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The guy who never won a le is now determining what success is?
Barkley: Heat need to win two or three les in five years.
by Ben Osborne
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Just back from the annual NBA on TNT Media Luncheon at the Time Warner center, where me and about 15 other folks that cover the L got treated to a nice lunch and some great remarks from some of TNT’s key on-air personalities: (listed as they were seated, from left to right) Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, Marv Albert, Steve Kerr and Mike Fratello. Marv served as an MC of sorts, but for the most part it was an open forum for the journalists to throw out questions to the guys (as well as the always classy TBS Sports President, David Levy) and let them answer off the cuff.
Besides catching up with some of the other media types there, I participated by asking Levy if TNT was approached about airing “The Decision” (”No,” he said. “And we wouldn’t have been interested in something where we had to give up control like that.”), all of the guys if Erik Spoelstra was up to the challenge of leading the star-powered Heat (Kenny said definitely, but Charles thinks there’s a real question as to whether Spo’ will fell comfortable yelling at LeBron/Wade, etc.) and taking lots of notes in the hopes of getting a great soundbite.
Sure enough, Sir Charles delivered. Somewhat unprompted, as the lunch and conversation were winding down, he announced that in his opinion, “the Heat have to win two, probably three, championships, in the next five years to be a success. We have never had a situation like that in the NBA.”
Show and prove time, fellas.
The guy who never won a le is now determining what success is?
so one le in those six years they will be together is successful especially with that talent?
I agree with Chuck.......
No of course I expect more out of this team just saying why anyone thinks his word means anything, especially in terms of talking about what success is.
so who's word means something to you...MJ, Magic, or Bird...
I can go with that. And he has had a successful career. He just got caught up in the Mike era. A lot of successful people had to bow down in that era.
Barkley is correct here, for one of the first times in his life..
The Heat won't be favored this year(even though I believe they will win), but they will be favored to win every le starting next year, and they will only get better with more flexibility for moves..
Correct yet again HH.
What I wonder is if they don't win a le the first two years ago, how will that humble them if at all considering the brashness of expecting to win 6... 7... 8... les?
I think this is an important factor to consider. Even if the Heat don't win this summer, they will be much more flexible in the coming seasons. Of course, everything is speculation due to the impending lockout, at this point...
The Spurs with Duncan are a little more than a 1 hit wonder. They didn't have this kind of situation where 3 NBA superstars joined forces to try and win a championship. Since they drafted Tim Duncan they have been in NBA le contention every single year, have won the NBA le 4 times and have had very good fortune in the NBA draft with Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker. This is far more than a 1 hit wonder this is a very successful and dominant team. While they might not be winning championships anymore come playoffs as long as Duncan, Parker, Ginobili are there they are highly capable of playing spoiler team. Also for you to say that no one care is pure trash talk. People move onto what's hot in pro sports, it's just the way it goes. The Miami Heat have created crazy expectations that might prove very difficult to live up to. The Spurs are a model franchise and all those championships won where done through the draft the way it should be done.
Harlem with the goods.
How does one have four one-hit wonders?
Duncan's chronic inability to repeat is the bane of his NBA career. He's fortunate though in the fact that he isn't in a fish bowl like L.A. where if he'd a pulled such a stunt they'd a high tech lynched him quicker than a rabbit gets ed. tee, hee.
Barkley just needs to shut the up already, dude never won a damn thing in his career yet wants to talk about other players and their success or non-success...
How are the heat not favored? Vegas does this for aliving and THEY have installed the Heat as favorites ...
ill take the 4 one hit wonders
Las Vegas has the Heat favored to win it all.
and LV is usually never wrong.
I personally think 4 of the next 5 les will belong to Miami, 1 of those being lost due to injuries.
Barkley is the guy who went to Houston toplay with Olajuwon and Pippen. Yet he can pass judgment on the Miami trio before they've even played a game. It makes no sense.
Was Drexler on that Houston team as well?
75% of the time it works every time?
Charles responded to this exact question.
His re ed answer was something like :
"Oh, that was because I was old. But when I was in my prime, I thought I was the best so I wanted to do it by myself. I realized I wasnt the best when MJ beat me in the Finals, so I wouldnt have teamed up before that in my prime"
that was his stupid ass reasoning.
charles barkley is loved cause he's a big mouth, but he's ing stupid. seriously.
I don't know what is worse, failing to repeat or failing to win with one of the greatest defensive point guards of all time, the 2nd highest career scorer in NBA history (some Laker fans even call him the GOAT power forward), and one of the greatest centers and most dominant forces in NBA history.
The Heat have 3 superstars; the Lakers had 4 that year, and still lost
Just some food for thought
don't be an idiot, they were way past their primes...and malone was playing on one leg in the finals.
Malone got injured in the Finals
and Kobe was in full-force "I HATE SHAQ AND I WANT TO BE LIKE MJ" mode, chucking shots and ignoring Phil Jackson in his quest to get an Finals MVP
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