Is this the most brutal path for any playoff team ever?

[TheMagicMan]

Miami's road to the Finals:

43-win Bobcats (lottery team without Al Jefferson)

44-win Nets

44-win Wizards

http://legendofcecilioguante.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/earnednotgivien.jpg

[VengefulAngel]

Miami's road to the Finals:

43-win Bobcats (lottery team without Al Jefferson)

44-win Nets

44-win Wizards

Murderer's row :lol

3 peat...

[K Xerxes]

Very Showtime-esque

[Mr. Jabbar]

:roll:

[edrick]

about as brutal as SA going 4-0, 4-2, 4-0.

[VengefulAngel]

about as brutal as SA going 4-0, 4-2, 4-0.


^^ Finally.

[FireDavidKahn]

Really, it doesn't matter since they will face someone deserving that comes out of the West. Everyone knew that no team posed a threat to Miami in the east.

[crawdaddy4ou]

It's just a joke. The west is murder row and if the Lakers get back relevant. :facepalm

[SilkkTheShocker]

Looks like a typical Magic Johnson playoff run

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Lol @ the irony of somebody usernamed after Magic Johnson making this thread

[red1]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4149/5046091402_029de93f24.jpg

[Mr. Incredible]

Cheer up bro.

[Trollsmasher]

Looks like the 1st Bulls title (or was it 3rd?) or a random Showtime Lakers

[#number6ix#]

It arguably is one of the toughest runs ever... Just think how hard it is to get mentally prepared to play garabage teams round after round...west teams are lucky they have decent competition

[ABfor3]

Well Nobody expected the Pacers to fall apart, other than them there was really no competition in the East.

[Fazotronic]

http://legendofcecilioguante.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/earnednotgivien.jpg

WTF? why would he wear that shirt? iam not a lebron hater by any means but after joining forces in miami it makes him look hella insecure.
like he tries to convince someone. he shouldn't even care smh

[ArbitraryWater]

Hey, "MagicMan",

1981: WCF between Kansas City(5th) & Rockets(6th), two 41-41 Teams..
1984: WCF between the Lakers and the 41-41 Rockets
1987: WCF between the Lakers and the 39-43 Sonics...

The #3 seed in the West in 1987 won 49 games, 44 games were enough to get HCA in the first round with the #4 seed.

Damn, some grueling competition on the way to the Finals there...

If this is not watered down and weak competition what is?


(Seattle did not have a single 50+ game winning season from 1983 until 1993. If 1987 were an anomaly for an otherwise very good team that would be something else but clearly that team was simply mediocre.)

[Kblaze8855]

Lakers once played 37, 42, and 39 win teams to make the finals. They did it as a 65 win team with 3 hall of famers starting(2 of them still in their primes) and their 3rd through 5th best players being 17-20ppg Byron Scott, soon to be all star Ac Green, and that seasons DPOY Michael Cooper. They had Pat Riley as coach. A 3 game first round. And this team was just poetry in motion....they once took a 36 point first quarter lead that season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwdRWIwCEPo

The west should have forfeit to the Lakers about half of that decade.

[AnaheimLakers24]

no one takes their wins serious. we all know they colluded

ASTERISKS

[jimmy77x]

WTF? why would he wear that shirt? iam not a lebron hater by any means but after joining forces in miami it makes him look hella insecure.
like he tries to convince someone. he shouldn't even care smh

Because Lebeta is insecure. Has had everything handed to him on a silver platter. "Earned not given" :lol Hilarious.

[crawdaddy4ou]

Why do you think Bran chimed in on the Mr. Unreliable headline? Talking about free agency. He wants KD to take the same route to collusion and not be a Jordan or Bird or Isaiah, back when that wasn't even thought of.

[plowking]

Didn't you guys hear? Nets are 4-0 against the Heat. They should be able to sweep the Heat.