2012-2014 Miami Heat = 1996-1998 Chicago Bulls

[NumberSix]

2012 thunder = 1996 Supersonics
2013-2014 Spurs = 1997-1998 Jazz

[Rose'sACL]

2012 thunder had more talent that the sonics. Can't comment about teams as it all depends on matchups.

[Solefade]

truu

[Im Still Ballin]

America's ****ing team. Godbless, the Miami Heat!
http://image.patriotpost.us/2012-05-24-alexander-6.jpg

[plowking]

Thunder are better than the Sonics, and Spurs are better than the Jazz though.

[Real14]

Mods.

[juju151111]

Thunder are better than the Sonics, and Spurs are better than the Jazz though.
:facepalm sit Ur dumbaas down

[Dresta]

Thunder are better than the Sonics, and Spurs are better than the Jazz though.
No way man. That Sonics team was really good those playoffs, Payton and Kemp tore through Houston and Utah.

Spurs are better than the Jazz though, who needed a perennial big moment shrinker to come up big if they were ever gonna win a title.

[plowking]

No way man. That Sonics team was really good those playoffs, Payton and Kemp tore through Houston and Utah.

Spurs are better than the Jazz though, who needed a perennial big moment shrinker to come up big if they were ever gonna win a title.

I love that Sonics team, but they weren't as good as the Thunder.

You had Durant, a 30ppg scorer, and his second option Westbrook, along with a great defensive player in Ibaka, with James Harden, a 20+ppg scorer coming off the bench. George Karl is a great coach, but they don't make it up over the Thunder just based on that. The talent favors the Thunder.

[TheMan]

Thunder are better than the Sonics, and Spurs are better than the Jazz though.
:facepalm A bunch of wet behind the ears 22 year olds...

Everything is better today. The 86 Celtics wouldn't make the playoffs today, fact. Those 87 Lakers, garbage. The 96 Bulls = 2014 Charlotte Bobcats. BTW, how long until the 2000 Shaq/Lakers are crap? Two years?

[Just2McFly]

:facepalm A bunch of wet behind the ears 22 year olds...

Everything is better today. The 86 Celtics wouldn't make the playoffs today, fact. Those 87 Lakers, garbage. The 96 Bulls = 2014 Charlotte Bobcats. BTW, how long until the 2000 Shaq/Lakers are crap? Two years?
You took it too far

[TheMan]

You took it too far
Plowking is the king of 'everthing is better today'. He probably really does believe that.

[ArbitraryWater]

:facepalm A bunch of wet behind the ears 22 year olds...

Everything is better today. The 86 Celtics wouldn't make the playoffs today, fact. Those 87 Lakers, garbage. The 96 Bulls = 2014 Charlotte Bobcats. BTW, how long until the 2000 Shaq/Lakers are crap? Two years?

got too excited

[ArbitraryWater]

Plowking is the king of 'everthing is better today'. He probably really does believe that.

u done switched it up son... its your asses that say everything used to be better.. I mean come on, those kemp/payton sonic over durant/westbrook/harden/ibaka?

[Dresta]

I love that Sonics team, but they weren't as good as the Thunder.

You had Durant, a 30ppg scorer, and his second option Westbrook, along with a great defensive player in Ibaka, with James Harden, a 20+ppg scorer coming off the bench. George Karl is a great coach, but they don't make it up over the Thunder just based on that. The talent favors the Thunder.
And all of them were either 22 or 23 years old, and none of them (except Ibaka who wasn't close to the player he is today) could play defense. Harden was utterly worthless in the finals (and still is utterly worthless in pressure situations when the going isn't good) and also one of the worst perimeter defenders i've ever seen. They also had chuckbrook chucking shots incredibly inefficiently (while not playing defense).

Durant was really the only guy they had capable of performing at that level in 2012, and he was still only 23. Raw talent does not make a great team - you need experience and great basketball iq for that.

[TheMan]

u done switched it up son... its your asses that say everything used to be better.. I mean come on, those kemp/payton sonic over durant/westbrook/harden/ibaka?
Come on man, those 2012 Thunder aren't even the best versions of KD, RW, Ibaka and Harden. They were 22 at the time, youngest team to make the NBA Finals, of course maturity wise they weren't all there. The 12 Thunder had more potential than the 96 Sonics but as a team at those points of time, 96 Sonics > 12 Thunder. Tony Allen made life hell for MVP KD, imagine the Glove on 22 year old KD.:facepalm

[Solefade]

And all of them were either 22 or 23 years old, and none of them (except Ibaka who wasn't close to the player he is today) could play defense. Harden was utterly worthless in the finals (and still is utterly worthless in pressure situations when the going isn't good) and also one of the worst perimeter defenders i've ever seen. They also had chuckbrook chucking shots incredibly inefficiently (while not playing defense).

Durant was really the only guy they had capable of performing at that level in 2012, and he was still only 23. Raw talent does not make a great team - you need experience and great basketball iq for that.


talent wise OKC is better even at that young age (WB scored 46 one game and they wouldn't have gotten past Spurs w/o Harden) but as a team and factoring in experience Sonics were better. Don't think it's that huge of a discrepancy though

[deja vu]

LOL no way the 2012 Thunder was better than the 1996 Sonics. The Sonics were a well oiled machine and the Thunder was a young dysfunctional team. Also, George Karl > Scott Brooks.