Spurs vs. Mavericks
Suns vs. Mavericks
Heat vs. Pistons
Best NBA Rivalry: Suns-Mavs, Spurs-Mavs, Heat-Pistons
Mike Breen is an idiot, by the way.
I personally feel like it's the Spurs/Mavs. Two of the Spurs/Mavs games being so early when nobody knows how good the teams would be and one being so late that the game doesnt really matter kinda made the rivalry seem not as intense -- the Suns/Mavs games have been at much better times.
These matchups are a lot of fun. I look forward to the next Suns-Mavs matchup next season.
spurs - bucks
It is a good rivalry...
As far as best... I think it is a close call between Spurs/ Mavs and Suns/ Mavs.
IDK, I think 'right now' it's the Suns and Mavs but the Spurs and Mavs are a good rivalry too. It's close but I have to give the edge to Suns and Mavs just because of the buildup from previous years.
How about the Bulls/Heat rivalry. That is a increasingly nasty rivalry. Both teams seemed to have a dislike for each other. Plus Posey always seems to get suspended because of a flagrant foul on a Bulls player.
I hope y'all enjoyed the last Phx/Dal game of the season.
I wish we ended our last game vs the Suns by kicking their ass, but we'll gladly let you guys enjoy that honor.
I like Spurs vs Mavs better. Though I still don't think the Mavs Spurs rivalry is on the same level as the Lakers Spurs rivalry from back in the day
As much as I am pissed about this loss, I get a kick at the Spurs fans here who act like the Suns are no real threat to them. Honestly, get over yourselves! The Suns have a great chance to beat the Spurs in a 7 game series. You homers think it will actually go 5 games!!
IMO the suns rivals are the lakers
but in reality there is only one real rivalry in the nba and thats mavs vs spurs....and the grueling 7 game seris last year prooves it
The Suns have no geographical rivals and so they don't really have one of these range wars ala Dallas V San Antonio or whatnot. Lakers are about as close as they have and that's a stretch on the Lakers part. Suns have three semi-rivals, Dallas, San Antonio and Los Angeles. I say semi because one (San Antonio) you can't really count a rivalry since the Spurs kick the Suns ass 70% of the time, another (Dallas) is shared by players but separated by a thousand miles for fans and the other (Los Angeles) is 14 les for the Lakers to 0 for the Suns.
Take what you can get, I guess.
Is the Suns/Mavs even a rivalry? Just because two teams are good - it doesn't make it a rivalry. They have no bearing on each other at all.
San Antonio and Dallas are at least in the same state.
San Antonio/LA was a rivalry when they always met in the playoffs.
Phoenix/Dallas isn't a rivalry. It's two good teams, but no different from two other good teams - and the Steve Nash factor doesn't make it a rivalry.
Best rivalry? Maybe. Two funnest teams to watch play each other, definately.
most fun*
w/e This isn't english class.
I must have blacked out during the great "Spurs/Lakers" rivalry.
I remember the Lakers handing the Spurs their collective asses in 2001, and then making short work of them in 2002.
The Spurs 2003 victory was more a product of Shaq being overweight and the lakers being unmotivated after winning three straight championships.
And just to prove it, the Lakers came back and took out the Spurs in six in 2004.
Thats not exactly a rivalry. Teams have to exchange victories for it to be a rivalry.
The Spurs beat the Lakers in 2003, but it seemed like "right place/ right time".
Now the Lakers/Kings matchup from around the same time...THAT was the rivalry. You had Shaq calling them the "queens". Phil calling Sac-town a "cowtown" etc.
You could see how much those teams hated each other.
The Spurs were/are too boring to ever produce a real rivalry.
What about in 1999?I must have blacked out during the great "Spurs/Lakers" rivalry.
I remember the Lakers handing the Spurs their collective asses in 2001, and then making short work of them in 2002.
The Spurs 2003 victory was more a product of Shaq being overweight and the lakers being unmotivated after winning three straight championships.
And just to prove it, the Lakers came back and took out the Spurs in six in 2004.Way to contradict your self there. Bottom line is, if they were good enough to win in 04' then they were good enough to win in 03'.
Thats not exactly a rivalry. Teams have to exchange victories for it to be a rivalry.Since 99' only 4 teams have won the NBA le. The spurs and lakers are two of those four teams.
The Spurs were/are too boring to ever produce a real rivalry.
Now what I would like to see are these so called nba rivalries last. That's one thing I love about the NFL. The rivalries last even when the team sucks. Who remembers the 2001 game between 0-5 Dallas vs 0-5 Washington on MONDAY NIGHT?
Nowitzki/Marion/Amare sounds pretty scary to me.
Who's gonna be the receiving end of Nash's assists? Diop? Dampier? You gotta be kidding me.
The Suns vs. the Mavs games are more fun to watch but the Spurs/Mavs is a bigger rivalry for sure. At least to the players and fans (of San Antonio & Dallas).
Say what you want about 2003, but the Spurs eliminated the Lakers AND went all the way - a true dethroning. If they were unmotivated, why was Kobe crying, Derek Fisher too? We remember their faces after that elimination. By the way, if a team supposedly is "unmotivated", why even play in the playoffs? Stop making excuses. LA has been dead since 2003.
The 2004 Lakers team should have been the NBA Champions with the lineup they had. You probably won't ever see a lineup with that kind of caliber again - 4 NBA Hall of Famers, 2 who took drastic pay cuts. But by the team they reached the Finals, they felt the championship was owed to them and stopped playing.
It doesn't matter who's "supposed" to win - You still have to go out and play (Dallas, take note.)
Let me say that the 2003 team was definately the best team that year...but for there to be a "rivalry", I think players from both sides have to really hate/love playing each other. I can't remember there being a drawn out, trash talking series between those two teams. If you asked Laker fans which teams they hated the most, I think they would say Heat, Suns and Kings (maybe Boston around ten-fifteen years ago).
That being said, I don't think the Suns/Mavs have a great rivalry. There's no bad blood between these two teams. The only bad blood is between Nash and Cuban, and even then Nash hasn't really said a thing since he signed with the Suns.
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