The 2010/2011 NBA Season Thread

[D]

WOWWWWWWW what a feeling

seeing ur favorite player and team of all time win a championship.... Not much compares to that

I am in tears watching this

unreal!



PS Lebron is a fucking heartless bitch but im glad he is.

[faldor]

Congrats D, to you and your Mavs.  A great series all around, made even sweeter by Miami losing.  Gotta love it! 

Maybe next year Lebron.  Now go take your talents to a golf course nearby.

[D]

i dread the influx of bandwagon frontrunner fans.. but fuck it. I know I've been a fan for over a decade.

Miami honestly should trade Lebron for Dwight Howard. I think Lebron and Wade are too similar. neither are good without the ball.

Think about it

they beat a shitty Philly team a banged up injured Boston team and a one dimensional Chicago team.

[tim_m]

Isn't it great seeing Lebron fail!

[D]

Great thing is, now Dirk's legacy is cemented

if u think about it, he had one of the toughest roads to finals in recent memory. Beat a fantastic Portland team. Swept Kobe and LA, Beat Kevin Durant and then Wade,James Bosh

name another superstar that beat that many big time opponents in one playoff?

[tim_m]

You're right he is without a doubt now considered an all time great. A career that will no doubt end with a hall of fame induction.

[tim_m]

Interesting stat just mentioned on ESPN. Dallas is just the 5th team in history to have a team with one all star beat a team with 3 or more.

[D]

Im telling u, Dirk is one of the 15-20 greatest of all time.

 U gotta remember, as great as Kobe is, he has Shaquille Freaking O Neal, Pau Gasol, LamarOdom, Ron Artest, Andrew Bynum Phil Jackson etc etcc

Larry BIrd played with 4 Hall of famers, Magic played with tons of hall of famers

Dirk has NEVER had a hall of fame teammate in their prime.

Steve Nash wasn't Steve Nash MVP  when he was in Dallas and Kidd is 38

Give Dirk Shaq or Kobe etc he'd have tons of rings.

[tim_m]

I might even go as far to say he is top 10 all time.

Carlise is now 11-3 all time in potential series clinchers. That is the best all time. That guy is a fantastic coach. Putting Barea in the starting lineup is what changed this series around. Every move he made was the right one.

[Bodhi]

Congrats D, great win last night for anyone who is a fan of heart and true competitiveness.  You can't shortcut your way to greatness. 

Dirk is definitely among the greatest of all time, but Top 20 might be pushing it.  That Top 50 list they made in 1997 is pretty legit, when they make the Top 75 in about 10 years, Dirk will certainly join the list along with Kobe, Kidd, Nash, Wade, Lebron etc..  As to where he ranks on that list you wont know that until years after he retires.  It is conceivable that he could crack the Top 20 by the time he is done.

[gnr-4-ever]

LeGone fishing. 

Happy for Dirk & J-Kidd. They really deserved it after so many years.

[GeorgeSteele]

Anyone catch Stern mispronouncing 'Nowitzki' when he presented the MVP trophy?  He pronounced the w as a 'w' instead of a 'v'.  How does the commissioner not know how to say the name of one of his league's biggest stars?

Lebron really needs some PR help.  Saying that haters still need to get back to their miserable lives after the euphoria wears off was beyond pathetic of him.  And while he's working on image recovery, maybe try and figure out why he was -24 in a championship elimination game, while every other starter on his team was net positive.  

[pilferk]

Lebron really needs some PR help.  Saying that haters still need to get back to their miserable lives after the euphoria wears off was beyond pathetic of him.  And while he's working on image recovery, maybe try and figure out why he was -24 in a championship elimination game, while every other starter on his team was net positive.  

Lebron needs to see if Derek Jeter is offering "media savy" seminars and, if he is, sign up for one, quick.

Even if he meant (as he's saying, through "friends", now) that basketball isn't all that important and people should get over hating on him and just focus their attention on their own lives...it's STILL a boneheaded thing to say.  And I'm not sure I buy that's what he meant, either.  I think he meant exactly what the words imply:  Tomorrow, I wake up and am still a superstar who has more money than god and you peons have to wake up and go punch a clock. Ha ha. 

Hey Lebron..those 9 to 5ers are the ones paying your salary by virtue of buying tickets, watching your games, and buying your merch.  Maybe pissing them off ain't such a great idea, eh?

I get being frustrated, but he sucked this series.  The "Lebron can't close" Lebron showed up (again) and I think Lebron would be better served shutting his mouth, growing a pair of balls, owning up to how bad he was, and hitting the gym for the next 6 months (+, depending on how long the lockout is) to work on his game.

[crow316]

Congrats, D.

[tim_m]

Lebron really needs some PR help.  Saying that haters still need to get back to their miserable lives after the euphoria wears off was beyond pathetic of him.  And while he's working on image recovery, maybe try and figure out why he was -24 in a championship elimination game, while every other starter on his team was net positive.  

Lebron needs to see if Derek Jeter is offering "media savy" seminars and, if he is, sign up for one, quick.

Even if he meant (as he's saying, through "friends", now) that basketball isn't all that important and people should get over hating on him and just focus their attention on their own lives...it's STILL a boneheaded thing to say.  And I'm not sure I buy that's what he meant, either.  I think he meant exactly what the words imply:  Tomorrow, I wake up and am still a superstar who has more money than god and you peons have to wake up and go punch a clock. Ha ha. 

Hey Lebron..those 9 to 5ers are the ones paying your salary by virtue of buying tickets, watching your games, and buying your merch.  Maybe pissing them off ain't such a great idea, eh?

I get being frustrated, but he sucked this series.  The "Lebron can't close" Lebron showed up (again) and I think Lebron would be better served shutting his mouth, growing a pair of balls, owning up to how bad he was, and hitting the gym for the next 6 months (+, depending on how long the lockout is) to work on his game.

He looks like an even bigger dickhead then before and i didn't think it was possible. He proved me wrong again.

[GeorgeSteele]

Lebron needs to see if Derek Jeter is offering "media savy" seminars and, if he is, sign up for one, quick.

Even if he meant (as he's saying, through "friends", now) that basketball isn't all that important and people should get over hating on him and just focus their attention on their own lives...it's STILL a boneheaded thing to say.  And I'm not sure I buy that's what he meant, either.  I think he meant exactly what the words imply:  Tomorrow, I wake up and am still a superstar who has more money than god and you peons have to wake up and go punch a clock. Ha ha. 

Hey Lebron..those 9 to 5ers are the ones paying your salary by virtue of buying tickets, watching your games, and buying your merch.  Maybe pissing them off ain't such a great idea, eh?

I get being frustrated, but he sucked this series.  The "Lebron can't close" Lebron showed up (again) and I think Lebron would be better served shutting his mouth, growing a pair of balls, owning up to how bad he was, and hitting the gym for the next 6 months (+, depending on how long the lockout is) to work on his game.

Jeter's level of media savvy is way out of reach for Lebron, but at least take a page from A-Rod's m.o. from recent years -- if you can't say anything right, just stop talking and play the game. 

[D]

people can't overlook that Dallas had one of the toughest roads to the championship in NBA history.

Portland was one of the toughest first rd matchups anybody will see

LA were the defending two time champs.. Now people can make excuses how LA had internal problems or this and that, but LA sure looked great in games 1 and 3. Dallas deserve credit for beating LA. Maybe not the same LA team but still a damn talented one.

OKC with Kevin Durant who actually BEAT Dirk for first team all NBA. All I heard was how Kendrick Perkins put them over the top etc.


And Miami. Hate them or not.. having those 3 talents together and for a team like Dallas with only ONE all star. Let's think about that again, only ONE all star.   Dirk is one of only 5 players to win a title against 3 allstars and being the only all star.


U cant compare greatness  by rings alone. People also have that Nostalgic nothing New can be as good as something old mentality also.. so that makes it tough for people to say Dirk is better than Barkley or McHale or Malone etc. Cause those names were such global iconic names for so long and Dirk is foreign born and has ZERO tv commercials so some of those older guys become a bit too highly rated.
Is Dirk better than Kevin McHale? Of Course, better than Barkley? Sure. better than Malone.. I honestly think so.


Not even Jordan went through the laundry list of superstars Dirk did to win a title. Kobe,Pau,Durant,Westbrook,Lebron,Wade,Bosh and Dirk outplayed them all.

[Bodhi]

Is Dirk better than Kevin McHale? Of Course, better than Barkley? Sure. better than Malone.. I honestly think so.

hold on there D, you are starting to sound crazy.  He might be better than McCale but certainly not Barkley or Malone.  He is getting there though and in time after he retires he might be.  This title was great, but Barkely's Suns and Malone's Jazz would have beaten this Miami team too, as well as the other teams the Mavs went through.  The Jazz had to play a Rockets team that had Olajuwon, Drexler and Barkely on it in the first round in 1998, THE FIRST ROUND.  I hope you are not just putting him ahead of them cause he won a title and they didn't, because Dirk didn't have to go through Jordan's Bulls to get it.

[D]

when he beat Houston they were WAYYYYYYYY over the hill. Barkley's back was so bad he was a shell of himself.

He didnt have to beat Jordan but he did play in the era of Shaq,Kobe and Tim Duncan only 3 of the 10 greatest of all time.

Malone also played with arguably the greatest true PG of all time in John Stockton. Dirk has never had anything remotely close to John Stockton.

Malone also made tons of mistakes in those finals against Jordan. the missed FT, Getting the ball stolen from behind by Jordan etc.

Dirk has at least 4 more great seasons and I think by the time its all over with, he will be undisputed the 2nd best PF of all time. Duncan would be damn hard to catch.

also, Barkley and Malone didn't average 26 and 10 in the playoffs. Dirk and only 3 others have done that. C'mon that stat is ridiculous. Not even Shaq or Kareem has done that.

Just went and looked at Barkley's numbers and WOW, he had some amazing seasons. I just think Dirk is one of the greatest offensive players in NBA history. his shooting,FT shooting, overall game etc.

[GeorgeSteele]

Way to go, Dirk, it's great to be the champ:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vN0tQd6Zao