one of 3 guys to have a legitimate claim to GOAT, but as always, you don't have to lie to sell people on that. In fact, acknowledging his playoff failures actually makes the narrative better.
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