Lebron realizes how much the NBA has dropped talent wise in the last 15 years. (video)

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After the bulls dynasty being from chicago grew up across da street from da uc basketball was very popular before social media so u really had to go see for yo self who had game. U would hear so many stories of hs college n playground legends in slam magazine n and 1 mixtape i never knew who rafer alston was n this 97-03 ima 9-13 yrs old shyt was crazy n bron was goin into hs at the time and alot of players from dat era b4 dey went to da nba was fukin legends in collge n hs we didnt have fukin youtube so u would only see highlights on the news or went to one of their games. Alot of yall exposing yall selves wen we start talking about a very important era in basketball after jordan retired alot u talk about dark age of da nba that mite be the most popular time in basketball. Kobe ai shaq sprewell kg vc tmac spurs kings clippers wit dmiles qrich lamar odom mavs yung dirk nash n finley. Then college melo dwade jj tj ford hs bron bassy shannon brown. 98-03 is an underrated era in basketball maybe because i had hoop dreams and was around it so much all my life
 

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After the bulls dynasty being from chicago grew up across da street from da uc basketball was very popular before social media so u really had to go see for yo self who had game. U would hear so many stories of hs college n playground legends in slam magazine n and 1 mixtape i never knew who rafer alston was n this 97-03 ima 9-13 yrs old shyt was crazy n bron was goin into hs at the time and alot of players from dat era b4 dey went to da nba was fukin legends in collge n hs we didnt have fukin youtube so u would only see highlights on the news or went to one of their games. Alot of yall exposing yall selves wen we start talking about a very important era in basketball after jordan retired alot u talk about dark age of da nba that mite be the most popular time in basketball. Kobe ai shaq sprewell kg vc tmac spurs kings clippers wit dmiles qrich lamar odom mavs yung dirk nash n finley. Then college melo dwade jj tj ford hs bron bassy shannon brown. 98-03 is an underrated era in basketball maybe because i had hoop dreams and was around it so much all my life
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The point gaurds of today shyt on the Pgs of the other eras handsdown.

Generally speaking ofcourse
I think each era have standouts i wouldnt say they are better but more faster quicker and athletic. U gotta think about the ones that never made it in da nba that i thought were hall of fame caliber players im talking young phenoms nikkas dat was in 7th-12th grade 5'7-6'3 gaurds who had 40inch verts nba range and lethal handles. Its this puerto rican cat name angle santiago who was the best pg in illinois was drose tony parker lite and even played on da pr national team wheb he was in hs he had game played for von steuben but never made it d1 shyt is sad we hear about alk the lenny cookes jus imagine the ones that didnt make it if they went harder we wouldnt be talking about steph curry harden westbrook drose etc. Each era has its greats but i wouldnt say players today are better because the game is always evolving every 4-5 years we are gonna have more 6'6-6'9 pgs very soon n 6'10-7'2 sg & sf that are gonna be all time greats
 

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The point gaurds of today shyt on the Pgs of the other eras handsdown.

Generally speaking ofcourse


sure, if you talking one on one streetball. WEstbrook, rose, kyrie all gifted athletically. but if you talking straight fundamentals team ball. give me stockton, glove, magic, kidd, anyday. not forgetting about cp3 but he cant do it all.
 

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sure, if you talking one on one streetball. WEstbrook, rose, kyrie all gifted athletically. but if you talking straight fundamentals team ball. give me stockton, glove, magic, kidd, anyday. not forgetting about cp3 but he cant do it all.
they have the potential to be better than the previous generation though... except for magic.
 

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Exactly. We remember the heights of long careers, not how someone was actually playing at that one particular moment in history. That's why nostalgia is always better than the present.






Nah, that's deceptive as fukk. You're comparing guys whose whole career is over (and remembering the peak, not necessarily how they were actually playing in 2000), with guys whose career has a lot left to right.

For all you know, John Wall is going to retire with a greater legacy than Jason Kidd, and people will laugh at you if you even try to claim that Allen Iverson was ever as great as Steph Curry. You can't compare entire past careers with guys who haven't even hit their peak yet.





Talent in the 1980s sucked ass. How could it be otherwise? The 1970s were a down time in basketball and the talent pool that fed into the 1980s was tiny. There wasn't 1/10 of the players who committed their life to trying to make NBA ball as there is now.

Look at the fukking Western Conference during the 1980s. It was the Lakers and then a bunch of utter trash. Boston and LA were both stacked with HOFers, Detroit had a nice balanced roster, and most other teams who were any good were trying to make it with a single star. We glorify an era when teams didn't even play defense until the playoffs, left the three wide open because hardly anyone shot it, let alone made it, when every regular season game looked like all-star level effort because guys were just running fast breaks and coasting on D, and most teams hadn't even figured out how to switch correctly on defense yet. The 1980s were basketball adolescence, and it only looks great in retrospect because it was so easy for the rare talent to rise to the top and do whatever it wanted in that pool.

If I can't compare today's talent to what was cream of the crop yesteryear than why are we even having this discussion?

You're quick to say the other eras of basketball weren't that talented but want me to wait and see how today's stars end up like we don't already have a book on most of the players listed on that 2015 all star list? Since when did comparisons to the past wait?
 

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I will take the general consensus of the professional athletes who assert previous eras of the NBA are superior to this one over armchair analysts and internet debaters.
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What 'general consensus of professional athletes' are you alluding to?
sure, if you talking one on one streetball. WEstbrook, rose, kyrie all gifted athletically. but if you talking straight fundamentals team ball. give me stockton, glove, magic, kidd, anyday. not forgetting about cp3 but he cant do it all.
No. If we're talking about winning games. This is what happens when folk allow themselves to be swallowed up in this false notion that typical positional-play takes precedence over winning.
 
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There's no comparison :wow: and the only person who would be so stupid as to even hint that today's NBA "elite" could compete with yesteryear's is guaranteed to be some little snot nosed 90s born swaggott who's too young to even make a fair comparison in the first place :snoop:

co-sign. and its not like the entire post 2000s era has been garbage. I would say 2008-09 was an incredible era. You had Kobe still in his prime. KG and Timmy were still putting in work. But you also had LeBron, Wade, and Melo coming into their own. Along with CP3 and Dwight becoming superstars. You had a legit 10 deep of nba superstars in 2009. However, right now the league is bare when it comes to legit superstars.

I blame the NBA draft since 2009. There has literally been only 1 superstar to come into the league since 2009 (Anthony Davis). That is embrassing.
 
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These threads are always funny.

All I'll say is, it's gonna be funny 15 years from now when the cats who grew up on this current era are all grown up and are on some "Back in my day" shyt just like y'all do.

Coli posts in 2030 - "Brehs y'all see this 2012 ECF with the Heat & Celtics? LeBron, Wade, Bosh, KG, Pierce, Allen, Rondo...even quality role players like Shane Battier & Udonis Haslem :blessed::banderas:"

Some of y'all will play dumb like it won't happen, when it never fails

not really. sometimes there are low points in talent. the 1970s NBA is a perfect example. no one from that era would argue it was the strongest. you still had some greats like Kareem and Dr. J that were in their prime during that era. but most would say the 70s was significantly weaker than the era that preceded it (60s) or the one that came afterwards (80s).
 
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