McGrady on Curry unanimous MVP "It just tells you how watered down our league is"

[labelplant]

The league isn't watered down but the talent is terribly distributed.

Think of most of the upper-echelon players in this league. Paul George, Jimmy Butler, DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, James Harden, Damian Lillard, Drummond. Noticing a pattern? They're all on mediocre to flat-out terrible teams.

And a lot of the guys in this league with potential, like Towns, Giannis, Wiggins, Booker, etc, are obviously all still young and their team situations need time to develop.

The fact that teams consisting almost entirely of role players like Atlanta and Boston were such high seeds is a testament to the fact that most of the stars in this current NBA are in trash situations. With his talent Paul George should be given a team that has 1 or 2 seed potential ever year.

That leaves very few actually good teams to challenge GS. It's Cleveland, OKC, and San Antonio. It's not some kind of weird coincidence that the West was horrible this year.

In a few more years, hopefully all the guys I listed end up on better teams or recruit better teammates. And hopefully a lot of the young talent I listed pans out. I think the NBA has the potential to be ULTRA competitive real soon but right now it's a in a very weird gray area.

Ya I kind of agree with this except its not so much the distribution. More so this is a transitional era in the NBA. Dirk, Duncan, pierce, Kobe etc are all on their way out. While Davis, Cousins, Lillard, George, Towns, Wiggins etc are all too young or just starting their prime. In a few years it will be fine and I think overall the NBA is certainly more talented than it was late 90s early 00s

 

[Malta]

Nah breh, Lebron, Wade, and Bosh won 50% of the titles in the last 4 years, f*ck outta here McGrady lost to a team that went all the way to the Western Conference Finals, stop acting like he got beat by the Pelicans or the Bucks my ninja

Those 3 guys played for an Eastern conference team

They were a young team, the only reason they made it to the WCF is cause the 8th seed Warriors upset the Mavs Tmac could have had a free ride to the WCF if he wasn't such a choke artist

 

[mastermind]

Name any era that doesn't have at least double the amount of all time greats this era has. We'll be waiting

burden of proof is on you, doofus.

 

[Rigby.]

Who deserved the MVP more than Jordan nikka?

Charles Barkley

twice

 

[blackzeus]

Charles Barkley fukker

What year was this?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Again, James fukking Harden is considered an All-NBA 2nd team player. Come on. Curry, Westbrook, LeBron are all-time greats, that is obvious but let's stop pretending how deep it goes... and if we keep it a buck LeBron played half ass this year. We are now seeing the real Cleveland team. nikkas coasted.

 

[blackzeus]

Those 3 guys played for an Eastern conference team

They were a young team, the only reason they made it to the WCF is cause the 8th seed Warriors upset the Mavs Tmac could have had a free ride to the WCF if he wasn't such a choke artist

2 of those guys took salary reductions to play with Lebron, let's act like 2 top 25 players in their prime taking a salary reduction to play with another player isn't a f*ckin' anomaly brehs

Nikkas formed Voltron and they still got swept by the Spurs and lost to the Mavs

 

[Malta]

2 of those guys took salary reductions to play with Lebron, let's act like 2 top 25 players in their prime taking a salary reduction to play with another player isn't a f*ckin' anomaly brehs

Anomaly or not, they played in the Eastern Conf.

Why you ducking the McGrady missing his shot at the WCF fade bruh?

 

[AirLyndon23]

Hater.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

GM's still fawning over Dwight Howard and he's been a bum for three years

come on with this shyt lol

 

[blackzeus]

Anomaly or not, they played in the Eastern Conf.

Why you ducking the McGrady missing his shot at the WCF fade bruh?

Thanks for admitting an Eastern Conference team winning a championship was a scientific anomaly And I didn't duck the fade. I hit you with the counter jab showing you that the Jazz went to the WCF and did better against the Spurs than Lebron did, and then you cried bully and ran behind this other topic, just admit you don't want these problems

 

[blackzeus]

GM's still fawning over Dwight Howard and he's been a bum for three years

come on with this shyt lol

Dwight Howard is a top 3 big in this league , what more can I say?

 

[FlyRy]

The league isn't watered down but the talent is terribly distributed.

Think of most of the upper-echelon players in this league. Paul George, Jimmy Butler, DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis, James Harden, Damian Lillard, Drummond. Noticing a pattern? They're all on mediocre to flat-out terrible teams.

And a lot of the guys in this league with potential, like Towns, Giannis, Wiggins, Booker, etc, are obviously all still young and their team situations need time to develop.

The fact that teams consisting almost entirely of role players like Atlanta and Boston were such high seeds is a testament to the fact that most of the stars in this current NBA are in trash situations. With his talent Paul George should be given a team that has 1 or 2 seed potential ever year.

That leaves very few actually good teams to challenge GS. It's Cleveland, OKC, and San Antonio. It's not some kind of weird coincidence that the West was horrible this year.

In a few more years, hopefully all the guys I listed end up on better teams or recruit better teammates. And hopefully a lot of the young talent I listed pans out. I think the NBA has the potential to be ULTRA competitive real soon but right now it's a in a very weird gray area.

i kinda agree with what you're saying..but i'm not sure i would call any of these players superstars.

like someone said tmac comes from a different era of one man teams. (ai, vince, tmac, dirk, lebron, wade etc)

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Dwight Howard is a top 3 big in this league , what more can I say?

That's what I'm sayin this nikka scores on put backs. Always did. Never developed an offensive game. All he can do at this point is rebound and general managers are taking him to dinner, holding the door, like he's a Victoria's secret model.

 

[patscorpio]

this coming from a man who not long ago was on TV asking another man for one of his rings ..t-mac gotta learn that silence is golden sometimes