10 years ago the Spurs, Mavs, Lakers were top 4 West Seeds

[Deuce Bigalow]

lakers also missed the playoffs and dont have a better winning percentage then the spurs.

missed the playoffs once.
Won a dozen more playoff games, more titles, more western conference championships. Who cares about a couple of more regular season wins?

It's the Lakers ..gap.... Spurs ...gap.. everyone else

[chazzy]

[G-Funk]

Imagine if this guys teamed up like bitches. they would have owned the NBA

[talkingconch]

Lemme get this straight. NOT to discredit the Spurs or anything, they've been one HELL of a franchise the past 13 years, but theres actually posters in this thread saying that because the Spurs have a better winning percentage, they are the team of the decade? So now teams should just start competing for winning percentages instead of championships?

[LoneyROY7]

Ahhh, the days of baggy pants.

[Myth]

Imagine if this guys teamed up like bitches. they would have owned the NBA

Not 2, Not 3, Not 4.....

[linZoMourning]

Lemme get this straight. NOT to discredit the Spurs or anything, they've been one HELL of a franchise the past 13 years, but theres actually posters in this thread saying that because the Spurs have a better winning percentage, they are the team of the decade? So now teams should just start competing for winning percentages instead of championships?

its common knowledge spurs are team of the decade. there was a big thread about it awhile back

[Odinn]

Lemme get this straight. NOT to discredit the Spurs or anything, they've been one HELL of a franchise the past 13 years, but theres actually posters in this thread saying that because the Spurs have a better winning percentage, they are the team of the decade? So now teams should just start competing for winning percentages instead of championships?

Let's see...

2000-09 span;
Spurs 576-244 in rs. (1st)
Lakers 530-290 in rs. (3rd)

Spurs went to the Finals 3 times and won all of them. Only one time had first-round exit.
Lakers went to the Finals 6 times and won 4 of them. Missed playoffs once and had first-round exit twice.

Both team have a serious cases to be called the team of 2000's.


Here are the records of Duncan('99-'07) and Kobe('01-'10) in their prime;

Spurs 481-183 .724 in rs.
Spurs 87-42 .674 in po.
Spurs 568-225 .716 combined.
Spurs went to the Finals 4 times.
Spurs won it all 4 times.

Lakers 484-271 .641 in rs.
Lakers 99-49 .669 in po.
Lakers 583-320 .646 combined.
Lakers went to the Finals 6 times.
Lakers won it all 4 times.

Duncan has the same amount of rings and final mvps with Shaq, one more mvp. Shaq has more mvp shares than TD with a small difference.
Duncan has one more fmvp and one mvp than Kobe, Kobe has one more ring.

Maybe you don't say Duncan is the best or greatest player of his generation but he is the most successful one. And also it can be said for his team.

[Deuce Bigalow]

its common knowledge spurs are team of the decade. there was a big thread about it awhile back

okay think that

4>3. Fact.

[SevereUpInHere]

Let's see...

2000-09 span;
Spurs 576-244 in rs. (1st)
Lakers 530-290 in rs. (3rd)

Spurs went to the Finals 3 times and won all of them. Only one time had first-round exit.
Lakers went to the Finals 6 times and won 4 of them. Missed playoffs once and had first-round exit twice.

Both team have a serious cases to be called the team of 2000's.


Here are the records of Duncan('99-'07) and Kobe('01-'10) in their prime;

Spurs 481-183 .724 in rs.
Spurs 87-42 .674 in po.
Spurs 568-225 .716 combined.
Spurs went to the Finals 4 times.
Spurs won it all 4 times.

Lakers 484-271 .641 in rs.
Lakers 99-49 .669 in po.
Lakers 583-320 .646 combined.
Lakers went to the Finals 6 times.
Lakers won it all 4 times.

Duncan has the same amount of rings and final mvps with Shaq, one more mvp. Shaq has more mvp shares than TD with a small difference.
Duncan has one more fmvp and one mvp than Kobe, Kobe has one more ring.

Maybe you don't say Duncan is the best or greatest player of his generation but he is the most successful one. And also it can be said for his team.

Good post, but the Lakers have beat the Spurs in series 01, 02, 04 and 08. Spurs only beat LA once in 03 (twice if we are including 99) I think for that reason you've gotta give the edge to LA.

[D-Wade316]

Would have been 9 had the refs not been paid off in 2006...

Let's not get into this.

[R.I.P.]

Imagine if this guys teamed up like bitches. they would have owned the NBA

Yeah they would have really won eight championships together.

I think people always underestimate how much more crafty and professional these guys are than this new bunch of superstars, who rely on athletism and the soft touchy feely rules. That

[Punpun]

Imagine if this guys teamed up like bitches. they would have owned the NBA

Oh my. Forever peat. It'd be like the Lakers of now but with massive upgrade and being even more beastly. God this would have been beautiful to witness.

[Brunch@Five]

Duncan, Kobe + Dirk = Hakeem, Jordan, Malone of our generation.

[SacJB Shady]

It feels like Dejavu. Every single year for like the last 6 years I keep asking myself when are these guys gonna get old and just fall out? I have been telling myself every year this is it for the spurs. And there just always seems to be one more year. Same with Kobe. People were saying he's done and he just won't go away. Look at the Mavs, their old a$$es winning that title last year.