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The return of the Mack… I mean slick.

 

So... how's Russ doing these days?

 

NBA stands for National Bi-Polar Association now.

 

Can you imagine having money on Houston in that game. What a Roller Coaster.

 

I mean, the NBA has to drum up interest in the small market teams for revenue’s sake. What better way to pull a Harden for OKC and gift Wemby to Los Spurs via the rigged lottery?

 

The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its board of governors Wednesday as part of this week's meetings in New York, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.
Each of the three concepts would be radical departures from the current setup. They have one thing in common: bringing teams that make the playoffs into the lottery process. From there, they change dramatically.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...esents-3-comprehensive-anti-tanking-proposals

 

Most underrated title team of the decade. The bubble is held against them - which is funny as hell because they handled adversity better?? Most pure basketball - no travel, no distractions and they came out ahead

I think that team is frankly favored over every single title team since then as well. Just too much size and defense combined with depth of roleplayers

 

I forget who made the comment a couple days ago ..... maybe @Pioneer10 or @svtzr or ? ..... that our 9 game win streak and the basketball being played now was in their opinion the best the Lakers have looked since the year after the Bubble ring. That team before all the injuries hit was rolling too first part of the season and quite possibly could have won a ring. Pelinka is always trashed for not bringing back the championship team. I think Dwight was supposed to be back but maybe the communication broke down with that and rather than wait while the Lakers took care of their most earnest targets in FA he got impatient and signed elsewhere. Even after ALL the injuries to LeBron and AD and Gasol, once we got to the Phoenix series we looked like we were going to win that until again AD went down.

 

I've always defend the offseason after the bubble. I think signing Gasol and swapping Green for Schroder were good moves. LeBron carried a huge playmaking load in the 2020 season, I don't think that was sustainable. We needed another ballhandler (Schroder) and more collective playmaking (Gasol). I wanted to keep Dwight over signing Harrell, but Harrell had some good moments in that regular season to help keep the team afloat while we were ravaged by injuries.

 

@sk2408 .... guess it was you that said it. Not a whole lot of us out there that liked that team and how great we started the season toward a repeat ring.