Dude you aren't a loser, have watched your videos for many years thanks for the consistent content 👍

U are not a loser , u are a great human being that delivery us great contents and entertainments

For me, this was Paul Pierce on the Nets. I had grown up in New Jersey and started casually following basketball around 2010 ish. Pierce was always my favorite player because I decided to be a LeBron hater early on and Pierce's Celtics always seemed to get the best of him at that time. Paul Pierce being traded to the Nets is what made me a hardcore Nets fan and I think fondly of that season despite it being looked at by most as a disappointment.

Tbh I feel like I needed to hear the "there's so much more to this game than winning championships" statement. I feel like nowadays as an adult, I spend more time arguing about the sport rather than enjoying the small moments that made me fall in love with it growing up and enjoying thr moments that will make beautiful memories.

As Heat fan we missed the playoffs so of course I'm gonna root for the Bulls. The Rondo injury killed you guys.

dude this means a lot and it speaks to why a lot of people value your thoughts and feelings on stuff. most of my favourite basketball memories are of watching mid-tier teams that aren't going to win a championship that season, playing for cities i will never visit, but having a good time doing it. half of the games i've enjoyed watching the most happened before i was even born and i watched them in archives. too much of nba youtube is filled with people either crunching numbers to the point of losing the wider picture, or coming from an angle of raw over/unders and nothing else. mechanical-feeling content churned out by and for gambling mind palace statisticians sometimes feels like it's an overbearing weight of youtube content; you get barraged with more than enough of it just watching games on tv. coming to sport (or anything in life) from such a zero-sum angle feels like it sucks the joy and humanity out of the whole experience; reduces all the beauty and meaning of this sport to mere horseracing. your whole kind of attitude, having a sense of soul and actually feeling joy in a game - that's the reason i enjoy watching your stuff and seeing the angle you come to things from.

I’m a huge NYK fan and I’ll NEVER EVER forget Linsanity. Probably my fondest memory of being a Knicks fan since growing up in the 90s. I know it was just a flash-in-the-pan kinda deal but I can’t forget how damn cool it was to see people actually care about the Knicks for a bit, then the next year, Melo, JR and co tore the league up (kinda). Call it sour grapes, but they most definitely, undeniably got cheated out of the playoffs against Indy that year.

* Game winning steal and dunk vs the Pacers * Two game winning steals vs the Kings * The OKC game where both Jimmy and Wade went off (Jimmy had a triple double Wade had his 10th rebound stolen by Felicio) * IIRC the Bulls that season were undefeated in national televised games. * Wade getting a poster on Alex Len to seal the game against the Suns. * Wade faking out two Sixers defenders before hitting the midrange shot. * The first two games of the playoffs. There were plenty of enjoyable moments in that series.

As a heat fan I loved Shaq’s time in Miami. Obviously we did win but just beyond that he’s my favorite player of all time and seeing him in a heat jersey just brings me joy🔥

Loved that team and think you have been doing a great job with these videos. Made me reminisce a lot.

This was a W video, especially since a lot of NBA fan communities are super toxic nowadays. Better to enjoy things like this than just shit on everything all the time

15-16 was the first season I closely followed the NBA in a “more than a casual” sense and as a Bulls fan yeah, same thing - that’s Dwyane fucking Wade in a Bulls jersey, what’s not to love 😂 I miss the naivety of the younger me

Bro we gotta talk about that Rondo comment, 2nd most overrated player of all time is very insane

Okay you've convinced me... I'm gonna watch every damn video pre 2020 😂😂 love your content man

We all have fond memories of something. Different sport, but I’ll always remember the 2022 Mariners because they made the first playoff appearance since I was very little. And I’ll never forget the 2020-21 NBA season because I read a lot of NBA history out of curiosity, and watched a lot of videos (the video on whether Nash deserved his MVP’s is where I discovered you). And that made me appreciate just how unprecedented the postseason we saw in 2021 really was. One thing I’d have to disagree with you on though: I wouldn’t disown everything you made before 2020. While the editing may not have been the same pre-Rudy, I would argue that the Goatmentary was an excellent series, your video on Karl Malone’s personal life was well executed, and say what you want about Paul Pierce and Dwyane Wade, but the video where you go after Pierce as an analyst was good in my opinion, and the one where you go after Bayless, Colin Cowherd and Nick Wright from 2018 or so is one of my favorites I’ve seen from your channel. I wouldn’t disown your older videos if I were you, but to each their own. Also, those videos introduced me to a lot of good Lakey Inspired tracks.

My favorite Dwyane Wade play is the one where he blocked Amare Stoudemire and shot a full court shot before the buzzer sounds. That was in 2005 season... the very first season I started watching NBA. That was also a little bit of a bigger deal for me at that time, because that game was the battle of the no. 1 seeds from East and West. Yeah I can't forget that.

Rusty you all the NBA content I got rn😅💯

Probably my favourite Rusty video! Same thing with me as a raps fan, everyone hated the Jakob poeltl trade because it costed us a frp but I really enjoyed seeing Jak on the team. I love his old school game! We all just gotta enjoy the sport!

When you say you enjoyed seeing him in the Bulls jersey it really reminds me of the quote from Jerry Seinfeld, "You're rooting for clothes, when you get right down to it. We're screaming about laundry." But I can see why you would enjoy seeing such a iconic player of his generation in that jersey even if it didn't lead to great success. But at the same time we would all love to see any legendary or all star player in our teams laundry as the quote says, and in this case it came true for you so you enjoyed it. I can't say I personally ever look back fondly on times someone who was on the down swing of their career and were already probably a HOFer went to a team I liked and never had much of an impact. I am honestly more of a football fan and an example of this is Jerry Rice going to my team the Seahawks to end his career. Most people don't even remember he played for Seattle and they were a pretty good team then even, they made the playoffs and it was only a year before they got to their first Superbowl. And I surely don't look back on it fondly or that he in any way should be associated with Seattle when his legacy in San Francisco and Oakland is talked about. But somehow you have created fond memories out of a similar situation and if you want to remember it like that then that is cool for you. But I don't think anyone think of Wade and his legacy outside of anything that happened in a Heat jersey as all the rest was just the wind down to a career that was already a lock for the HOF. Maybe you could look at Wade's time in Chicago as a retirement tour in a way too coming home for one last chance at hometown glory before hanging them up. And also you should definitely not look at yourself so negatively! In the end its better to find the good or enjoyment in something that many people can't that isn't harming anyone and that is exactly what you did with this.

All jokes aside though you and Alex are the only basketball KZfaqrs that have been able to hold my attention for longer than ten minutes

Not a Chicago fan but everyone can relate to the feeling. great video.

I actually enjoyed that year but can we talk about when pau was there like we almost made it in the finals in 2015

Bro the whole thing with people typing first is so dumb lol like not all of y’all are first

I remember going to the home opener that season against the Celtics. We won 101-95 if I remember correctly. Still the most fun bulls game I’ve personally been to (watched since I was old enough when rose was drafted but was able to go for the first time after he got hurt)

Love these new thumbnails 🔥🔥🔥

I think this era would have gone over better with fans if GarPax didn't literally announce the team was going to get younger right before going out and signing Wade and Rondo.

D-wade in a bulls jersey seems like a fever dream but that’s just the heat fan in me talking

D wade on the bulls was not the same for AI on the grizz as a grizzlies fan cuz a hometown hero playing for yo team is a great sight to see cuz it's so rare to see

My NBA fandom started with single players and not teams, so I was a Rockets fan because of Hakeem, and I followed the Bulls because of Jordan. I supported and followed the Knicks because they're my home team, but I settled on the Nets in like 97-98 because they were also local, had a young team that had interesting players like Kerry Kittles, Marbury and KVH... so I;ve stuck with them the last 16 years. The closest I got to your Wade moment was getting Vince Carter.

The Three Alphas were low-key fun, got off to a good start too. Won the first three games, Wade, Rondo, and Butler were hitting their threes, the defense was great, even Michael Carter-Williams looked like a key rotation player. MCW went down in game 6, and the wheels came off for a while. Coincidence? Yeah, probably, especially since he couldn't do anything right once he came back. But they were fun in the weirdest way. Don't talk to me about the one mid-season, lose-lose trade they did though

My first year as a bulls fan, fun ass underdog team

As a Heat fan, it GUTTED me when the Chicago report came out… but that team was sneaky fun, and they were 100% beating the Celtics before Rondo went down. Just wish he didn’t waste his time in Cleveland. That shit was gross.

I feel most Bulls fans are overly cynical because of the 90's Bulls and the expectations that squad put on this franchise. If any Bulls fans are reading this its ok to appreciate a squad without trying to compare it to the god squads of the 90's.

Rajon Rondo is not overrated by any means. He isn't even underrated. He's just forgotten lol. To be fair, we never really got a fair power level reading on him because really the Chicago playoff series vs the IT Celtics was supposed to be the chance for Rajon to make a case for being a top 10-top 5 pure PG at the time but he got injured. Its like he was either on teams where there were too many namebrand all stars or just not enough talent around him on the non-bull, non-celtic, non-lakers teams he was a part of

“There is no war is Ba Sing Se”. Wade was a one team guy. He only ever played for the Heat lol.

Don’t call yourself a loser Rusty, even if you’re joking. You deliver great basketball commentary that brings people joy, that’s not a what a loser is

Make a video on your film/video game channel pls I love those videos

I really liked that Bulls team, they were bouta upset the Celtics in round 1 but Rondo got hurt

That thumbnail is nasty work 😭 kill that photo with 🔥

Wade was not coming to Chicago in 2010 . Pat Riely made him and Bosch goto meetings all over the east to get contenders with cap space to try and offer huge contracts to possible supporting cast players as incentive to join a team. It's how the Knicks ended up with Stoudemire the hawks ended up with joe Johnson and the bulls traded kirk Heinrich and signed carlos boozer to a massive payday and immediately regretted it. LeBron Bosch and Wade knew they would play together long before the decision. Riely had the idea to try and screw the competition.

Glad u gave melo his props, also rusty i get that u often employ depreciating humour, but please don't. Words have weight and you are no failure, you seem to have a great relationship with your dad, a passion for basketball that you're able to make decent money off of by talking about your fave sport. Appreciate the little things bro, much love❤🤞🏽

I'm one of those Bulls fans that was not very fond of D-wade on the bulls in 2017. IMO, the time for him to come here was the 2010 offseason, but we all know what happened instead...

I am 1000000% with you. I REALLY think the Bulls could have upset Boston that year. Im shocked you don’t like Rondo, but he was damn near the best player on the court those first two games and I see no reason that wouldn’t have continued to he the case throughout that series. Plus that was the birth of the Jimmy/Wade relationship that led to him being in Miami now. I loved that team. Also, maybe I’m the only one, but I was HUGE Carlos Boozer fan in Chicago 😂😂

I was almost 40 when this happened and I liked this too.

Wade only came to Chicago because Miami didn't give him that loyalty contract; could've had that 'Played for 1 Team' on his resume.

I was also a loser in high school and adult life. lol Not really. But seriously, for me, I enjoyed seeing Steve Nash in a Lakers jersey, playing with Kobe. Unfortunately that combo didn't result in anything. Nash hurt his back or something.

I did not forget the *TNT* Bulls that year; The Celts were getting cooked and would _likely_ not withstand the Bulls had injuries _not_ occurred.

damn man. I really like how you say the things that you want to say. you seem like a smart and great person. can you please value and enjoy yourself cause talking about yourself like you did in the beginning is not it. lesgo

I also really enjoyed James Harden and Westbrook on the rockets

lol, the ending was _"we dont say goodbye, we say see you on the next video"_ - Rudy

Rusty I've watched you since 2019. You're no loser bro. Your content is great, and your political views are spot on. You're a good dude man and you've got hundreds of thousands of followers. Nobody who has your level of following and good morals can be a loser

ur not a loser your a legend don't get it twisted ;)

But do u put Stockton over rondo is the question

My question is how the heck in rondo at two lmao

I very much agree that it’s whack by how ppl deny people joy of a moment just bc the outcome may have been an L

Dwade, who was injured, had to come back in the regular season just to help the bulls reach the playoffs 😂

Why the pessimistic attitude??? You are not a loser, you have a lot of people who appreciate your channels and opinions. Greetings from Greece!

Taking about fun vs winning. Tracy McGrady is my favorite player and he didn’t win anything. But man watching in during when he was healthy was something else.

Now that I think about it D wade signing with the Bulls might’ve actually played a part in him recruiting Jimmy Butler to play for the Heat

The three alphas.

Why should we forget dwyane wades bulls season, im sure hell always remember playing for his hometown team and they had a really good season Popular on unpopular take jimmy was amzing, wade had great moments but rondo was the ultimate weapon for that team, im saying of he didnt tear his acl or mcl whatever it was they would have knocked off the celtics that 1st round It might not have seemed so serious to casual fans, but that was the season IT3 finished 3rd or 4th in mvp voting boston was the 1st or 2nd seed and IT3 sister passed away the day game 1 started i think

Whoever made the description to this video is blasphemous. 😂😂😂

Grizzlies picking Mike Conley over Allen Iverson is still the craziest thing that never gets talked about. Conley went on to make 2 all stars over the course of like 15 years.. I'm still taking A.I. over him in 95% of situations.

People shit on Wade but he played good in Chicago 19 a game 🤷🏿‍♂️

As a heat fan I’ve got mixed feelings Wade should’ve been a heat lifer… but recruiting jimmy was massive

This is how I feel about Westbrook on the Lakers

If you think Rondo is overrated you must also think Butler is overrated. They are both guys who coast during the regular season and pick it up in the playoffs.

I know why malone’s face is covered, but why stockton’s?

i mean who knows what woulda happened if rondo doesn’t get injured🤷🏽‍♂️up 2-0 going back to chicago. they also had a chance to get revenge on the cavs for that BS game 5 win when david blatt shoulda got a tech. (shoutout to bron hitting the corner three tho)

Well my favorite player is Russell Westbrook and my team is the Lakers, but it was not a good time seeing him in my team's jersey.

Rusty we are not losers… we are niche losers

Judging by his face on the thumbnail, it seems like not even Dwyane Wade didn’t even like this. Btw new thumbnail style loading…

I refreshed my yt and this was posted 47 seconds ago so I think I’m the first view

You may be an awkward weirdo in adult life Jacob.... but you have your own house💯💯💯😀

my god those heat jerseys at 8:19 are disgusting

Team A Pg. Steph curry Sg. Michael Jordan Sf. LeBron James Pf. Tim Duncan C. Shaquille O’Neal Team B Pg. Damian Lillard Sg. Kobe Bryant Sf. Scottie Pippen Pf. Kevin Garnett C. David Robertson Team c Pg. Magic Johnson Sg. Tracy McGrady Sf. Dominique Wilkins Pf. Charles Barkley C. Will chamberlain Team D Pg. Steve Nash Sg . Reggie Miller Sf. Larry Bird Pf. Dirk Nowitzki C. Hakeem Olajuwon Team E Pg. Isaiah Thomas Sg. Dwyane Wade Sf. Kevin Durant Pf. Dennis Rodman C. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I’d prefer D wade to stay in MIA his whole career of course but if he were to go anywhere going home woulda been and was the most justifiable imo

YOU ARE NOT A LOSER RUSTY BUCKETS

u not a loser

if rondo is 2nd, who's the most overrated player of all time in your opinion?

Who do u have number one most overrated player ever ?

You ain't a f***ing loser dude.

bit ironic you went on about how bulls fan were over d wade so quickly and then you go on to admit if you were more mature you’d be the same way… bulls fans aren’t mature is the thing lol. they had no reason to have any neg feeling of d wade.

We need a rusty buckets most overrated players of all time list

D Wade was good on the bulls but forgettable at time

Nah I loved it

You’re not a loser stop it!!!

I like dwayne wade as a player but I lost respect for him as a person when he refers to lebron as his brother after he left him out to dry when lebron left the heat

use me as a rusty is NOT a loser button!!!!

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Wade in anything but Heat just felt wrong. I’m not saying you’re wrong but… you’re wrong.

This dude just said rondo overrated I see why you’re not relevant

You’re not a loser king, you’re my favorite creator by far 🫶

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