How am I to play for the Toronto Raptors, when there's no Andrea Bargnani available in the draft! Huge thumb down, CJ! :-)

Never heard of him, sorry

That’s fair.

Total transparency....I'm no longer an avid follower of the NBA and haven't been for quite some time!

I know all about the great Celtics/Lakers rivalry in the 70' & 80's. I watched Jordan's entire career and was fascinated when Shaq entered the league with the Magic and his subsequent move to the Lakers.

I remember vividly those nasty Detroit Piston teams and cheered when Jordan finally got past them. I loved Stockton & Malone and hoped Barkley would win a Title when he went to the Sun's.

I grew up a fan of the Bullets and Moses Malone but by the time LeBron entered the league, I slowly lost interest in the league and watched less & less.

Now, I don't watch it at all and I'm just minimally aware of what is going on in the league. It's a different game now with players making millions taking "maintenance games"!

It's funny listening to them justifying why they need days off when they don't play all 12 months and make so much money. Jordan was lucky to get a few minutes a game off and he complained about being taken out of the game.

I know I'm an old man complaining about how thing use to be but it's true that this is a much different world then the world I grew up in. Some things are way better but some things are way dumber!

Loved the showtime Lakers
I am from Michigan
Loved Magic from State and then LA. Loved my Bad Boys .
Loved Rasheed cause " the Ball Don't Lie"
Never watch NBA anymore

And I grew up a Lakers fan with the limited tv coverage in Slovakia around the turn of the milenium. When it got better ten years later I fell in love with the European Raptors team. Bargnani, Garbajosa, Anthony Parker etc. They sucked of course, but managed to get straight into my heart.

I agree that today’s NBA is different. Difficult to watch for me personaly. You have one huge stud in the paint and four 3pt shooters.

My remark on Bargani wasn’t meant as accusation, CJ. I love the job you’re doing. I just have to go with Hornacek - nice Czech name. :-)

I would have loved to see Stockton & Malone win a Title but Jordan prevented quite a few players from winning it all!

Barkley, Ewing, Miller, Drexler

The game was fun to play and fun to watch, back in the day with no 3 point line, went down hill
with that line!

Growing up a Bulls fan in the 90's was a lot of fun! Not so much for a lot of other teams with great players.

QB BY DIVISION

I didn't rename every QB but I did rename the QBs with the best attributes based on my weights. It doesn't mean everything but it doesn't mean nothing.

The American West & National East seem like the strongest QB divisions while the American North has just 1 "named" QB.

AMERICAN WEST

Michael Jordan (DEN)
Dwayne Wade (GSW)
Julius Dr. J Erving (OKC)
Russell Westbrook (LAC)

AMERICAN EAST

Jerry West (NYK)
John Stockton (BOS)
Michael Jackson (MIA)
Robert Price (BRO)

AMERICAN NORTH

William Rogers (SAN)
Bobby Winson (BAL)
Charles Barkley (CLE)
James Sullivan (UTJ)

AMERICAN SOUTH

Mark Price (CIN)
Andrea Bargnani (TOR)
Willard Thomas (MEM)
Oscar Robinson (HOU)

NATIONAL WEST

Kevin Duckworth (POR)
Joseph Heady (PHO)
Jimmy Butler (LAL)
Andy Wilson (KCK)

NATIONAL EAST

Allen Iverson (WAS)
Larry Bird (PHI)
Tom Gugliotta (HAR)
Michael Cooper (DAL)

NATIONAL NORTH

Stacy Farber (CHI)
Maurice Cheeks (MIL)
Alfred Kinman (MIN)
Magic Johnson (DET)

NATIONAL SOUTH

Jeff Mullins (CHA)
Isiah Thomas (ORL)
Jon Kay (NOP)
Tim Hardaway (ATL)