2018-19 NBA Off-Season

I forgot a few words in my reply.

 

Damn right he does.

LeBron didn't sign with the Lakers. LeBron signed with Hollywood. He knows he can leverage his marketing to the max in the LA market. He might well earn $100 billion (with a b) in his lifetime.

Winning a ring with the Lakers is just gravy.

 

A 45-win team last year would have finished in 10th place in the Western Conference.

 

Yep. The west will be interesting this year becuase almost every team not named Sacramento should be able to be competent. But outside GS and Houston, is there a team that strikes you as really that good?

Last year you had six teams between 49-46 teams wins. If you told me the Lakers finished ahead of last year’s 3-seed, 49-win Portland, would it be much of a surperise?

 

Gervin and Dominique. Up to age 28, Melo had a pretty decent run.

 

First thing...I don't disagree with you. These one-year deals are what they are. Lakers are throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. That's cool.

BUT LeBron is 33, on the old side of 33...He is an amazing athlete, a physical marvel and clearly is still playing at an MVP level. But in two years he'll be 35-36 and he might actually become a 36-year-old player instead of the freak of nature he is right now. That would mess up the whole thing.

 

Those are two good comparisons.
Gervin at least made the conference finals a few times, but is mostly an afterthought when discussing the all-time greats. Basketball nerds and Spurs fans know him, of course, but he's not one of the first five guys most people think of when talking about the great players of that late 70s/early 80s era.
Dominique never got past the second round, but is revered as one of the best of the 1980s. Mostly because of his highlight plays and the dunk contest.
Melo is a weird cross between the two. Like a strange blend of Dominique's hype while still being overshadowed like Gervin was, the ability to put up stats like they did while having a fraction of the memorable highlight-reel plays either on film or anecdotally. When we talk about the great players of this era in 2038, I'm not sure Melo is among the first five listed by most people. His teams have won a grand total of three playoff series -- two of them in 2009 -- in an era when championships are overvalued in regards to a player's legacy, and that hurts him. He's in that odd netherworld of being a first-ballot HOFer while still not being one of the all-time greats.

 

... but not 50 and probably will not gt past the second round

 

What round did they fail to get past this last season?

 

Didn't realizing that you're virtually alone in bed with Trump on your incoherent Lebron hatred scare you off at all?

 

Come on. That’s funny