Lakers get Morrison

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

KG had Marbury and couldn't get it done. He's overrated and a big sissy for taking a paycut and joining a stacked team. In fact, what the Celtics did was the weakest s.hit I've ever seen in professional sports. It's borderline gay.

How was what the Celtics did the weakest thing you've ever seen? Did you miss seeing the Lakers sign Karl Malone and Gary Payton in an attempt to win after their three-peat was ended. Both of them took pay cuts. I believe one of them played for the veteran's exception. And when Garnett joined the Celtics, they hadn't yet made the trade for Ray Allen I don't believe. So calling them stacked is really overrating what they were.

Originally Posted by King Glorious

How was what the Celtics did the weakest thing you've ever seen? Did you miss seeing the Lakers sign Karl Malone and Gary Payton in an attempt to win after their three-peat was ended. Both of them took pay cuts. I believe one of them played for the veteran's exception. And when Garnett joined the Celtics, they hadn't yet made the trade for Ray Allen I don't believe. So calling them stacked is really overrating what they were.

Could not have happened to nicer guys.

Level 1
Lakers
Celtics
Cavs

in no particular order..
Level 2
Spurs

Level 3
Orlando (without J. Nelson)
and the rest of an even west
Denver, Hornets, et.....

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

How was what the Celtics did the weakest thing you've ever seen? Did you miss seeing the Lakers sign Karl Malone and Gary Payton in an attempt to win after their three-peat was ended. Both of them took pay cuts. I believe one of them played for the veteran's exception. And when Garnett joined the Celtics, they hadn't yet made the trade for Ray Allen I don't believe. So calling them stacked is really overrating what they were.

Nah, Ray was on the Celts already when KG was traded. Doesn't matter. It's a point lost on Pants that it's an admirable thing to sacrifice scoring and star treatment in order to win. Malone and Payton ostensibly wanted to do the same thing, but they couldn't win because everyone on that team still wanted to be a star. They got to the Finals based on talent, but they crumbled against a better TEAM.

Doc actually had a good quote about Ray that sums up the difference for me between the '04 Lakers and the '08 Celtics.

"I hear so many times guys say they want to win a championship, I want to be a winner, but what they're really saying is they want to win so long as it's comfortable for them,'' Rivers said. "You don't win by being comfortable. You win by doing things out of your comfort zone to make the team better, and Ray epitomizes that to me. He's completely come out of his comfort zone to fit into this team to make us better, and Ray has proved that he's a champion because he's willing to do that.''

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

If this has been discussed I apologize. I have been real busy lately and don't have the time to look it up. But the Lakers made a hell of a staement last week about who the team to beat in the NBA is. Going into Boston AND Cleveland and winning without Bynum was quite an accomplishment I thought. (I'm biased)

It really was an impressive ending to a trip. The 6-0 part record didn't impress me but the 2-0 finish did. I personally feel that even though LeBron James is the best player in the league, that ending plus a combined 4-0 record against the Celtics and Cavs makes Kobe the new leader for league MVP. I'm a Celtics fan and I loved last season but I had the feeling that we were a one and done team. I feared Bynum returning to 100% and thought that the Lakers were the team to beat. So much so that I don't even want the Celtics to win the East because I couldn't stand a loss to LA in the Finals. As the season started progressing, I thought Cleveland was the team to beat. Now, I think it's the Lakers again. It's kind of hard to say though because the Cavs lost Pavlovic during the game and are still missing Delonte West (and I know people will point out that Bynum was out but the Lakers learned last year how to play without Bynum and still have two all-stars and a third guy that has all-star talent). So it's going to be tight. Right now, I rank them:
1-Lakers
2-Cavs
3-Spurs
4-Celtics