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Nba don't want the Jazz to win the title.

LogGrad98 said:
That is how we lost Magic Johnson. The league forced us to give the Lakers our next season's first round pick in compensation for signing away Goodrich. That pick turned into Magic Johnson.
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The next THREE season's first round picks the final being Magic Johnson (77,78, AND 79.)
 
Maybe make it so that if you want a buyout guy to be playoff eligible you have to pay a $1-2M fee to the team that waived the player or send a second rounder to them.
 
LMA takes the ball out of the hands of two of the best scorers in NBA history at their peak.

They would have been much better off adding role players (snipers, wing defenders, ball movers) than adding redundant and lower efficiency scorers.

Nets were better before LMA.
 
silesian said:
They would have been much better off adding role players (snipers, wing defenders, ball movers) than adding redundant and lower efficiency scorers.

Nets were better before LMA.
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I wouldn't say that. It doesn't move the needle much but it does give them some leeway to rest their stars some down the stretch and still nab the #1 seed.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The Celtics in the 80's was built through the draft. They drafted McHale and the next year drafted Bird. It was not a place where stars gathered and they didn't bring in much in terms of trades or signings other than support pieces, except for maybe Bill Walton, but that was a gamble due to his injury history. Also we must remember there were fewer teams and it concentrated the talent a little more than today naturally.
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They traded for Parrish. Tiny Archibald, M. L. Carr, and Chris Ford all played major minutes and came from other teams.

However, I agree this was not like the way James has built teams.
 
One Brow said:
They traded for Parrish. Tiny Archibald, M. L. Carr, and Chris Ford all played major minutes and came from other teams.

However, I agree this was not like the way James has built teams.
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Good point, but none of them were super-stars in their own right. Every team has to add players around the stars so I didn't look at many of those kind of transactions as anything questionable.

And it also plays into my other point that with fewer teams there was a concentration of talent a bit different than today.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Lebron left miami to go back to cleveland. They weren't good. He went to La. They also weren't good
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Miami hadn't won a playoff series in 3 straight years prior to LBJ going there. After he went to the Finals 4 straight years, they didn't even make the playoffs the next year.

Cleveland was the worst team over the 4 years prior to LBJ going there. He won a title.

The Lakers were the worst team over the 4 years prior to LBJ going there. He won a title.

People need to redefine "superteam" in regards to LeBron.
He made a bad team respectable.
He made an average team a 2 time champ.
He made a bad team a title winner.
He made a bad team a title winner.

Nobody wins a title without help. Nobody.

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The NBA needs to formalize the GLeague.

Then make the NBA Draft 3 rounds.

When any team loses an All Star in free agency, they receive a 2nd rounder from the team who signed him.

When a team signs a buyout player, they lose a 2nd rounder to the team who had to pay the buyout.


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Its kinda wild that Memphis bough out Dieng considering he signed with the Spurs... they kinda had to know that might happen since these things don't necessarily come out of nowhere and many times are understood before a guy becomes available.

Memphis is a game back of the Spurs for the 8th seed. Wonder if they are doing a stealth tank. Would think GS catches them is Steph stays healthy... Kings are still fighting for the 10th seed. Just kinda interesting.
 
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