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The unanimous voting is just because there wasn't that one idiot or few idiots who decided to be different and vote for someone else. I may be mistaken, but I think in the past, it was anonymous. Or at the very least, it wouldn't be all over the internet about "this is the guy who didn't vote for Jordan for MVP'. So no one wanted to be ridiculed for votes all over social media. Some of these votes, you just stratch your head. Someone voted for Karl Malone during the 1995-96 season over Jordan? Clyde Drexler got 12 votes for the 1991-92 season over Jordan? The only guy who voted for Allen Iverson for the 1999-00 season said he did so because the Lakers would be decent without Shaq but an Iverson-less 76er team would be awful. That was the same reasoning one guy gave for voting for Carmelo Anthony over LeBron for the 2012-13 season. http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_1992.html http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_1996.html http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_2000.html http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_2010.html http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_2013.html
The playoff alignment and Conference thing has been like that for awhile though. The Lakers usually had weak opposition in the West in the 80s, for instance facing two sub-.500 teams and a 42 win Warrior team in 1987 while the banged up Celtics faced two 50+ winning teams in the East, including the Bad Boy Pistons. In earlier years, the Celtics would have to face excellent 76er teams, as well as some very good Bucks teams. For the most part, the Western Conference was been far superior to the East since 1999. Once the Shaqobe Lakers got past the Blazers, Spurs, and Kings in the West, the finals were a given. Like the Super Bowls from 1984-1997. 2004 was a big upset as Detroit beat Los Angeles (I'm so glad that hebephilic scumbag child-abandoner Karl Malone did not get a ring) What kind of changes would you want? Perhaps a 1-16 seeding all around?
That might be an interesting way to go. It would also create a lot more strategy for Playoff seeding during the regular season. I doubt it would ever fly with the owners though, as it would create tougher travel situations early in the Playoffs. It might also create some very boring first round matchups, though the middle seeds could make up for that excitement level.
Maybe, but the Warriors should have won anyway. It was bad timing, Bogut ended up getting injured and couldn't provide that paint presence, but injuries are part of sports. Cavs were all injured last year. Warriors still 3 chances to close, 2 at home, and failed. There were a bunch of conspiracy theories, some of it extreme and I don't believe it, but I think the NBA will take the opportunity to try to make a series go longer, be as competitive as possible. The league helped (or tried to help) the Warriors against OKC, then helped Cleveland against GS, because those teams were losing in the series. Green should have been suspended for his groin kick that gave Steven Adams a testicular contusion. The Warriors were down 2-1, so the league goes "oh let's not suspend him for game 4". It turns out Green plays lousy in game 4, OKC goes up 3-1, and then GSW comes back to win. In the latter case, the Warriors were up 3-1, so the league goes "okay that's another flagrant, he is at the limit, time for suspension". If that had happened in game 6, or if Cleveland was up 3-1, it would have been fine and there'd be no suspension.
Pretty even salary swap for the next year and lets the Knicks sweep DRose off the books for the following year if he doesn't produce. Combined with Lopez that can save them $34 million the year after next, and Calderon would have been gone by then after that, so that's another $7 Mill. I think I'm doing the math right, so somebody correct me if I'm wrong. :: So either DRose produces next year and provides the Knicks with a watchable team for one season and they come off like genius's, or they cut bait after next season and have the resources to try and reload again.
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Better then Kobe absolutely. Don't think you'll find too many people outside Barkley parroting that opinion. Like they said, Barkley is actually really entertaining to me, but he's stubborn as fuck and he likes to be a contrarian sometimes.
To no one surprise, Ben Simmons is selected #1 by Philadelphia who will go for the anti-small ball starting line-up of PG: Random scrub SG: Ben Simmons SF: Nerlens Noel PF: Jahlil Okafor C: Joel Embiid
they also got ilyasova who can play. and not to mention ibaka's contract is up after this coming season.
