we've had some pretty unlucky injuries, but considering how other assets of our team have turned out i don't think we've done too poorly.
I would say Trailblazers, T-Wolves, Clippers, and Knicks are way unluckier than us. T-Blazers - Currently Oden, Przybilla, Fernandez, Outlaw, and Batum (as well as a few others) are injured with Oden and Przybilla out for the season and Fernandez out for a while. At least only C-Bud is injured this season out of our active players starting this season. T-Wolves - Shafted by Rubio. Sessions is sucking it up. The entire organization does not know where it is headed. Clippers - They share the same city with Lakers. Got shafted by Brand and their top pick Griffin is out before he even got started. They also have one of the lowest attendances in the league. Knicks - Donnie Walsh is an idiot and Isaiah Thomas has screwed them over for years to come.
Yea but most that isnt luck, most of that is bad GM'ing, we made the right moves and still got screwed by luck, they made the wrong moves period.
We were lucky we hired a good GM. No one knew how DM would have turned out. When DM was hired, most of CF was pissed offed and wanted to keep CD. No one knew Thomas was going to be such a crappy GM either, considering how good of a PG he was back in the day. Besides how are the following wrong moves? - Clippers picking Griffin and watching him get hurt - Oden being injury proned as soon as he got into the NBA - Sessions was a solid PG on a good team and a scrub on a worse team
We got 40 mil sitting on the bench for the most part and still have a very respectable record after the hardest schedule in the league. I say we are pretty damn lucky!
Not to mention we have one of the best owners and definitely the best GM as well as one of the most talented core of role players.
C'mon now, in our case for the most part it's been about consequences. We knew going in there was an element of risk involved w/Yao and Tracy. Yao was inked to a contract that had him playing ball all year for the length of it. And we also knew that if he got hurt the Chinese govt. wasn't going to change things. Tracy was already damaged goods....and showed his lack of professionalism. Look at the big picture. Les took the chance, made $$$ and we almost won a title w/Yao. As is Tracy comes off the books after this year and is a VERY valuable commodity...23 million worth of INSURED, expiring contract .... likely to net SUPERSTAR level talent. Yao on the other hand will play and COULD get traded before next season's deadline. Either way we're looking good. I realize we came oh so close...but, this is a marathon not a sprint and I like our chances........
MLB - Chicago Cubs....ummm Chicago...Cubs...the team that hasn't won the World Series in 100 years. Lost 7 consecutive World Series, since 1908 and have not reached a WS, since 1945. Minnesota Twins: Cheap owner, loss of quality players, hasn't reached the World Series, since 91. Atlanta Braves: . . . Remember, they won like 4 or 5 divisional titles in this decade and still managed not to reach one single World Series. Texas Rangers: Have they ever made the playoffs, and to top things off they've almost had every single suspected All-Star juicer on their team; Jose Canseco, Ivan Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro, Ken Caminiti, A-Rod, and Juan Gonzalez (even the owner had suspicions about him). But, why is that significant, because most of them were allegedly (and confessed to) using it with the Rangers. Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, and Pittsburgh Pirates: Once proud, well-respected historical franchises are now utter trash. NFL - Oakland Raiders: Nuff said. Houston Texans: If there is one team that might be cursed in Houston, it might be the Texans who are also inflicted with incompetence. San Francisco 49ers: The worst decade of their entire franchise history, they've been cellar dwellar for 8 years. Detroit Lions winner: Bobby Ross leaves the team before the season ends, Matt Millen, 44-114 losses, Barry Sanders just retires out of nowhere, Living in Detroit, No players worthy of mention, except maybe Jason Hanson. NBA - Orlando Magic: Before last season... Phoenix Suns: Their star player has had all sorts of injuries, while they have a 2x MVP who has never reached the NBA Finals. Phoenix hasn't even played in game 7 WCF in this decade. L.A. Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies, and Atlanta Hawks (before making the playoffs two years ago): If there were going to be any mercy killings of NBA franchises ... these three would be the first ones to go. Seattle Supersonics: Seattle lost a franchise, yet had some of the best fans in the NBA. Now that is unlucky. Sacramento Kings: Some say that nobody wants to play in Sacramento, others say that they might have been screwed out of a possible NBA title, and many say that team had alot of unfulfilled expectation, especially with the injury to Webber. Minnesota Timberwolves: Nothing ever goes right. Utah Jazz: ...
LOL don't get too carried away here... Yes we have $23 mil of insured EC in T-Mac, but we are not going to get superstar talent from him, otherwise that would have already happened. No one wants to give up the foundation of their team for trash. We will get at best marginal stars, preferably a legit scorer. Here is the problem... the teams that do need T-Mac's EC either are not willing to give up their star players or their teams are full of trash and we don't want them.
I can't see how the Rockets are unlucky, to be honest. Our two superstar players are consistently injured, this is true, but we make the playoffs often, and even though we only made it out of the first round once, the way we did it is even more of a testament to how lucky we are. Frankly, we've had great luck drafting in the late first and second rounds, and we are also lucky to have a fantastic GM and a good coach. Even without our two superstars this year we've been doing decently. Saying we're the unluckiest team of the decade is clearly a bias.
are all Mcgrady haters such idiots or just this one? mcgrady wasn't mentioned once before you posted. obviously youre trying to bring him up in every thread to bash him. why dont you go to the kobe vs. lebron thread? perfect opportunity to bash tmac for not being as good as them. oh wait you probably already did. merry christmas
There are several franchises in the NBA I can name off the top of my head that clearly takes the cake for being unluckiest. And they don't include our Rockets.
