Are the Lakers, the NBA team of the Decade?

[Typical London Boy]

If you want to get technical, any decade starts with the '1' year and ends with the '0' year. 'This' decade will run from 2001 thru 2010.

On that basis, 1990 would be considered part of the 80's. Does that sound right to you?

[samikeyp]

Rings or bust. Both true Lakers and Spurs fans know that's all its about.

Whoever has the most rings wins - just as it should be.

What if they finished tied?

[mytespurs]

What if they finished tied?

Then the issue is and should be "moot". :-)

As far as I'm concerned, both teams could clam that honor this decade.

[holcs50]

If the Lakers win it all this season they are team of the decade.

4 les ('00, '01, '02, '09)
6 Finals appearances ('00, '01, '02, '04, '08, '09)

The Spurs will have 3 les and 3 Finals appearances by the end of this decade ('00-'09).

3 les ('03, '05, '07)
3 Finals appearances ('03, '05, '07)

Head to head matchups go to the Lakers 4-1.

The Spurs appear to be on the tail end of their run. Injuries might slam that window completely shut within a year or two.

Wrong. Lakers have 5 finals appearences and 2 wins this decade. A decade starts at year 1, meaning the 00-01 season and ends with the 09-00 season. You don't count the last season of last decade for this decade also.

Scenarios

1.I would say if the lakers get it done this year and next year they are the team of this decade.

2. If lakers win this year and another team (not spurs) win next year, then it's very debatable between spurs/lakers for team of decade...both have positives and negatives

3. If the lakers win this year and spurs next year-spurs team of decade

4. If the lakers and spurs don't win this year or the next-spurs are team of the decade

This is all premature because there is still the end to this season and all of next season and a lot can happen. So we'll see, but it really doesn't matter besides for some talking.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

This decade is 2000-2009

Spurs have 3 championships 3 finals

Lakers have 3 championships 6 finals

Even if count Spurs win in 1999 which does NOT count for this decade if Lakers win this le then

they have 4 champs just like Spurs and 2 more finals and beside 1999 championship does NOT count in this decade. Also Lakers won 3 in a row and Spurs never repeated.

Lakers = team of this decade for sure 100% if they win the finals

[u4lakers14]

the fact that spur fans have to rub lotion on each others bottoms over the issue is some good man.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Wrong. Lakers have 5 finals appearences and 2 wins this decade. A decade starts at year 1, meaning the 00-01 season and ends with the 09-00 season. You don't count the last season of last decade for this decade also.

Scenarios

1.I would say if the lakers get it done this year and next year they are the team of this decade.

2. If lakers win this year and another team (not spurs) win next year, then it's very debatable between spurs/lakers for team of decade...both have positives and negatives

3. If the lakers win this year and spurs next year-spurs team of decade

4. If the lakers and spurs don't win this year or the next-spurs are team of the decade

This is all premature because there is still the end to this season and all of next season and a lot can happen. So we'll see, but it really doesn't matter besides for some talking.

WTF? Decade starts year 0 not year 1. 1999-2000 to 2008-09 is the decade for the basketball seasons. You are very wrong saying otherwise.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

It also depends when you start the decade. Is it the first season to be fully within the 00 decade (2000-01) or do you include a season that includes only part of the decade? (1999-00)?

There is no "Team of the Decade" award except in the minds of fans so I guess it can be tweaked anyway you want it to be.

FIBA gives an official team of decade award to the clubs from Euroleague and NBA.

1990s was Chicago Bulls and Olympiacos for example.

[rascal]

If you want to get technical, any decade starts with the '1' year and ends with the '0' year. 'This' decade will run from 2001 thru 2010. That gives the Lakers 2 les 'this' decade to the Spurs 3. It also means they have 1 missed playoff and 2 first round outs to our 1 first round out.

No way. The decade starts at 2000 to 2009. The lakers will claim more les after their le this year.

But really it doesn't matter for anything this team of the decade stuff .

[arial]

Everyone knows the team of the decade are the Clippers!

[m33p0]

team of the what? is there a parade involved?

[samikeyp]

Everyone knows the team of the decade are the Clippers!

[spurscenter]

The Team of the Decade makes the playoffs every year.

They do not have lottery teams.

Jordan, Bird, Magic, Duncan never did.

The Kobe-led Lakers failed to make the playoffs in ths decade. .

Case closed.

All the rest are apologies and excuses .

wow

So true.

[spurscenter]

BTW

Decades are

1980 - 1989 (The 80's)
1990 - 1999 (the 90's)
2000 - 2009 (the 00's)

[smeagol]

Lakers are just lucky their town has glamour and stars wanna play there. Otherwise, they would've never gotten Kobe, Shaq or Gasol.

Team of the decade my ass . . .

[exstatic]

On that basis, 1990 would be considered part of the 80's. Does that sound right to you?

There was no 'year 0'. It went from 1 BC to 1 AD just like that. That means that the first year of the first decade of what is now being called the "common era" was the year 1 AD and the end of that decade was the year 10 AD....and so on and so forth.

[exstatic]

BTW

Decades are

1980 - 1989 (The 80's)
1990 - 1999 (the 90's)
2000 - 2009 (the 00's)

Find me a year 0, and I'll agree with you.

[exstatic]

WTF? Decade starts year 0 not year 1. 1999-2000 to 2008-09 is the decade for the basketball seasons. You are very wrong saying otherwise.

Again, find me an actual year '0', and I'll agree with you.

[vander]

don't they have like 30 finals appearances in their history now?
goes to show that it just isn't that hard to build a great basketball team if you're willing to spend the $ and take the risks.

[samikeyp]

This pretty much sums it up. Its funny to see these Spurs fans trying to change the meaning of what a decade is to determine the team of the decade...

Also, it wasnt injuries that shut the door on the Spurs, it was the Lakers.

No, everyone knows the definition of a decade, the point of contention is when the decade in question started. Laker fan and Spurs fan are doing the same thing in order to make their case.

[exstatic]

This pretty much sums it up. Its funny to see these Spurs fans trying to change the meaning of what a decade is to determine the team of the decade...

Also, it wasnt injuries that shut the door on the Spurs, it was the Lakers.

Not changing anything. Funny to see Laker fan desperately trying to re-define when a decade starts when it's painfully obvious when the first one, and thus every subsequent one, started: on the '1' year.

[samikeyp]

All this rancor over a non-existent le.

Have we all turned in to Mavs fans?

[samikeyp]

Come on now. A decade is a span of 10 years, just as a century is a span of 100 years. This decade started in 00 and will end in 09. Its truly simple for those who dont pretend to act stupid.

The Lakers will win the team of the decade if they win this years le, but the Spurs have been much more consistent and that is something to hang your hat on if you ask me. At the end of the day, fans remember les, not regualr season wins. Its almost like saying, who is the best team in the 2009 season? The Cavs can say they were since they won the most games, but they failed to win the le. Give me les over regualar season wins any day.

So someone who may see things differently than you is stupid. Nice.

The Lakers will not win the team of the decade because there is no such le to compete for, and for the same reason, the Spurs will not win it either.

You are right though. The decade did start in 2000 but my question was, do you include a season that played partly in the previous decade or do you start with the first full season of the new decade.

[dbestpro]

I say its LA basketball against SA basketball. That means you have to throw the Clippers in with the Lakers. Final analysis SA BB > LA BB.

[samikeyp]

Numbers and math was here long before your Jesus son.

Im going to go with this. And leave it alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_decades

Why is it exstatic's Jesus? Why can't he be everyone's?