Yeah if Jordan hadn't choked away that series to the 95 Magic and then survived Indy Hakeem would have ground the Bulls to a pulp. 95 Rockets are the most underrated team of all time IMO. I think even the 94 Rockets would have had a real shot had Jordan not retired even with that Bulls team being mostly intact plus adding Kukoc.
A lot of “yeah but” ing Wemby. not taking a strong stance but saying that Luka and shai create like 50 PPG for their teams and Wemby is at like 30 and “just isn’t there yet”
OKC’s Owner forced that trade, and on top of that, they decided that keeping Ibaka and KENDRICK FUCKING PERKINS was more important than Harden. They could easily have kept that trio together. Stupidity and penny pinching caused that.
They needed to keep Ibaka, but Perkins was the obvious out, he was a zero on offense... sure he was the best big man defender but the league was becoming less big man centric by that point.