2025 NBA Season Thread aka Draymond's Annual Wealth Destruction Tour

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something interesting about the Lakers though, they didnt start counting the Minnesota titles until shaq was gone

its like they woke up one day and realized they could rival boston for real
 
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apevol said:
something interesting about the Lakers though, they didnt start counting the Minnesota titles until shaq was gone

its like they woke up one day and realized they could rival boston for real
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I only count since the NBA/ ABA merger... Lakers have won 11 since then, Celtics have 5 I believe..😜😜😜. Lifetime Lakers fan...
 
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apevol said:
Durant had sonics fans sitting directly behind his mom, yelling past her to him that he'll never win a title in OKC, thats the city is cursed and he should ask for a trade. For years that went on, and he actually was a sonic who didn't want to leave.

i got nothing against Shai, but dort and Caruso could get that and worse every game and it wouldn't hurt my feelings none
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Bro, the city was cursed when the federal building got bombed.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
I only count since the NBA/ ABA merger... Lakers have won 11 since then, Celtics have 5 I believe..😜😜😜. Lifetime Lakers fan...
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People can count titles however they want, but everybody knows the ones that matter most are the ones you won in your current city in the modern era.

It's incredible that the C's won 9 titles in 11 years, but it wasn't even the same sport.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
I only count since the NBA/ ABA merger... Lakers have won 11 since then, Celtics have 5 I believe..😜😜😜. Lifetime Lakers fan...
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technically todays boston celtics are not Bill's Celtics. some weird deal with San Diego where they swapped franchises iirc
 
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This is the stuff I'm talking about.

It's an old addage in hoops that they can't call everything, so you might as well be physical, and people are mad that somebody won a title that way. Also, The OKC Thunder shot 1672 FTA's this year and their opponents shot 1942 FTA's. And then it was 599 vs. 567 in the playoffs. It's not like they got a Lakers whistle.

Try to do what OKC did next year. Have your team go for it. See if they can play break-neck pace on D for 82 games and a long playoff run.

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n_huffhines said:
This is the stuff I'm talking about.

It's an old addage in hoops that they can't call everything, so you might as well be physical, and people are mad that somebody won a title that way. Also, The OKC Thunder shot 1672 FTA's this year and their opponents shot 1942 FTA's. And then it was 599 vs. 567 in the playoffs. It's not like they got a Lakers whistle.

Try to do what OKC did next year. Have your team go for it. See if they can play break-neck pace on D for 82 games and a long playoff run.

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it works for them because they have the depth required to make it not matter if they get in foul trouble, but lets not act like anyone in their right mind wants to watch basketball turn into several dozen dorts hacking away to their hearts contents and then when bumped on a screen act like they got hit by a ****in bus

the title has an asterisk dude, it is what it is

if shai goes on and becomes even greater and they win more titles, they'll be remembered for those titles, if things fall apart, people are just going to remember these finals for Tyrese smashing his hands into the court screaming no
 
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n_huffhines said:
This is the stuff I'm talking about.

It's an old addage in hoops that they can't call everything, so you might as well be physical, and people are mad that somebody won a title that way. Also, The OKC Thunder shot 1672 FTA's this year and their opponents shot 1942 FTA's. And then it was 599 vs. 567 in the playoffs. It's not like they got a Lakers whistle.

Try to do what OKC did next year. Have your team go for it. See if they can play break-neck pace on D for 82 games and a long playoff run.

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An “Ode to Draymond Green”
 
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The Dog said:
They will never be on the level of the Seattle "Super" Sonics and the greatness of Dennis Johnson, imo
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speaking of sonics, i just learned that Spencer Haywood signed with Mears to be the first black player in the history of the SEC but Rupp tried to dispute it because he wanted Spencer. Spencer ends up going to junior college and shortly after the ABA.
 
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according to Spencer the league owes much of its value to the sonics and specifically, Sam Schulman for putting his sonics on the line to fight the league through the supreme court to break the 4 year block that was preventing him for playing for the Sonics, allowing the league to become what it was with all the mega star early entries in the draft
 
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for anybody that doesn't know, Haywood's rookie season is widely considered the best single season of any player in aba history. he went on to be a short lived superstar with the sonics before getting injured and getting traded around putting up decent numbers the rest of his nba career.

it would have been like getting Bernard King a decade early
 
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just finished the second half of Haywood's episode of iconic sonics

dude ought to have a podcast

talked about talking about philosophy with bill Russell into the morning when Bill coached the sonics

said his sisters ran on to the court while he was in a fight with rick barry and started beating the piss out of him with their purses
 
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apevol said:
just finished the second half of Haywood's episode of iconic sonics

dude ought to have a podcast

talked about talking about philosophy with bill Russell into the morning when Bill coached the sonics

said his sisters ran on to the court while he was in a fight with rick barry and started beating the piss out of him with their purses
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He doess have his own podcast! The Spencer Haywood rule.
 
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apevol said:
Haywood wants GP to be the nusonics first head coach.

cant see him not alienating every star that has 3 seconds of mental lapse on D
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Gary Payton was a bad teammate and had a wily attitude in general. Nobody should let him anywhere near their coaching staff, unless he's somehow a completely different person now.

I really had no idea about how bad it was until I read that Kobe/Shaq book that covered his Lakers year.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Gary Payton was a bad teammate and had a wily attitude in general. Nobody should let him anywhere near their coaching staff, unless he's somehow a completely different person now.

I really had no idea about how bad it was until I read that Kobe/Shaq book that covered his Lakers year.
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you'll never drag me away from GP huff

i hear hes a good coach for kids and charity leagues, and he does seem way more chilled out these days, but listening to him talk, he has zero respect for the league as it is now and I think its likely he'd have his entire rotation fouled out and still be screaming at them for jacking threes and playing no defense
 
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apevol said:
you'll never drag me away from GP huff

i hear hes a good coach for kids and charity leagues, and he does seem way more chilled out these days, but listening to him talk, he has zero respect for the league as it is now and I think its likely he'd have his entire rotation fouled out and still be screaming at them for jacking threes and playing no defense
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This is exactly what I'm talking about. He knows one way and he's unyielding. He was still in his athletic prime and got benched for Derrick Fisher because he was such a pain in the ass in LAL. He was absolutely not going to run the triangle the way that 9-time champion Phil Jackson asked him to.

I like GP a lot, but he is what he is.

Edit: benched isn't the right word, but Fish ate up his 4th quarter minutes and ultimately they failed when they shouldn't have.
 
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n_huffhines said:
This is exactly what I'm talking about. He knows one way and he's unyielding. He was still in his athletic prime and got benched for Derrick Fisher because he was such a pain in the ass in LAL. He was absolutely not going to run the triangle the way that 9-time champion Phil Jackson asked him to.

I like GP a lot, but he is what he is.

Edit: benched isn't the right word, but Fish ate up his 4th quarter minutes and ultimately they failed when they shouldn't have.
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Shultz destroyed his love for the game of basketball and I never saw him compete the same psychotic way he did before being traded again.

I think hes found his passion again helping kids, bullying the hof committee and trying to get the sonics back but he is so far detached from current NBA i can't see him fielding a successful unit and i fear it would only damage his legacy in Seattle

Considering his loss of love for the game was because it was important to him to retire there, having a disastrous tenure as head coach there would be tragic for both him and the city
 
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