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he was the main guy for that very good team.Dirk injured in 2003 was the reason SA won?
biassed suspentions.
why they didnt suspended baron, richardson, the nets guy or lebronce????????
Yes, it must suck to be a Suns fan. Or a Mavs fan. Or a Laker fan for that matter.1999 - It was a shorter regular season. It was a FULL playoffs where everyone had the same chance. No one heard any "asterisk" talk until Phil Jackson said it.
As for this year, ONE game doesn't determine a championship. Every team has to win 16 games. I never respected the Suns as a legit le contender. The Spurs had a better record vs. the West than Phoenix. It's easy to beat up on weak East teams when you run an offense like Phoenix does. The Suns had 3 games where they were at full strength and lost with Amare and Diaw in those games. Spurs won TWICE on their home floor, including Game 1. And that game where Diaw and Amare were missing, the Suns had every opportunity to win, it was even tied in the last minute and Phoenix missed some easy shots. Bruce nailed the championship dagger though. Sucks to be a Suns fan.
Enjoy watching us win another trophy, losers.
he was the main guy for that very good team.Dirk injured in 2003 was the reason SA won?
biassed suspentions.
why they didnt suspended baron, richardson, the nets guy or lebronce????????
Yeah, I'm sure David Stern & ABC said to themselves, "you know, we need to keep one of our highest-rated, most visually appealing, teams out of the Finals, and make sure one of our least-watched, less-marketable teams get in." I'm so sure.
The next thing you'll tell me is that GW blew up the twin towers or the Illuminati are behind the new world order. Why not just give the Spurs their due credit? They're better than your teams, and they're winning the hardware while your teams are sitting home crying.
Last edited by Don Quixote; 05-26-2007 at 01:16 PM. Reason: left out a word
the Lakers played the Nets in the finals the year before.
I'm laughing my ass off at this . Too bad they don't hand out trophies for excuses.
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Last edited by thewatcher; 05-26-2007 at 01:29 PM.
Asterisk arguments are for losers.
I don't get it. It's an asterisk because the Suns got their ass kicked in game 6 at full strength while we didn't have Horry?
Or is it an asterisk because the Suns blew a MASSIVE lead in game 5?
I mean really, Dallas SHOULD have 3 championships right? I mean in 03 because Dirk got hurt we should just give them the championship. 06 they definitely got screwed too. But wait, wasn't Amare hurt in 06? Oh maybe we should award Phoenix the championship. We'll just let Dallas and Phoenix be co-champions and give Miami an asterisk. Let's give Dallas the championship this year too because let's face it, GS got really lucky and while Dirk wasn't "physically" hurt he was clearly "mentally" hurt. Oh wait I forgot Phoenix got screwed too, looks like we have co-champions again this year!
Wow, an ad hominem argument. Typical. We never see them around here. Enjoy our trophy ceremony, loser.
So if Dirk being gone makes an asterisk in 2003, then certainly Duncan not playing in the 2000 playoffs slaps a big fat one on the laker trophy...right? It's a slippery slope, Lakerfan....
Lakerfan, and MavFan (if they haven't all hung themselves) for that matter, just need to shut up at this point.
They want the world to stand up and cheer whenever their team does anything good. But we win multiple trophies, MVPs, and individual honors, and all they can say is "asterisk," "biased," etc.
I guess it's just jealousy, or a sense of en lement. They can't accept that other teams are better than they are. Does Laker- (or the recently departed Mav-)Fan want a trophy? Get a better team.
Uhh, the Lakers have won plenty. Unfortunately their team just sucks ass right now. The Mavs on the other hand....
This is true, exstatic.
Most basketball experts refer to the San Antonio Spurs as a model franchise for sports, much less basketball. If you choose to get hung-up and want to talk about asterisks, then...as they say in golf...excuse us, may we please play through?
Last edited by Solid D; 05-26-2007 at 01:45 PM.
Yes they have. And those championship Laker teams, even the obnoxious ones with Shaq & Kobe, deserve all kinds of respect. You don't see us dwelling on any conspiracy theories or calling them tainted, even though you could perhaps make a case that the Game 6 vs. Sacramento (2002) was indeed marred by horrible officiating. They won em! Congratulations. And the Spurs deserve the same respect.
As for Dallas and Phoenix, they deserve none and they get none.
It's ludicrous to suggest that an asterisk belong to any of our championships. The only argument that makes any sort of sense at all is the 99 championship, and that holds no water, given that while the season was shortened, all the teams played the same number of games and the playoffs were the same length as ever.
Yup...there's no asterisk next to the Spurs 1999 NBA Championship, except the one that says...
* First former ABA team to win the NBA Championship.
IMHO, 1999 is still the sweetest, because it was their first.
NBA Champions
________________
'95-'96 Chicago Bulls
'96-'97 Chicago Bulls
'97-'98 Chicago Bulls
1999 San Antonio Spurs*
'99-'00 Los Angeles Lakers
'00-'01 Los Angeles Lakers
'01-'02 Los Angeles Lakers
*shortened season
_______________
...the good news is we stick out.
Typical Lakers fan...undereducated and ignorant.
lets be fair all laker fans do not think that way. In 99 every team in the league had an opportunity to win the le, everyone played the same amount of games, the spurs won it. Point blank and simple.
As far as this season is concerned and the playoff series with the suns...i find it hillarious that suns fans are complaining about how unfair it was. Let's be honest no one forced diaw and stoudamire to leave the bench. As rules state clearly you are not to leave the bench at anytime during a time of altercation. They did, they got their suspension plain and simple.
These re ed * le things gotta stop.
the spurs are working on their second asterisk
I always point that all of the teams in the NBA had the same shot at the le during the lockout-shortened season and the Spurs are the team that got it done.... no advantages and no excuses. I believe jealousy may be in play for those who try to illegitimized the Spurs. Perhaps, rather than calling an asterisk championship, the asterisk should be placed on the season istelf.
Some people build themselves (their team) up by tearing others (other teams) down.
Go, Spurs, Go!
Phil Jackson really opened a can of worms with the * talk in 1999. Now you hear it about almost every team that wins a le at some point in their run. It's just gotten out of hand.
What exactly is there to argue about the asterisk?
The season was shortened. So? If somebody wants to disregard that entire season, that's their prerogative. That was Phil Jackson's point. He didn't want anything to do with a 50-game season, no matter who won. He used it as a psychological tweak later on, after he became the coach of the Lakers, since the Spurs were a major rival. His comments are about as meaningful as Shaq's "The Spurs are a WNBA team" comments. Do we need a thread to suggest witty comebacks to that?
The power of asterisk smack way back in the day was the idea that the Spurs weren't real champions, because in an 82-game season somebody else would have won the championship, supposedly. The 15-2 playoff record notwithstanding, insecure Spurs fans had no other le runs to point out as a frame of reference. Now they do. The 1999 le is just one of several within the Tim Duncan era. The Spurs are six wins away from securing their place as one of the NBA's great dynasties, and of course the fans of every other team are bitter about it.
The only power the asterisk smack has today is on account of the San Antonio Inferiority Complex, in which San Antonians collectively act like a 5'5" guy from the West Side who weighs 125 lbs. soaking wet, and always thinks he has to prove something to everybody around him.
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