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LA9erFan · 2014-10-01T15:02:21-07:00

Because it's tradition. So Boris Diaw is vacationing in the Pyrenees as training camp starts (excused), and Popovich made some cracks during media day that he was gonna come back fat, at least at 275. Word got back to Diaw and he responded on Instagram with "only 1 glass a day and daily workouts" and this tremendous pic. It's like U Mad Bro and The Most Interesting Man in the World had a baby.

Jun 18, 2015 at 11:25 PM

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StOnEy333
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Originally posted by crabman82:
2004 pistons beat anyone

Jun 18, 2015 at 11:27 PM

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49AllTheTime
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Originally posted by schmons:
http://espn.go.com/blog/marc-stein/post/_/id/3896/lebrons-handling-of-blatt-unbecoming

sooooo.... want to be an assistant on the warriors after you're fired, blatt?

Dude is just a talker and he sucks at it

Jun 19, 2015 at 1:58 AM

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InconvenientTruth21
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Originally posted by StOnEy333:
There's a thread on reddit/r/nba with an interesting topic.

The last 16 NBA champions (2000 Lakers to 2015 Warriors) are put into a tournament of champions. Who plays in the final? Who wins?

Consensus seems to be the 2001 Lakers would take the title. What do you all say?

2001 Lakers.

No team that has won the finals since would be able to stop Shaq. Hed dominate any team that has won the finals over the last 6 years to say the least. Maybe the big 3 Celtics would make it competitive, but I can't see any of those teams stopping Shaq in his prime. Most dominant player ever.

Jun 19, 2015 at 8:25 AM

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Originally posted by StOnEy333:

Originally posted by crabman82:
2004 pistons beat anyone

criminally underrated team. nobody gave them a chance vs the almighty lakers and they whooped that ass in 5 and really should have been 4. i'd buy the 2001 lakers were better than the 2004 version but they showed the blue print. man up big ben on shaq and let him get his numbers. lock down kobe with prince and let your overall depth and hustle take over.

Jun 19, 2015 at 9:22 AM

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Originally posted by StOnEy333:
There's a thread on reddit/r/nba with an interesting topic.

The last 16 NBA champions (2000 Lakers to 2015 Warriors) are put into a tournament of champions. Who plays in the final? Who wins?

Consensus seems to be the 2001 Lakers would take the title. What do you all say?

Love my Dubs but they would not have beaten that Lakers team with Kobe and Shaq in their prime. But I dont think that Laker team would have beaten MJ's best Bulls team or the 80s' Lakers teams.

Jun 19, 2015 at 10:03 AM

#2361

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Originally posted by Ninerjohn:

Originally posted by StOnEy333:
There's a thread on reddit/r/nba with an interesting topic.

The last 16 NBA champions (2000 Lakers to 2015 Warriors) are put into a tournament of champions. Who plays in the final? Who wins?

Consensus seems to be the 2001 Lakers would take the title. What do you all say?

Love my Dubs but they would not have beaten that Lakers team with Kobe and Shaq in their prime. But I dont think that Laker team would have beaten MJ's best Bulls team or the 80s' Lakers teams.

2014 Spurs.

Old man Duncan would go to war with Shaq. You have Tony Parker which no other guard can keep up with. You have Manu providing spark off the bench. You have a lock down defender and all around great player in Leonard. And then you have all the role players doing what they do best.

Jun 19, 2015 at 10:07 AM

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it would be tough to bet against a spurs championship team

Jun 19, 2015 at 10:39 AM

#2363

StOnEy333
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Originally posted by crabman82:
Originally posted by StOnEy333:
Originally posted by crabman82:
2004 pistons beat anyone

criminally underrated team. nobody gave them a chance vs the almighty lakers and they whooped that ass in 5 and really should have been 4. i'd buy the 2001 lakers were better than the 2004 version but they showed the blue print. man up big ben on shaq and let him get his numbers. lock down kobe with prince and let your overall depth and hustle take over.

You don't think the 04 Lakers injury riddled roster had anything to do with the pistons easy walk to the title?

Jun 19, 2015 at 10:44 AM

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Originally posted by StOnEy333:

Originally posted by crabman82:

Originally posted by StOnEy333:

Originally posted by crabman82:
2004 pistons beat anyone

criminally underrated team. nobody gave them a chance vs the almighty lakers and they whooped that ass in 5 and really should have been 4. i'd buy the 2001 lakers were better than the 2004 version but they showed the blue print. man up big ben on shaq and let him get his numbers. lock down kobe with prince and let your overall depth and hustle take over.

You don't think the 04 Lakers injury riddled roster had anything to do with the pistons easy walk to the title?

injury riddled? what 40 yr old malone missing a game and being banged up? honestly, who didnt play that would have made a difference? not talking who played banged up, rasheed was playing with planter fascia that whole playoffs.

Jun 19, 2015 at 2:24 PM

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Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by schmons:
http://espn.go.com/blog/marc-stein/post/_/id/3896/lebrons-handling-of-blatt-unbecoming

sooooo.... want to be an assistant on the warriors after you're fired, blatt?

Dude is just a talker and he sucks at it

Haha, yeah his interviews are rough to listen to.

I wouldn't mind him as an assistant though. Personally, I think it'd be neat to get D'Antoni in on the offense.

Either way, I trust that the FO has a nice short list going.

Jun 19, 2015 at 5:14 PM

#2366

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Originally posted by IT21:
2001 Lakers.

No team that has won the finals since would be able to stop Shaq. Hed dominate any team that has won the finals over the last 6 years to say the least. Maybe the big 3 Celtics would make it competitive, but I can't see any of those teams stopping Shaq in his prime. Most dominant player ever.

Wilt's 1961 season might disagree with you. http://www.nba.com/2011/history/features/12/12/season-of-giants-feature/index.html

It was the season that the 7-foot, ½-inch Wilt Chamberlain grabbed hold of the game and the record book and twisted them like a pretzel beyond all recognition.

Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, Chamberlain scored 78 points and pulled down 43 rebounds on Dec. 8 against the Los Angeles Lakers -- and that was just a warm-up routine.

On March 2, Wilt scored his staggering 100 points against the New York Knicks.

For the season, Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds per game. He averaged 48.5 minutes per night in a game that last only 48 minutes because he played every second of every overtime period, too.

"All of those things are in the record books. They are facts," said Al Attles, who was Chamberlain's teammate and perhaps best friend in the NBA. "But it is hard for people to fully appreciate what Wilt did, or maybe even understand it, because it was so far beyond what we think of as extremes.

Jun 19, 2015 at 5:25 PM

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