Welcome to “Opinions I Can Only Say Here”: my personal safe space here on evolution where I write about the opinions I usually keep to myself. I got a lot of them, so this week we are doing sports.
Lebron James Is The Best Basketball Player Ever
It bothers me greatly that this is considered a controversial opinion and it bothers me even more how many people from this generation of sports fans choose to tear down the present and uplift MJ. Like come on folks, if your my age you never saw Michael play so get out of here. They always use the same arguments: 3-6 in the NBA Finals, not clutch at the free throw line, ran to form a super team in Miami, and his choke-job in the 2011 finals against the Mavericks. I get it people. I will even grant that he has a talent for the sort of off-putting cringe that just makes it easy to hate on the guy. Yeah.. that whole signing party thing in Miami was pretty bad. I am done trying to convince people but there you have it. I Griffin Keyes believe Lebron James is the best basketball player of all time. You don’t have to agree with me by try appreciating the guy while he’s still here. There will never be another Lebron James.
Aaron Rodgers Is Better Than Tom Brady
Yes I am salty, heartbroken Packers fan, but I also don’t understand how we anointed Brady as the “G.O.A.T” solely on the basis that he has won the most rings in a game as fickle and as difficult to find team success as Football. This is not basketball where your best players on the floor for well over half of the game, meaning there is more time and opportunities for their impact. Football is like war, there are so many intricacies and ways for things to go south. One injury and that can be it for your teams playoffs chances. Case in point, we (Packers) lost to the 49ers this year solely on the underperformance of our special teams units. Let’s be real, everyone who says Brady is the GOAT, does so solely off of the number of rings he has won and the intangible like his leadership. If that’s what it takes then sure you got me, but I don’t think so. We don’t say Bill Russel is the best basketball player ever but he has more rings than he does fingers hold them… See what I mean?!
No more of the referees “swallowing the whistle” in the NHL playoffs
This one might grind my gears the most because it always seems to affect my team (Canucks) disproportionately. A call is a call, and it should be a call no matter what stage of the regular season or post-season it is. I hate the level of discretion that referees are given in the playoffs. It leads to too much ambiguity, about what players can or cannot get away with, and when the referees do finally decide to bring down the hammer, the application is almost always inconsistent and unfair. I get it, fans want as few interruptions as possible but would it not be better for all of us if we our teams were in the know for the most important games of their career?
Kamaru Usman Would Kick George St Pierre’s Ass
Yep. Sorry my fellow Canadians. Kamaru Usman is without a doubt the greatest UFC welterweight of all time. He has faced murderers row since earning the belt in 2019. His game is constantly evolving from its wrestling base. His striking is now catching up and he fights every fight to get a finish. George on the other hand dominated a much lesser era and he got progressively more boring and reliant on his wrestling as his career went on. Call me salty but I am still mad for all the times I paid to see GSP fight and he just held a guy on the mat for 25 minutes. This fight would not be close.