SEC Player of the Year Discussion

[BEH]

Originally Posted by GatorLurker

Yes, I did.

Every player today should give 5% of their salary to both Magic and Larry. Without those two guys it would have been hard to market the league into what it is now. It would be more like the NHL is today without those two guys.

You are showing your age. Many before those two were far better an had a bigger impact on the game. Try Bill Russell. Try Hondo.

[HALLGATOR]

Originally Posted by BEH

You are showing your age. Many before those two were far better an had a bigger impact on the game. Try Bill Russell. Try Hondo.

"Far better?"

[HALLGATOR]

There is no way to discount what Bird, Johnson and many others brought to the game during that period. I recall people talking about pro basketball that I had never heard mutter a word about before. All of a sudden the Lakers, Celtics and even the Pistons were being talked about. I don't know, without checking, what the ratings were during those times but their contributions to the popularity of professional basketball during their playing careers was considerable.

[madgator]

Originally Posted by HALLGATOR

There is no way to discount what Bird, Johnson and many others brought to the game during that period. I recall people talking about pro basketball that I had never heard mutter a word about before. All of a sudden the Lakers, Celtics and even the Pistons were being talked about. I don't know, without checking, what the ratings were during those times but their contributions to the popularity of professional basketball during their playing careers was considerable.

not discounting

BUT

Bird and Magic got your ears buzzing

Jordan got you watching!


THAT is the difference

[HALLGATOR]

Originally Posted by madgator

not discounting

BUT

Bird and Magic got your ears buzzing

Jordan got you watching!


THAT is the difference

Perhaps overall but I was watching before Jordan gained the fame he did with the Bulls.

[madgator]

Originally Posted by HALLGATOR

Perhaps overall but I was watching before Jordan gained the fame he did with the Bulls.

fair enough. I just remember those days very vividly. The NBA didn't REALLY take off until very late in the '80s.

did it increase in popularity from the duldrums of the days of the late '70s? Sure. But honestly it really couldn't get any lower.

perhaps Bird/Magic got the NBA off a flat line standard to up and being able to walk again. But Jordan and the overall new marketing standard of the league took the NBA to a whole other level.

[GothamGator]

I still remember having to stay up late to watch Game 6 of the 1980 NBA Final between the Lakers and my beloved Sixers. This was because it was shown on tape delay hours after the game was over.

And this was for the classic game where Johnson started at center because Jabbar was hurt and proceeded to light up Philly for 40+ points. One of the all time classic NBA games, but nobody could see it live.

Within a couple of years, however, there were plenty of games on TV. A lot were on TBS and others on CBS. I can still remember them using the Clash as intro music to the broadcasts.

The NBA's ascendance came as much because of a greater volume of channels than anything else. Suddenly, a lot of games could be seen on cable, and that grew the audience.

[GothamGator]

Originally Posted by InstiGATOR1

Here is the link:

http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/Por...Y.HTM#conf.wki

Henderson is making 32.1% of his 3s.

Great stuff, thanks for having my back.

Man, look at those team stats. They're amazing.

Florida leads the league in:
- scoring offense
- scoring defense
- scoring margin
- FG%
- FG% defense
- 3P FG%
- 3-pointers made
- rebounding margin
- def rebound %
- assists
- assist/turnover ratio

Florida is 2nd in the league in:
- 3-point FG% defense
- turnover margin

[GothamGator]

You could make a good argument for Vernon Maxwell in 1988 over that insufferable stiff Will Perdue. Max averaged 20.2 points, 4.2 boards and 4.3 assists. Perdue averaged 18.2 points and 10.4 boards. He was also an insufferable jerk who famously tried to bait Dwayne Schintzius into a fight (Big D declined).

[patsyruth2008]

Originally Posted by GothamGator

I still remember having to stay up late to watch Game 6 of the 1980 NBA Final between the Lakers and my beloved Sixers. This was because it was shown on tape delay hours after the game was over.

And this was for the classic game where Johnson started at center because Jabbar was hurt and proceeded to light up Philly for 40+ points. One of the all time classic NBA games, but nobody could see it live.

Within a couple of years, however, there were plenty of games on TV. A lot were on TBS and others on CBS. I can still remember them using the Clash as intro music to the broadcasts.

The NBA's ascendance came as much because of a greater volume of channels than anything else. Suddenly, a lot of games could be seen on cable, and that grew the audience.

Gotham;

I was a Senior at Florida that year (and a huge Lakers and Magic fan) and remember that game well. We had a bunch of guys in the fraternity stay away from all TV's, Radios and people for that entire day so we could watch the game that night without knowing the outcome.

Magic was on fire and the Lakers had a huge lead going into the fourth quarter, but Philadelphia started a massive comback in the fourth and had cut the lead to like 3-4 points with a couple of minutes left.

They went to a TV timeout and my girl friend (now my wife) walked into the TV room and wanted to know why I was not ready for our date that night. I ran up and apologized for being late, but explained what was going on and begged her to just give me a couple more minutes so I could finish watching. She looked me dead in the eye and said........................

"Oh, don't worry the Lakers won".............

The whole room went nuts and started cuzzing me and a screamed at her for doing something SO stupid............... She left the room and needless to say, we did not go out that night and I was "cut off" for a couple of weeks.