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2015 NBA Playoffs

Not one of his finer interviews. I guess I can't be too harsh though, the dude just lost in the Finals after a performance of the ages, he's entitled to a brain fart.
 
spycam1 said:
Obviously, but I really don't think that's what LeBron was talking about; he's talking about more in general: all star caliber player, which Duncan clearly was.
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Eh maybe. Still a pretty stupid comment considering Kyrie Irving helped them get to the Finals.
 
spycam1 said:
He played at an all star level in the playoffs, just like he did this year.
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grasping at straws, brother. He wasn't an all-star, plain and simple. Not only that-- 16, 9 and 2 isn't exactly screaming "all star level", otherwise we'd have a ton of all-star level bigs in this league.


Either way-- one man has taken a lower seeded team to a championship and won with a cast about as good as Cleveland's-- Hakeem the Dream.
 
dalamon said:
grasping at straws, brother. He wasn't an all-star, plain and simple.


Either way-- one man has taken a lower seeded team to a championship and won with a cast about as good as Cleveland's-- Hakeem the Dream.
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It's not really grasping at straws. Just because he missed being an All-Star one year in a stacked conference doesn't mean he isn't all-star level. If he had been in the East he would have been an All-Star, so it's just a matter of conference rules that he wasnt.
 
Cy said:
It's not really grasping at straws. Just because he missed being an All-Star one year in a stacked conference doesn't mean he isn't all-star level. If he had been in the East he would have been an All-Star, so it's just a matter of conference rules that he wasnt.
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there is a definitive difference between all-star, and all-star level. Your post could apply to probably 2o different western conference players-- which goes against he whole point of 'all-star'. If Lebron meant all-star level, he should have said so. Otherwise, both terms mean different things.
 
dalamon said:
grasping at straws, brother. He wasn't an all-star, plain and simple.


Either way-- one man has taken a lower seeded team to a championship and won with a cast about as good as Cleveland's-- Hakeem the Dream.
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No. People get referred to as all stars all the time even if they didn't make it that particular year. There's "all star" as a phrase to categorize who made the actual team, and there's also the use of it as a more generic term. Would you really be throwing a fit if someone referred to Dirk as an all star?

But on the topic of the Dream: he's my favorite center of all time. Dude had it all.
 
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