NBA Finals 2024 Discussion: One Is The Lonliest Number

Kyrie called C Bags a CULT .https://x.com/ByJayKing/status/1802394534241787992

 

The Lakers are a cult. We are all members of that cult.

 

Like any other popular teams in any sport
Real Madrid,Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Liverpool in soccer
Chicago, Detroit, Montreal in hockey
Yankee and Dodgers in MLB etc..

 

Cultist!!!!

 

Alright who’s in ?

 

Halftime.

Can we announce either Bron's extension and/or JJ's hiring in 24 game minutes. That way we can steal some of the ESPN coverage after this massacre. This thing is over. Boston playing 3x as hard as Dallas.

 

f***ing buzzer from half court shows what unbelievably lucky season C Bags had.
Well maybe Jeannie decides to spend money to be contender

 

yikes: Lakers selecting Lonzo ahead of Tatum looking uglier as the years go on.
(admittedly Fox was my favorite player in the draft not Tatum: loved him in that tournament)

 

tatum would've been included in the AD trade. no point dwelling on it

 

Randle is not going distract people from finals coverage

 

Minnesota and Denver would have caused C Bags all sort of problems as they attack with size inside.
This playoffs have all about matchups: Wolves had all these bigs to throw at Jokic, but no big wings to defend Luka. Lakers would have looked real good matching up against the C Bags with AD causing havoc but didn't have a guy to throw at Murray/Jokic. Now C Bags have 2 big wings to throw at Luka and 2 pgs to throw at Kyrie and don't have to worry about a big killing them.

 

maybe but Tatum throughout his career has been way better then BI and Lonzo. If Tatum was made available the Lakers wouldn't have to given up so many picks to get AD: Lakers would have a lot more leverage in that one for sure

plus he wouldn't have been on the C Bags lol

 

exactly why i cringed at lakers fans rooting against denver. they were our only hope at preventing a C Bags title

 

this is hard to watch.

 

let's just be glad GSW won it all in 2022, or else we'd likely be looking at the C Bags winning #19 right now

really sucks, but it feels a little better knowing the lakers have far more titles in the modern era than boston does. this is only the C Bags 4th title in the last 30 years

 

yeah, boston was the best team in the league this year, and i don't dislike any of their players. there's no rivers there, no ainge.

let's focus on getting back to prominence ourselves.

 

brooklyn should get half a title for gifting boston the two picks they used to draft tatum/brown in that KG/pierce trade

that's looking like the NBA's version of the herschel walker trade

 

didn't help that philly traded up with them for fultz and we took lonzo ahead of tatum that year. yeesh.

as others said, i didn't foresee tatum being this good (nor did a lot of people), but i definitely wasn't sold on lonzo at #2 that year.

but to me, what got them the ring was the holiday trade. brogdon and robert williams, man. that was the ring right there. holiday was THE difference.

brown and tatum aren't really that great of a star duo, imo. both guys borderline all-nba. but having holiday/white/horford and then zinger here and there on top of them is a luxury nobody else had.

 

and f*** portland for that