View Full Version : Biggest "What if" in NBA history?
pass1st
10-30-2011, 01:13 PM
What if this player was drafted, if this trade was made, if that player stayed, if that team did things right. A shitload of what if scenarios, what stands out for you?
I would go with what if the Rockets traded Sampson for the #2 pick and selected Jordan. You would have the best center along with the best SG playing side by side. I would say Jordan would have ringed in the 80s, but I don't think the duo would have stayed together for more than five or six years.
DUNCANownsKOBE
10-30-2011, 01:16 PM
What if the Rockets traded Ralph Sampson for Clyde Drexler and the #2 pick in the 1984 draft like it was rumored they almost did.
Jordan - Drexler - Olajuwon :wow
midnightpulp
10-30-2011, 01:40 PM
What if the Rockets traded Ralph Sampson for Clyde Drexler and the #2 pick in the 1984 draft like it was rumored they almost did.
Jordan - Drexler - Olajuwon :wow
R.I.P. Showtime.
DUNCANownsKOBE
10-30-2011, 01:41 PM
Sampson and Olajuwon took enough of a shit on showtime as it was :lol
Daddy_Of_All_Trolls
10-30-2011, 01:50 PM
I'll give you the biggest what if in NBA history, right here.
1972, the Milwaukee Bucks spent their 1st round draft pick on Julius Erving, who had played in the ABA two years. You could play in the ABA back then as an underclassmen, but not the NBA. Anyway, Julius's class graduated in 1972, so he was eligible to be drafted in the NBA. Dr. J. decided to stay in the ABA and only came to the NBA when the leagues merged a few years later.
However, with Kareem, Dr. J. and Oscar Robertson, (with at least a few years left in him) that Bucks team would have started winning titles immediately and probably wouldn't have stopped until the mid 1980's, no matter where Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan ended up.
Dr. J. plain fucked up.
LnGrrrR
10-30-2011, 01:53 PM
What if Len Bias hadn't died?
LnGrrrR
10-30-2011, 01:54 PM
Another fun one... What if Shaq hadn't left LA?
DUNCANownsKOBE
10-30-2011, 01:55 PM
What if the Suns got the #1 pick and got David Robinson instead of Armen Gilliam :cry
D-Rob
Barkley
Dumas
Majerle
KJ
stacked :cry (unless D-Rob tried to chase Barkley around with a bible)
what if kome ends up in charlotte and plays alongside average talent most of his career?
nlgga would be known as a pathetic mj-wannabe
baseline bum
10-30-2011, 02:00 PM
What if Richard Dumas wasn't a dope fiend? Barkley, KJ, Dumas, Majerle, Chambers, Ainge, Rambis, and Ceballos together should have been good for a least a couple of rings.
DUNCANownsKOBE
10-30-2011, 02:05 PM
What if Richard Dumas wasn't a dope fiend? Barkley, KJ, Dumas, Majerle, Chambers, Ainge, Rambis, and Ceballos together should have been good for a least a couple of rings.
We needed Robinson to get him on the right path :cry
From the footage I've watched of the 1993 Suns, Dumas was easily the most talented player on they had.
The other what if for the 1990s Suns is if Ducksworth didn't cause that gruesome looking injury that fucked KJ up forever.
Or if Danny Manning didn't go down in 1995 when the Suns were 38-10.
Or if Barkley and Majerle didn't start getting drunk and playing 36 holes of golf the day before a playoff game after they were up 3-1 against Houston.
Drug free Dumas + pre-1992 KJ and the Suns beat the Bulls in 1993.
baseline bum
10-30-2011, 02:05 PM
What if Red McCombs hadn't gotten cheap in the summer of '92 and
(1) kept Strickland instead of trying to replace him with faggot Del Negro and
(2) ok'd the rumored trade of Terry Cummings and Willie Anderson for Barkley?
PG Rod Strickland
SG Sean Elliott
SF Dale Ellis
PF Charles Barkley
C David Robinson
6 Antoine Carr
baseline bum
10-30-2011, 02:12 PM
Of course the flip-side of that what-if would be if McCombs got so cheap he made the rumored Robinson for Ewing trade, and then Ewing walked?
PG Vinny Del Negro
SG Willie Anderson
SF Dale Ellis
PF Dennis Rodman
C JR Reid
6 Antoine Carr
:vomit:
What if Jason Kidd comes to San Antonio after the 03' championship? And Parker gets dealt for a solid bigman/2 guard? I wouldve cried tears of joy.
baseline bum
10-30-2011, 02:19 PM
Ginobili wasn't a solid enough 2 guard?
spurs10
10-30-2011, 02:25 PM
Scola thread!
mfanatic
10-30-2011, 02:26 PM
What if Kobe actually left for the Bulls a few seasons ago? LOL at the league with Rose, Kobe, Deng and Noah.
Ginobili wasn't a solid enough 2 guard?
true :lol
I was just referring to someone better than Hedo though. That nlgga along with that faggot Fisher fucked up SA's 04' title hopes :(
pass1st
10-30-2011, 02:28 PM
What if Celtics got Duncan?
baseline bum
10-30-2011, 02:34 PM
What if George Irvine didn't destroy Grant Hill's absolute certain Hall of Fame career by playing him in that meaningless 1st round series in 2000?
DUNCANownsKOBE
10-30-2011, 02:34 PM
I don't agree with FkLA much, but he's dead on about Parker being a wildly overrated bum
DUNCANownsKOBE
10-30-2011, 02:35 PM
What if Kobe actually left for the Bulls a few seasons ago? LOL at the league with Rose, Kobe, Deng and Noah.
If Kobe left for the Bulls they wouldn't have been shitty enough to get the first overall pick in 2008.
Nathan89
10-30-2011, 02:56 PM
What if Celtics got Duncan?
Duncan would have rang, that's for sure.
mavs>spurs
10-30-2011, 03:00 PM
What if Len Bias hadn't died?
this
Nathan89
10-30-2011, 03:01 PM
what if kome ends up in charlotte and plays alongside average talent most of his career?
nlgga would be known as a pathetic mj-wannabe
-0 rings
-Maybe a few playoff entrances(only to exit in the first round)
-You would never hear Kobe and Jordan in the same sentence
-People wouldn't think he's clutch because espn wouldn't make it seem that way
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lefty
10-30-2011, 03:06 PM
What if Len Bias hadn't died?
RIP Showtime part 2
RIP Jordan
What if Kobe didn't rape that girl in Colorado. The Lakers might have rung that year, Malone would have a ring, Shaq would probably have retired a Laker after the team won 5 or 6 in a row.
What if the Suns players stay on the bench during the Horry/Nash flop? Suns could be ringers.
What if Manu didn't foul Dirk?
What if there wasn't a fucking lockout and these threads wouldn't exist.
lefty
10-30-2011, 03:29 PM
What if Red McCombs hadn't gotten cheap in the summer of '92 and
(1) kept Strickland instead of trying to replace him with faggot Del Negro and
(2) ok'd the rumored trade of Terry Cummings and Willie Anderson for Barkley?
PG Rod Strickland
SG Sean Elliott
SF Dale Ellis
PF Charles Barkley
C David Robinson
6 Antoine Carr
Wait
We could have had Barkley in 92?
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