Biggest "what ifs" for your favorite team

[Jameerthefear]

Like for instance I think if we didn't resign Hedo and trade for Gilbert we might have had the money to afford CP3, and I think he would have came here. Just a what if though.

[Legends66NBA7]

What if the Raptors drafted better ?

*Sees a whole history of failure*

[CelticBaller]

If Len Bias/Reggie lewis hadn't died. One of the most recent ones though, if KG had not gotten injured in 09, and Perkins in 10

[MP.Trey]

What if we drafted Darko instead of LeBron? :facepalm

[TheReal Kendall]

Too many "what ifs" for the Suns to name.

They had a lot of good players they let go

[Black and White]

If Len Bias/Reggie lewis hadn't died. One of the most recent ones though, if KG had not gotten injured in 09, and Perkins in 10

We would have won that title

[Dr. Ice]

what if josh smith hadnt been an idiot and played like the person we all thought he could be

[Alan Ogg]

What if Wade didn't get injured in the playoffs '04-'05.

[The JKidd Kid]

What if the Knicks never ****ed over the Nets during the NBA ABA merger and the Nets were able to keep Dr J.

[Black and White]

What if we drafted Darko instead of LeBron? :facepalm

Then the city of Detriot would be burning LeBrons jerseys instead

[Black and White]

I also think, what if Gilbert Arenas and Tracy McGrady never got injured.

[MP.Trey]

Then the city of Detriot would be burning LeBrons jerseys instead
:lol

Imagine LeBron on that Pistons team though? :bowdown:

Billups-Hamilton-Bron-Wallace-Wallace

Prince as the 6th man.

[SpecialQue]

What if the Lakers agreed to the proposed Nick Van Exel for Jason Kidd trade?

I remember reading that the Lakers could have signed Dr. J when he entered the NBA. Kareem and Dr. J on the same team? :biggums:

[Black and White]

:lol

Imagine LeBron on that Pistons team though? :bowdown:

Billups-Hamilton-Bron-Wallace-Wallace

Prince as the 6th man.

It would have been a great team to watch, thats for sure.

[Jameerthefear]

Then the city of Detriot would be burning LeBrons jerseys instead
might have won a championship tbh...

[Black and White]

might have won a championship tbh...

They would probably have won the title again, thats for sure, but then he still would have gone to miami after the other players got old.

[TheMarkMadsen]

might have won a championship tbh...

Really going out on a limb there Jameer

:facepalm

[Suguru101]

might have won a championship tbh...


:biggums:

[Jameerthefear]

I honestly don't think he's aware that they won a championship that very same year
i am...

[CelticBaller]

I honestly don't think he's aware that they won a championship that very same year
for his sake, i hope he's being sarcastic :lol

[TheMarkMadsen]

i am...


No you didn't

Look at your post

I don't think your sarcasm is that subtle..

[Black and White]

i am...

Then why ask the question?

[Jameerthefear]

would have won more championships*

[Xiao Yao You]

What if Larry Miller wasn't cheap and Karl Malone wasn't a choker and Stockton had been more selfish and Sloan didn't have lifetime job security...

[hawkfan]

What if the Hawks had drafted Karl Malone instead of Jon Koncak?

What if the Hawks hadn't traded away Pau Gasol and HAD drafted Tony Parker (same draft)?

What if the Hawks had drafted Andrew Bynum instead of Marvin Williams?

[Uncle Drew]

Not my team, but what if:

- Fisher didn't hit that shot in 2004
- Manu didn't foul Dirk in 2006
- Ray Allen didn't hit that shot in game 6, 2013

Duncan: 99, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 13

:eek:

[TheMarkMadsen]

might have won a championship tbh...



would have won more championships*

Oh I see, just a simple typo..

[Legends66NBA7]

What if the Hawks had drafted Karl Malone instead of Jon Koncak?

What if the Hawks hadn't traded away Pau Gasol and HAD drafted Tony Parker (same draft)?

What if the Hawks had drafted Andrew Bynum instead of Marvin Williams?

Wouldn't you rather have Chris Paul/Deron Williams instead of Bynum ?

[alec613]

We would have won that title

What if Bynum wasn't playing with just one leg?

[TheMarkMadsen]

My 2 what ifs are from the last lakers championship teams.

What if Ariza & Bynum aren't injured for the 2008 playoffs

What if Stern doesn't take Cp3 off the lakers.

I think we see a 3peat, maybe a 4peat.

Lakers took the 08 Celtics to 6 games and the Lakers were missing 2 starters.

By 2011 Lakers were worn down from 3 finals due to their lack of depth, adding Cp3 in 2011 with an All star Bynum plus more rest and less work for Kobe...

Who knows man

[Black and White]

What if Bynum wasn't playing with just one leg?

Dunno, that could go either way

[Jameerthefear]

What if Larry Miller wasn't cheap and Karl Malone wasn't a choker and Stockton had been more selfish and Sloan didn't have lifetime job security...
how did karl choke? serious question never saw him play

[DaSeba5]

What if Wade was healthy against the Pistons in 04-05?

What if the Heat won the lottery and drafted Rose instead of Beasely?

What if LeBron showed up in the 2011 Finals?

[Xiao Yao You]

how did karl choke? serious question never saw him play

By playing his worst ball when it counted most.

[CelticBaller]

how did karl choke? serious question never saw him play
Never heard of the good ol saying "The Mailman doesn't deliver on sunday"?

[Legends66NBA7]

Never heard of the good ol saying "The Mailman doesn't deliver on sunday"?

He said he never watched him play. Doubt he's heard about the quote either.

[CelticBaller]

He said he never watched him play. Doubt he's heard about the quote either.
Surprised, it gets thrown out a lot in the bball community

[Killbot]

What if the Thunder team never existed and Sonics stayed in Seattle?

[alec613]

What if 2peat Rockets faced the Bulls with the superstar in their 2 year title run?

[SamuraiSWISH]

If the GOAT, #23, didn't get depressed about his father's death and take a 2 year baseball sabbatical.

:(

Potential 2 more championships, the first ever team to win 4 straight, 2 more MVPs, ridiculous accumulative career stats for Jordan, and the possibility of 7 or 8 championships over the span of a decade.

They're already the most dominant team of the modern era but seriously ... 2 championships possibly left on the table pisses me off.

Hell, if Krause wasn't cheap, they could've even competed as a legit threat with a few more youthful players in the 1999 lockout season too.

[alec613]

If the GOAT, #23, didn't get depressed about his father's death and take a 2 year baseball sabbatical.

:(

Potential 2 more championships, the first ever team to win 4 straight, 2 more MVPs, ridiculous accumulative career stats for Jordan, and the possibility of 7 or 8 championships over the span of a decade.

They're already the most dominant team of the modern era but seriously ... 2 championships possibly left on the table pisses me off.

Hell, if Krause wasn't cheap, they could've even competed as a legit threat with a few more youthful players in the 1999 lockout season too.

Hakeem wouldn't be in top 10 conversation. He'd pretty much become another Ewing

[Xiao Yao You]

If the GOAT, #23, didn't get depressed about his father's death and take a 2 year baseball sabbatical.

:(

Potential 2 more championships, the first ever team to win 4 straight, 2 more MVPs, ridiculous accumulative career stats for Jordan, and the possibility of 7 or 8 championships over the span of a decade.

They're already the most dominant team of the modern era but seriously ... 2 championships possibly left on the table pisses me off.

Hell, if Krause wasn't cheap, they could've even competed as a legit threat with a few more youthful players in the 1999 lockout season too.

Reinsdorf is cheap. Krause had the huge ego.

[jzek]

What if Oden can play 15 mins per game in the playoffs?

[MP.Trey]

What if Yao Ming and Nate Robinson switched bodies?

[O_City_Thunder]

What if Lebron would have been hurt during the 2012 Finals? :confusedshrug:

[SamuraiSWISH]

Reinsdorf is cheap. Krause had the huge ego.
Yea, I know. I just made an amalgamation of the two. Krause is the figure head for my dislike.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

What if Kareem had got drafted in the 80's and played through the 90's? What would he and Magic do that decade. :eek:

[Legends66NBA7]

What if Kareem had got drafted in the 80's and played through the 90's? What would he and Magic do that decade. :eek:

Laker fans will conveniently throw out the "90's is a watered down era" argument.

:oldlol:

[SamuraiSWISH]

What if Kareem had got drafted in the 80's and played through the 90's? What would he and Magic do that decade. :eek:
Does Magic still cowardly manipulate his way onto the Lakers to play with an established star like Kareem to make winning easier, and come to him sooner because he was afraid to transform a bad franchise into a contender?

[TheMarkMadsen]

What if Kareem had got drafted in the 80's and played through the 90's? What would he and Magic do that decade. :eek:

Bulls v Lakers 10 years in a row.

Jordan doesn't retire due to not winning every year

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Laker fans will conveniently throw out the "90's is a watered down era" argument.

:oldlol:

Yeah. :oldlol: Though, to be fair, that nonsense was mostly from Kobe fanbois. "Jordan played against white 5'9" volley ball players." Hah! You name the player in the 90's, he was a WEAK midget.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Does Magic still cowardly manipulate his way onto the Lakers to play with an established star like Kareem to make winning easier, and come to him sooner because he was afraid to transform a bad franchise into a contender?


Bulls v Lakers 10 years in a row.

Jordan doesn't retire due to not winning every year

My thoughts exactly.

[Fudge]

What if OKC had Tyson Chandler rather than Perkins... It was SO close to happening too. Chandler just failed his fcking physical. Bastard.

[97 bulls]

What if Jordan didn't abruptly retire after the 93 season?

What if Jerry Krause kept that team together in 99? Or even more until they lost.

[LAZERUSS]

Worthy's passing blunder in game two, and Magic's FT misses near the end of game four of the '84 Finals...or as Bird himself said, "They should have swept us."


And what if Billy Cunningham hadn't missed the entire series; Luke Jackson and Wali Jones had not been injured in game five; and Chamberlain not having to play with an assortment of injuries, and noticeably limping throughout...in the '68 EDF's?

[D-Wade316]

What if Wade was healthy against the Pistons in 04-05?

What if the Heat won the lottery and drafted Rose instead of Beasely?

What if LeBron showed up in the 2011 Finals?
All the three above.

[K Xerxes]

A few what ifs for the Bulls have already been mentioned (and of course... what if Derrick Rose could stay healthy) but we won 6 championships and claim the GOAT. Don't care really.

[razzredazzre]

What if the whole modaphuvcking Bulls roster was in great health from 2011-current.
:mad:

[HylianNightmare]

what if jameer nelson didn't try to come back in the god damn finals against the lakers and skip could have kept ballin out against old man fisher in the finals

[Fudge]

OR ...what if Harden didn't wet the bed in the 2012 Finals. Pretty sure OKC would've won the chip.

[LAZERUSS]

Chamberlain gets ripped for his post-season "decline", but how about these "what-if's"?

In the 61-62 EDF's, Wilt averaged 33.6 ppg on .468 shooting against Russell and the Celtics. In the process, his team, and with his teammates collectively shooting .354 in the entire post-season, lost a game seven to Boston by two points.

Russell, who averaged 22.0 ppg on a .398 FG% against Wilt in that series, went on to average 22.9 ppg on a .543 FG% against the Lakers, in a seven game series win. And in that seventh game, Russell scored 30 points with 40 rebounds.

Now, if Wilt's teammates could have just scored three more points, it would have been Wilt feasting on LA in the Finals that year. Think about this...in his nine regular season H2H's with LA that year, Chamberlain averaged 51.5 ppg on a .500 FG%. Included were three games of 60+. Oh, and Wilt's high game against the Lakers? 78 points and 43 rebounds.



How about Wilt's 64-65 EDF's? Against Russell's Celtics, and in a seven game series in which his team lost the seventh game by one point...Chamberlain put up a 30.1 ppg, 31.4 rpg, .555 FG% series. Oh, and he held Russell to 15.6 ppg, 25.3 rpg, and a .447 FG%.

In the '65 Finals, Russell put up a 17.8 ppg, 25.0 rpg, .702 FG% Finals. What kind of numbers would Chamberlain have shelled LA with had his teammates been able to score two more points in that game seven?

[livingby3's]

What if Stoudemire and Diaw weren't suspended.

What if Jason Richardson had boxed out Ron Artest for the rebound.

[Bernie Nips]

My 2 what ifs are from the last lakers championship teams.

What if Ariza & Bynum aren't injured for the 2008 playoffs

What if Stern doesn't take Cp3 off the lakers.

I think we see a 3peat, maybe a 4peat.

Lakers took the 08 Celtics to 6 games and the Lakers were missing 2 starters.

By 2011 Lakers were worn down from 3 finals due to their lack of depth, adding Cp3 in 2011 with an All star Bynum plus more rest and less work for Kobe...

Who knows man

I'll give you Bynum, who wasn't anywhere near as good as Bynum a few years later, but Ariza? First of all, he wasn't a starter:

2007-08 for Lakers: 24 games, 3 starts.

Boy did they miss his 6.5/3.5/1.5 in 18 minutes. Most certainly why they lost in 6.

[CelticBaller]

I'll give you Bynum, who wasn't anywhere near as good as Bynum a few years later, but Ariza? First of all, he wasn't a starter:

2007-08 for Lakers: 24 games, 3 starts.

Boy did they miss his 6.5/3.5/1.5 in 18 minutes. Most certainly why they lost in 6.
The Celtics had the series in their hands, i doubt bynum would have done shit. look at the 2010 finals, it went to 7 games and it looked like the Celtics where bound to win it before perk went down

[Scholar]

What if Magic Johnson never got HIV?

[Stringer Bell]

What if the Warriors throughout history hadn't made such brilliant decisions like:

-Trading Robert Parish & the #3 pick (used for Kevin Mchale) for Joe Barely Cares & Rickey Brown.

-Trading Bernard King for Michael Ray Richardson

-Breaking up Run TMC by trading Mitch Richmond for Billy Owens? Owens actually was pretty decent in his 3 years with GS and gets kind of underrated, but still, he's levels below Mitch Richmond

-Picking Todd Fuller over the likes of Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Peja, J. O'Neal, Big Z.

-Drafting Mike Dunleavy Jr. and later giving him that contract.

-Drafting Ekpe Udoh

[JohnFreeman]

What if the refs didn't show up?

[97 bulls]

If the GOAT, #23, didn't get depressed about his father's death and take a 2 year baseball sabbatical.

:(

Potential 2 more championships, the first ever team to win 4 straight, 2 more MVPs, ridiculous accumulative career stats for Jordan, and the possibility of 7 or 8 championships over the span of a decade.

They're already the most dominant team of the modern era but seriously ... 2 championships possibly left on the table pisses me off.

Hell, if Krause wasn't cheap, they could've even competed as a legit threat with a few more youthful players in the 1999 lockout season too.
This. Theres no doubt in my mind that the Bulls win nine straight championships had Jordan not retired, and we had committed management.

I also wonder how the Bulls would've faired in 2013 had they still had a fully healthy Derrick Rose.

[97 bulls]

What if the Warriors throughout history hadn't made such brilliant decisions like:

-Trading Robert Parish & the #3 pick (used for Kevin Mchale) for Joe Barely Cares & Rickey Brown.

-Trading Bernard King for Michael Ray Richardson

-Breaking up Run TMC by trading Mitch Richmond for Billy Owens? Owens actually was pretty decent in his 3 years with GS and gets kind of underrated, but still, he's levels below Mitch Richmond

-Picking Todd Fuller over the likes of Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Peja, J. O'Neal, Big Z.

-Drafting Mike Dunleavy Jr. and later giving him that contract.

-Drafting Ekpe Udoh
Lol ouch

[Magic 32]

http://espn.go.com/photo/2006/0520/nba_g_thomas_395.jpg

Would totally recast Kobe's peak years.

Killed the hallway series.

[Clyde]

Like for instance I think if we didn't resign Hedo and trade for Gilbert we might have had the money to afford CP3, and I think he would have came here. Just a what if though.

or what if Grant Hill were healthy.

or Nick Anderson Makes some free throws

or Courtney Lee doesn't miss a wide open lay up in the finals.

or Penny doesn't shot like garbage in game 1 of the finals

Sports are full of what if's.