With all due respect to Isiah Thomas … I don’t see a debate on this issue. The debate I think which could be in play is if NBA play is resumed this season and the LA Clippers with Kawhi Leonard beat LeBron’s Lakers in route to Kawhi’s third ring with three different teams. Then we have a real debate.
In 2014, Kawhi’s San Antonio Spurs shocked the world by dismantling the Miami Heat Super Team. Kawhi was Finals’ MVP. Not LeBron, not D Wade. Not Timmy Duncan
Kawhi then went on to win his second ring with Toronto last season and another Finals MVP trophy.
This is why I want Adam Silver if nothing else to put in place a four team tournament with the Lakers, the Clippers, the Bucks, and the defending champion Toronto Raptors. I could care less if the Oklahoma City Thunder play another game. The Thunder aren’t a contender beyond the first round and it was a nice little feel good season with the Thunder going 40-24 in a season in which we all thought they’d be tanking after the departure of Jerami Grant to Denver.
I’d pay extra cable fees to see this four team tournament.
As a passionate NBA fan who’s been watching the league since say 1963 or so when I was six years of age….. I want to see LeBron, Kawhi, and Giannis square off. I don’t care if there are fans in the arena or not.
As far as Isiah…he was a feisty little shit of a terror on the floor. I have him No. 15 on my all-time list ahead of Scottie, ahead of Charles Barkley, even ahead of Cupcake for the time being. But Isiah was a train wreck as a GM later in his career.
There is no way in hell I would take LeBron over Michael. No way.
As Scottie Pippen accurately states in this video he took away from Michael’s assist totals because Scottie was the Bucs’ point forward. Michael would run the break with Scottie dishing the ball.
Michael Jordan was 6-0 in NBA Finals play.
Isiah, please. Enough already.