re: Should We Put An Asterisk By LeBron's 7 Straight Finals Appearances?

If it's so easy why is he the only common denominator on those teams?

And he ultimately played two 500 teams before getting to Detroit

Yes, that team was absolutely garbage and LeBron was the difference between them beating Washington and new jersey. But I have a hard time definitely calling it the greatest individual accomplishment ever when it was right at the first third of the eastern conferences 15 yearish run of just being absolute garbage

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Would it have mattered in 94 either?

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Yes.

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more than that if he couldn't get past a team the rockets wrecked in 95, why would the same not be true in 94 since you want to play stupid games?

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Because in 1993 the Rockets lost in the semis to the Sonics, who lost to Phoenix, who the Bulls dispatched in 6 games in the 1993 Finals, ergo, the 1994 asterisk.

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Jordan was back in 94-95

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And by back you mean the season he played 17 games and didn't first play until March 19th 1995?

Yeah I'm sure that had zero effect on the Bulls rotations

Yup...

r/NBA sooo big/active, it's hard to find a posting niche. I mostly just read over there.

SpursTalk is garbage at this point, but fun to blow off steam on sometimes.

Loved Pounding the Rock back in the day, but kind of fell off once I gave up modding over there and started over here on the Aggie board.

Kind of a no-man's land right now for me, I guess

And this place isn't too bad. It could be insidehoops

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Would it have mattered in 94 either?

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*Yes

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The rockets owned jordan throughout his career, go look at the stats, MJ sucked against the rockets.

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Career: 30/6/5. Career vs HOU: 30/6/6

Nailed it!!!

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Hank Aaron?

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No (though some might since he had nearly 4k more at bats than Ruth.)

The asterisk is from when Roger Maris hit 61 home runs to top Ruth's 60. MLB had moved from 154 game seasons in Ruth's day to 162 when Maris broke the single season HR record. This caused many to say that for the single season HR record to be legit it must be done in 154 games or less. Maris hit #61 on the last day of the season.

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On October 1, 1961, New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season. The great Babe Ruth set the record in 1927; Maris and his teammate Mickey Mantle spent 1961 trying to break it. After hitting 54 homers, Mantle injured his hip in September, leaving Maris to chase the record by himself. Finally, in the last game of the regular season, Maris hit his 61st home run against the Boston Red Sox. (The league-champion Yanks won the game 1-0.)

He’d hit 61 homers, but his new record wasn’t official. In July, baseball commissioner Ford Frick had announced that he wouldn’t consider Ruth’s record broken unless the player who broke it had hit more than 60 home runs in fewer than 154 games–the number of games Ruth’s Yankees had played in the 1927 season. (By 1961, teams played 162 regular-season games.) Frick had more than a passing interest in the issue: He’d been a good friend of the Babe’s and thought it was his responsibility to guard his legacy as closely as possible. Moreover, he resented the changes he saw in baseball–bulky sluggers, shorter fences, longer seasons, livelier balls. And Frick, like many fans, didn’t quite know what to make of Maris, a Midwesterner of few words who once told a reporter “I was born surly, and I’m going to stay that way.” The ever-disdainful Rogers Hornsby summed up the feelings of many Ruth partisans and Mantle fans when he told anyone who would listen that the young Yankee “has no right to break Ruth’s record.”

And so, as far as Major League Baseball was concerned, he didn’t. While there was never an official asterisk next to any record of Maris’–in fact, the league didn’t even have its own record book until 1995, and of course Frick had no real say over what anybody else put in their record books–the league simply considered Ruth’s and Maris’ to be two separate accomplishments. In 1991, an MLB committee on historical accuracy voted to remove the distinction and award the record fully to Maris, who had died of cancer six years earlier.

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