The GOAT surprised by the talk of shortening season

[lilteapot]

20+ less games per season INCREASES the requirement to win a championship eh?

It increases the requirement because guys would be fresher in the playoffs so they would play harder?

That's your argument?

This is evidence that apparently, you'll say the sky is red to support your guy... at least i come with made up stats and nonsense.

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[senelcoolidge]

So let's keep making the game easier for guys that are suppose to be bigger, faster, and stronger than the guys that played before. The guys that played before didn't complain. In fact they had it much harder. The NBA continues to become more gimmicky. Lebron is sad. Like someone said already just a mentally weak guy. 82 games is just fine. Why not just put every team in the playoffs or just play 35 games and everyone gets in. The system is fine. I think they actually need to make the playoffs a little shorter like the first round at least..best out of 5. Injuries will always happen..it's just reality. If they play less than pay them less I say.

[Warfan]

Jesus Christ on ice skates will you ever let up?

And you deleted the post...

[oh the horror]

If they feel burnt out or run down shouldn't that be an issue with them and their coaches?


Pop is one that does a great job at preserving players for the regular season.


If I'm not mistaken I don't see them saying anything about it?

[ballinhun8]

The Bron Stans just have to defend their boy in his idiotic stance.




Why wasn't he saying this when he had an older squad in Miami?? He wants to be even more fresh with a super young team in the playoffs??

Cutting the season is stupid. And pauk is totally wrong on the ending games being meaningless. Many times we see fighting for those 6-8 seeds til the end of the season and those teams give the top seeded teams fits most of the time. Or you have a clearly talented more team finally gelling at the end of the season and capturing HCA within those final 10+ games or so ala the 01 Lakers.

Look at the Hawks of this year taking it to the Pacers. Never would've happened with a shorter season. Or take, hmm, let's see the 07 Warriors. #8 seed manhandling the top seeded Mavs. Never would've happened if we cut the season.


These athletes are becoming more entitled and less competitive with each coming generation. Their love and admiration for the game gets lower and lower every other year and it's what causes fans to turn away. No wonder the ratings for Finals are so much lower than they were even 15 years ago.

[3ball]

made up stats

like what exactly?

like lebron dominating the ball more than various point guards in 2014, and more than any NON-point guard in the game, but only having a 6.3 assist average to show for it?

no, those are all real stats... here's the ball dominance stat from SportsVu... http://stats.nba.com/playerTrackingT...&sortOrder=DES

so even after starting to play off-ball more in Miami, Lebron was still 37th in ball-dominance in 2014, the only non-point guard in the top 50 other than fellow ball-dominator and suboptimal style-user James Harden.

so nothing made up here... SportsVu confirms that Lebron is a severe ball-dominator, but averages almost the same assists in the playoffs (6.4) as off-ball players Bird (6.5) and Jordan (5.7)...

Indeed, one can only imagine how Jordan would have done if he dominated the ball - oh wait, we know how he would have done... He was put at point guard for the last 24 games of the 1989 season, and he averaged 30.4 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 10.9 assists, with a stretch of 10 triple-doubles in 11 games.

Jordan's stretch as a primary ballhandler was clearly FAR better than Lebron has done in his entire career dominating the ball, and the numbers themselves are so ridiculous that they can only be viewed as a good indication of Jordan's own capability as the primary ballhandler... it's impossible to rack up those kind of numbers by chance.

So you accused me of making up stats - what stats here are made up?

[Beastmode88]

The games would be played more regularely, more with urgency as each game means something more than it would with 82 games... it would be more competitive there AND it would give more health/energy hence competition where it truly matters in the playoffs..... with other words it would more like only INCREASE the criteria/stamina/mental strength for winning a championship.... you cant see THAT?

So they've been playing 82 games for the last 50 years and no one else has complained about this. Now all of a sudden Lebron and Dirk are crying about minutes? I understand it from Dirk's point of view but Lebron? Dirk's 36 years old and his body is aging, that being said his coach should be managing his minutes like what Pop does with Tim Duncan. But Lebron is 29 years old, give me a break, this is asking for another shortcut.

[navy]

Did anyone else notice Jordan forgot about his baseball stint?

[coin24]

Wow there's some clueless people in this thread.
The NBA is a business. Less games equals less money. Not going to happen.

What a surprise pauk blindly agreeing with anything bran says or does then trying to justify it
Also bran should stick to his fake pube hair instead of intellectual matters

[Smook A.]

Why the f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck is this even a discussion?

All of a sudden, the guys are thinking about changing so many things the NBA. First it was those retarded sleeved jerseys. Nobody likes those... Players look like they're suffocating in those things, and fans aren't even buying them cause they straight up suck shit. Next, we got advertisements coming on jerseys. This isn't god damn soccer. I don't wanna look at players and see a ****ing Pepsi logo or some crap like that when I see their jerseys. I get it... NBA wants to make more money and they want to expand the business to even newer heights, but they're doing it by making players look like clowns.

And NOW the NBA is talking about shortening the season? You know what that means? It means less basketball and a longer offseason. I don't want that and neither do the fans. Why is this even talked about? I've been following basketball since the late 90s and I've never seen a player say the season is too long. It hasn't been a problem and I have no idea why its being discussed. I mean the NBA does want to make more money right? Shortening the season will not help anything. Just keep everything like it is. Changing stuff will just make things worse.

[AlphaWolf24]

on the real.....the season is way too F'ing long....

- they need to cutback at least 15 - 20 games......teams should play twice a week max with at least 2 days rest in between.




- I wouldn't expect anything less from MJ.....he is the prototype Alpha.....sometimes pointing other lesser Men's weakness ( while never showing weakness yourself) is part of nature.

[inclinerator]

let's be real lebron probably has played as much as jordan did his entire career, still tho i'm surprised hearing this coming out of james mouth with the success he has had with his durability

[navy]

let's be real lebron probably has played as much as jordan did his entire career, still tho i'm surprised hearing this coming out of james mouth with the success he has had with his durability

The regular season is pointless for Lebron....

[dreamwarrior]

Bunch of pansies imo. Look at all the players who did the pre-season, regular season, playoffs and then the world cup. They were scheduled for 105 games. Lebron and Dirk want to cut 35-45 of those games.

[mehyaM24]

81 games, 60 games, one game a week, whatever the case, lebron will forever remain the better all-around player than jordan.

jordan doesn't want to see lebron get a competitive edge (like he did back in the 90s after snitching on the knicks, which completely changed how games were/are called - star treatment was born).

lol @ jordan being scared of lebron. bitch move.