***Official 2023-2024 NBA Thread***

[dirk digler]

Can't believe the NBA Season is starting tonight. Way to early but here we go.

Lakers vs Nuggets: 6:30PM

Suns vs Warriors: 9PM

Both on TNT

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

He scored or assisted on 22 straight points to win a NBA Finals elimination game in the 4th quarter.

And had Parker/Ginobli made one more FT or had Bosh not gotten the rebound or had Allen missed the three then all of that would not have mattered.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

KCC likes to play the game of revisionist history since they were a disappointment relative to expectations/hype.

The 2008 Celtics (assembling 3 superstars in their primes) were literally created by Danny Ainge as a response to how good LeBron was, but you don't have to look too far before that to see what the Lakers attempted to do with Shaq/Kobe/Malone/Payton on the same team too.

Revisionist history though

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

He scored or assisted on 22 straight points to win a NBA Finals elimination game in the 4th quarter.

Cool. Doesn't change the facts about the last couple mins and the missed shot.

Sorry.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by tredadda

And had Parker/Ginobli made one more FT or had Bosh not gotten the rebound or had Allen missed the three then all of that would not have mattered.

And if LeBron had not gone off for one of the most dominating 4th quarters in NBA finals history, it definitely wouldn't have mattered.

[Jerm]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

No clue how anybody could think that if they have even minor knowledge of NBA history.

Ok name another instance before that of the best player in the league, a consensus top 5 player in the league, and a consensus top 10ish, for sure top 15 player all joining forces all via free agency?

I'll wait...

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

Cool. Doesn't change the facts about the last couple mins and the missed shot.

Sorry.

The fact is that the Heat aren't even in the game if LeBron doesn't have one of the best quarters anybody has ever seen in a Finals elimination game.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

The fact is that the Heat aren't even in the game if LeBron doesn't have one of the best quarters anybody has ever seen in a Finals elimination game.

It's even worse than I remember:




What a choke job this would've been

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Jerm

Ok name another instance before that of the best player in the league, a consensus top 5 player in the league, and a consensus top 10ish, for sure top 15 player all joining forces all via free agency?

I'll wait...

Why does it have to be free agency? Can't you assemble super teams by other means?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

It's even worse than I remember:




What a choke job this would've been

For the “Allen and Bosh saved Lebron” crowd…here’s how game 6 in the 2013 Finals was covered the day after the game.

Before the MJ fan hate narratives took over.

Very different.

😳 pic.twitter.com/4Fla6U0Cgq

— MythNix (@MythNix) March 23, 2024

Such jealousy, such insecurity

[Jerm]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Why does it have to be free agency? Can't you assemble super teams by other means?

I said they created it in the fashion they did it...which they did.

The Big 3 in Boston you can argue, fine...that was via trades. Anything before that was done through drafting.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Jerm

I said they created it in the fashion they did it...which they did.

The Big 3 in Boston you can argue, fine...that was via trades. Anything before that was done through drafting.

LeBron was forced to respond to what Danny Ainge did (after spending 8 years playing with an awful Cleveland team where his best #2 was Mo Williams) and I really don't see how you can look at it any other way than that.

[KC_Connection]

SKIP after Game 7: pic.twitter.com/8NawV0MTS5

— RolloSports (@SportsRollo) March 24, 2024

I remembered it accurately as being an all-time carry job in the 4th, but I had forgotten that Spoel had benched Wade and Bosh in that game too.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

For the “Allen and Bosh saved Lebron” crowd…here’s how game 6 in the 2013 Finals was covered the day after the game.

Before the MJ fan hate narratives took over.

Very different.

😳 pic.twitter.com/4Fla6U0Cgq

— MythNix (@MythNix) March 23, 2024

Such jealousy, such insecurity

News headlines > facts

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

SKIP after Game 7: pic.twitter.com/8NawV0MTS5

— RolloSports (@SportsRollo) March 24, 2024

I remembered it accurately as being an all-time carry job in the 4th, but I had forgotten that Spoel had benched Wade and Bosh in that game too.

Skip Bayless?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

News headlines > facts

The facts seem to be that LeBron won his 2nd championship after an all-time carry job comeback in the 4th quarter when his complementary stars were so bad they got benched by the coach.