Europe: Where is all this great new generation of talent when 7/10 of the league is tanking?

[Killakobe81]

Your rivals are the 76ers and the Suns, you're all fighting for worst team in the league. The Celtics aren't your rivals. I guess Pat Riley is still your coach as well even though he's in Miami.
didn't read the rest.

I'll treat your posts with the same respect going forward ... so please feel free not to waste your time and respond to mine.

[SpursforSix]

the east has been a one, maybe two team race for at least a decade.

and the western conference has NEVER been a 6 to 7 team race

what a ty and unnecessary thread OP made.

each nba season only has 3, MAYBE 4 contenders. who are you even ing at?

The West has never been a 6 to 7 team race but in the past, the teams have been compe ive enough that there have been some exciting playoff series. An 8 knocking off a 1. Maybe things will tighten up around playoffs but right now, the bottom just sucks.

[DMC]

Feel free to off back to LG and join the Kobe funeral procession.

[ElNono]

the east has been a one, maybe two team race for at least a decade.

and the western conference has NEVER been a 6 to 7 team race

what a ty and unnecessary thread OP made.

each nba season only has 3, MAYBE 4 contenders. who are you even ing at?

In the past 5 years, you have Houston, Memphis, OKC, Spurs, Warriors and Dallas all making the Western Conference Finals. If you go back 2 more seasons, you can add the Lakers, Nuggets and Suns.

And this is before Silver's proclamation that the new CBA was going to even the playing field.

[ElNono]

tbh, I can't even remember true "great", franchise leader #1 picks since Lebron... maybe Durant, but he was a #2 pick... ( tlong)

[Raven]

i agree, the young guns are way overrated..

[tlongII]

It's all about Lillard and CJ now. They are going to run the league.

[Mitch]

It's all about Lillard and CJ now. They are going to run the league.

What happens every time you show up and start cheering for the Blazers, Tschlong?

[spurraider21]

tbh, I can't even remember true "great", franchise leader #1 picks since Lebron... maybe Durant, but he was a #2 pick... ( tlong)

pretty sure thats what davis was billed as, tbh

[DMC]

tbh, I can't even remember true "great", franchise leader #1 picks since Lebron... maybe Durant, but he was a #2 pick... ( tlong)

Jordan/Bird/Durant

Tlong with the hattrick on ty decisions

[DMC]

pretty sure thats what davis was billed as, tbh

So?

Okafor is the leader of the 6ers... not what El is saying, Philo.

[spurraider21]

^Philo

[DMC]

Billed as doesn't mean the same thing as "franchise leader" when the team can't crack the playoffs except for that charity event the Spurs put on last year.

[ElNono]

Billed as doesn't mean the same thing as "franchise leader" when the team can't crack the playoffs except for that charity event the Spurs put on last year.

yeah, just underwhelming all around. I mean, you can scratch the "it's the coach's fault", I think he's on his second or third already?

It's possible tho that ty management can also be the culprit, tbh... as apo mentioned in the 1st reply...

[DMC]

The problem is they are given the keys to the kingdom prior to ever pulling the sword from the stone. Only one guy in the past..oh.. however many years has lived up to that level of hype.

[313]

tbh, I can't even remember true "great", franchise leader #1 picks since Lebron... maybe Durant, but he was a #2 pick... ( tlong)

tbh a lot of these guys would look better if they were drafted in the ty east.