Just because he’s now retired, it doesn’t mean that former NBA star Paul Pierce won’t have the elevated platform to spread some more anti-LeBron James propaganda.
Riding an Uber driven by ESPN’s Cari Champion, Pierce was asked by the host about LeBron James. Pierce would mumble his way through saying that he enjoyed his many battles with the four-time MVP before dropping perhaps his hottest take during the commute. According to Pierce himself, James would not have won a title in South Beach if he and the then Miami Heat forward played each other at the same age of 26.
“I always said that if I and he [LeBron] were of the same age, I’d be different. He might not have gotten those championships in Miami If I was 26 and he was 26.”
It must be noted that before James jumped ship to Miami, he and the Cleveland Cavaliers lost two playoffs series to Pierce’s Celtics, who then featured the Big Three of Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen.
James would later get his revenge against Boston in 2012 when Miami and its Big Three of James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh took down the Celtics in a seven-game Eastern Conference Finals on their way to winning the NBA title that year.
Whether Pierce was just salty that James’ first title came partly at the expense of his own team or now, we’ll end this piece by saying that when Pierce was 26, his Celtics got swept by the 38-year-old Reggie Miller and the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the 2004 NBA Playoffs.
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