did a keyword search of me posting “KD” not only did I regularly defend his signing with Golden State, I saw this post in response to a dude who is consistently the least informed NBA “fan”:

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"is arguing points nobody is making your new thing?"

10+ years of this. at least he’s consistent.

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 2:37 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2026 2:37:01 PM

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"Also insane to punish LeBron for making it to more finals."

Yeah, he should've lost earlier instead! That way it wouldn't have affected his Finals record!

7/26/2026 3:49:04 PM

Tbh, I kinda put an asterisk next to 2020 finals too, rightly or wrongly

7/26/2026 3:51:28 PM

How about Brady's Super Bowl with Tampa Bay that same season or the Dodgers World Series?

7/26/2026 3:53:44 PM

https://www.tomthefinder.com/p/new-yorks-title-needs-an-asterisk?open=false

7/26/2026 4:01:08 PM

^^haven't given it much thought. The superbowl in 2021 was far enough after I guess. Mlb was closer to when times were really weird but even then I'd say no asterisk

7/26/2026 5:03:32 PM

MLB played 60 games instead of 162. The NFL barely had any fans in the stands. Why in the world would the NBA have an asterisk if the other 2 major sports didn't?

7/26/2026 5:09:58 PM

I guess its cause the Lakers had no business winning the finals with that weak ass rooster

7/26/2026 5:19:24 PM

Weren't they the #1 seed in the West when the season paused?

7/26/2026 5:31:55 PM

that roster was nowhere near weak

it was pretty stacked

7/26/2026 5:51:56 PM

Them winning it all seemed wrong to me, I just attributed it to covid season. Perhaps it was something else. Or perhaps you both think they were a strong team and should have won, idk

7/26/2026 7:03:33 PM

Countless top tier players opted out because they didn’t want to be Typhoid Marys and spread COVID, but sure, count that Mickey Mouse ring if you think it helps LeBron’s legacy. AD won it for them, not LeBron. His tenure as a Laker is a total embarrassment and most Laker fans are delighted to see him leave.

That said, no matter what, he will NEVER have the legacy of Jordan, Kareem, or Bill Russel. He’s mostly been a fraud that people have made excuses for, and I hope his ring chasing in Philly nets him as many rings as the Hornets currently have.

7/26/2026 7:21:24 PM

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" Countless top tier players opted out because they didn’t want to be Typhoid Marys and spread COVID"

name ‘em

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 7:26 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2026 7:26:08 PM

"countless"

^^^"should" has got nothing to do with it. Are you saying you WOULD count the title if someone else won?

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM. Reason : Tgl jinx sort of]

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"I guess its cause the Lakers Kinicks had no business winning the finals with that weak ass rooster"

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 7:28 PM. Reason : Rooster]

7/26/2026 7:26:58 PM

If it felt legit, for sure. Just felt like the lakers were gifted that ring

7/26/2026 7:32:58 PM

8 freaking teams didn’t even get “invited”

But here’s a list from ChatGPT:

Across the 22 teams invited to the Walt Disney World campus in Orlando for the 2020 restart, here is the full roster of players who did not suit up or play, categorized by their reasons for missing out:
1. Voluntary Opt-Outs (Personal, Family, or Free Agency)
* Avery Bradley (Lakers) – Opted out to remain with his family due to his son's history of respiratory illness.
* Trevor Ariza (Trail Blazers) – Opted out to honor a mandatory one-month visitation period with his son.
* Davis Bertans (Wizards) – Opted out as a precautionary measure to protect his health ahead of free agency.
* Willie Cauley-Stein (Mavericks) – Opted out for the birth of his newborn daughter.
* Wilson Chandler (Nets) – Opted out to spend time with his children and family.
* Thabo Sefolosha (Rockets) – Opted out citing health safety concerns and extended time away from family.
* Caleb Swanigan (Trail Blazers) – Opted out for personal reasons.
2. Ruled Out Due to COVID-19 Protocols / Positive Tests
* Spencer Dinwiddie (Nets) – Tested positive and experienced symptoms, sitting out on medical advice.
* DeAndre Jordan (Nets) – Tested positive prior to travel and officially ruled out.
* Taurean Prince (Nets) – Tested positive shortly before team departure.
* Michael Beasley (Nets) – Signed as a replacement player, but tested positive shortly after arriving and had to leave.
* Gary Payton II (Wizards) – Tested positive and was left off the Orlando roster.
* Josh Gray (Pelicans) – Tested positive prior to travel and was replaced on the roster.
3. Ruled Out Due to Pre-Existing or Offseason Injuries
* Bradley Beal (Wizards) – Rotator cuff injury.
* John Wall (Wizards) – Achilles tendon recovery.
* Kevin Durant (Nets) – Achilles tendon recovery.
* Kyrie Irving (Nets) – Shoulder surgery.
* Nicolas Claxton (Nets) – Season-ending shoulder surgery.
* Bojan Bogdanovic (Jazz) – Season-ending wrist surgery during hiatus.
* Dwight Powell (Mavericks) – Torn Achilles tendon.
* Jalen Brunson (Mavericks) – Shoulder surgery.
* Courtney Lee (Mavericks) – Calf surgery.
* Justise Winslow (Grizzlies) – Hip injury suffered during bubble practice before scrimmages.
* Marvin Bagley III (Kings) – Foot injury sustained during initial bubble practice.
> Note on the "Delete 8" Teams: 8 NBA franchises (Warriors, Timberwolves, Cavaliers, Hawks, Pistons, Bulls, Knicks, and Hornets) were not invited to the Orlando bubble at all due to their regular season records, leaving stars like Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Trae Young, and Zach LaVine off the restart stage entirely.

7/26/2026 7:35:12 PM

tl;dr

- the teams that were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs didn't play in the bubble
- not a single star player opted out

7/26/2026 7:38:52 PM

I seriously cannot wait for the excuses for Lebron when the 6ers don’t win anything. It won’t be because of bad management (Bob Meyers is a genius). It won’t be because of bad coaching (Nick Nurse isn’t some Doc Rivers). It won’t be because of a lack of star power/talent. It’ll be because…?

7/26/2026 7:42:36 PM

why do you still do this?

7/26/2026 7:43:54 PM

i like how one of the SEVEN players who opted out of the bubble was a key rotational player for the Lakers

7/26/2026 7:44:50 PM

^^ Why still engage? You’re in a tizzy over defending a fraud and I just sit back and let the facts speak for themselves.

Lebron and I are practically same age, and he’s the one who anointed himself as king and has a whopping 4/10 Finals record, with a gigantic asterisk for his latest “ring”. This weeks long saga for Decision 2.0 was super cringe, even for him. And here you are pretending it’s not a total joke/embarrassment.

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 7:52 PM. Reason : Sorry yall were duped. Not remotely suggesting he’s not a generationally great player but let it go]

7/26/2026 7:49:54 PM

you sound delusional every time you talk about LeBron

7/26/2026 7:50:44 PM

How am I delusional for pointing out facts? Lebron is a diva and yall keep acting as if he isn’t. It’s not like your fandom Curry’s you any favor with him. Parasocial devotion in unhealthy.

7/26/2026 7:53:50 PM

you sound like Trump talking about Biden

7/26/2026 7:55:22 PM

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"Why still engage?"

because pointing out clowns will never get old and the longer you keep this up, the sadder it gets

you confirm everything that’s ever been said about you with every post

7/26/2026 7:58:27 PM

^^Low energy post. LeBron is a racist, I think, but Michael Jordan is the greatest, and maybe LeBron should be more like Mike. Everyone has been saying it.

^ confirm what? I watch NBA basketball. I have a team I support that won 4/6 championships in my adult life and you support… players?

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 8:03 PM. Reason : Lebron is a diva. Those are the facts.]

7/26/2026 7:59:19 PM

probably got your hopes up too high that he'd come to Golden State, now you'll have to deal with another season of not making the playoffs

7/26/2026 8:04:40 PM

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"I seriously cannot wait for the excuses for Lebron when the 6ers don’t win anything."

I think most people DON'T think he will win with the 76ers...so not like there will be some plethora of excuses. And I agree his time in LA can only be described as disappointing

7/26/2026 8:08:41 PM

^^Quite the opposite, actually. If you couldn’t pick up my dripping sarcasm about being excited for the Olden State Warriors before it’s probably because you spend too much time reading TGL’s posts which are ambiguous, stupid, and poorly written.

IDK what plan the Warriors have to contend, but going all-in on a geriatric LeBron was going to be annoyingly disappointing. Bullet, dodged.



[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM. Reason : LOL at the not making the playoffs comment. We won in 2022, so hardly a drought ]

7/26/2026 8:10:27 PM

hit dogs really do holler

7/26/2026 8:21:39 PM

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"Curry’s you any favor "

Is this like when Christians capitalize God?

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"won 4/6 championships in my adult life"

This is such a weird way to write something. Were you only an adult the years the Warriors made the finals our you just don't think the other 24 years count?


I don't think anybody here is a huge lebron fan, but nobody understands where your bitterness about him comes from

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"all-in on a geriatric LeBron "

Again, $8mil

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 8:25 PM. Reason : E]

7/26/2026 8:23:54 PM

he’s now attempting to make a bit out of this after crashing out with a ChatGPT post

7/26/2026 8:29:58 PM

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"NON- BALL KNOWING"

7/26/2026 8:33:06 PM

correct

dude doesn’t know ball

7/26/2026 8:35:44 PM

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"Curry’s you any favor "

Great reading comprehension: you picked up on me deliberately capitalizing a word to reference Stephen Curry AND poke fun at the LeBron parasocial sycophants!

Anyway, TGL and other are just jealous they'll never get to see their hometown teams win ANYTHING ever, in their adult lifetimes.

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM. Reason : It hit different when you pay to go to games vs being a little kid. I wasn't even alive in 1983 ]

7/26/2026 8:41:51 PM

Now your goofy ass is talking shit about nc state on an nc state message board when you presumably went to nc state???

Clown behavior

(also Carolina Hurricanes just won the cup?)

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"Great reading comprehension: you picked up on me deliberately capitalizing a word to reference Stephen Curry AND poke fun at the LeBron parasocial sycophants!"

I was giving you credit that it might be accidental bc it's wildly lame and, again:

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"I don't think anybody here is a huge lebron fan, but nobody understands where your bitterness about him comes from "

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM. Reason : R]

7/26/2026 8:50:41 PM

^ respectfully, yes. But few people care about hockey the way they do the NBA/college hoops ITT

7/26/2026 8:54:26 PM

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"correct dude doesn’t know ball"

Yeah, man. I totally don't ever watch NBA or college basketball. Except all those times I saw my team win 4/6 titles, or the NCSU Final four, or even when the Knicks won just a few weeks ago. I've just been pretending to watch this whole time-- caught me!

Listen to yourself dude. For over a decade you keep claiming I don't actually watch basketball, when it's pretty obvious I do. I'm 41 and out of shape, but would playing around the world or horse make you feel better/superior? Don't you own a sports bar or something? I cannot imagine you'd talk to patrons who root for a team you don't the way you do to me on TWW, but whatever...

7/26/2026 8:59:51 PM

believe I’ve posted more about the Canes than anyone on here the last 20 or so years

7/26/2026 9:01:31 PM

Aw shit you caught me again! I don’t watch/care about hockey

7/26/2026 9:02:21 PM

Well even your dad prob wasn't alive when your hometown team (I guess you grew up in SF? I don't know/give a shit) won a ncaa championship

And there is a huge thread about the Hurricanes dumbass

7/26/2026 9:02:34 PM

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"NCSU"

7/26/2026 9:04:34 PM

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" Countless top tier players opted out because they didn’t want to be Typhoid Marys and spread COVID"

you very clearly don’t follow the league at all

7/26/2026 9:06:33 PM

Nope, didn’t grow up around SF. Moved there/lived there for 15+ years and now I live outside Seattle, but I have family going back generations in California. Was born in NC and pretty much my entire family is spread across the Carolinas these days.

Where I come from/grew up, you stay loyal to the local team, but if you move, it’s fine to adopt a new home team and continue to root for the team you grew up rooting for.

TGL and other posters claim, annoyingly, to not care for teams and only root for players. More power to those types of fans, but forgive my for being excited when my local team became a dynasty after decades of being a laughing stock.

7/26/2026 9:08:14 PM

Whats wrong with ncsu?^^^

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 9:14 PM. Reason : Edit]

7/26/2026 9:08:18 PM

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" you very clearly don’t follow the league at all "

Ok well have fun playing fantasy basketball then and only caring about players and the league instead of the teams that win titles. AGAIN, you sound so jealous and childish. And that’s fine. Even if the Warriors are horrible from now until forever you can’t take away the joy all those title runs gave me. I know deep down you wish you could, but you can’t

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"Whats wrong with ncsu?"

Nothing! It's a great school with a solid sports tradition that up until our recent Final Four had been coasting on fumes. I hope my nieces go to State and win NCAA gymnastics titles. I will ALWAYS root for State, and despite having family that went to Duke and Carolina, I hate both programs (UNC wayyyy more) and whenever they lose, it brings a smile to my face.



[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 9:22 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2026 9:11:22 PM

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"decades of being a laughing stock."

Decades that you were not there for bc it's not your hometown. You can root for them but don't act like those decades had any affect on you.

Also I don't think you have any idea where most of us live so I'm not sure how you'd know what our "home team" is. Besides by your definition we could all move to Philly this year and root our home team.



I don't understand calling TGL jealous, what does that have to do with lebron going to philly?

Your issue is you view all nba news through the lens of the Warriors and assume everyone else does do

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 9:16 PM. Reason : Nobody gives a shit about the warriors ]

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"will ALWAYS root for State"

I don't believe you. Nobody that roots for state but shit on them in an NBA thread.

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM. Reason : So bitter ]

7/26/2026 9:14:27 PM

I'm not from Raleigh, no. So what? I was born in NC, went to college there for 2 years before I bounced for California, yet my family still remains. Y'all are the ones that want some dumb purity test when it comes to being a fan-- not me.

Sports are supposed to be fun, whether watching or playing. I've been on TWW since 2003 and never once claimed to be an expert on sports or some supreme athlete (although I'm a strong swimmer and I'd bet money I could beat most of YOU PEOPLE in a 50 yard freestyle/butterfly sprint). TGL likes to sit on his ivory tower of supposed sports knowledge, yet it must suck deeply to not really know the thrill of a championship besides two Canes cups, which IDGAF about.

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" "decades of being a laughing stock."

I was talking about the Warriors, NOT NCSU...

[Edited on July 26, 2026 at 9:29 PM. Reason : Not talking about the "We Believe" 2008 teams but prior to then, yes, total joke]

7/26/2026 9:21:10 PM

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"not really know the thrill of a championship besides two championships"

Also if you don't want people to say you don't know ball, don't say things like countless top players opted out

You don't HAVE to start these arguments if you don't want to

7/26/2026 9:28:03 PM

Are you seriously arguing that the 2020 ring isn't tainted? In this very thread I'm not the only one questioning the legitimacy of the title... And AGAIN, give AD the credit for winning it, not Lebron.

7/26/2026 9:30:52 PM