NBA Finals: Has anyone ever

[TheCorporation]

Played a game without their #2 (Irving); #3 (Love); & arguably #4-5? (Varejao) players?

And more importantly, has anyone ever WON an NBA Finals without their #2, #3 & #4 guy.

It's so crazy to see a team in the Finals without those key starters. Imagine teams without those players.

Clippers:
CP3 (No Blake, Deandre, or Crawford)

Spurs:
Kawhi (No Duncan, Parker, or Ginobli)

Bulls:
Rose (No Butler, Gasol, or Noah)

Funny to even think about how stripped down teams would become.

Warriors line up would be:

Curry (No Iggy, Green, or Klay)
Barbosa
Barnes
Lee
Bogut

Jordan's Bulls without Pippen, Rodman or Kerr. Hell, we all know Jordan already couldn't win if we took away Pippen, imagine taking away Rodman & Kerr too.

[nba_55]

Lebron is FMVP, if he doesn't win it, the award is death. It wouldn't mean anything.

[Rocketswin2013]

Jordan's bulls without Pippen, Rodman and Kukoc would be more accurate. People forget Kukoc existed so much. He was as good as Heat Bosh.

[ArbitraryWater]

now it will become "that just proves how stacked the Cavs are beyond their top 3"

no..

Cavaliers:
James
Dellavadova
Shumpert
Thompson
Mozgov

Smith
Miller
Jones

Without LeBron, that is bar none the worst team in the NBA...

and no, nobody has ever won a title without their 2nd and 3rd best players, or come to a game 7.

[TheCorporation]

Jordan's bulls without Pippen, Rodman and Kukoc would be more accurate. People forget Kukoc existed so much. He was as good as Heat Bosh.

I was thinking Kukoc (6th man winner) or Kerr.

[nba_55]

[TheCorporation]

now it will become "that just proves how stacked the Cavs are beyond their top 3"

no..

Cavaliers:
James
Dellavadova
Shumpert
Thompson
Mozgov

Smith
Miller
Jones

Without LeBron, that is bar none the worst team in the NBA...

and no, nobody has ever won a title without their 2nd and 3rd best players, or come to a game 7.

This Cavs Roster sans LeBron James is a borderline D-league team. Pains me to say that about Shump & JR (because they have had some decent games) but overall, man....

Delly
Shumpert
J.R Smith
Thompson
MozGOD

Bench:

James Jones
Mike Miller
Shawn Marion
Kendrick Perkins
Brendan Haywood

Does this team win 20 games in the EAST? 15?

[TheCorporation]

That's a damn shame.

[riseagainst]

just outta curiosity, anyone know what "par/g" is?

[warriorfan]

Empty stats

[nba_55]

Empty stats

meltdowwnnnn

[oarabbus]

Jordan's bulls without Pippen, Rodman and Kukoc would be more accurate. People forget Kukoc existed so much. He was as good as Heat Bosh.

Jordan's Bulls barely make it to the ECF without Pippen.

[Magic 32]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwq76p93U8

[nba_55]

Jordan's Bulls barely make it to the ECF without Pippen.

What? It's a known fact Jordan was 1-9 without Pippen, how he made ECF with 1 win?

[UK2K]

just outta curiosity, anyone know what "par/g" is?

Points above replacement/ game was my guess. Seems about right

Lebron thus far would be 60 points (in this case, pts, rebs, and assts) better than your average SF inbthe league.