Let me see if I understand your logic correctly: Tim Duncan is not elite, because he had the benefit of playing with other "good" players and never won any of his 5 rings back to back, but Karl Malone, a player who played with the ASSISTS LEADER OF ALL MOTHERFUCKING TIME and who has no rings at all is the best at his…

This is some Bayless-type logic if I ever heard of it. I mean, you can say all this shit but no one on the planet agrees with you.

Here man, just read this and this and this from top to bottom. Make sure to pay attention to these following highlights: 2 time MVP. 3 time finals MVP. 6th all time in win shares. 6th all time in win shares. Yes I wrote that twice on purpose. He has a career PER of 24.6 and his career is 17 years running. His career…

Well, as with most contracts, in theory, the player always fills a hypothetical need upon signing. The problem, as with Dampier, is that before the new CBA, contracts were a year or two longer (can't remember which), thus locking players in for that much longer and for that much more money. Damp's deal was for 7…

Every year? He's kind of been a defensive anchor that the Spurs have been able to count on since the 90s, or did you think interior defenses anchored themselves? For instance this year he led the team in RPG and BPG, which I'm guessing he's done more than once for the Spurs. Better question? When was the last time…

Willis was coming off a knee surgery that caused him to miss the entire previous season, Tree Rollins would never play really significant minutes for anyone again, and the Pistons themselves already made an overpriced offer to him.
I really think it was much more just a panicked arms race decision to fend off a rival…

If I remember correctly though, the Koncak signing ushered in the wave of overpaid contracts that followed in the 90s, which many players ultimately benefited from. I always looked at that deal as more of the harbinger of the modern NBA that was to come than as a disproportionate deal offered to a guy because of his…

Dirk's run in '11 is pretty close. Next best player is who- Old J-Kidd or Tyson Chandler, right?

ETA: Shit, didn't see someone else had already listed this until now.

Andre Williams shits on both these guys.

I thought it was Pennsyltucky, and I thought it already existed, and I thought we all agreed to never speak of it.

Uh, did you look at the guy? What is he ever gonna ride besides a Harley?

He was also pretty decent at clearing the defensive glass for much of his career, a fact often overlooked when assessing his defensive contributions.

I'm sure you're talking about a lot of the latter stuff he did with Elvin, but Impulse! era Coltrane is amazing. Classic quartet is easily one of the best bands ever assembled, and on a lot of those recordings you can actually hear the band interacting vocally, the recordings are so intimate. They are actually some of…

This is one of the better exchanges I've read here.

Not taking sides here, but this seems pertinent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
and this
http://www.skepticalraptor.com/logicalfallacy…

I'm saying at the point of this video it's pretty clear everyone is standing around. Are tensions high? Yeah, but that's sort of what cops get paid to deal with. Kind of their jobs. Is it at least plausible that given the sitch these cops were a little more than trigger happy? Also, you couldn't find a better example…

Nope. Not even close, but good selective summary.

This is a bad example to prove your point. If you watch the whole video, what you see here is a bunch of cops standing around doing dick all as usual, being filmed doing dick all, and then starting a conflict with a man minding his business and well within his rights filming them doing dick all. This is the vid you…

He's good at reading stats that almost, kind of apply to the play happening in front of him. I'll give you that.

Hubie Brown is pretty fuckin' terrible in his own right.