Alright, post your All-Time Top 10 now that Bron won his third. 3/7

[nctarheel0619]

6 minutes ago, TheRed said:

If the 90's era of the NBA was watered down, then the current NBA is downright awful. 

75% of the teams right now are practically hot garbage at best.

Agreed, you can have a terrible team with zero superstars make the Playoffs.  NBA is just odd right now.  

[Omega Atrocity]

Haha I knew some people would talk about how great the 90s were. Keep on believing that if you want, I said "the average NBA player is leagues better than they were in the 90s" and that's very true. 

Let's look at the 95-96 season (Bulls went 72-10) for instance:

• There were 2 expansion teams: Toronto and Vancouver
• The 8 seed's were barely over .500 and under .500 (respectively)
• 7 teams won under 30 games (pretty much 25% of the league)
• The Sacramento Kings made the playoffs with this roster (but you had to have a superstar apparently)

The 90s had some good players in it and the game was a lot different, but for some reason people that aren't even fans of basketball claim it to have the best players ever. Which is fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But the talent pool of the NBA is much deeper than it was in the 90s, and to even debate that is really hilarious. Just statistically there are a lot more people than 20 years ago, and training regiments now compared to then are night and day. 

[Omega Atrocity]

18 minutes ago, nctarheel0619 said:

Agreed, you can have a terrible team with zero superstars make the Playoffs.  NBA is just odd right now.  

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAC/1996.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1995.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/1995.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIN/1999.html

 

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there has always been awful teams make the playoffs in the NBA. I checked 3 seasons and there are some truly bad teams here (especially that Boston team).

[nctarheel0619]

34 minutes ago, Omega Atrocity said:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SAC/1996.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1995.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DEN/1995.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIN/1999.html

 

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there has always been awful teams make the playoffs in the NBA. I checked 3 seasons and there are some truly bad teams here (especially that Boston team).

The 7th seed when the Bulls won 72 games had Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway on the Heat.  Just stop with your poo dude.  Only young dumb people believe that the NBA was watered down then.  

[Carl Spackler]

Yes it was so watered down with

Michael Jordan

Scottie Pippen

Reggie Miller

Charles Barkley

Karl Malone

David Robinson

Hakeem Olajuwon

Shaquille O'Neal

Alonzo Mourning

Patrick Ewing

Larry Johnson

Grant Hill

Shawn Kemp

Gary Payton

Penny Hardaway

Jason Kidd

Chris Mullin

Tim Hardaway

Mitch Richmond

Joe Dumars

the list goes on and on. Comparable players to the ones above now include:

LeBron

Curry

Durant

Westbrook

Paul

maybe Paul George

I mean John Starks old ass would probably be All-NBA 2nd team now

[Carl Spackler]

Take the 12 best NBA players, all of them right now and pit them against the 12 best from 1996 and the 1996 team would win literally every game. Let LeBron get his points and laugh to a 20-point blowout

[nctarheel0619]

16 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Yes it was so watered down with

Michael Jordan

Scottie Pippen

Reggie Miller

Charles Barkley

Karl Malone

David Robinson

Hakeem Olajuwon

Shaquille O'Neal

Alonzo Mourning

Patrick Ewing

Larry Johnson

Grant Hill

Shawn Kemp

Gary Payton

Penny Hardaway

Jason Kidd

Chris Mullin

Tim Hardaway

Mitch Richmond

Joe Dumars

the list goes on and on. Comparable players to the ones above now include:

LeBron

Curry

Durant

Westbrook

Paul

maybe Paul George

I mean John Starks old ass would probably be All-NBA 2nd team now

You didn't even include Stockton.  HAHA.  

[nctarheel0619]

13 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Take the 12 best NBA players, all of them right now and pit them against the 12 best from 1996 and the 1996 team would win literally every game. Let LeBron get his points and laugh to a 20-point blowout

12 best from 96

Stockton-PG

MJ-SG

Pippen-SF

Malone-PF

Hakeem-C

Payton-PG

Reggie Miller-SG

Rodman-SF/PF

Hill-SG/SF

Robinson-PF/C

Mourning-PF/C

Shaq-C

Shaq is last on my list but not least.  Whenever I wanted this team to butt fug the new era team he would go in.

I also put in Rodman because these new era cats would get so ate up at him they wouldn't play their games right.  

[nctarheel0619]

New Era

Curry-PG

Thompson-SG

LeBron-SF

Draymond Green?-PF

DeMarcus Cousins?-C

Lillard-PG

Westbrook-PG

Leonard-SG/SF

James Harden-SG

Durant-SF

Paul-PG

Dwight Howard-C

Yeah, this team would get slaughtered by the team I just picked.  poo wouldn't even be fair.  

[rico6]

Rodman and Big Ben would be a pleasure to watch, actually.

 

[Carl Spackler]

2 hours ago, nctarheel0619 said:

You didn't even include Stockton.  HAHA.  

John Stockton

Latrell Sprewell

Toni Kukoc

Chris Webber

[Carl Spackler]

2 hours ago, Hammerin'Cameron34 said:

The story of the greatest basketball player of all time, bringing a championship starved city their first NBA title is just too much of a money cow story line ... 

And it happened in 1991

[nctarheel0619]

1 hour ago, Carl Spackler said:

And it happened in 1991

To be fair, Bears won one in 85.  But, yeah.  Bulls never won a Title.  I get your point.  

[MichaelNewtonII]

The NBA rigged it so people like you's opinions would hold some weight

2-5 and Bron never has a shot at being in Jordan convo ever again ... and the NBA cant have that

It's not rigged. poo happens. Deal with it.