Friday, May 16, 2008

Spurs Dynasty?

Does anyone else have a problem with the media referring to the Spurs as a dynasty? I know winning 4 titles in the past 9 years is impressive, but a dynasty….come on. How can you have a team (L.A. Lakers) win 3 consecutive titles during your so called "dynasty", when you can’t even win back to back titles. To me the media is using the term* way too loosely. I know with free agency it is a lot harder to duplicate the Celtics of the 60’s, 11 titles in 13 years, but I mean the Bulls of the 90’s won 6 in 8 years**. Also consider that only 7 teams have won a championship over the last 24 years, and the fact the spurs have 4 during that time span is even less impressive. Over those 24 years here is how the champions have broken down: Bulls – 6, Lakers – 6, Spurs – 4, Pistons – 3, Rockets – 2, Celtics – 2, Heat – 1, Pacers - 0. In conclusion the Spurs are having a good run, but they need to at least win this year and next year to even start to deserve dynasty talk.

*We might as well call Klein “finishing” the Chicago marathon the last two years a dynasty, because he didn’t come in last.
**The Bulls probably would have won it 8 straight years if it wasn’t for MJ “trying” to play baseball.

2 comments:

The Griz said...

First of all, its bad enough that I have to defend my marathon "career" while im in London right now, but I thought it would be nice to mention that I will be in Chelsea for the Chelsea - Man U game tomorrow night, and even though Im not really a soccer fan, I'm pretty sure its gonna be amazing, Ill be sure to write all about it.

Chadding Hard said...

Be sure to call it "soccer"... they love when you call it soccer.