Originally posted on 06/12/2014:

Quote Originally Posted by convick View Post
Been happening over the last 20 years, nothing new.

Barkley/Drexler/Olajuwon in 1996
Barkley/Pippen/Olajuwon in 1999
Kobe/Shaq/Malone/Payton in 2004
Garnett/Pierce/Allen in 2008
Kobe/Howard/Nash/Gasol in 2012

Yeah, you can say those teams were created by the front office, I see no difference.

I don't understand all the hate. I remember for years fans used to complain about players because they only wanted to get max contracts and get rich.

Now that some of these players want to win rings fans complain about that too?
All of your examples are horrific in this instance.
No one cheated, or schemed together those teams.
Most of them traded shit-tons of picks and players to form them.
There was no tampering, deal-making, scamming involved in any of those teams you mentioned.