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he didn't have to. management built a team around him.
LeBron didn't team up with Davis, the Lakers traded for him a year after signing LeBronWhy are this generation of snowflakes ok with BS all-star teams of collusion with Lebron/Davis (And all the Stacked teams before to bail him out) , DurCANT/CurryThompson/Irving, Leonard/George aetc.
He just made do with what he had and CREATED GREATNESS/GOATNESS
He did it so you would have something to bitch aboutWhy are this generation of snowflakes ok with BS all-star teams of collusion with Lebron/Davis (And all the Stacked teams before to bail him out) , DurCANT/CurryThompson/Irving, Leonard/George aetc.
He just made do with what he had and CREATED GREATNESS/GOATNESS
I doubt they still do that in China reallyThe foot binding MUST stop!
Hey, I'm okay with collusioN IF it's for the LakersROFLMAO. Alot of butthurt Lebronda fans out there still hating the truth. Gotta throw a legit all star/HOF team around this clown for him to win much of anything.
Lets see Peaking Davis and Kuzma. . Lakers gonna have Curry or Thompson before trade deadline?
he didn't have to. management built a team around him.
Does the OP expect team management not to trade and sign good players so Lebron can do it the “hard” way? Is that what he really thinks should happen?
It’s a business OP. This is what smart people do. Try it sometime.
And, even if they wanted to,
Players did not have nearly the same power in free agency because of the cap rules at the time.
The Bulls could literally pay MJ 10 times what any other team would have been able to.
They definitely would have, because they tried to even under the old rules. In 2004 Karl Malone and Gary Payton went to the Lakers and got very close to a title with Shaq and Kobe. Hell in 1996 old ass Charles Barkley joined the Rockets with old ass Hakeem and old ass Drexler.^^^This^^^
Of course the older generation of players love to say things like "We weren't interested in teaming up, we wanted to beat each other". And, of course, those of us who are old enough to have been following the league back then, want to believe the same thing. It's great nostalgia and a way to take the current generation down a notch or 2.
However, the truth is, we don't honestly know what those players would have done if they had the freedom of movement that today's players have.
I like to think that those guys would have stayed on the teams they were on and tried to beat each others brains out, but who knows?
Maybe guys like Magic, MJ, Bird wouldn't have wanted to team up...but what about guys like Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, Dominique, etc.? Guys who were all time greats, but were never on a team good enough to win any titles?
If they had the choice of staying put or teaming up to win a title...what would they choose? My guess is, they'd choose the title.
They definitely would have, because they tried to even under the old rules. In 2004 Karl Malone and Gary Payton went to the Lakers and got very close to a title with Shaq and Kobe. Hell in 1996 old ass Charles Barkley joined the Rockets with old ass Hakeem and old ass Drexler.
So yeah it's different now but let's not pretend the older generation wouldn't have done the same thing.
Who had just won back-to-back NBA Championships.
If memory serves, Barkley joined the Rockets after they had eliminated his Suns from the playoffs twice.
Your memory would be correct.
This is something Silver needs to consider and stop the BS Collusion and increase the revenue and popularity of the game. Theres a reason why the 80s and 90s were the PEAK of not only basketball but most everything in general