Who Should Have been NBA champions since 1990-1991 NBA season

[robert_shaww]

Without refs rigging, bad luck or injuries (or all of them):

1991 Chicago Bulls
1992 Chicago Bulls
1993 New York Knicks
1994 Houston Rockets
1995 Phoenix Suns
1996 Chicago Bulls
1997 Chicago Bulls
1998 Chicago Bulls
1999 San Antonio Spurs
2000 Portland Blazers
2001 Los Angeles Lakers
2002 Sacramento Kings
2003 San Antonio Spurs
2004 San Antonio Spurs
2005 San Antonio Spurs
2006 San Antonio Spurs
2007 Phoenix Suns
2008 Boston Celtics
2009 Boston Celtics
2010 Boston Celtics
2011 Miami Heat
2012 Miami Heat
2013 San Antonio Spurs
2014 San Antonio Spurs


I can explain any given year

[fpliii]

Why'd you go with the Knicks over the Rockets in 93?

[robert_shaww]

Why'd you go with the Knicks over the Rockets in 93?

knicks up 2-0 vs chicago, rigged play in last seconds of game 5, was a clear foul. houston?? phoenix won the west that year.

[Magic 32]

2011 Miami Heat


:biggums:



2012 Miami Heat


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[fpliii]

knicks up 2-0 vs chicago, rigged play in last seconds of game 5, was a clear foul. houston?? phoenix won the west that year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax9n6JJgq-E

[robert_shaww]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax9n6JJgq-E

nice video...houston would have lost against the suns in 93. (i know they won in 94 and 95...but not in 93...im sure)

[fpliii]

nice video...houston would have lost against the suns in 93. (i know they won in 94 and 95...but not in 93...im sure)
Hakeem disagrees:

We beat the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the playoffs and faced the Seattle Supersonics in the Western Conference semifinals. They had home-court advantage.

We'd had trouble all year with the Sonics because their style of play was not something we could ever really design a game plan for; their game was never really organized, they scrambled all over the place. They pressed, they pressured us, they jumped in front of me and made it difficult for me even to get the ball into the post to start our offense. It was scrappy, unorganized basketball but it worked for them. On offense all season long they got balance scoring from Ricky Pierce, Sean Kemp, Eddie Johnson, Gary Payton, Derrick McKey, and Sam Perkins.

The first six games were all won by the home team. The series began in Seattle and they went up 2-0, we came back to Houston and tied them 2-2, we traded home victories, and game seven was played in the Seattle Superdome.

The game was close and in the last minutes the referees kept giving the ball to the Sonics. Seattle threw passes out of bounds several times but the refs kept ruling we had touched them. These phantom deflections gave the Sonics the ball and they finally won. If the game had been played in Houston, most likely we would have won it.

Everybody on the Rockets was tremendously disappointed. In the locker room afterward we weren't ready to stop playing. We had been thinking about a championship; that's what we always thought about at the beginning of a season, that's the goal. But there's a difference between saying you can win a championship and really seeing it in front of you. We really *saw* a championship. The winner of our series against Seattle would play Phoenix and then Chicago. It was clear in all of our minds that we were a better team than Seattle, and we felt we could beat both Phoenix and Chicago. I told my teammates, "We go from here."

I watched the NBA finals at home on TV and looked at the players and looked at the teams and knew we should have been there.

[robert_shaww]

Hakeem disagrees:

are you a rockets fan?

[fpliii]

are you a rockets fan?
Lakers fan, though I started watching in 92-93, which was the start of Hakeem's peak, so I have a bit of a soft spot for him.

[Real14]

Why'd you go with the Knicks over the Rockets in 93?
:coleman:

[Real14]

did I made a thread on this already:confusedshrug:

[fpliii]

:coleman:
Bro, maybe the Knicks are the right answer in 93, but Houston was fleeced.

[Real14]

Bro, maybe the Knicks are the right answer in 93, but Houston was fleeced.
if it weren't for Jordan tha knicks would of won that year.

[robert_shaww]

honestly, i forgot about those calls in game 7....but overall, i think the 93 suns were better than houston that year...but....considering what happened in 94 and 95...really...you could be right.

[robert_shaww]

if it weren't for Jordan tha knicks would of won that year.

last play of ECF game 5 decided the season....i still cant believe that sequence...you know what im talking about, right?

[Real14]

honestly, i forgot about those calls in game 7....but overall, i think the 93 suns were better than houston that year...but....considering what happened in 94 and 95...really...you could be right.
he's wrong. It would of been tha knicks and suns if Jordan got injured.

[robert_shaww]

he's wrong. It would of been tha knicks and suns if Jordan got injured.

i said the knicks...but he is not THAT wrong...he has a good point.

[Real14]

i said the knicks...but he is not THAT wrong...he has a good point.
mvp barkley and tha 93 suns were not gonna let that happen. Hakeem wasn't about that life yet:no:

[nightprowler10]

How do you have the Heat in 2011? LeBron wasn't injured.

[Real14]

How do you have the Heat in 2011? LeBron wasn't injured.
2011 should have been tha lakers tho.

[fpliii]

2011 should have been tha lakers tho.
Maybe, but Shannon Brown did Pau dirty, turning him into a bitch in the playoffs (and he was good during the season). :facepalm

[robert_shaww]

How do you have the Heat in 2011? LeBron wasn't injured.

game 2 of the finals: 88-71 with 7min left. just bad luck.

[Real14]

Maybe, but Shannon Brown did Pau dirty, turning him into a bitch in the playoffs (and he was good during the season). :facepalm
yea that was absurd. It would of been nice to see kobe win his 6th ring but I think that's also a conspiracy because I don't think stern wanted him to have tha same rings as Jordan.

[Roundball_Rock]

Without refs and injuries (I will also add in parentheses who the runner-up should have been minus refs and injuries):

1991 Chicago Bulls
1992 Chicago Bulls
1993 Chicago Bulls
1994 Phoenix Suns
1995 Orlando Magic
1996 Chicago Bulls
1997 Chicago Bulls
1998 Utah Jazz
1999 San Antonio Spurs
2000 Portland Blazers
2001 Los Angeles Lakers
2002 Los Angeles Lakers
2003 San Antonio Spurs
2004 Los Angeles Lakers
2005 Miami Heat
2006 Miami Heat
2007 Phoenix Suns
2008 Boston Celtics
2009 Boston Celtics
2010 Los Angeles Lakers
2011 Los Angeles Lakers
2012 Oklahoma City Thunder
2013 Miami Heat
2014 San Antonio Spurs

[fpliii]

yea that was absurd. It would of been nice to see kobe win his 6th ring but I think that's also a conspiracy because I don't think stern wanted him to have tha same rings as Jordan.
Never mess with your teammate's girl. :no:

I don't know if it was a conspiracy though. In the West playoffs (he cooled down in the Finals), Dirk was a monster.

[Real14]

Never mess with your teammate's girl. :no:

I don't know if it was a conspiracy though. In the West playoffs (he cooled down in the Finals), Dirk was a monster.
yea true but what about tha next year when stern messed up tha lakers with that veto trade for chris paul, basketball reasons my ass:coleman:

[fpliii]

yea true but what about tha next year when stern messed up tha lakers with that veto trade for chris paul, basketball reasons my ass:coleman:
Don't remind me. :facepalm

[Y2ktors]

Lakers fan, though I started watching in 92-93, which was the start of Hakeem's peak, so I have a bit of a soft spot for him.

Better than a hard spot. :lol

[Y2ktors]

Why Phoenix in 1995?

[coolhandsteve]

Why Phoenix in 1995?

yeah I thought the Spurs could've taken it all if Hakeem hadn't lost his mind. At least it would've been a great series between them and the Magic.