[Simmons] "[If the Lakers miss the playoffs] AD will have missed the playoffs 6/10 years. You look at the other guys who are really good in the league... Giannis is never missing the playoffs if he is healthy. Neither is Jokic. We are finding out this year it doesn't matter who is on his team".

Bill spitting fire and speaking truth last night on his pod with Ryan.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/55Mz4awkuugH09ca8QSBJB?si=4Ta4_-EES6iHMveUFmFz0Q&utm_source=copy-link

AD has NEVER been able to carry a team the way the bigs that people have constantly put him in the same breath as or even claimed he is better than (Embid, Jokic, Giannis). He struggled to even win 40 games most years in New Orleans, forced his way to LA where he got to play alongside the best player of the past 25 years and has proven incapable of helping Lebron carry the load the way he was supposed to.

Yes, injuries have been part of the issue. But the reality is that he is a #2 and without Lebron there would be little evidence he is even a winning player.

It's a joke he made the top 75 and is easily the most overrated player of my lifetime.