Greg Cote

But isn't that most of the NBA now, right?

Yeah, they're better at it than most.

But they're also distorting it more.

I haven't looked it up, but I'm going to go ahead and say that in the history of gambling, there haven't been a whole lot of double-digit dogs that have won that way by that much in Game 2 on the road against a team that's clearly better than you and a defending champion.

To be a 14.5-point dog in that game and to win it a bit running away at the end because they made their threes and Boston didn't at the end, that style of basketball, it bothers you, does it not?

You love it in Boston, but nowhere else, correct?

Hate it.

Hate watching it.

Look, but this is normal aging.

LeBron, do not let LeBron James distort it for you just because he's an alleged peer of Kevin Durant.

No, Kevin Durant is one of the greatest scorers ever, and LeBron James is better than him forevermore.

LeBron James is much older than Kevin Durant.

Kevin Durant was brought in to be both the experience and the shooting for a team that was a two seed last year.

A team that overachieved last year and then will underachieve because the hardest thing to coach in sports is an aging superstar.

He's lost his last seven playoff games.

That's how it happened.

Kevin Durant will be able to get 25 points in a game until he's 80 years old, but he's going to lose playoff games because that is how a player ages.

He's an old man.

You guys have gotten so used to the science of Anne LeBron James that you don't understand that what's been brought in to lead the Rockets is the worst version of Kevin Durant that there has been, even though he can still make shots, jump shots for a lifetime.

He's going to have nine turnovers in a playoff game when it becomes a different game.