NBA Off-Season Thread

What, you don't think Bob Beamon, Dick Fosbury, Jim Hines and Lee Evans (among others) could dunk?

 

It's hard for Fosbury to dunk when he's flat on his back (seven feet from the ground, but still).

 

Mexico City gets an assist for some of those records, don't think it's coincidence that so many jumping and distance type marks were set at highest altitude site in Olympic history. Bob Beamon never jumped anything close to that at normal altitude.

Fun little tangent for the basketball thread, though.

 

Larry Bird Admits Team USA Could Beat Dream Team Because 'I Haven't Played in 20 Years and We're All Old Now' by Mike Cole Kobe Bryant ruffled some pretty prestigious basketball feathers when he claimed that this year's American men's basketball team would defeat the 1992 Dream Team.

Players like Magic Johnson, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan all scoffed at the idea, saying that the Dream Team would lay the wood to this group of young whippersnappers.

Larry Bird, on the other hand, is taking a pretty reasonable approach to the whole thing.
http://www.nesn.com/2012/07/larry-bird-admits-team-usa-could-beat-dream-team-because-i-havent-played-in-20-years-and-were-all-ol.html

 

Well, are we talking the 1992 team playing TODAY, at their current ages, or we talking hypothetical time travel back to 1992, when they were in their prime? Big difference.

 

Oh for god's sakes.

 

He's stealing Ty Cobb's line.

 

Of course the Dream Team would beat the 2012 team in that scenario. In 1992, all the players on this year's team were 13 or younger.

 

I love these posts of yours that make me wonder whether you're just completely f-ing with everyone. It's entertaining either way.

 

Intangibles, experience, playing the game the right way, guys who went to college. Even at their age now, there is no way the 92 team would lose if they played today. Grittiness as well.

 

Just responding to the Larry Bird comments in the previous post.

 

A whole buncha reports out there that the Knicks are doing a sign-and-trade for Raymond Felton and will let Lin go with the Rockets.

Apparently, their unhappiness with Lin does have some bounds, such as money.