Unless of course you are the Lakers.
Teams that bypassed the rebuilding process (split)
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AriesMar27
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Unless of course you are the Lakers.
or celtics....
Unless of course you are the Lakers.
Hey, don't sell them short. They had to go through a rebuild, remember? They had to reluctantly agree to take Pau Gasol in trade for ... a half-eaten taco and three foam fingers?
Tetsujin
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Hey, don't sell them short. They had to go through a rebuild, remember? They had to reluctantly agree to take Pau Gasol in trade for ... a half-eaten taco and three foam fingers?
You're also forgetting that they also threw in a massive empty contract for good measure if I remember correctly.
Widowmaker2k
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The Celtics? They sucked for a while. They made the playoffs a few times on the Pierce/Walker combo, but to get where they are now, they drafted decently, and then traded a bunch of young talent for aging stars. And you know what? They got one championship out of it, and are now paying the price (aging stars get injured a lot). Was it worth it? Certainly. That one championship is more than we've had since the 50's, but I don't see them winning a chip for a while (though, as long as they face LA, I'll gladly cheer them on).
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are you serious? they tanked their way to 18 wins thinking that they would be getting greg oden and ended up with the 5th pick. then as we all know traded all of their assests for allen and kg. the only players that they kept were rondo and perkins because they needed a pg and center... they didnt work for anything, if kg hadnt gotten injured they'd be working on a threepeat right now.
The Celtics endured a long and painful rebuild, particularly by their standards. I moved to Boston right before Bird's final season. The next season would be their last playoff visit of the decade, in 1996 they began rebuilding around Antoine Walker, they attempted to tank the 97 season to land Tim Duncan and failed despite having their own 16 win pick and Dallas's pick that year. People were expecting not only Duncan but Keith Van Horn that year. One of those people was Rick Pitino who wound up drafting Chauncy Billups and Ron Mercer, traded for a bunch of other UK players such as "I Love Walter" McCarthy and tried to run his college press for 82 games.
The team would be awful for Pitino's 2.5 seasons though they did luck into drafting Paul Pierce 10th in 98 and he was axed for Jim O'Brien who finagled them to the playoffs in the god awful post-lockout East. Actually got as far as the Kings in 2001-2002 and then they began another long decline where they stockpiled youth.
90% of those kids would eventually be moved to acquire KG and they would win it all in 2008, 22 years after their last championship. The team that set the gold standard with 16 championships in the NBA's first 40 years went 22 more before they got one again with a vet heavy team that many expect to have a 2-3 year window at most. Where will they be when KG, Pierce and Allen are done?
The team would be awful for Pitino's 2.5 seasons though they did luck into drafting Paul Pierce 10th in 98 and he was axed for Jim O'Brien who finagled them to the playoffs in the god awful post-lockout East. Actually got as far as the Kings in 2001-2002 and then they began another long decline where they stockpiled youth.
90% of those kids would eventually be moved to acquire KG and they would win it all in 2008, 22 years after their last championship. The team that set the gold standard with 16 championships in the NBA's first 40 years went 22 more before they got one again with a vet heavy team that many expect to have a 2-3 year window at most. Where will they be when KG, Pierce and Allen are done?
Chupacabra
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The Spurs. They were a perenial playoff team for 10 years. Then they had one bad year and got to draft Tim Duncan. Not fair.
LPKingsFan
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The Spurs definitely got lucky and were able to rebound after one bad year by drafting Duncan. They've made the most of their luck, however, by drafting brilliantly year after year and being smart about trades and gree agency. The Lakers did have a dry spell during the mid-90s but did have Gasol dropped on their laps for nothing.
As Widowmaker and pdx pointed out, the Celtics do not fit the mold. Yes, the final year they did tank for Oden, but they were already consitently bad before.
As Widowmaker and pdx pointed out, the Celtics do not fit the mold. Yes, the final year they did tank for Oden, but they were already consitently bad before.
captain bill
All-Star
but duncan and nowitzki have been around every year and healthy during those runs. shifting role players around a star is not rebuilding. you could say the same thing about the lakers, that since they kept kobe through both runs it wasn't a true rebuild.
piksi
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well for the first 3 rings it wasn't as much Kobe as it was Shaq and the refs. When Shaq left lakers fell apart until Grizzlies decided to rebuild them.
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