That doesn't seem too far fetched. Iverson really wants to win it all and this is probably his last and best chance (this bunch in Denver, not this year). And LB is the only guy who's gotten him to the finals before.

And you're right - way scary.

You can bet JR Smith will be gone if Larry shows up.

Would L.B. wanna be the dude who shoves his buddy Mike Woodson out the door in the ATL?

Denver makes sense. They love him out here!

I CAN'T picture the likes of K-Mart, Carmelo Anthony & JR Smith playing "the right way" though. If L.B. makes a Mile-Migh comeback, I expect a grip of roster moves.

If I were God, I couldn't make this happen fast enough.

Dallas.

Just curous, why do you guys always get hung up on LB trading guys away?

He's not the GM. He wasn't here and wasn't anywhere except maybe Philly where all he did there was get a one man team to the finals. He doesn't have any power to trade anybody. He can ask till his hair falls out, but the ACTUAL GM gets to make that decision. I just don't get it.

No, not the GM, but surely he would have some input. You don't hire someone of that stature, and pay him the kind of money he is going to want, and not listen when he says that some guy doesn't fit in the system he wants to put in place.

B/c once he's in there, he makes his feelings known. The GM is afraid that if they don't comply, then LB will make life difficult for everyone by going on strike.

THat's like saying Saunders could have a fit because Joe didn't give him all jumpshooters once he was hired. It just seems like all these assumptions and attributes only get applied to LB, but get explained as though every coach has some sort of input.

They guy is the coach, he has no power above that. Plain and simple. No GM is terrified that their coach doesn't have the guys he wants...they'll just fire him and hire the coach that will coach the guys he has.

That's hardly true, the guy has been a coach for over 30 years. No one is afraid of his opinion.

LB has to be one of the 1st people in history to be completely hated for succeeding and for what he may or may not could have possibly or not so possibly have been thinking or may have wanted to think if he was so inclined as to have the audacity to have thoughts or not have thoughts that might possibly be attributed to him through the talk radio, newspaper, or fan forum sphere of reality or not so much reality based on what you are or are not willing to believe based on your thoughts (or unthoughts), wishes, or desires, which may or may not revolve around your love of a particular basketball team vs. your own thoughts on what people should or should not have done based on what they really may or may not have done based on your point of view or desire to accept. That is, of course, if we were talking about something real.

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That was a helluva long sentence, Low.

I do agree with you that it's not realistic to expect that LB will come in and demand that half the roster get traded, or whatever. But I do think he and any potential GMs he talks to will consider how much he does or doesn't like the roster that's there. It wouldn't be all that surprising if (for example) he said to Denver, "I'd like to work for you, but I don't think I can make it work with J.R. Smith."