Kolek planning to go pro
If he leaves, I would be sad. But he's the best player in franchise history who brought a championship to a team I never thought would see another. But it's his right to do so.And it's still 3+ years away.
I misread, my bad. I mixed up that paragraph with the paragraph immediately following it:
Uh, Kareem says hello. He was at his zenith as a player with the Bucks.
Although I like honesty, I don't love it when an athlete publicly proclaims that he might bolt his current team several years down the line.I'm not outraged by it; I don't "hate" Giannis for saying it. Just seemed unnecessary. Now I just hope he doesn't get angry the 1,845th time he's asked about it over the next 4 years ... because he's the one who made it something.
I honestly took his comments as him planning on tackling non-basketball challenges in the future. He's got a big platform and could try to tackle big problems.
LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges are the Stockton-and-Malone of today's NBA. Not as successful for anywhere near as many years, obviously, but definitely cooler. Ball-to-Bridges for alley-oop jams are featured on Sportscenter several times a week.The Hornets aren't anywhere near great -- the recently went 0-fer on a West Coast trip -- but they have a couple of ascending stars, they have some good supporting players and they are very entertaining on offense. When they're on, they can beat anybody, as they just proved with consecutive wins over the Western and Eastern conference leaders. Fun team to watch.
It would be hard to find players more opposite of LaMelo Ball and Miles bridges than John Stockton and Karl Malone.
So Ball and Bridges are like Stockton and Malone....although not as good, haven't played as long, on a worse team, and I bet I could count on one hand the number of alley oops they were involved in.Great comp
By that logic, Kawhi Leonard is the greatest player in Raptors history.Like it or not, Kareem will always be remembered by most as a Laker. Even if Giannis never surpasses Kareem in terms of pure talent or "zenith" (still yet to be determined), he is and will be the greatest Buck of all time, in part to his dedication to the team and city for the foreseeable prime of his career.Heat fans will tell you Wade is the GOAT Heat player for the same reason.
I definitely did not take it that way.It just seemed an unnecessary thing to say on his part.
Kawhi is the greatest player in Toronto history, and it's not even close considering people think the other option is Kyle Lowry.
Not trying to argue semantics but I would say there is a difference between "greatest" and "best".
KAREEM:In 467 regular-season games over 6 seasons with Milwaukee, he averaged 30.4 ppg, 15.1 rpg, 4.3 apg. Blocks didn't become an official stat until his 5th season, when he averaged 3.5. He shot .547 from the floor. In the playoffs, he averaged 29,7, 16.8, 4.0 while shooting .510. He led the Bucks to the 1971 title.GIANNIS:In 603 regular-season games over 8+ seasons with Milwaukee, he has averaged 21.1 ppg, 9.2 rpg, 4.5 apg, 1.3 bpg while shooting .531. In the playoffs, he averaged 25.9, 11.6, 4.9 while shooting .535. He led the Bucks to the 2021 title.I'd give the statistical edge to Kareem at this point, but Giannis almost surely will eclipse Kareem as the best Buck ever. Not sure how anybody can look at the above today, though, and say Giannis has already done so.
Kareem also did not have the benefit of playing with 3 pointers during his time with the Bucks. It was much more of an inside game . Defenses were designed to try and stop Kareem but they couldn’t . He faced a steady stream of Artis Gilmore , Bob Lanier , Willis Reed , Nate Thurman , Dave Cowens etc and dominated everyone .