What’s Next for LeBron After Another Denver Defeat?| The Bill Simmons Podcast 

Le GM at his worst.

KCP, Kuzma... They chose THT (who LeBron constantly overpraised) over Caruso 😂

That sank them

Did em in

Increible. Literally I still dont get it. How to destroy your own career for no particular reason. He didnt even like Russ. This wasnt about friendship. Insane

Wow apparently we are the same guy. I'm the same. "The beautiful game" like the Brazilians do about soccer. It was a perfect basketball machine.

1986 Celtics.

They were talking about this century though. So 86 Celtics wouldn't be mentioned by Bill. He has the 86 Celtics as his best team of all time when he wrote his book back in 2009

17-18 warriors dummies! Lol

That 2014 Spurs team ripped the Big 3 Heat a new one, it was beautiful basketball

It makes it extremely hard to be a Bron fan with his attitude 😂

Lakers in 7. Thank me later

@@Jays119Like the Lakers will be out of game 4 within the first 7 minutes? That’s definitely probable.

@@Jays119 It's one thing for a Lakers fan to be delusional. But to say "Thank me later", like you're giving out some hot tip? Lol.

@@shorewallROFL Lebron … “Don’t let us get one”. Jokic “Ok guys if we finish the sweep can I go home to Serbia for a week.”😂😂

They play very much like the Spurs with Tim Duncan and Tony Parker as Jokic and Murray.

Yea but that wasn’t like the lakers of 00’s as a Celtic fan that laker squad was ridiculous

They were so pissed by missing their chance in game 6 in 13 that they came back and decided to play perfect basketball again the Heatles.

@@David-iv6je -- The revenge series of Spurs in 2014 against the Heat, amazing. Honorable mention: 2011 Mavs where Dirk beats a superteam.

I love the 2014 Spurs, one of my favorite teams of all time. But they really almost lost in the first round fr and we can’t pretend that didn’t happen

He’s being a prisoner of the moment smh 😂

@@jlui21 Oh hell yeah. The 11 Mavs were theoretically a lesser team but they executed perfectly. It was a beautiful run.

Yep, I agree. They’ve gone up 3-0 while Murray has shot the ball inefficiently so if Murray is shooting at his normal percentages plus MPJ ascending I could def see the Nuggets 3 peating provided everyone stays healthy. They have great team chemistry, a clearly defined leader that gets everyone involved so you don’t have guys getting upset that they aren’t getting their numbers. Really good player development and scouting. It’s def a good recipe for a dynasty, especially since their core is young. Jokic is 28 so likely won’t decline anytime soon.

@@Romanus- Well, the only thing you are wrong about is Jokic's age. He is 29, not that young :)

@@Romanus- Porter Jr was suppose to be the #1 pick in 2018 ahead of Ayton, Bagley & Luka. He sat out his lone college season because of back issues and back surgeries. Then got red flagged by multiple team doctors who investigated his medical issues. He fell in the draft and landed in the lap of Denver. He missed his rookie season and got hurt for most of another season but when he is healthy he is lethal.

Idk if that’s ever going to happen idk if his back will let him be the player he was supposed to be

@@ivelinkamenovwe ll see how fast he declines, but id say next year jokic is mvp again

Yep, reminds me of the 2014 Spurs except with Jokic being a much better passer than Duncan. Totally unselfish play and the ball is always moving

I mean, if you’ve been watching this team, we’ve been playing like shit tbh

2014 Spurs but Boris Diaw had the magnitude of TD's talent

T wolves match up the best with Denver in the west imo. Still picking Denver tho

@@cedccc222good take. Diaw is far underrated

@@poorchrisfacts bro 💯

@@poorchris not even true, yall just be saying shit. The Lakers would be in the playoffs in every year except that Russ year even without the play-in. Go look at the records and use your brain.

That’s the benefit of being LeBron…teams move heaven and earth to put players around you that YOU’RE asking for…then when they underperform and you lose..it’s the teams fault for not getting you enough help. James is a chump.

​@lakerodom1325exactly 💯

The level of stupid you have to have to call the bubble Championship a joke is impressive. Most folks ****ing quit there. They didn't want to compete or even be there. Denver did, and Miami did, and the Lakers did. Y'all forget that's where the Nuggets started. It revealed who can compete in bad circumstances. Lakers made a run to the conference finals. Miami keeps making runs lower seeds just by being able to compete. You're so eager to hate on someone whose life you're jealous of that you undercut what is obvious. Jokic is the highest IQ player since Bron that has a perfectly constructed team to take advantage of his strengths. And he matches that with effort and will. It's not "old school", it's who's "Next". 🙄

You forgot the refs.

Step 4: Make up an injury Step 5: Lie about retiring

COPE

ABB: anybody but Bron

Step ^: Praise himself and blame everyone else in his podcast with plumber JJ reddick

He's awful

I legit stopped watching 4 mins into video. Like wtf is he talking about man. Like come on…!

​@@bigkahunaburger7782 buddy if nobody tells him how is he supposed to know?

@@bigkahunaburger7782 This may be shocking for those who live in California, but many people find it annoying when others use meaningless verbal ticks every 5 words. Especially when those others are 30-something men who should have learned to say a fucking sentence without sounding like a teenaged girl by now.

The 2014 Spurs were a fantastic team and a real crowning achievement for the dynasty but I’ve always felt that team got a bit overrated just because they dismantled a Heat team that was very much on its last legs as a competitive force. I think any team that came out of the West would’ve destroyed the Heat albeit not as emphatically as the Spurs did. People remember the finals beatdown but they don’t remember that the 8th seeded Mavs took them to 7 games in the first round.

Entered the chat and what? Beat the 01 Lakers? Beat the 17 Warriors? Losing the year before to the Heat? The 2014 Spurs have left the chat

​@@bikramarora1819So 2014 LeBron was on his "last legs"???? What are you talking about???? 🤡

@@bikramarora1819tf? Terrible take. They destroyed that Thunder team as well. That Heat team ran through the East. You guys just love revisionist history.

@@juanstepbehindlol you mad. Highest point differential in finals history. Shut your mouth and never talk hoops again

Exactly!

Why is a lockdown championship an asterisk? Why is the Ray Allen shot an asterisk? Draymond was suspended because he had racked up a certain amount of points which meant he would serve a suspension. Every team played in the bubble. What advantage did it give the Lakers that it didn’t give to other teams?

​@omieg89 LeBron the only player they do this stupid shit with

I actually think Lebron’s basketball IQ is overhyped as well. He has no feel for the momentum of a game and what’s required at specific times.

If Lebrons IQ is as high as people claim, he would know how much of a negative impact he has at his current age. He just stands around whenever he doesnt have the ball in his hands, he blows defensive assignments sometimes what looks like on purpose, he constantly looks disengaged from the guys around him, he doesnt even set up great plays that often, not to mention he takes some of the dumbest ill timed shots I've ever seen. He just looks like a shell of himself that waits until theres a spot for him to score or get an easy pass to pad numbers. I always thought he was a great player but i dont see how his IQ elevates the team around him at this point. Giannis can honestly do what Lebron does and people dont rave about his IQ.

Listen to the whole quote

LeTampon is officially the joke of the NBA. He needs to retire

@@_clownworld U r gay

Why are there conspiracy theory videos in your "classical music" playlists comrade

@@untexan can you be more specific? “Conspiracy theories” often means “views I disagree with”.

Giannis is a diva

66/16

He says it so much that it bleeds into Simmons’ speech patterns after a while 😂😂

Celtics. 1 title in 37+ years. Move on, Bill.

8 th best? Who’s in your top 10? lol

I don’t agree that Lebron is 8th best but I do think that part of the reason Lebron continues to play is because he doesn’t want people to forget him.

Trust me he has cemented that he will talked about after he retires. Klutch will make sure of that.​@@omieg89

🚨🚨🚨moron alert🚨🚨🚨

Swing and a miss on this one

Facts bro 💯. Lebum is one trick pony

Lol literally he has been double and triple teamed his whole career, there are reels of videos showing this. You have absolutely no clue about basketball at all. Just in one game footage from any year in his career, you will see step back 3's, post ups, turnaround jumpers, drives to the hoop, reverse layups. spin moves, midrange jumpers, floaters, alley oops, dunks, putbacks....not even mentioning his passing from every possible angle and his reads. Lebron never had a consistent coach and system like the triangle w Tex Winter and Phil Jackson with perfect role players to run that system with him as the focal point. Jordan and Kobe never won before that system and never won after. Lebron has won with different coaches and systems everywhere he has played. I literally just picked a random sampling of games...playoffs, regular season...and EVRY game he is being doubled and triple teamed. 100% wrong comment said w zero knowledge.

@ashwar3639 no he hasn’t. Not in games that matter. Thats why the spurs could guard him with Boris Diaw and the mavs could guard him with JJ barea/deshawn Stevenson and why the warriors could guard him with iguodala. I’m not talking about the charlotte hornets on a random Tuesday night. I’m talking about playoff series when he’s playing a formidable opponent. And yes, LeBron can shoot any shot, but he doesn’t shoot a high enough PERCENTAGE on those shots to rely on them down the stretch of big games. He has shot only 37% outside of 5 feet for his career. Which means teams that are formidable can live with whatever he gets as long as he’s not getting to the basket. He also has been a subpar FT shooter which causes him to run from the FT line at end of games and keeps him from closing out playoff games. See nuggets series last year and this year for examples. Thanks for playing.

Yeah well he’s also 39 now lmao

It was bad business with Kobe too.

Yeah, a 3 year deal for LeBron would benefit the Lakers more than when they gave Kobe that money.

@@WorldwideWyatthe earned it

@@mgee1723 whatever, it was still stupid. When Kobe dropped 60 in his last game that was the Lakers 17th win that season. Lebron is never going 17-65…

@@WorldwideWyattyeah he is gonna get better aged 38 😂

Would be a dope nickname if he didn’t already have a good one too

Joker the Constrictor

Nic‐boa jokic

God forbid he comes to Knicks.....

@@mja4wpthat sounds good. Add LeBron to what they got, they may get a ring possibly. Idk about the Thibs situation

Thatt was 4 years ago.. Jokic is not the same player. Now he will eat him alive...

@@thomass7877 I know that’s why I said nitpick. But ☝️ the question is how does joker kill you? He does it from his playmaking in the post. Yes joker can shoot 3s but he’s not Steph curry or even Seth. But when he goes down low to his spots nobody in the game expect embid or Giannis is strong enough to knock him off his spot. Or prevent him from getting there in the first place. Joker is a throw back big man body wise who can shoot for a big man in an era of small ball jack up 3s

Bubble refs killed Joker not Dwight. LOL

esp the turnovers.. when it comes to his turnovers its always masaging the numbers... "total turnovers dont matter its the assist to turnover ratio that matters" his assist to turnover ratio is lower than insert players name here" when as by jordan they would use and only go by the number of total turnovers he had

Yes of course, this series finally did it. As we all know a 40 year old MJ who could barely dunk would've been giving this nuggets team the business😂

​@@whiteblaze-rk2ep: Leave MJ out of this. Lebron is the one still playing in this series.

Its so funny because people act like Lebron is some unsurpassable player. Counting stats he will hold onto forever, but I can see a guy like Jokic getting like 3 rings at least and that just out does the rings lebron has outside of 2016.

lol good lord some you casual NBA fans are bad

Why are you watching him on RU-vid if you don’t like his opinions? There’s millions of basketball videos on here?

I think YOU should start a basketball podcast and become more successful than bill. If Bill is a casual compared to you then you’ll have zero problem!

Let lebron walk. Target Donovan Mitchell who is pretty clearly unhappy in cleveland

Too bad you weren't there to share your profound insights...

More like Apollo Creed vs. Ivan Drago : "THROW THE DAMN TOWEL!!!"

If Lebron is still there it won’t matter. He’ll be the scapegoat once things go south! Dense D will be scared for life!

Second is coming.

@@dejan.zivkovic.psiholog are you still this confident in the Nugget’s?

@@thomasbrown8816 hell no 😂. Minnesota is kicking their behind....

Totally agree.. I live in Denver and local media are like “we’re not even playing good and we’re still winning” I’m like yea that should be a concern that we aren’t playing good

Because times 1 only?

Because MPJ was also out... and the rest of the roster was so bad that most of them are out of the league now. Will Barton, Bryn Forbes, Austin Rivers, JaMychal Green, Facundo Campazzo...

Who gives him a pass? Also look at his numbers during those 2 playoff runs where his second best player was will barton

LeQuitter

You cared enough to troll...so you.

My list is Russell, MJ, Lebron, Duncan, Magic, Bird, Hakeem, Kareem, Wilt and Jerry West. So Jokic can finish his career at 4th, 5th or 6th place on my list to be honest.

Yes it is🎉🎉🎉🎉

@@NikolaIvanovic-pu7hgRussell? lol.

@@NikolaIvanovic-pu7hgKobe shits in all of them except mj

@@Skyfall22 Why not

That's it exactly. The Lakers don't have a big body to bang against Jokic. Going back to 202 when the Lakers beat the Nuggets, Dwight Howard was out muscling Jokic and took him out of his game. That was coming after a series where Jokic as grabbing every rebound against the Clippers with Montrel as their center. Everyone in the league is trying to play small ball and Jokic is just sitting back saying: "Good luck with that."

What are you talking about? Ever heard of AD? Who do you want Jokic to defend who could do it better than the top 3 defender in the league? Stop looking for new players and fix the team chemistry, that's the only thing that seperates the nuggets from the Lakers

@@Davivd2 they led twice by double digits going into the 4th quarter. Jokic didn't even score a lot in this series. Yall live in a parallel universe. Lakers just choked, Dwight wouldn't have changed that.

Lmao. What a shit take. There isn't a body in the world who can guard Jokic.

@@Davivd2 That's fucking stupid. Bubble refs killed Joker not Dwight. He was punished with made up fouls the whole series.

You do realize the Celtics and bulls were not this century.

Not in this century, no.

gangster

Because Lebum is boring to watch

Tbh I don’t know if it would be a great combination with the way Luka plays. He’d have to drastically reduce his usage rate and he wouldn’t have the ball in his hands nearly as much. Idk, would be cool to see but I think Jokic running the offense would reduce Luka to more of an off ball player which isn’t really his strength. He’d also have to replace MPJ, Murray or Gordon. Luka would be a much better fit with someone like Wemby IMO. Luka can be a point forward and him getting doubled would open up tons of easy looks for Wemby. A Luka/Wemby pick and roll would be damn near impossible to guard

The Nuggets dont want Luka. This is not how basketball works. 🤣This is a straight from the Lakers thinking though.

@@wadehenderson1081 yeah, not now, but I’d be shocked if Denver stay as is for the next 3 years

That is title of the next movie produced by SpringHill Company.😂😂