Top 5 NBA teams you've seen?

Moses Malone had to join a superteam to win a title.

1. Not shockingly, you're wrong.  Moses Malone was traded to the 76ers.  Kevin Durant signed as a free agent.  So no, it wasn't almost identical. 

2. Even if the situations were identical, in the early 80s, social media didn't exist so people didn't have an endless array of media in which to bitch and moan ceaselessly about complete horseshit, and sports media wasn't as exploitative as it was back then to feed into such hysteria.  

Learn to read what YOU WROTE - "Malone signed with a team."  Good job, ass hole.  You're a fucking idiot twice. 

MALONE GOES TO 76ERS FOR CALDWELL JONES

Special to the New York Times

Published: September 16, 1982


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15— The Philadelphia 76ers today acquired Moses Malone, the National Basketball Association's most valuable player last season, in a trade with the Houston Rockets for the veteran center Caldwell Jones and Philadelphia's No. 1 selection in next year's draft.



On Sept. 2 the 76ers signed Malone to an offer sheet that reportedly would pay him a minimum of $11.8 million for six years and in excess of $15 million if several bonus clauses materialized. The Rockets, under the league rule regarding free agency, had 15 days from Sept. 2 to match that offer, or lose Malone to the 76ers.



However, on Sept. 8, the league called several provisions of the 76er offer illegal. Today, the league said from its New York office that the three most-disputed provisions had been dropped ''by mutual consent of all parties involved,'' and thus Commissioner Larry O'Brien had approved the trade.



Under the new contract, Malone, the 28-year-old center who has been the league's m.v.p. twice, still stands to make a minimum of $11.2 million. He will make an additional $100,000 in each of the next six seasons that the 76ers have a home playoff game, and another $100,000 a season if he averages 30 minutes a game, which he has done throughout his career.



Those clauses would bring the value of the contract to $12.4 million. Should Malone play in the maximum home playoff games over the next six years, the figure could rise to $13 million. He could make even more in a clause tied to his 5 percent share of the team's gross receipts after $4 million and 10 percent after $6 million.



''I don't think anyone knew what I was worth until Philadelphia spoke up,'' Malone said tonight after a hurriedly called news conference in Philadelphia. The trade was announced jointly in Philadelphia and Houston.



Charlie Thomas, who is in the process of buying the the Rockets, confirmed the deal in Houston. ''We felt he didn't want to play here anymore,'' he said.



Malone commented: ''No one in Houston recognized how much I did.'' After the challenge to the Philadelphia offer, a hearing on the validity of the contract and offer sheet was held Monday in New York under Kingman Brewster, the former president of Yale.



Howard Katz, owner of the 76ers, said: ''Neither party, I thought, felt victory or defeat after the Brewster ruling. It was a nothing ruling. It didn't mean anything.''



According to the league statement today, though, certain provisions will be struck from the contract: ''The three provisions which will be deleted involve an annual bonus if Philadelphia is not among the top six teams in the N.B.A. in road attendance, a bonus if Philadelphia's home gate revenues are less than $3 million and a bonus if Philadelphia does not have a statistical leader other than Malone in any year.''



The league did allow provisions for $100,000 a year in guaranteed endorsements and the percentage of gross receipts above $4 million. Katz said that he and his attorney, Laurence Shaiman, met twice on Sunday with lawyers for Gavin Maloof, the former Rocket owner, and Thomas, and were ''not close'' to a resolution. On Monday, while the N.B.A. arbitration was held, representatives of both clubs talked again and, said Katz, ''there was no deal.''



Tuesday, Katz was in Atlanta, and at his request Shaiman called representatives of Thomas to see if there would be any reason to fly to Houston and talk further about a possible deal. ''They said yes,'' Katz said.



Meanwhile, Malone was en route to Philadelphia, where he was to undergo a physical examination as part of Philadelphia's tentative offer. He was booked on a flight from here back to Houston in midafternoon, but his plans were changed.



''Late this afternoon,'' Katz said, ''we got the word agreeing, and it was go for the deal and no-go for Moses going back to Houston.''

I hate to bring this up, but why do people use "anne hathaway fan" as a way to mock him?

She is hot as fuck!

Gotcha!

5 best I've seen, and I'm not ranking them

1982-3 76ers, 1984-5 Lakers 1985-6 Celtics, 1991-2 Bulls, 2013-14 Spurs.
Honourable mentions: 1986-87 and 87-88 Lakers, 1989-90 Stones, 1995-96 Bulls, 1999-00 Lakers, 2012-13 Heat, 2016-17 Warriors.

On another day I could put any of those in. I always put the 91-92 Bulls ahead of the 95-6 edition because I honestly think what they did, as defending champs in a strong league, was more impressive.