"He Ruined The League"

[Goat poster]

That's what I'm saying. Yes the league has always been top heavy but these top heavy teams actually competed to the point where sometimes you didn't know who would win. Like that 2006 Mavs/Spurs series. Like the Spurs Pistons defensive finals brawls. The wars between the Knicks and Bulls or Knicks and Pacers where anything could happen in a tight game in crunch time. The best playoff series were close being decided by single digits going down to the wire. That's when basketball is at it's best. All the drama and adversity. The occasional upset. Watching a team really "earn" a title because they had to go through war to get there. Now all I see are blowouts, 3 point bricks, and more blowouts. Watch a Warriors series and it's almost kind of boring because there is no suspense. You just see one team dominating another. This is what Durant wanted. To be on a team where his team is guaranteed to win and there is no pressure for him to compete.

They don’t hear you though!!

 

[cartierhoe]

The feelings in here

I hope they do win the next 4-5 titles so you nikkas can cry your hearts out over a kids game

 

[NoMorePie]

Never seen Duncan or Kawhi make that list

2016-17 season


Both Kawhi and Duncan were top sellers the year before

 

[FooFighters]

Warriors are the evil empire. They will have an audience who want to see them lose.

Hell yea we do want to see them lose!

 

[sfgiants]

Bunch of fukkin cry babies

 

[Monsanto]

Best teams get the most merch sales.

Porzingis jersey in white is cold.

 

[The_Sheff]

Late 80s..Lakers/Celtics/Pistons/Bulls

Bulls dominated the 90s but Magic,Rockets,Knicks,Sonics were all in the mix.

Early 2000s Spurs/Lakers/Kings

Mid-Late 2000s Pistons/Heat/Mavs/Lakers/Cavs/Suns/Spurs

2010-14 Spurs,Heat,OKC,Lakers,Mavs

2014+ Cavs,OKC,GSW

The league has always been top heavy, but its never been a point in time where we knew for a fact who was going to raise the trophy at the end of the year like this.

You listed teams that were "in the mix" but had no shot at winning the title. If you can count the 80s Bulls, Kings, and the Shaq led Magic as in the mix then you can include the Rockets and a healthy Celtics squad as "in the mix" right now. In the 80s you knew the Celtics or Lakers were winning, in the 90s you knew the Bulls were winning. The Shaq and Kobe Lakers were winning the title and if they didn't it was their own doing, not because of what another team did.

So next year when Boston gets healthy, LeBron moves to another super team, Kawhi goes to Philly, and Houston adds a piece we are exactly where the NBA has always been.

 

[Goat poster]

You listed teams that were "in the mix" but had no shot at winning the title. If you can count the 80s Bulls, Kings, and the Shaq led Magic as in the mix then you can include the Rockets and a healthy Celtics squad as "in the mix" right now. In the 80s you knew the Celtics or Lakers were winning, in the 90s you knew the Bulls were winning. The Shaq and Kobe Lakers were winning the title and if they didn't it was their own doing, not because of what another team did.

So next year when Boston gets healthy, LeBron moves to another super team, and Houston adds a piece we are exactly where the NBA has always been.

No we are NOT!

Stop acting like a team that was already arguably the “greatest of all time” adding a talent the likes of KD and giving up NOTHING is like anything we have ever seen.

That’s like the 96 bulls adding prime Shaq, Barkley, or, Karl Malone.

They would have been more unbeatable then they already were which is really hard to quantify.

That’s where we are with the Warriors right now, NO TEAM is beating them in a 7 game series in the foreseeable future if they are healthy.

 

[backbreaker65]

I look at that in an entirely different lense. People are tuning in to see them loose. They think the Rockets can pull it off.

 

[The God Poster]

The only thing more pathetic than obsessing over KD's decision is dedicating your life to defending KD's decision

Call showing a black man love worse than hating a breh brehs.

 

[Waterproof]

And we going to keep Winnin Chips you fukkin haters

We going to make y'all love us

Word to Diddy

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Not really everybody watch to cheer Curry....Even bitter old basketball fans like my parents....

It's not a player thing, tho. When you have a top team win ships 2 outta 3 seasons, about to 3 outta 4. They will a group of people who watch to see if the Warriors can be knock off. Typical in sports. There are people who don't want their sport to be dominated by one team.

 

[levitate]

Uhh...he ruined the league in the sense of competition.

Be glad to have a bytch on your team, brehs...

 

[levitate]

If the coli existed back then please believe there would be many fans of small mrkt teams and non-championship contending teams writing novels about how unfair shyt was

Right.

This breh bringing up series from the 70s and shyt like we were even alive to complain back then...

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Uhh...he ruined the league in the sense of competition.

Be glad to have a bytch on your team, brehs...

You wanted him on your team tho