9. "KD will forever be the Action Bronson to LBJ's Ghostface to me" In response to In response to 0 Mon Jul-04-16 07:41 PM by MothershipConnection
I realized today that I'll forever be an irrational sports fan and I'll own it.
Say what you want about Lebron but he's always given us the highest of highs and lowest of lows. He puts up the highest stakes and he's delivered the impossible just enough to make you believe. Be the most hyped high school baller of all time and actually justify it? He damn did it. Pull off the Superfriends team and win 2 titles when everyone pulled against him? He damn did it. The Block? He did it. Go back home and win a title in fucking Cleveland down 3-1? He damn did it.
Even his failures (The Decision, the Mavs loss) are originals.
I understand why people ride and die for people like Kobe (who I hate) and AI (who I'm neutral about). They make people feel they can do the impossible. They make normal people think they can actually gun for 81 every game and still be a winner (which actually happened) or be 150 pounds surrounded by giants and do what AI did (which actually happened).
I feel no emotion about KD. He made a rational business decision and I support people's freedom above all. He can win the next 5 titles and it doesn't move the meter for me. No one fights who's better, Worthy or McHale? What's better, Boondock Saints vs Suicide Kings?
KD is a 7 footer with one of the sweetest strokes in league history, and that's unfair, going to a team that won 73 games, which is both completely rational and unfair. Lebron makes the impossible happen. Like En Vogue said, give me something that I can feel.