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Bad Boys Last Stand! ECF Semi-Finals Game 6 Overtime Victory over Bird's Celtics
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Sccit on January 31, 2026, 07:04:35 PM ---while i hate adam silvers ways more than the next guy, it was actually david stern who implemented that rule back in 2005
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Stern was a great commissioner. Silver is a "woke" moron.
Sccit:
--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on February 05, 2026, 07:57:19 AM ---Stern was a great commissioner. Silver is a "woke" moron.
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stern was good
only blemish on his record was vetoing the chris paul to the lakers trade, which ultimately led to kobe's death
adam silver has made strong efforts to ignore tradition and turn the NBA into a novelty league ... we have so much strong talent and basketball is still objectively the best game with the NBA being the highest level, so it's pretty damn hard to destroy that.. but adam silver is definitely making an effort to ruin it by forcefully putting his stamp on the league.
the move to nbc was a big step in the right direction though.
HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: Sccit on February 05, 2026, 08:42:23 AM ---stern was good
only blemish on his record was vetoing the chris paul to the lakers trade, which ultimately led to kobe's death
adam silver has made strong efforts to ignore tradition and turn the NBA into a novelty league ... we have so much strong talent and basketball is still objectively the best game with the NBA being the highest level, so it's pretty damn hard to destroy that.. but adam silver is definitely making an effort to ruin it by forcefully putting his stamp on the league.
the move to nbc was a big step in the right direction though.
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one thing that has hurt too is the influx of Euros and Euro style play...I know a few friends I grew up with who that is one reason they dislike todays game
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on February 05, 2026, 10:32:58 AM ---one thing that has hurt too is the influx of Euros and Euro style play...I know a few friends I grew up with who that is one reason they dislike todays game
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I also blame Lebron.
You had great characters as the face of the league before Lebron. Magic and Bird had great character. Jordan was the gold standard, classy guy. Shaq and Charles, great sense of humor and great characters to carry the game. Then Kobe had great character, you never caught Kobe acting like a jack-ass. He was a really mature guy, spoke two languages, had solid parenting in his life, came from a good family. The guy not only spoke to the hip-hop culture by dating Brandy and all that, but the guy could actually rap, but wasn't trying to pretend to be hard or any bullshit like that, he was just who he was, and on the court he was as "hard" and solid as anyone in the game, without pretense. He did it with class and character. And all the guys I mentioned were all articulate in interviews and press conferences and didn't speak in sports cliche' or need notes to speak to media.
Then you got woke ass Lebron trying to get political and be Muhammad Ali, but he doesn't have half the character of Ali.
HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on February 05, 2026, 11:16:08 AM ---I also blame Lebron.
You had great characters as the face of the league before Lebron. Magic and Bird had great character. Jordan was the gold standard, classy guy. Shaq and Charles, great sense of humor and great characters to carry the game. Then Kobe had great character, you never caught Kobe acting like a jack-ass. He was a really mature guy, spoke two languages, had solid parenting in his life, came from a good family. The guy not only spoke to the hip-hop culture by dating Brandy and all that, but the guy could actually rap, but wasn't trying to pretend to be hard or any bullshit like that, he was just who he was, and on the court he was as "hard" and solid as anyone in the game, without pretense. He did it with class and character. And all the guys I mentioned were all articulate in interviews and press conferences and didn't speak in sports cliche' or need notes to speak to media.
Then you got woke ass Lebron trying to get political and be Muhammad Ali, but he doesn't have half the character of Ali.
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I really cant stand anything about Lebron...I feel about him the way DMX felt about Drake lol
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