Definitely not the Magic Johnson/Showtime Lakers

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Definitely not the Magic Johnson/Showtime Lakers

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BYUBandfan

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I wish I could have experienced the NBA in the 90's

Icelandic Cougar

Mar 27, 1:19pm

Life peaked in the 80s and 90s. I feel sorry for those who missed it.

Tokolosh

Mar 27, 1:21pm

Listening to Stephan A go off this morning on Lebron

braddahmike

Mar 27, 1:27pm

Ok Boomer

Toubibe

Mar 27, 1:35pm

RE: Ok Boomer

Tokolosh

Mar 27, 1:37pm

RE: Ok Boomer

Toubibe

Mar 27, 1:48pm

RE: Life peaked in the 80s and 90s. I feel sorry for those who missed it.

Breaded Hamster

Mar 27, 4:51pm

No you don't. 90's basketball was just big guys beating the crap out of each other and scores often in the

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 1:23pm

The NBA is unwatchable now. The freedom of movement stuff,

Icelandic Cougar

Mar 27, 1:27pm

I'm not claiming the NBA is perfect, but the brand of basketball today is SO MUCH BETTER than

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 1:36pm

What is missing today is the passion, the rivalries, and the love of the game.

Tokolosh

Mar 27, 1:42pm

The biggest issue isn't that they are buddies, but that they are getting paid an obscene amount of money.

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 1:53pm

The average score in the '90s was 101.3

fredgarvin

Mar 27, 1:31pm

Stop spewing facts. It wasn't 150 with teams taking 50 threes per game so it was lame.

Mr. Belding

Mar 27, 1:38pm

Yes the early 90s were closer to the 80s. The 90s saw the bottom of scoring in the NBA culminating with 91.6 points per

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 1:44pm

Still a far cry from the "often in the 70s" claim you made

fredgarvin

Mar 27, 2:01pm

It was often in the 70s. For example in the 1998-99 playoffs the Spurs held their opponents

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 2:17pm

Sure, you can point to a few outliers in one season, especially from teams

fredgarvin

Mar 27, 2:29pm

LOL, I didn't use a list. I simply gave you real life examples.

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 2:37pm

LOL, from the lockout season. And 30 games out of 12,000 regular season games?

fredgarvin

Mar 27, 2:41pm

Actually I simply looked up the most important games of the season which are the playoffs when

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 2:43pm

Just talking to my good friend about this. He would tape “NBA inside stuff”

Idahoancoug91

Mar 27, 1:25pm

Jazz averaged over 100 points a game in the 90’s

Huck

Mar 27, 1:27pm

And their "best team of all-time" averaged 80.16 in a 6 game Finals

kimdaddy35

Mar 27, 2:19pm

Jordan, Stockton/Malone era NBA was awesome. It's hard to watch now.

BYUBandfan

Mar 27, 1:29pm

There are full games online from the 90s. Actually watch some instead of

Mar 27, 1:32pm

You can quite literally watch full games from the 90s. Spoiler alert:

Mar 27, 1:43pm

I remember at BYU basketball camp in 1994 listening to Mark Durant & Randy Reid

Undefeated

Mar 27, 1:44pm

There was period there where the NBA was watching a post player slowly back his

mudpupper

Mar 27, 1:51pm

Definitely not the Magic Johnson/Showtime Lakers

BYUBandfan

Mar 27, 2:00pm

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