***Official 2022-2023 NBA Thread***

[dirk digler]

Can't believe the regular season starts tonight. Just seemed like the Finals ended a couple weeks ago.



Philly vs Celtics: 6:30PM CST TNT

GSW vs Lakers: 9:00PM CST TNT

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by tyecopeland

Free agency started in 88. Which, 35 is the better part of 50 years but I feel fairly confident that is not actually what you were trying to confer.

Are you suggesting super teams in the NBA didn't exist before free agency? Do you know which two teams dominated the league prior to that period for decades because of their accumulation of star talent?

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Sabonis made the all-star team this year too averaging similar numbers. Is he a good player? Did you happen to watch him in the playoffs? For that matter, did you ever happen to watch Chris Bosh in the playoffs for the Heat?

He was a perrinnial NBA All-star coming into Miami and played on the Olympic team

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

Seriously, don't ever try to pretend that you should be taken seriously when you say monumentally stupid shit like this.

I honestly think that's understating it. Draymond Green was the best defensive player in basketball for about five years. Apparently everyone has forgotten that though.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by New World Order

Tom Brady won 6 with his original team.

Lebron bolted to play with 2 other Olympic USA teammates who will be in the HOF.

LeBron played in Cleveland aka sports hell for 7 years. Bill Belichick even coached there before New England and failed miserably.

That town is cursed

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by New World Order

Tom Brady won 6 with his original team.

Lebron bolted to play with 2 other Olympic USA teammates who will be in the HOF.

And was a 4 ****ing 5 year old QB (50 in KCC years). What a dumb ass comparison.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by New World Order

He was a perrinnial NBA All-star coming into Miami and played on the Olympic team

A perennial all-star on a garbage Toronto Raptors team. Guess which players also accomplished that feat for that organization (I'm thinking chiefly about Demar DeRozan)? Hell, Pascal Siakam has done it multiple times now and nobody would ever accuse him of being a top player.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

And was a 4 ****ing 5 year old QB. What a dumb ass comparison.

reerunKC

[tyecopeland]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

I wouldn't count either one of them as top 75 players in the history of basketball, no. HOFers, yes.

So... what is your consistent narrative here? Why can't you stick to one qualification instead of changing what matters when it's convenient for you?

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

So when you're trying to diminish Steph Curry, Draymond Green is a "HOFer" but when you're trying to build up James, Chris Bosh is some piece of shit hack.

G'damn you are predictable.

Basically this ^

You trying to use the eye test as a qualification doesn't work.

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

No, ruined the NBA is ruined the NBA. Those years were a complete disgrace to the game. Even KD recognized the titles weren't legitimate and got out of there as soon as he could.

Lebron literally did the same thing when going back to Cleveland.

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by staylor26

Thanks for proving that you, like KCC, shouldn't be taken seriously in this discussion.

You're literally doing the same shit he does.

"All super teams are exactly the same except KD and the Warriors!"

Literally never said this

I just hate KD bc he’s a POS loser who acted like a POS loser and should be treated as such.

I don’t have a problem with the Warriors trying to form a super team. That’s literally what Miami and Boston did. But LeBron didn’t start this shit. It was happening well before him.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by staylor26

So in comparison to Lebron, it's all same, context doesn't matter, a super team is a super team.

But when it comes to the Warriors...

There are super teams and then there are Super Teams. The #2 player in the league joining an established 73 win team is completely unprecedented.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Literally never said this

I just hate KD bc he’s a POS loser who acted like a POS loser and should be treated as such.

I don’t have a problem with the Warriors trying to form a super team. That’s literally what Miami and Boston did. But LeBron didn’t start this shit. It was happening well before him.

Who did it before? Give me an example of 3 top 25ish guys in their prime conspiring to play together first?

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Superturtle

Lebron literally did the same thing when going back to Cleveland.

LeBron joined an established 73 win team that he just blew a series lead 3-1 too when he went back to Cleveland?

That isn't how I remember it. I remember him joining a young Kyrie Irving on a bad Cavs team and facilitating a Kevin Love trade.

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by RunKC

Literally never said this

I just hate KD bc he’s a POS loser who acted like a POS loser and should be treated as such.

I don’t have a problem with the Warriors trying to form a super team. That’s literally what Miami and Boston did. But LeBron didn’t start this shit. It was happening well before him.

You never said it?

Maybe not word for word, but it is essentially your argument.

You don't think that context is relevant when comparing what Lebron did to the Celtics, but you think it's all that matters when discussing KD.

That's called being hypocritical.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RunKC

KD is held to a higher standard bc the mother****er literally quit on his team and left to go play on the team that just knocked his team out of the playoffs.

That’s one of the biggest loser moments in sports history and that’s why he gets hate.

It also blows my mind why LeBron is held to this standard and other great players like Tom Brady aren’t. That guy did the same thing. He literally left a bad situation in New England to go play on an absolutely loaded football team that helped him win another ring.

Finally somebody who gets it.