The NBA is almost as bad as boxing!

[EddieHill]

Appaloosa, The NBA is like most things in life that will never be as good as the good old days. Shit was real back in the day and most everyone played with heart regardless of their age or level of play. These young guys never had a team of old school players hand them their ass on a platter. The youngsters would rather play vidieo games rather than shoot hoops. Todays players maybe a little more atheletic because of the modern training technology and they cannot shoot worth a damn and they are lagging the mental aspect of the team game.

[Appaloosa]

EddieHill,
yeah i beleive that....like Jim Thorpe the so called greatest athlete of the firs an half an three quarter century was named ...the only reason he didnt win it thru the whole century was because the young people today didnt know about him....he won the pentathlon an the decathlon in the olympics at a time when they thought it was to exhausting to one person to enter both much less win them...an he had no special training other than just being an athlete.....the little school Carslile went an won agains Ivy league schools they went with a three or as many as five man teams an won track meets because they entered every event an collectively beat great Ivy league teams...they played against fifty man teams..Thorpe was the president an player of the Canton Bulldogs football team..which was the forerunner of the NFL....when i was younger every where i went i asked who was the greatest athlete of all time an nine out of ten times they say Thorpe an the tenth time the person doesnt know Thorpe....now hardly anyone knows his accomplishments...when he won the olympics the then King of Sweden was there an gave him his medals an he said that you are the greatest athlete ..an he replied...thanks king...the olympic committee took his medals but they gave them back after a few decades....an the president of the olympics that took his medals was an actual participant in the same olympics that Thorpe was in....he now shares the medals with a Swedish olympic participant

[walrusjk]

The younger folks on this board are gonna roll their eyes but the 86 Celtics would kick any team's ass on the planet today. Think about it...Bird, McKale, Parish with Ainge and DJ in the back court with Walton coming off the bench. It's impossible to say about any other sport but basketball was way better 20 years ago. You had to be a great player and have a huge basketball IQ in that decade.

[EddieHill]

walrusjk, The Dream team won the gold and are going to play in China next year and mostlikley get knocked off again. The old Celtics would even beat the Jordans Bulls or Shaqs Lakers. No modern team could have measured up to the showtime 80`s Lakers either. Boston would have even been better if Walton was 100% healthy and Len Bias would have lived.

[walrusjk]

EddieHill, I totally agree. Bias if he lived would have been a Jordan. He was weird good and would have extended Birdy and the boys careers. Remember that the show time Lakers got a walk to the finals every year. The East was so dominant. The Bulls, Detroit, Philly, Milwakee, the knicks and Boston pounded the crap out of each other while the Lakers rolled past one patsy team after another. If Boston would have been in the West and the Lakers in the East it would have been much different. The Bulls had great teams that had to wait until the Celts and Detroit got old before they did anything. Jordan was in the league 7 years before his teams got past the second round. Bird won it in his second year and Magic in his first. By the way what Magic did against Philly in his rookie season with Kareem out is talked about way too little. He was a point guard who went into Philly and scored 42 points with 18 rebounds and 14 assists as center to close the series. Talk about great.