Yep. Or if basketball reasons didnt happen. The Lakers would have CP3 and Howard. We'd probably not have Harden. Linsanity never happens. Davis goes to some eastern team or sacramento or minnesota. Maybe the warriors arent as aggressive as they are now. Maybe OKC keeps Harden out of fear of the Lakers. The suns still suck... It just keeps going on and on.
True, with the aging on the performance of their stars except Lebron, I can not see Miami would play better next season.
LeBron will choose the team that he thinks will most likely win a title next season. His goal is winning titles the easiest way possible. Where most great players would rather challenge other great players for league supremacy, LeBron would rather join other great players to make the task of winning a title as easy as possible.
Why didn't Jordan want Pippen to leave the Bulls then and go join another team so he could beat him? Why didn't Pippen want to leave so he could beat Jordan? It's easy to say other great players wanted to challenge each other when they were playing for great teams. If Jordan had been playing for Milwaukee I bet things would have been different.
As a fan, wouldn't you want your team to have as many great players as possible so that your chances of winning a championship increase? By your estimation Clyde Drexler took the easy way out when he got traded here to Houston.
What Simmons proposed would have been a way for LAC to keep CP3, Griffin and try to get LBJ. Trading Griffin for LBJ, they would be able to keep Jordan instead. Either way, they would have created a hole in their starting lineup at either the 4 or the 5. For the rockets, we would have to trade two bench players and possibly a younger player such as D-Mo or Jones, but it wouldn't affect our starting lineup much. Hard to say which one he would prefer. Or if he is even going to opt out or not. All we can do right now is speculate.
**** David Stern? ****, if we end up with Melo or LeBron I'll chip in for a ****ing Stern monument to be built. If that didn't happen we'd be stuck in mediocrity with Gasol, Nene, & Lowry for who the hell knows how long.
Things worked out well for Houston of course but the underhanded move by Stern is still an underhanded move.
Bill Simmons thinks everyone wants to go to either the Clippers or Celtics. Until I hear a less biased reporter beating that drum, I usually disregard anything he says about those two teams.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Name me one player who doesn't want help from his teammates when it comes to winning titles. The NBA is freaking TALENTED, and there isn't one players on this Earth (not even LeBron) who can win a championship completely on his own. Look back on ALL of the great teams, and you will see more than one player (outside of Dream and the 93-94 Rockets) who can be called great on that roster. Are you saying Dwight Howard only wants to win the easy way because he joined up James Harden here in Houston? What about Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook? Will Durant be a sellout if he asks Westbrook not to leave OKC, or vice versa?
Can you give us one example of a great player telling his team that he had too much talent to compete with? Or an example of a guy wanting sending away talent so they could take on the bigger challenge of winning with less of it?
Because by the law of twisted logic, it is much better to Los before getting to the Finals the it is to be 2-7 or whatever in the Finals.
Well the upside of that is if you make it out of the west you get to face whatever scrub pushover team wins the East.
I don't think Lebron James isn't coming to the Clippers. Bill Simmons is going to have to make due getting nostalgic jollies with the possibility of watching a geriatric Paul Pierce and an unstable Delonte West run up and down the Staples Center floor.... BruceLand™ @BruceLand Follow @Chrisclipsla pierce to the clips. It's gonna happen. My buddy is a real estate agent his wife came in today. Said wants to play 4 clips
Agree on this. If we had picked Leonard he might've been buried on the bench behind Parsons. If Spurs had picked Morris they might've had the best upcoming front court in the league today with both Splitter and Morris. Pops and his staff are miracle workers, just look at how dudes like Al Jefferson and that Boris Diaw looked before they got to San Antonio, and look how hell they've played once they got in the system. If they can rejuvenate the careers of washed up vets like those guys there's no doubt in my mind they played a big role in Kawhi's breakout this season. IMHO more important than the talent a player possesses is the hard work he puts into improvement his first few years in the league, someone like Parsons has more talent and was more skilled coming into the league than someone like Leonard (who shot poorly in college due to his large hands), but look at the two of them now it's like night and day difference between the two.
Do you tell talented people at work or at school to stay the hell away from you and do you purposely hang out with bums and losers because you would like to take on the ultimate challenge of winning in the workplace/school with all the odds stacked against you? This kind of standard you are holding LBJ to doesn't exist except in your own mind, you don't even apply it to real life. When NBA players work on their game during the summer, they do it with the intent of becoming better and making winning easier, I've never heard of a player saying he wants scrubs as teammates or purposely handicapping himself to make winning harder.
Essentially every team that has won a title has had multiple great players. It's not a means of making it easier, it's much more of a prerequisite.
