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I’ll take him in Houston
The Official NBA Season Thread: NBA Cup Night
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Players don’t take the regular season as seriously as they did before . It would make sense for them not to give a single **** about the ASG . Since the media and fans in general have devalued regular season success .
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Outside of the ASG, I don’t even think this is true. We get all kinds of memes of frustrated players losing “meaningless” games all of the time. Lebron almost had a stroke on a non call. AD couldn’t even celebrate the scoring record being broken because they had lost 4 in a row.
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The league named Shaq a top 50 player all time like 3 years into his career.
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I asked is this a something new or not? It being intensified in this era doesn't mean it never happened before.
Cool. Shaq also was out there on the court playing damn near every game those years without a lot of the luxuries these new players have.
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But he was crowned before accomplishing anything. That’s the point you made
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Not saying players don’t care. Of course they do they just don’t care as much. Number of games played by the stars are down. Minutes are down etc.
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Had an Olympic gold medal, Finals appearance and scoring title by then no?
On top of all his college accolades
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I would say in 5 years winning Rookie of the Year, 5x All Star, 4x All NBA and making it to the finals in his 3rd year wasn't anything. And he wasn't elevated over his contemporaries ie Hakeem who were winning at the same juncture.
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They counted his college and Olympic stuff toward his NBA career? Look Shaq was already on pace, I get it. But the same old head energy being applied now was happening then.
“Shaq made the All-Time Top 50 team at just 23 years old?”: How the Lakers legend put his name up with the likes of Michael Jordan and Larry Bird at such a young age - The SportsRush
Shaq was named a top 50 player of all time back in 1997 for the NBA’s 50th anniversary at merely 23 years of age.
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What's funny is that we're obviously talking about Jokic 
HOU$TON
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Too much smoke for this not to happen. We just need to secure wemby. Do the right thing, Silver
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Right. I get it but what has he been crowned as that Shaq didn’t get prematurely crowned at 23What's funny is that we're obviously talking about Jokic
Shaq is better than jokic
Shaq is better than jokic
Shaq is better than Jokic.
For clarity
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You're lying to yourself if you say that what Shaq had done up until that point made him Top 50 of all time. A complete lie.
He was on the path and they guessed right.
He was on the path and they guessed right.
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Is that the winning metric we judge guys on today? It’s pretty much Ringzzz or bust
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Embiid is putting him through the rim and I can't wait
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Facts. They only want to take it serious when they need to win 15 of their last 16 games to get in the playoffs cause they tricked off the whole season.
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Imagine Luka getting in last year. That would probably be the equivalent
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I'm ok with the Spurs landing at #1
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