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Kawhi. I firmly believe that if he doesn't get injured, this whole shit show doesn't happen and the Spurs dynasty of winning championships just lives on.

Wizards almost winning the Wemby lottery last year

What if Michael Jordan didn't exist

What if the Malice never happened.

What if Granger, PG13 and Oladipo never got hurt.

What if we drafted Bird and sat on him for 1 year like we should've.

What if we didn't trade 1984 FRP (became pick 2 in the MJ draft) for Tom Owens.

What if he didn't trade Alex English and a FRP for geriatric George McGinnis.

What if Mike Conley's face didn't get broken?

What if we drafted anyone other than Hasheem Thabeet?

what ifs are painful for the Bulls: MJ retiring and D.Rose injuries being the biggest

for other teams i think a big what if is the Spurs keeping Kawhi but a less talked about one is paying the 3m clause to bring Scola to the NBA in 2002. the Spurs had Malik Rose, Horry, Massenburg, Nesterovic, Sean Marks, Matt Bonner, Oberto, McDyess, Nazr Mohammed and other big guys trying to fit with TD and none of them did a great job besides Horry for some short stints during the playoffs.

Scola did well as soon as he entered the league and already started all games in his second year. by the third year he was averaging 16.2pts 8.6reb and 2.1ast in a contending team proving he could pair up with dominant big men. meanwhile SA never had a big men to pair up with TD like he did in the late 90s with Robison that came even close to Scola's level of production. the closest one might be Splitter in the 12-13 season where he posted 10.3pts 6.4reb 1.6ast

i think the Spurs win at least one more title with Scola in those years, a title for 3m seems a pretty good deal.

What if I had grown up to become the best basketball player of all time, but I spent my whole career playing for the Tijuana Zonkeys out of loyalty?

The nuggets don’t trade away Donovan Mitchell on draft night for peanuts.

God bless Derrick

What if the Heat won the lottery and got Derrick Rose?

Chicago

What if Jordan never quit to play baseball? It's very possible they could've 6-peated or 7 or 8 peated. It would've left absolutely no doubt, even to the Lebrono-philes that Jordan is the GOAT.

Can you imagine a team winning 6 championships in a row?

What if Spurs had picked JB over Cory Joseph

Butler and Kawhi would've been disgusting

Please don’t mention what ifs to us

What if Ellis stays and we traded that skinny bad ankle kid for Bogut instead? What if Klay was traded for Love? Ellis, Love, Bogut.. 🤯

For me it's easily what if my Wizards drafted Kawhi instead of Jan Vesely. Not crazy to think a Wall/Beal/Kawhi core gets to at least one ECF, if not further.

Not that big a deal, but the refs clearly miss called a Draymond 3 as a 2 in the last game of the 2019 finals. It would have been tied with 12 seconds left if the Warriors had one more point when they started fouling to get the ball back. I suppose various injuries were bigger, but that was a reviewable call, and they didn't, and it was clear on replay that he was behind the line.

The Sixers could have Mikal Bridges and Jayson Tatum instead of Zhaire Smith (Cleveland, apparently?) and Markelle Fultz

Also what if Ben took the layup

................. pass

OKC - What if the trade for Tyson Chandler went through? Young core of Westbrook, Harden, Durant, Ibaka, Chandler, and Jeff Green(no need to trade for Perkins).

They probably beat Mavs in 2011 playoffs as Chandler wouldn’t be there for Dirk’s run and maybe justify keeping all pieces together.

We almost had Tatum next to Embiid.

Cavs:

What if we didn’t hardball David Griffin in the summer of 2017, who had already convinced Kyrie not to ask for a trade, causing him to leave and the 2nd stint Lebron Cavs team to essentially wither on the vine? If we had Kyrie and had run it back a third time, maybe we actually win games 1 and 3 of the finals in 2018, could have been interesting.

What if Michael Jordan didn’t physically shove Ron Harper off of him before the inbound pass where he made “the shot” over Craig Ehlo? That was probably the best version of the Price-Daugherty Cavs, and they went even with both the Knicks and Pistons that year during the regular season. Who knows, could have messed around and made a deep playoff run!

What if Carlos Boozer didn’t pull a fast one with his promise to sign in 2004 and Lebron had a legit all-star to play alongside during that first run?

What if we didn’t draft Anthony goddamn Bennett number 1 overall in the same draft as Giannis, Gobert, Oladipo, Steven Adams, etc.

Hell, what if we hadn’t given away Kevin Love and actually had some veteran leadership, rebounding, and shooting this past year?

CP3 trade did not get vetoed

Carmelo Anthony wasn't such a punk bitch and let Jeremy Lin keep doing his thing in Knicks so he never gets traded, never gets injured, Knicks win a championship and he is MVP and still in the NBA today.

Linsanity continues.

Fuck you Melo.

What if Yao and TMac were both healthy?

As a blazer fan I love these questions!!!

What If:

We drafted MJ in 1984

We won the coin flip and drafted Hakeem in 1984

We drafted Kd in 2007

We didn’t a trade a super young Moses Malone in the late 70a

We didn’t trade a super young jermaine O Neal in the early 2000/

Bill Walton doesn’t get hurt

B Roy and Greg oden have injury free careers

Arvydas Sabonis joins the team in his prime and is on those early 90s blazer teams

We traded for Barkley in 93

The hornets didn’t nix the CP3 trade to Portland in 2010 at the last second

if magic didnt have aids, which forced him to prematurely retire, he couldve stayed long enough to play with shaq or even kobe