How many NBA Championships has Garnett won? Portland, a team that was founded only 7 years earlier, was not only making its playoffs debut with its first winning season (49-33, #3), but amazingly it was also making its finals debut after sweeping the mighty Los Angeles Lakers and league legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 4-0 in the Western Conference Finals. Yes it's true, a healthy Bill Walton dominated Jabbar. The NBA did not start in 1990 (which seems to be the running theme in all your posts) Bill Walton did more for the NBA in the 3 years he was healthy than KG has done since he came into the NBA at age 16, or whatever age he was. The bottom line is KG is a good player but doesn't have what it takes (or doesn't know how) to win. Bill Walton learned how to win basketball games in college and carried that knowledge into the NBA. Sorry you weren't around to see what a great player he actually was.
When you start telling everyone that KG belongs on the list and Bill Walton should be taken off, well HELL YEAH i am going to question you judgement. If you feel summer league games at Rucker park are that important ...well then you just go right ahead. You do realize they televise games from Rucker park on NBA TV nowadays? Looks like Harlem Globetrotter games to me. I did? show me where I did that? With age comes knowlege Sam, don't ever forget that.
It's not as crazy as you think, given Walton's short run in the NBA. If it were up to me the one center I'd boot from the list would not be Walton but Robert Parish. Talk about a guy who rode coattails.... ....well, why are we even discussing offseason summer games at all? Especially one game in particular that neither Garnett nor anybody else was involved in last friday ? Jeez, at least Wilt and Lew played on West 4th street. I agree, the summer league playground games arent' that importnat, but neither are the summer int'l league games if we're talking about NBA careers. Although I will say that in the old days, apparently summer league playground games (before contractually prohibited) were considered very important by the participants, and Lew/Kareem considered Manigeault to be the greatest player he had ever been on the court with in his entire career. ..probably the two posts where you published the entire rosters of both teams as somehow probative of your point, unless you had intended to post it in another thread and did did it by mistake.
No, I posted it in the right thread. I was showing how big name players from the NBA could be beaten by players that Americans have never heard of. The influx of European and Asian players into the NBA is happening for a reason. They are much more fundamentally sound. Fundamentals win basketball games, not high flying dunks, or fancy dribbling. My intention had nothing to do with KG.
Wow, a revolutionary theory, the likes of which have never been heard, you should copyright it....still I don't understand why it even enters in to this discussion. The influx of "European and Asian players" (poor latin america ) has nothing to do with Dave DeBusschere vs. Dominique Wilkins, though it does illustrate how the talent pool in the NBA is much deeper than back in the old days.
you have to a caricature of a basketball purist or something, right? i mean i have a hard time believing someone posted that with a straight face. you're pulling a Trader Jorge or bigtexxx here, right? yeah, no one in today's nba does anything but dunk. damned kids and their loud music and baggy pants and box socials. and that must explain the foreign influx. no other way 5.7 billion people could possibly compete with 300 million once properly exposed to an activity unless the 300 million were horrible at it.
