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Originally posted by The17sss In the 90's, there were 6 or 8 teams at the bottom that were absolutely atrocious. We don't think about it because the teams at the top were so awesome. I think the distribution today is better. Every major market has a good team at the same time: Boston, L.A., NY, Chicago, Dallas, Miami. There was a 10 year period when Boston and New York sucked huge balls, and the NBA was worse for it.

No doubt there were bad teams in the 90s, but today the rising OKC, and the ones you mentioned are the only teams that are good. in the old days you had better teams everywhere....and with 1 or 2 stars with an amazing supporting cast

look at the pistons in 1990 (all 5 starters were great, had 1-2 big star, rest excellent supporting cast) for example, theres plenty more teams like that in that era...Sure there was teams like the Bucks, like today, couldnt string a 5 game winning streak lol.

I just find (and the heat are a perfect example of that) that teams today will grab 2-3 superstars, the rest shit ass players and go from there.

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Originally posted by 84th Ave. I just find (and the heat are a perfect example of that) that teams today will grab 2-3 superstars, the rest shit ass players and go from there.

What "teams today" are you talking about? To my knowledge there are only 2 teams in the whole league that have used that strategy, and it didn't even work for one of them.

I think you're overly generalizing a "trend" that isn't really a trend at all.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 What "teams today" are you talking about? To my knowledge there are only 2 teams in the whole league that have used that strategy, and it didn't even work for one of them. I think you're overly generalizing a "trend" that isn't really a trend at all.

well you have the celtics (but they have a decent supporting cast) heat, knicks, if what im hearing is true, howrd/paul to lakers....

and if this trend continues, you'll see a couple other teams jumping on this ship

i just find that a few teams are getting all the stars, i could be overgeneralizing

Dirk to the bulls!

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Originally posted by 84th Ave. well you have the celtics (but they have a decent supporting cast) heat, knicks, if what im hearing is true, howrd/paul to lakers.... and if this trend continues, you'll see a couple other teams jumping on this ship i just find that a few teams are getting all the stars, i could be overgeneralizing Dirk to the bulls!

There are stars on pretty much every team in the NBA. That's the difference between today's NBA and the one from the early 90s. I mean look at teams like Memphis and OKC making it that far into the playoffs. Teams like that would never even come close to making the playoffs in the past.

I also highly doubt that CP or Dwight will go to the Lakers.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page...13&sportCat=nba

Interesting read on Phil Jackson.

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Uh oh! Scottie Pippen today:

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"Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to ever play the game. I may go so far as saying LeBron James may be the greatest player to ever play the game."

*anxiously waits for a peeved Jordan to respond*

We'll see how they stack up when their careers are both over, but if he keeps up his current pace, I think Lebron could be just as good as Jordan. He's matured a ton over the past year or so, and he's still in his prime. I could see this Heat team winning multiple championships for sure.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

Jordan is obviously the greatest player ever, but LeBron is a physical freak. He's a freight train whose defensive ability is just unreal.

In my eyes, he is the most complete player in the NBA right now. And probably for years to come.

Also, I still cannot believe what I saw last night.

Why does someone as high profile as Pippen have to come out and say stupid shit like that BEFORE THE NBA FINALS HAVE EVEN STARTED? He's jinxing the fuck out of them. Now everybody is going to expect the Heat to win it all.

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Yeah Mike is pretty much going to hate Scottie for the rest of their lives now.

I hate watching the Heat win but they Bulls deserved to lose that serious. The 4 games they lost were all winnable games, and they gave them away. This was probably the last chance that a team had to take Miami out for a while barring any sort of major injury. That is, of course, contingent on the lock out.

Maybe he and Jordan are not on the best of terms, and he used this opportunity to stick it to Mikey.