2017 NBA Off Season Thread: Draft & Free Agency & Summer League
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That was a starter? -
its....JOHN B wrote: »
That was a starter?
6-9 seed. I been saying -
I have the over. I think (hope) he will behave himself for awhile. Fingers crossed. -
NOOOOOO mcgruder was gonna make sure Winslow didnt start...
Plus he's our best defender -
Oh wait...our team is deep.... J rich can just start at SF...
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Michael Jordan on NBA Superteams: '28 Teams That Are Going to Be Garbage'
Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan said in an interview with Cigar Aficionado that he is concerned about the NBA's superteam era.
"I think it's going to hurt the overall aspect of the league from a competitive standpoint," he said (h/t Ben Golliver of SI.com). "You're going to have one or two teams that are going to be great, and another 28 teams that are going to be garbage. Or they're going to have a tough time surviving in the business environment."
While the superteam trend has absolutely brought on its own set of concerns in recent years—and while another Warriors title feels like an inevitability barring major injuries to the team—the crazy 2017 offseason set up an NBA season that would appear to have more than a few excellent teams.
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Owner of the hornets said the hornets are gonna be garbage...
Think about that the next time you talk about the heat -
These old ? need to understand the young generation wanna control their own destiny and win rings while doing it. Ain't nobody trying to be like Dirk. Taking pay cuts just to be a 13th seed lmao
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Its about that time. If anyone need NBA League Pass let me know
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kyrie been clappin at 'the land' (corniest nick name I ever heard) non stop -
dwight got mike calling his own team trash a week before the season begins
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"The Memphis Grizzlies announced plans to eventually retire the number of Tony Allen, who departed this summer as a free agent and signed with the New Orleans Pelicans.
The franchise announced similar plans this summer for fellow Grit 'n' Grind mainstay Zach Randolph, who signed with the Sacramento Kings in free agency" -
Jordan is right tho. I been sayin that for years meh
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Randolph and Allen, who made up Memphis’ “Core Four” along with Marc Gasol and Mike Conley, both had expressed a strong desire to stay in Memphis. However, sources said the Grizzlies never made an offer to either player in free agency this summer. Allen signed a one-year deal with the Pelicans for the veteran’s minimum of $2.3 million. – via ESPN
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“It’s so funny sitting back and watching this ? ,” he starts, before pausing to pull his phone out of his jeans, looking through the Golden State Warriors’ group chat. (The team has one, and the Hampton Five—Green, Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, and Kevin Durant, the five guys that were in the Hamptons in the summer of 2016 to recruit KD—has another.) He wants to relay something that Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey had said in an interview, reacting to the Warriors' title. The team had texted it to each other: “They are not unbeatable. There have been bigger upsets in sports history. We are going to keep improving our roster. We are used to long odds. If Golden State makes the odds longer, we might up our risk profile and get even more aggressive. We have something up our sleeve.”
Then he pauses, scoffing at Morey’s comments.
“What the ? are you talking about?” he says to me. “They are really trying to rethink their whole strategy”—here he bumps a table repeatedly with his hand for emphasis, getting excited—“because teams know they don’t have a ? clue.”
On a roll now, he remembers the Warriors’ lone playoff loss, in Game 4 of the Finals, when the Cavs sank twenty-four three-pointers, an NBA Finals record.
“That’d never been done!” Green exclaims. “They don’t come out and hit twenty-four threes and they’re swept. And that’s the second best team in the world. It’s pretty ? sick to see how everybody is just in a ? panic about what to do. You sit back and think, like, these ? , they know. That’s the fun part about it: They know they don’t stand a chance.”
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Jordan played on a super team though.
Difference is, the warriors are a super team but Bron is the best player in the league.
The Bulls were a super team AND Jordan was the best player the league, and best player ever.
So what are we really saying? -
Tommy bilfiger wrote: »
kyrie been clappin at 'the land' (corniest nick name I ever heard) non stop
it is funny that he is saying it though, cause he was the main one not moving the ball in Cleveland..ha ha
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Jordan played on a super team though.
Difference is, the warriors are a super team but Bron is the best player in the league.
The Bulls were a super team AND Jordan was the best player the league, and best player ever.
So what are we really saying?
Calling that late 90's Bulls team a 'super team' is a serious stretch. -
smittysmith wrote: »Jordan played on a super team though.
Difference is, the warriors are a super team but Bron is the best player in the league.
The Bulls were a super team AND Jordan was the best player the league, and best player ever.
So what are we really saying?
Calling that late 90's Bulls team a 'super team' is a serious stretch.
Compare those 90s team at their peak to other teams that were their competition.
Plus they had the best player ever, plus a top 3-5 coach of all time, plus great role players. Im not gonna go and name every person in the roster, but that 90s Bulls team was a super team.
So were the Lakers and the Celtics in the 80s.
The NBA in the modern era almost always had 2-3 super teams dominate.
Now we can have a debate and say most of them were built organically through the draft and today established players are just teaming up with each other and how thats either right or wrong, but super teama dominating the NBA aint nothing new is all im saying. -
Not this back in the day ? again
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The bulls were not a super team.
whole top row full of bums besides kukoc,bottom row everybody besides jordan & pippen(barely) were role,players and rodman was 35-36
80's Lakers,C's current warriors super teams -
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MJ was a transcendent athlete that elevated everyone elses play. Those bench/depth guys understood their roles and bought in, but super team they were not. -
Tommy bilfiger wrote: »The bulls were not a super team.
whole top row full of bums besides kukoc,bottom row everybody besides jordan & pippen(barely) were role,players and rodman was 35-36
80's Lakers,C's current warriors super teams
So you gonna tell me that having Randy Brown and John Salley didnt make them a super team?
Nah but for real, I'm not holding the 90s bulls to todays standards for super teams, but im comparing them to teams in their era, and if you compare those Bulls to their top competition, the Bulls were more talented at the top and had better role players.
? it though, agree to disagree. The definition of superteam changed when Durant went to the warriors cause now teams that were thought to be superteams in the past dont even seem to be superteams when compared to them, which people are doing.
My main point is even though I know understand where Jordan is coming from, the NBA has historically always had 2-5 good teams, and the rest of the league didnt have a chance.
The NBA is not like the NFL and MLB where any team can get hot at the right team and win.
I do agree that with the Warriors the league has even less parity than it usually does, but overall this trend isnt new to the NBA.
