Howard Beck

Every year there's some little like, you know, Luca's really trying to rein himself in.

Coaches start praising him for doing a good job of not chewing out the refs all the time.

Dude is still fucking complaining about every single call on every single possession.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Yeah.

But there you go.

still chewing out the refs all the time for every call and every non-call and everything else, still too consumed with that.

He's the biggest whiner in the league by far, the biggest whiner among stars by far, and maybe the biggest whiner among stars that I've seen in 30 years of covering this league, right?

I think he has surpassed Tim Duncan at this stage.

Well, he can shield himself from it in the short term if that's the case, and especially if they screw up this summer, which they cannot afford to screw up this summer because he won't stay, I think, if that's the case.

Contract or no contract, as we've seen, you can always force your way out.

But the things that have been the major knocks on him throughout his career...

mid-career are still the major knocks on him.

Defense, whining, conditioning.

And by the way, he has the highest usage rate, career usage rate in the history of the NBA at 35.

Higher usage rate than Michael Jordan for his entire career.

Higher usage rate than Iverson, Kobe, anyone.

And that comes with responsibility.

It also comes with a, hmm, maybe you do too much.