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I'm a diehard spurs fan. Ive been since 1999 so of course seeing what we did in 2014 was beyond special. It kind of took the sting away from 2013. The ball movement, the unselfishness, the team comradery, everything! What a year man.
As a Bulls fan I have great respect for the Spurs. They're the most well run team of the modern era. And now Y'all have Wemby. Championships in the making
@@kingdeedee yeah new york fans generally have accepted the fact that players today are much more skilled. We still got love for pat but melo here is what bron is to cleveland basically
@@dododump3144Yes you right. Ewing impacted and contributed so much more to winning basketball and have much better individual seasons as well. He was an unselfish superstar who also did not mind taking a bench role during the twilight of his career.
I mean it probably was the dude was leaving his hometown team that drafted him, I’m sure if he got more help from them he wouldn’t of even considered leaving
2010s ruined basketball debates and convos. Its when the modern basketball community became toxic and full of fans that refuse to study the past, but still make bold statements.
Smartphones gave a voice to less informed fans, thats for sure. I agree there is a toxic group that didn't study the past but there is also a stubborn oldhead group that glorifies the past and ignores its flaws. i'm 41 so consider myself an oldhead as well.
As opposed to the older fans anf players that constant malign the modern game and fail to even try to understand the different ways the game has evolved? Both sides are as bad as the other. The only difference is social media wasn't around back then, and now it is to amplify the rubbish takes.
@@maartenvz I lump the stubborn oldheads and new gen fans into the same category because old heads won't watch the present but judge the modern game and the new gen comment about the past but won't watch a second of pre 2000s basketball
Not organically. I can't even consider the Houston Rockets w/ Pip and Barkley also cause they were past their primes. The Heatles were smack dab in the middle of theirs (Wade was starting to get hurt a bit but was still Flashin') LeBrick started it😊
@@BlackGypsyMusic Lakers Kareem magic, Celtics Bill’s and KG, PP, Rondo, Bulls Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, Kukoc, Grant were all superteams that came before Lebron joined Miami. Learn basketball Jorbum fan
@@BlackGypsyMusic you have zero clue what you’re talking about.The 80s Celtics, Lakers and Sixers all had deeper teams than even the best of LeBron’s Heat teams
So glad you shed some light on Boris Diaw man. I was a freshman in high school during this Finals, and I remember seeing the impact Diaw had on that series. Not that he was the most athletic, dominant or best playing on the floor, but he had that Draymond impact where he moved so well, his passes were on point and he just knew where to be at all times. Up until that point, I thought of him as just a backup 4 to use for boxing out skinner forwards, but this series solidified his role on the most unselfish team, arguably ever. Like I said, he’s not the best or most athletic but his positioning and reading of the game is top tier. And to answer the question, the 2013 Heat is also my favorite team of the 2010’s 😅 I’m a huge LeBron fan and seeing him dominate, the 27 consecutive win streak that year, the dunks, stats and highlights that team put up, all perfection. I still think LeBron should’ve won the MVP unanimously that year.
You can make this video about every era: the 00s saw the rise/evolution of suffocating team defence after illegal defence was abolished. The 90s saw a shift from fast paced to slow paced after the bad boys beat up everybody. The 80s saved the NBA, made it glamorous with superstars that became icons (magic, bird and MJ) and had the first repeat champion in 19 years (the Lakers). It was also just as fast as todays game and already had teams averaging 120 ppg (denver) without shooting 3s, no flagrant fouls and hand checking rules in place.
Modern superteam is more of how I like to think of it. Its the idea of the players taking more power from the owners in terms of where they wanna play.
@@kingdeedee agreed, but at the same time the basketball world needed to see what happened if you actually put up such a perfect constructed team together.
My favourite team from the 2010s was easily the 18-19 Raptors. I always can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened if Masai Ujiri pulled off that trade to move up in the draft for Giannis though. There’s a timeline out there where that team had both Giannis and Kawhi
I think Ben Simmons may have the opposite of mamba mentality. That's obvious, but what I mean is after 2021, all that pressure, attention, and judgement actually broke him. Now he's tryna find value in other things
Better skill, better players, faster pace, better shooters, basically the skill evolved to where even the most mid star, Julius andle, could average 30 in the 90s and under. Hell even in the 2000s he would be a menace
My opinion is every draft class the players just get better, a first overall in the 80s would be a second round today. Highschool trust fund players are paying 10s of thousand of $ you just can’t compare to back then
Then why don’t they do all that during international tournaments? Because it’s just that the NBA rules make it easy to carry, to travel, to shoot uncontested, to have freedom of movement ( their is literally a rule named after it that came out in 2018). It’s fake skills.
LMAO no. became a league driven by getting freethrows and flopping, superteams with the same two teams in the finals every year, defense being absolute ass, and nobody playing inside anymore and the bigmen are basically all scrubs. You really think someone like James Harden who gets half his points from flopping would do well in an era where you got half the calls you'd get today? Get real. If it were the 90s or 2000s, he'd be coming off the bench
@@darealest2exist260they basically gaslighted the city of Seattle that they’re staying, sold it to an okc business man and then said they wanted to sell to keep in house, okc businessman then asks for a new arena funded by the state and taxpayers brought David stern who was against it at first goes with them to court to they get denied he up n packs and relocates to okc but you see his plan was always to go to okc and asked for the new arena (which was needed key arena was meh compared to all the arenas in the nba) when the city already put in money to create a couple of stadiums he struck old owner tried to sue to keep it in Seattle, so did the city , but by that time okc already passed a bill for construction on a new downtown arena and threaten to sue the old Seattle owner he drops the lawsuit Clay Bennet and his ownership group pack up and head to okc
Fav team of the 2010s have gotta be the Carmelo Knicks with Lin. It’s unfortunate that they didn’t get too far, but that roster was packed with talent and was tons of fun
Im a early 90s baby One thing i noticed about the NBA is that not every franchise is a good Organization And ultimately chasing the bag came woth consequences Players are on the court/field and not the front office But some front offices wre terrible so i dont fault a player who may want to leave
That the the owner putting pressure on the gm KG was calling Kobe to join not go to Boston. They wasn't worried bout lebron yal fans make it seem like lebron was on a tear
@@SilentMovements305 I ain’t say any of the players made the move, the Celtics assembled that team however it came about. But lebron was definitely best in the league in 07 don’t cap
What about kareem demanding a trade in his prime from the bucks? Chamberlain demanding a trade from the sixers. Rodman from the pistons. Mcgrady from the magic. Iverson from the sixers. Carter from the Raptors. tmac, grant hill (and almost tim duncan) joining in Orlando? Shaq leaving orlando for the Lakers and then asking to be traded in 2004. Shawn Kemp demanding a trade in his prime. Charles Barkley and Clyde Drexler with Olajuwon on the Rockets. Those were all very similar situations to what durant and george did.
If D Rose never tore his ACL, Bulls would’ve won the title in 2014 and 2015. D Rose would’ve won the 2015 MVP. 8x all nba first team, 12x all star, 2x champion 2x Fmvp 2x Mvp and Lebron doesn’t make 8 straight finals. He would’ve been the 2nd greatest PG in NBA history. Lebron and curry legacy takes a hit
19:16 this is an amazing point. GSW had the best shooters and won the title this way, but we forget (or never knew) that *four* teams cracked that top ten immediately after seeing how the Spurs played with that small ball and ball movement. If the Rockets hadn’t blown the 3-1 lead would we be crediting them with changing the game forever? It makes sense that the Spurs’ domination of the Heat was the real seed for it. I hadn’t realized it, and I love learning new things, so thank you Swishout for always being on point and insightful!!
Bro the Celtics started the superteam movement fr to stop Bron and Kobe. Bron just took matters into his hands cause Cleveland wasn’t finna do shit. OKC was a great winning team that just dropped harden and fucked everything up.
That dive into the Spurs series adds much needed context for what many people chalk up to just another loss for Lebron’s Finals record. Would be interesting to see more of these such as the 2011 Finals with the Mavs or even how Golden State’s run overshadowed Lebron’s impact in those series for the younger/causal crowd
Two of the top 3 players in the league joining forces to run the league for “not 5, not 6, no 7” IS indeed a superteam and had never been done before stop with this nonsense in the comments 😂😂😂😂
from the 7 seconds or less suns to the big 3 heat to the basketball perfection of the spurs to the golden state dynasty to the mike dantoni rockets the evolution of basketball throught 3s was amazing to watch in real time
lebron convinced two of the top 10 players in the league to play with him, and all three of them went to the aamenteam in free agency, no other super team before was ever freated artificially like this, and having three lf then top ten playera in one team for them to only win 2 rings is hilarious
@@thatscool7877 if you dont even know that chris bosh was a top player in the league, at least top 15, at least, then get out of the conversation please.
@@mausousap I knew that. Chris Bosh was good. But I wasn’t sure of him being top ten from 2010-14. Let’s also not forget that those three players came together on their own volition, Lebron did not “convince” them. They all talked together. That team also came together because of that Boston Superteam that was made because the Timberwolves FO and Celtics FO were in bed together on that trade.
Quick note that goes way under the radar, lebron actually facilitated a sign and trade with Miami in 2010 that gave the Cavs 5 future draft picks. So he really didn’t leave for nothing technically
I think overall a lot has change in the 2010s the LeBron James decision to go to Miami to join the heat. The play style and Ball movement of the spurs team was also intriguing come playoff time.🏀💯
Great video with great takes in my opinion. Personally as a Pelicans fan that team with AD, boogie, Jrue, & Rondo was so good that we really believed we could've won it all with those guys if boogie didn't get injured & they all stuck around. They all left and won championships on other teams basically as soon as they each left; well except boogie, who declined a contract with the Pels & signed with the Warriors on a minimum, and they lost in the finals for the first time since acquiring KD. That was mostly due to injury of course, and Kawhi Leonard lol. The 12-13 Heat was crazy & imo that was the best version of Lebrons prime, at least physically anyways. It was also crazy to live through that warriors dynasy especially once KD joined. They were in my opinion the best nba team of all time. & that spurs team that won in 14 is probably one of the most underrated teams of all time; I feel like they never get mentioned in the greatest team of all time argument.
Honestly the 17-18 Celtics were a team that would have had an AMAZING 7 game series if everyone was healthy. The 18-19 bucks were good to use in 2k tho
@@Mizzymsyg KG and Paul pierce was still in there prime, Ray Allen was entering it also rondo Kendrick Perkins were at the peak of their career so what are you chatting about.
The difference is that, Ray Allen and KG got traded there without them wanting to leave their current team. KG didn’t want to leave the Tims. Lebron left and chose to create a super team AND CHOKED the first year. That’s why he’s the number two Goat
Spot on after 2018-2021 too much movement in players and it became drama. I don’t think this generation cares about basketball like in the 90s, the culture of the northeast, Jordan culture is fading and so will the league . Sport is becoming about betting and we don’t have the time to watch games like that anymore with social media
Not every player is fortunate enough to have a front office that cares about winning. Lebron had to leave the Cavs the first time, they didn’t even care to retain boozer. He also always had terrible coaches until Spo and he was a rookie at the time. The warriors front office is an anomaly.
been a heat fan since i knew what basketball was and seeing my team going to the finals and ecf makes me reminisce about when bron and wade was running the league 😢
In a way, Lebron made things finally fair. The days of the best gm and best coach of an era producing the best player of that era are long gone, Lebron allowed for the best players to actually showcase who is the best and even the teams.
I appreciate you studying as much as u did in preparation for this video. You made a lot of great points. 🛑When the league & team owners have 100% complete control people are ok because that's what their use to. In any field of work, if you are one of the best at what you do, u can & should be working in at least the state you'd like to work in. Anybody reading this post, if they have enough money or are good enough at their job they probably work in the state that they prefer. Outside of ppl Taking positions outside of their comfort zone strictly for financial purposes. I appreciate your in depth opinion tho.
I know understand why the old heads in 2010 was mad about Bron's decision after the whole Ben Simmons and James Harden situation. (UPDATE 8-30-2024 @ 12:04 CST) Let Me explain: The reason why I said that is because the old heads were mad that the players control they destiny that the players back in they day couldn't. The old heads were thinking that something like a scenario like Ben Simmons or James Harden was going to happen like holding they franchises hostage.
?? Those situations really aren’t the same at all, Bron got absolutely everything out of Cleveland before he decided to leave the first time, he was not winning a chip on those early Cleveland teams he just wasn’t given enough help. Ben Simmons pouted on the bench and didn’t want to practice or play in order to get traded from a team he just straight up didn’t give his all too. And Hardens like in the middle of those too, he gave a lot to the team that he wanted to leave but chose to make a stink and cut ties with the organization to leave in a disgruntled manner.
I hate when people be like you gotta stay with the team that drafted you your entire career that's so lame players have the right to do whatever they want to do with their career just as long as you're not going from team to team frequently then I don't have a problem with it!
This was a solid ass video! Definitely recall the 2014 Spurs but didn’t remember how much they really sparked the three movement. I knew they definitely influenced small ball and spacing more but forgot about their threes and how lethal they were. Also real ones know about Diaw, honestly I think he’s a better facilitator than Draymond even though numbers may say otherwise. Him and Ginobili are mad underrated facilitators.
The thing about Kawhi’s decision that annoyed me the most was that Demar DeRozan pretty much became displaced to make place for Kawhi, who had one year left on his contract. He was a franchise player who did the best for his team only to be traded for a superstar. So the teams are also setting a bad precedent as well. You can get traded straight out of the draft, you can get traded after 9 seasons in the same organisation. No one is safe. What Kawhi, Kyrie did were wrong but the teams aren’t faultless. The cavs failed to build around Lebron to win a championship so he left. Now airing the whole thing on TV was petty but his decision was justified. Allen Iverson and Damian Lillard tried to carry their teams but neither of them got any championships. Yes, some players did act selfishly but so do the teams. The regulations are there for a reason.
The three point revolution that the warriors started other teams taking all of those other three pointers as well and started a run of a dynasty in 2015.🏀💯
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I'm a diehard spurs fan. Ive been since 1999 so of course seeing what we did in 2014 was beyond special. It kind of took the sting away from 2013. The ball movement, the unselfishness, the team comradery, everything! What a year man.
As a Bulls fan I have great respect for the Spurs. They're the most well run team of the modern era. And now Y'all have Wemby. Championships in the making
Nah. Not special. Not “special.” /
Ngl Carmelo thought he was finna eat in New York but Denver said hn son 😂
he did eat in NY. almost everyone here considers him the best knick of all time. Jalen Brunson is just now shifting those talks here in ny
@@starn9I’m no Knicks fan but it’s crazy to me hearing that yall have him over Ewing
@@kingdeedee yeah new york fans generally have accepted the fact that players today are much more skilled. We still got love for pat but melo here is what bron is to cleveland basically
@@starn9Ewing is better at basketball tho
@@dododump3144Yes you right. Ewing impacted and contributed so much more to winning basketball and have much better individual seasons as well. He was an unselfish superstar who also did not mind taking a bench role during the twilight of his career.
I always chuckle when lebron says “this is a tough decision” before he announced he was signing with the heat 😭
I mean it probably was the dude was leaving his hometown team that drafted him, I’m sure if he got more help from them he wouldn’t of even considered leaving
@@J420-x6p Wouldn't have*.
@@J420-x6pno way you fr. bron wade nd bosh been plotting that move for years. classic lecap
yall just mind readers huh
@@artist4613 that doesn’t mean it was easy. Try thinking like an actual human being
2010s ruined basketball debates and convos. Its when the modern basketball community became toxic and full of fans that refuse to study the past, but still make bold statements.
I think you mean more the popularization of the Internet and it's enabling of everyone to have an opinion
Lmao as if the past old heads study the current, why should we do that when they shit on our generations ball
Smartphones gave a voice to less informed fans, thats for sure. I agree there is a toxic group that didn't study the past but there is also a stubborn oldhead group that glorifies the past and ignores its flaws. i'm 41 so consider myself an oldhead as well.
As opposed to the older fans anf players that constant malign the modern game and fail to even try to understand the different ways the game has evolved?
Both sides are as bad as the other. The only difference is social media wasn't around back then, and now it is to amplify the rubbish takes.
@@maartenvz I lump the stubborn oldheads and new gen fans into the same category because old heads won't watch the present but judge the modern game and the new gen comment about the past but won't watch a second of pre 2000s basketball
2013 Miami Heat with those white out jerseys will always be my favorite
White hot heat era
Thanks swish for a another video man
Nah a 20 minute Swish video rent was due😭. Swish u do fantasy football? if so what’s your top picks to draft?
I used to bro, fell off the last 2 years w/ it
2013 Miami Heat was SPECIAL.
I miss those days
That’s 27win year right?
@@disispeterif u meant 27 straight wins then yes. It was also arguably brons best statistical year shooting 40% from deep
Ah the year of the Ray Allen 3 and the missed kawhi free throw. That was an epic series!
A superteam in a weak ass east was special but KD in GS in was unfair? Illogical
Lebron didn’t start the “superteam” stuff, there’s been superteams for decades before Lebron.
Not organically. I can't even consider the Houston Rockets w/ Pip and Barkley also cause they were past their primes. The Heatles were smack dab in the middle of theirs (Wade was starting to get hurt a bit but was still Flashin')
LeBrick started it😊
@@BlackGypsyMusic Lakers Kareem magic, Celtics Bill’s and KG, PP, Rondo, Bulls Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, Kukoc, Grant were all superteams that came before Lebron joined Miami. Learn basketball Jorbum fan
Didn't the Celtics win 9 ships in a 10 year stretch with Russell? Lol
@@bigbeezy5056 yup and this kid wants to sit here and tell us Lebron started the superteam movement 😂
@@BlackGypsyMusic you have zero clue what you’re talking about.The 80s Celtics, Lakers and Sixers all had deeper teams than even the best of LeBron’s Heat teams
So glad you shed some light on Boris Diaw man. I was a freshman in high school during this Finals, and I remember seeing the impact Diaw had on that series. Not that he was the most athletic, dominant or best playing on the floor, but he had that Draymond impact where he moved so well, his passes were on point and he just knew where to be at all times. Up until that point, I thought of him as just a backup 4 to use for boxing out skinner forwards, but this series solidified his role on the most unselfish team, arguably ever. Like I said, he’s not the best or most athletic but his positioning and reading of the game is top tier.
And to answer the question, the 2013 Heat is also my favorite team of the 2010’s 😅 I’m a huge LeBron fan and seeing him dominate, the 27 consecutive win streak that year, the dunks, stats and highlights that team put up, all perfection. I still think LeBron should’ve won the MVP unanimously that year.
This also killed the prototypical big man, now the league is looking for big man that can shoot the ball basically
Which one you prefer watching?
Shoutout to Marco Belinelli, he was on that 2014 Spurs team and he was a monster in 3 points efficiency off the bench
You can make this video about every era: the 00s saw the rise/evolution of suffocating team defence after illegal defence was abolished. The 90s saw a shift from fast paced to slow paced after the bad boys beat up everybody. The 80s saved the NBA, made it glamorous with superstars that became icons (magic, bird and MJ) and had the first repeat champion in 19 years (the Lakers). It was also just as fast as todays game and already had teams averaging 120 ppg (denver) without shooting 3s, no flagrant fouls and hand checking rules in place.
00-15 was best
This video just made me remember how terrible Ben Simmons is. That mf really robbed the NBA.
No cap 😂
2014 spurs n 2015 warriors was my favorite teams of the 2010s
starting the day with swishout will get u right fs🐐
Favorite team of the 2010’s is definitely the 2013 Heat as well, I remember being 12-13 years old and watching them live 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
SAME BRO GOOD TIMES
2017 Pelicans that AD and Boogie duo was beautiful even tho it didn't last long
Idk why the myth LeBron started the superteam persists 🤣
Exactly bro
Prime superstars joint the same team is what they started
Its crazy cause the existence of "superteams" is what pushed Bron Bron to make a "superteam"
Modern superteam is more of how I like to think of it. Its the idea of the players taking more power from the owners in terms of where they wanna play.
He created organizing superteams with guys in their primes.
2014 spurs those old timers are legendary
Bron basically 1 upped the Boston Smellshits
Yep and then Kevin Durant 1 upped him
Peak Diaw was so much fun to watch, very underrated passer
The 2018 Houston Rockets are my favourite team of 2010s .The James Harden and Chris Paul duo was elite.
They were super fun to watch even for a Harden hater like me. Would’ve been cool if they existed in an era with no Warriors lol
@@kingdeedee agreed, but at the same time the basketball world needed to see what happened if you actually put up such a perfect constructed team together.
CP3 got hurt against GSW that series unfortunately
Not even a Houston fan but I was rooting for em
Bro when he smacked his hand in the huddle I cried 🤣 then Houston years took a lot from Paul
My favourite team from the 2010s was easily the 18-19 Raptors. I always can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened if Masai Ujiri pulled off that trade to move up in the draft for Giannis though. There’s a timeline out there where that team had both Giannis and Kawhi
Why?
2016 warriors, but if I had to give a second one, I’d say 2014 thunder and spurs, it was tough to choose
Swish and Kenny gotta have the best videos to watch while eating
Literally
And JxmMy
I think Ben Simmons may have the opposite of mamba mentality. That's obvious, but what I mean is after 2021, all that pressure, attention, and judgement actually broke him. Now he's tryna find value in other things
It’s hard to be sympathetic to Simmons. The guy showed he was never committed to maximizing his talent as a basketball player.
Loved 2014 Spurs and 2015 Warriors the most. Beautiful examples of team basketball!
My Chicago pulls was my favorite we had a great defense and MVP rose !
20 minutes of solid basketball content 🤙
Better skill, better players, faster pace, better shooters, basically the skill evolved to where even the most mid star, Julius andle, could average 30 in the 90s and under. Hell even in the 2000s he would be a menace
My opinion is every draft class the players just get better, a first overall in the 80s would be a second round today. Highschool trust fund players are paying 10s of thousand of $ you just can’t compare to back then
Players like sabonis, derozen, butler and a Randle would thrive in the 2000s for sure
Then why don’t they do all that during international tournaments? Because it’s just that the NBA rules make it easy to carry, to travel, to shoot uncontested, to have freedom of movement ( their is literally a rule named after it that came out in 2018). It’s fake skills.
LMAO no. became a league driven by getting freethrows and flopping, superteams with the same two teams in the finals every year, defense being absolute ass, and nobody playing inside anymore and the bigmen are basically all scrubs. You really think someone like James Harden who gets half his points from flopping would do well in an era where you got half the calls you'd get today? Get real. If it were the 90s or 2000s, he'd be coming off the bench
@@Darkshadow_16 maybe if you love smoking meth
OKC stole a whole franchise, and we're supposed to pretend KD betrayed them? Good joke.
two franchises. they stole the sonics and effectively stole the clippers entire timeline too.
what do you mean “stole a franchise” ? They just relocated. I understand the distain the city of Seattle feels, but OKC didn’t steal anything
@@darealest2exist260they basically gaslighted the city of Seattle that they’re staying, sold it to an okc business man and then said they wanted to sell to keep in house, okc businessman then asks for a new arena funded by the state and taxpayers brought David stern who was against it at first goes with them to court to they get denied he up n packs and relocates to okc but you see his plan was always to go to okc and asked for the new arena (which was needed key arena was meh compared to all the arenas in the nba) when the city already put in money to create a couple of stadiums he struck old owner tried to sue to keep it in Seattle, so did the city , but by that time okc already passed a bill for construction on a new downtown arena and threaten to sue the old Seattle owner he drops the lawsuit Clay Bennet and his ownership group pack up and head to okc
@@AG00741You’re ranting, kiddo.
Get his nuts out ya mouth lil bro
That 1 Train playing in the background sets the vibe
Was looking to see if anyone else knew the beat dope ass song
Fav team of the 2010s have gotta be the Carmelo Knicks with Lin. It’s unfortunate that they didn’t get too far, but that roster was packed with talent and was tons of fun
One of the if not best nba channels on youtube! Keep up the good content
Bro casually the best bbal RUclipsr right now
Im a early 90s baby
One thing i noticed about the NBA is that not every franchise is a good Organization
And ultimately chasing the bag came woth consequences
Players are on the court/field and not the front office
But some front offices wre terrible so i dont fault a player who may want to leave
Celtics were definitely first to start a super team in that era, they knew how good Cleveland Bron was in 07
Celtics was front office moves
That the the owner putting pressure on the gm KG was calling Kobe to join not go to Boston. They wasn't worried bout lebron yal fans make it seem like lebron was on a tear
@@SilentMovements305 I ain’t say any of the players made the move, the Celtics assembled that team however it came about. But lebron was definitely best in the league in 07 don’t cap
@Cuhris_1 he was one of the best in the league top 2 but they wasn't worried bout that man
@@SilentMovements305 the east was weak at the time other than Orlando
Thing is Melo admitted he easily could’ve went to Miami with the Heatles
What about kareem demanding a trade in his prime from the bucks? Chamberlain demanding a trade from the sixers. Rodman from the pistons. Mcgrady from the magic. Iverson from the sixers. Carter from the Raptors. tmac, grant hill (and almost tim duncan) joining in Orlando? Shaq leaving orlando for the Lakers and then asking to be traded in 2004. Shawn Kemp demanding a trade in his prime. Charles Barkley and Clyde Drexler with Olajuwon on the Rockets. Those were all very similar situations to what durant and george did.
Requesting a trade to another team and requesting a trade to a team that’s already in championship contention aren’t the same lil dude
@@Skizzy_276how so? How are they different?
2013 Heat, 2016 Cavs, 2014 Spurs, 2018 Rockets, 2019 Raptors!!
Thanks for making the great content man
If D Rose never tore his ACL, Bulls would’ve won the title in 2014 and 2015. D Rose would’ve won the 2015 MVP. 8x all nba first team, 12x all star, 2x champion 2x Fmvp 2x Mvp and Lebron doesn’t make 8 straight finals. He would’ve been the 2nd greatest PG in NBA history. Lebron and curry legacy takes a hit
This your best video in a sec swish. Super well made
19:16 this is an amazing point. GSW had the best shooters and won the title this way, but we forget (or never knew) that *four* teams cracked that top ten immediately after seeing how the Spurs played with that small ball and ball movement. If the Rockets hadn’t blown the 3-1 lead would we be crediting them with changing the game forever? It makes sense that the Spurs’ domination of the Heat was the real seed for it.
I hadn’t realized it, and I love learning new things, so thank you Swishout for always being on point and insightful!!
Bro the Celtics started the superteam movement fr to stop Bron and Kobe. Bron just took matters into his hands cause Cleveland wasn’t finna do shit. OKC was a great winning team that just dropped harden and fucked everything up.
Great video, very organized. I watched the whole thing!
That dive into the Spurs series adds much needed context for what many people chalk up to just another loss for Lebron’s Finals record. Would be interesting to see more of these such as the 2011 Finals with the Mavs or even how Golden State’s run overshadowed Lebron’s impact in those series for the younger/causal crowd
Two of the top 3 players in the league joining forces to run the league for “not 5, not 6, no 7” IS indeed a superteam and had never been done before stop with this nonsense in the comments 😂😂😂😂
Lmao a superteam yeah but after 2012 it was just bron and shells of others, don’t forget how many other superteams they were in the nba.
All my homies appreciate Boris Diaw
i love it when swish gives us 20 minute videos
from the 7 seconds or less suns
to the big 3 heat
to the basketball perfection of the spurs
to the golden state dynasty
to the mike dantoni rockets
the evolution of basketball throught 3s was amazing to watch in real time
Boris Diaw was a beast assisting out of the post
Thanks for making well-thought videos ❤
Excellent explanation of what REALLY happened to the Heat vs the Spurs that year. 2010 what a year
100% LeBron lead to the creation of his ultimate finals loss record. KD never joins the warriors
LeBron most likely has 2 chips in CLV
Exactly bron says in Cleveland and nobody ever things of making another superteam like the heat did even close
"Officially baptized by the three pointer"
😂😂😂😂
lebron convinced two of the top 10 players in the league to play with him, and all three of them went to the aamenteam in free agency, no other super team before was ever freated artificially like this, and having three lf then top ten playera in one team for them to only win 2 rings is hilarious
Facts
When was that? Chris Bosh was not a top 10 player in the league.
@@thatscool7877 if you dont even know that chris bosh was a top player in the league, at least top 15, at least, then get out of the conversation please.
@@mausousap I knew that. Chris Bosh was good. But I wasn’t sure of him being top ten from 2010-14. Let’s also not forget that those three players came together on their own volition, Lebron did not “convince” them. They all talked together. That team also came together because of that Boston Superteam that was made because the Timberwolves FO and Celtics FO were in bed together on that trade.
4 finals appearance, nice try hater
Videos like these are your best bro !!
Sometimes icl you bugging
But this yeah fire video
Quick note that goes way under the radar, lebron actually facilitated a sign and trade with Miami in 2010 that gave the Cavs 5 future draft picks. So he really didn’t leave for nothing technically
I think overall a lot has change in the 2010s the LeBron James decision to go to Miami to join the heat. The play style and Ball movement of the spurs team was also intriguing come playoff time.🏀💯
As a Celtics fan it’s got to be 2018 Celtics the depth we had the new look to our squad and the rising of JB and JT was something special
Man it feels like this era was just last year, but it’s almost 2025 😅
123 days left till 2025.
Another banger from Swishout 🔥 you cooking man, hit after hit. 🐐
Great video with great takes in my opinion. Personally as a Pelicans fan that team with AD, boogie, Jrue, & Rondo was so good that we really believed we could've won it all with those guys if boogie didn't get injured & they all stuck around. They all left and won championships on other teams basically as soon as they each left; well except boogie, who declined a contract with the Pels & signed with the Warriors on a minimum, and they lost in the finals for the first time since acquiring KD. That was mostly due to injury of course, and Kawhi Leonard lol. The 12-13 Heat was crazy & imo that was the best version of Lebrons prime, at least physically anyways. It was also crazy to live through that warriors dynasy especially once KD joined. They were in my opinion the best nba team of all time. & that spurs team that won in 14 is probably one of the most underrated teams of all time; I feel like they never get mentioned in the greatest team of all time argument.
Kg, Paul pierce, and ray allen whistling with sweat dripping down their head 😂
Mannn this video was incredible! The 2014 Spurs changed everything tbh
Honestly the 17-18 Celtics were a team that would have had an AMAZING 7 game series if everyone was healthy. The 18-19 bucks were good to use in 2k tho
Chuck being disappointed is ironic 😂
People love forgetting about the fact that the Celtics had the Super team before Bron went to the heat 🤦🏽♂️
They weren’t in there prime the heat was in the middle of there prime lol
@@Mizzymsyg KG and Paul pierce was still in there prime, Ray Allen was entering it also rondo Kendrick Perkins were at the peak of their career so what are you chatting about.
The difference is that, Ray Allen and KG got traded there without them wanting to leave their current team. KG didn’t want to leave the Tims. Lebron left and chose to create a super team AND CHOKED the first year. That’s why he’s the number two Goat
@@sgalicia007 he left cuz his teammates were 💩 and who is talking bout choking the subject is that he “Created Super teams “
@@sgalicia007he left a franchise that didn’t do anything for him and ruining his prime years u acting like he pulled something just as bad as KD
Great video like always.
The thing is lebron left and came back made up for it brought them a ring no other player in 2010s has done
Spot on after 2018-2021 too much movement in players and it became drama. I don’t think this generation cares about basketball like in the 90s, the culture of the northeast, Jordan culture is fading and so will the league . Sport is becoming about betting and we don’t have the time to watch games like that anymore with social media
I’m always happy when I see a new vid from swish because RUclips is dead right now.
2017 golden state it just wasn’t fair.. they made me a lot of money and imma KD fan 😅
15:31 Swish you gotta chill atleast a pause on that 😂
LMFAOOO 😂
Media instigated this as well too
Not every player is fortunate enough to have a front office that cares about winning. Lebron had to leave the Cavs the first time, they didn’t even care to retain boozer. He also always had terrible coaches until Spo and he was a rookie at the time. The warriors front office is an anomaly.
Best NBA RUclipsr 🐐
Great breakdown of my favorite era of basketball the 2010s
been a heat fan since i knew what basketball was and seeing my team going to the finals and ecf makes me reminisce about when bron and wade was running the league 😢
In a way, Lebron made things finally fair. The days of the best gm and best coach of an era producing the best player of that era are long gone, Lebron allowed for the best players to actually showcase who is the best and even the teams.
I appreciate you studying as much as u did in preparation for this video. You made a lot of great points.
🛑When the league & team owners have 100% complete control people are ok because that's what their use to.
In any field of work, if you are one of the best at what you do, u can & should be working in at least the state you'd like to work in.
Anybody reading this post, if they have enough money or are good enough at their job they probably work in the state that they prefer. Outside of ppl Taking positions outside of their comfort zone strictly for financial purposes.
I appreciate your in depth opinion tho.
4:44 Rondo face got me crying lmaoooo... bro like tf type shit goin on in GS
great timing jus sat down
Impossible instrumental at the end, ur the goat Bruh🤣🙏
I know understand why the old heads in 2010 was mad about Bron's decision after the whole Ben Simmons and James Harden situation. (UPDATE 8-30-2024 @ 12:04 CST) Let Me explain: The reason why I said that is because the old heads were mad that the players control they destiny that the players back in they day couldn't. The old heads were thinking that something like a scenario like Ben Simmons or James Harden was going to happen like holding they franchises hostage.
?? Those situations really aren’t the same at all, Bron got absolutely everything out of Cleveland before he decided to leave the first time, he was not winning a chip on those early Cleveland teams he just wasn’t given enough help. Ben Simmons pouted on the bench and didn’t want to practice or play in order to get traded from a team he just straight up didn’t give his all too. And Hardens like in the middle of those too, he gave a lot to the team that he wanted to leave but chose to make a stink and cut ties with the organization to leave in a disgruntled manner.
I hate when people be like you gotta stay with the team that drafted you your entire career that's so lame players have the right to do whatever they want to do with their career just as long as you're not going from team to team frequently then I don't have a problem with it!
SWISHOUT continuing to spread the Lebron starting superteam thing is hilarious
This was a solid ass video! Definitely recall the 2014 Spurs but didn’t remember how much they really sparked the three movement. I knew they definitely influenced small ball and spacing more but forgot about their threes and how lethal they were.
Also real ones know about Diaw, honestly I think he’s a better facilitator than Draymond even though numbers may say otherwise. Him and Ginobili are mad underrated facilitators.
The first super team were the bill Russel Celtics
18 years and no rings and you giving recommendations on what a player should do, is crazy 😂
Despite the criticism, LeBron went to Miami to win championships. Cleveland was not going to give him the help he needed. Don’t compare him to KD
Excellent analysis
The thing about Kawhi’s decision that annoyed me the most was that Demar DeRozan pretty much became displaced to make place for Kawhi, who had one year left on his contract. He was a franchise player who did the best for his team only to be traded for a superstar. So the teams are also setting a bad precedent as well. You can get traded straight out of the draft, you can get traded after 9 seasons in the same organisation. No one is safe.
What Kawhi, Kyrie did were wrong but the teams aren’t faultless. The cavs failed to build around Lebron to win a championship so he left. Now airing the whole thing on TV was petty but his decision was justified. Allen Iverson and Damian Lillard tried to carry their teams but neither of them got any championships.
Yes, some players did act selfishly but so do the teams. The regulations are there for a reason.
honestly it’s because physical aspect of the game that is one of the biggest reasons the game changed
Did he forget 08’ boston celtics????
They were the true superteam cause they won despite of doc rivers coaching
The three point revolution that the warriors started other teams taking all of those other three pointers as well and started a run of a dynasty in 2015.🏀💯
0:20 Reggie literally stayed in a small market and didn’t win shit