Dorian's Official Bitch About Stuff Thread

[desert heat]

he didn't have to. management built a team around him.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Why 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

LeBron didn't team up with Davis, the Lakers traded for him a year after signing LeBron

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Why 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 about

 

[True Lakers Fan]

The foot binding MUST stop!

I doubt they still do that in China really

 

[True Lakers Fan]

ROFLMAO. 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?

Hey, I'm okay with collusioN IF it's for the Lakers

 

[broncosmitty]

Signed with the White Sox instead.

 

[Gman]

We need this thread merged into the catch-all Dorian thread... paging @trojanfan12

Dorian's Official Bitch About Stuff Thread

 

[tlance]

he didn't have to. management built a team around him.

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.

 

[Hang_On_Sloopy08]

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.

 

[tlance]

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.

OP is a fool with an agenda.

Dangerous combination.

 

[pachyderm]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of collusion.

But we've raised a generation, or two, of folks who don't have any boundaries, or concern, for what is right...

 

[RobToxin]

Someone has never heard of the 1992 USA Olympic Dream Team.

All of the people mentioned (Jordan, Magic, Bird) not only formed a super team, they did so to face competition that would have struggled to make the NCAA Tournament.

 

[trojanfan12]

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.

^^^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.

 

[msgkings322]

^^^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.

 

[RobToxin]

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.

 

[trojanfan12]

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.

 

[RobToxin]

If memory serves, Barkley joined the Rockets after they had eliminated his Suns from the playoffs twice.

Your memory would be correct.

 

[trojanfan12]

Your memory would be correct.

So I guess it's not just KD who joined a team that eliminated his.

 

[RobToxin]

This goes all the way back to the playground.

You had two of the best players. They picked teams.

Who did they pick first?

They picked the best players!

They tried to stack their team as best they could.

This has been going on since the beginning of time.

 

[gohusk]

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

LMAO. Lakers super team, Celtics super team, Pistons I'll give credit to, and then Bulls super team. SO much more parity in the league. The reason it was so profitable was because they had a great lakers/celtics rivalry and then super-freak Jordan hit the scene.