On The Real..Top NBA L's that destroyed Careers
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Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
Olajuwon DESTROYED The Admiral in the 1995 playoffs
Robinson was never looked at the same....Dream was abusing him like he was some chump on the playground and not the freshly minted MVP of the league
BRUTAL.....
This is apt.
I mean, those teams were so evenly matched that the only determining factor
would be who of those two bossed up.
Columbo
Lieutenant
Starbury when Antoni benched him for Duhon 
IT with that hip injury
IT with that hip injury
Hear me out: Lakers vs. Celtics, 1987 NBA Finals (especially Game 4) and events after.
Celtics were a little older, a lot more beaten up (Bird had some ankle/back problems, McHale broken foot, Walton's injury problems returned), and not as deep (K.C. Jones running like an eight-man playoffs rotation in the regular season
). Bird especially made sure they still had what it took to get back to the Finals though. Magic was already great, but he raised his game to another level that year and didn't really have a bad game all playoffs. Lakers had really good younger players (Byron Scott and James Worthy were 25, A.C. Green was 23) and were more or less healthier and deeper than Boston. Y'all know how it ends, but damn if Game 4 wasn't one of the most crushing single game Finals Ls in NBA history and a microcosm for that series as a whole. Just not enough.
Lakers win in six. McHale is never quite the same player. Bird's back gets really fukked up. Danny Ainge gets traded. DJ ages out. Len Bias dies. They're not good/deep enough to hang with Detroit or Chicago anymore. Reggie Lewis dies in '93. The Lakers stay at or near the top until Magic's retirement, which is a few years after Boston's relevance as a contender. Celtics didn't recover for a long time.
Celtics were a little older, a lot more beaten up (Bird had some ankle/back problems, McHale broken foot, Walton's injury problems returned), and not as deep (K.C. Jones running like an eight-man playoffs rotation in the regular season
). Bird especially made sure they still had what it took to get back to the Finals though. Magic was already great, but he raised his game to another level that year and didn't really have a bad game all playoffs. Lakers had really good younger players (Byron Scott and James Worthy were 25, A.C. Green was 23) and were more or less healthier and deeper than Boston. Y'all know how it ends, but damn if Game 4 wasn't one of the most crushing single game Finals Ls in NBA history and a microcosm for that series as a whole. Just not enough. Lakers win in six. McHale is never quite the same player. Bird's back gets really fukked up. Danny Ainge gets traded. DJ ages out. Len Bias dies. They're not good/deep enough to hang with Detroit or Chicago anymore. Reggie Lewis dies in '93. The Lakers stay at or near the top until Magic's retirement, which is a few years after Boston's relevance as a contender. Celtics didn't recover for a long time.
get these nets
Veteran
yes............the same shyt that J.R.Smith did in this years finals
RICKY DAVIS SHOOTING A SHOT ON THE OPPOSING BASKET TO GET A TRIPLE DOUBLE
King Harlem
Superstar
Why wasn't this shown when JR Smith did this against the Warriors?
thread 2 months old breh u just had to bring up this nightmare??? Damn, we had cwebb instead of wallace and webber couldnt jump
get these nets
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Sports broadcasting is a joke these days.Context doesn't mean anything...they only talk about what's happening now. As a result, modern day fans are ill informed about sports history.
get these nets
Veteran
The NBA needs to stop trying to bite from the NFL with the post season awards shows. Bring back awarding the MVP during the second round. Either to motivate the other team, which Dream said happened in his dismantling of DRob.......or bring it back so that we can have another funny moment like this
when Dirk got the MVP award after getting beaten in the first round