We met at work. I'm a doctor she's a nurse. She asked me out. But I was dating someone else at the time. So I told her no. But we stayed friends for years. I broke up with that girl a year later. I figured she was seeing someone so i never bothered to ask her out. She randomly texted me and I asked her out then and she says yes.
We went to get drinks and ended up back at my place. After we were done, she said she had to go home to take off her contacts. I told her I would go get the contact stuff from Walgreens right now if she would stay the night. She agreed.
We're getting married next month. That story was 2.5 years ago.
Guys making the movie that way gets attention. Then the entire media apparatus generates profit off the outrage and it builds hype for the movie. Literally everyone involved in this bullshit made money.
I think we have to separate achievement in this capitalist society from the skills we were told to acquire.
Being a good reader has a million benefits. If let's you think about ideas that you might not encounter in real life. It allows you to live inside someone else's mind. It makes you more empathetic. It makes you capable of thinking more creatively. It makes you consider things that you might not have been able to otherwise. Being a good reader makes you a more well rounded, intelligent and creative person.
Just because it didn't get you a high paying job in this grifters economy doesn't mean it was useless. Keep reading. Keep dreaming of a better world. Keep striving to be a real human in a world full of grifting capitalist drones.
Being from Chicago, I do agree Scottie is historically underrated. But to make it to this tier list, you have to have been the best player on a championship team. If the Bulls had won the 94 Championship without Jordan, I would have no problem putting Scottie here. But that's not how things played out. I would put guys like Scottie, DWade, John Havlicek, Sam Jones, Rick Barry, Willis Reed in a hypothetical Tier 5, which wouldn't require you to be the undisputed best player on a championship team.
As far as Lebrons Tier 1 status....
Lebron failed in championships way more often than not.
Yeah but basketball is a team sport. Most of Lebrons teams that lost in the finals, look that their rosters. Most of them wouldn't even sniff the second round without LeBron. The 2007 Cavs has guys like Eric Snow, Donyell Marshall, Boobie Gibson, Zydrunas Ilgauskas. And they lost to a hall of fame studded Spurs team. The fact that he lead a bunch of nobodies past a stacked Pistons team is crazy impressive.
LeBron deserves criticism for the 2011 Finals loss because they had a more talented team than the Mavs.
2014 Finals loss, this one is tough because you could make an argument that Heat should have won but I think that Spurs team is actually one of the greatest teams of all time. So to me, there's no shame in losing to them.
2015 Cavs didn't have Kyrie or Love. It was a bunch of guys like Dellevadova and JR Smith and Mozgov. And this Warriors team also proved to be historically great.
The 2017 Warriors are in my estimation the greatest NBA team of all time. So there's no shame in losing to them.
2018 Cavs didn't have Kyrie or the guy they traded him for Isaiah Thomas. And they went against basically the same 2017 Warriors team.
Here's the thing that I think puts LeBron in tier 1 status, the 2016 Cavs pulled off the single hardest thing anyone has ever done in the history of the NBA. Come back from down 3-1 against a historically great Warriors team. MJ never did that. Kareem never did that. Even the greatest winner of all time Bill Russell.
Lastly, while Steph has had more success head to head in the finals than LeBron, Steph pretty much had the better team except for once. And I love Steph, he changed the game. Steph is the greatest shooter ever. But on pretty much every other metric by which we compare players LeBron is just better. Taller, stronger, better passer, better rebounder, better defender and outside of shooting prowess, LeBron is probably an equal level scorer.
LeBron physically is probably the ideal specimen for basketball. And he pretty much had every single tool a basketball player could ever want to have and everything in his toolkit could be considered good to great.
Nit picks aside, I think LeBron is AT WORST, the 4th best player of all time and that has to land him as tier 1 player.
I can tell you pretty much the entire history of the NBA and I can rank each player by tiers. I have included here a note that I have saved on my phone at all times.
Can we stop acting like it's individual democrats that don't have a spine? The entire party is controlled opposition. They've never once taken advantage of an opportunity to do better for the American people.
I think hearing things from other people's perspectives on traumatic events can often help us feel less alone. It stops being about something that happened to you and it starts being something the world did to you. That relief of responsibility can help.
Damn I have had 3 OnePlus phones over the years and I had a feeling this might happen. I was looking for a OnePlus 15 for a few weeks. Finally pulled the trigger on one on eBay. Sucks that this product line is over.
We met at work. I'm a doctor she's a nurse. She asked me out. But I was dating someone else at the time. So I told her no. But we stayed friends for years. I broke up with that girl a year later. I figured she was seeing someone so i never bothered to ask her out. She randomly texted me and I asked her out then and she says yes.
We went to get drinks and ended up back at my place. After we were done, she said she had to go home to take off her contacts. I told her I would go get the contact stuff from Walgreens right now if she would stay the night. She agreed.
We're getting married next month. That story was 2.5 years ago.