2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

Man, if Steve Kerr thought the refs made some bad calls in San Antonio last week ...

 

I'm not going to find it.

Let me guess, DJ plays shutdown defense on Curry?

 

Boston writers (not Ryan, I believe) were saying that the 72-win Bulls couldn't beat the '86 Celts 20 years ago. The belief that those Celts were the greatest team ever defies logic. Hell, they weren't even the greatest Celtics team ever. I'd sure take the mid-60s team that had Havlicek coming off the bench ahead of 'em. Don't get me wrong, they were great. But no better than the next year's Lakers or the '83 Sixers.

 

I don't know what team is the best ever. The 69-70 Knicks or the 72-73 Knicks

 

Without Chandler Parsons the rest of the year, the Mavs are done like dinner. They don't even get a lottery ball because they traded this year's first-rounder for Rondo last year.

I'd have said Carlisle's lost the team, but it doesn't matter because the entire team is gone next year except Dirk and a few bench players.

Time to blow the sucker up and get off the mediocrity treadmill. They don't owe anything to Dirk. He's got his ring.

 

Not even sure how to respond to ludicrous statements like this, given how astoundingly much the NBA game COMPLETELY changed and advanced itself from the early 60s mid-80s. No pro sport anywhere ever changed more in a two decade period than the NBA did from the early 60s onward. The NBA in 86 looked like a whole and vastly different level of thing than it did in the early to mid-60s.

Sometimes when I read such nonsense I charitably presume the writer must be assuming some "comparative to the competition of its era" type rationale. BUT, if that's not the case ...and you actually believe the mid-60s Celts would beat the 86 Celts if placed on the same floor together in a hypothetical 7 game series ....well, I'm sorry, that's just batshit silliness.

 

The '60s Celtics have a record of accomplishment unsurpassed by anyone as of yet. To argue that Russell, Havlicek and Sam Jones wouldn't have excelled in any era is ridiculous. Haclicek played for two damn decades DURING the period you claim the game changed beyond recognition. He managed to keep up somehow. As to who would win a seven-game series, that's not part of my argument as to teams. It would be interesting to see what Bobby Jones would do with today's clubs and golf ball, but we'll never know.
Funny how history works in sports. Babe Ruth is still regarded as baseball's best player. But NBA history begins with Larry and Magic, and I bet 10 years from now it'll begin with Michael, period, and the NFL has no history before the Super Bowl.

 

The old time NFL guys might have had to change a few things to keep up with the guys playing today.

 

Jake's picture of Len Dawson also reminds me that the Celtics of the 60s had to play in arenas with thick clouds of second-hand smoke.

 

Tony, at the Celtics practice facility in Waltham, a suburb, they have the original championship banners on the walls of the gym. The ones from '59. '60, '61, etc. are green on a dark yellow background, stained by generations of Luckies and Marlboros inhaled in the upper decks of the old Garden.

 

Larry H. Miller Court at Vivint Smart Home Arena.

That's a good look on an NBA floor.

 

Ah Fresca!! (Had one a while back, man that was not the greatest taste; lemony with something off; don't want to know what it is)