All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players
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@voodoo said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
@shark I'm the same. Followed the NBA for 37yrs and never seen a live game. Always been to the US out of season or short visits in between games.
That's one regret I have after living there. I could have travelled to a Bulls or Pacers game but neither team was great back then. I had to make do with the WC in Indy.
I did go to a MLB game in Toronto in 2007 on my way to a certain rugby tournament that shall remain nameless.
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@shark You shouldn’t be paying more than $75-100 for excellent seats at most MLB parks. Yankee Stadium has their own luxury gouge tax on tourists and rich celebrities, unfortunately, and just one of many reasons for most baseball supporters and (even many New Yorkers) to hate the Yankees. In the 80s and 90s you could still buy decent seats for a reasonable price; you can still buy cheapies in the bleachers, but that’s the real Yankee experience. Those real fans aren’t crowded around home-plate, they’re in the nose bleeds.
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@Salacious-Crumb I went to the old Yankee stadium on a visit to NYC in 2006. Sat in the lower tier on the first base line. Was a great experience, amongst real NYers talking about the game
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@shark said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
Back kind of on topic though, and how about a most disliked starting 5? I haven't given this a great deal of thought, but all these guys annoy me for various reasons.
C Joel Embiid
PF Dennis Rodman
SF Joe Ingles
SG James Harden
PG Kyrie IrvingDurant
Harden
LBJ
Simmons (mainly because if he farts the Aussie media report gushingly about the tone and length, while ignoring the smell)
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@shark said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
PF Dennis Rodman
I never recall The Worm being particularly hated in anything other than a cartoon villain. Most fans, even opposing fans, enjoyed him. And certainly nowhere near the heat that his Bad Boy teammate Bill Laimbeer took. He was a hated thug. It was all the funnier / more infuriating because this big oaf didn’t need the NBA. The salary was play money for him. He was born of such extravagant wealth and inheritance he already had more money before picking up a basketball. Opposing players genuinely hated him.
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I've never been a huge fan of Basketball but have gotten into as I had no choice really as I went to 5 NBA games in 2017 (not trying to gloat even though it probably comes across that I am). Funnily enough the team that I decided to follow (The Rockets), was probably the worst stadium I went to and by far the hardest to get tickets to. Still, even if the team is rubbish, it's still worth going along to watch.
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@Salacious-Crumb I was going to say the Bad Boys but that was too easy. Watching them get under MJ's skin was funny though.
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@Bovidae said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
@Salacious-Crumb I was going to say the Bad Boys but that was too easy. Watching them get under MJ's skin was funny though.
But the reality is MJ got under their skin. He won the battles, then he won the wars. After he torched the Pistons with those two games I saw, Pistons coach Chuck Daley game up with a NHL style gameplan to physically chop Jordan. And they did abuse him. Wayne Gretzky had it easier.
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@mariner4life said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
@shark said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
Back kind of on topic though, and how about a most disliked starting 5? I haven't given this a great deal of thought, but all these guys annoy me for various reasons.
C Joel Embiid
PF Dennis Rodman
SF Joe Ingles
SG James Harden
PG Kyrie IrvingDurant
Harden
LBJ
Simmons (mainly because if he farts the Aussie media report gushingly about the tone and length, while ignoring the smell)
Stephen AdamsThats just 5 blokes, not a starting 5, don't cheat. And cut it out with your pretend hatred of LBJ, you know you secretly love him...
I'm going with:
Derick Fisher
Kobe
Durant
Draymond
EwingSpecial mention to Chris Paul and also Ben Simmons , not because of the media, more because he just seems lke a total cock
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@Salacious-Crumb said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
@Bovidae said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
@Salacious-Crumb I was going to say the Bad Boys but that was too easy. Watching them get under MJ's skin was funny though.
But the reality is MJ got under their skin. He won the battles, then he won the wars. After he torched the Pistons with those two games I saw, Pistons coach Chuck Daley game up with a NHL style gameplan to physically chop Jordan. And they did abuse him. Wayne Gretzky had it easier.
It went both ways. The Pistons had the better of it for years until Jordan figured it out amd brought Pippen along with him. Having PJ coaching didn't hurt either, a fact that most LBJ haters always dismiss (look at the top 10 all time guys and see how many did NOT have a Hall of Fame Coach for an expanded period)
FWIW, I loved Laimbeer. Not for the chat or the attitude, but he was really skilled. Super soft hands, and great defender. Sulk sure, bully yeah. But really talented and got the better did of the mental exchanges.
Rodman, not so loved. Too much show, too much care for the stat line
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@KiwiMurph said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:
Speaking of all time favourite basketball players.
Netflix will have a 10 part behind the scenes documentary on the 90s Chicago Bulls in April.
Awesome.
ESPN had some outstanding basketball docos. Shaq and Penny, Rodman, the bad boys, the outstanding 4 part Lakers v Celtics, just to name a few
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