One player for each franchise that personifies it

SaveOurBullets · Post #21 » by **SaveOurBullets** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:46 am

I'm doing all time because current players would just be too hard. Obviously I'm going more with the city vibe here.

Atlanta - Dominique Wilkins - Displayed the flash that represents Atlanta and should make it more attractive, but ultimately overshadowed.
Boston - Larry Bird - Brash, blue collar, and extremely successful
Charlotte - Sean May - An incompetent franchise overrelying on players who spent college within state borders.
Chicago - Michael Jordan - The ultimate triumph of the Second City over big bad New York, over and over and over. Besides, he's Michael Jordan.
Cleveland - Mo Williams - Incredibly depressing. Once promising, but now without hope.
Detroit - Bill Laimbeer - Overwhelmingly blue collar.
Indiana - Reggie Miller - Loyal, quietly intense, and fundamentally sound.
LA Clippers - Michael Olowokandi - Rarely promising, overwhelmingly incompetent, just a nasty, disgusting failure of a human being.
LA Lakers - Kobe Bryant - Flashy, charismatic, self-centered, and too good for you to do anything about it.
Miami - LeBron James - Flashy, arrogant, and a great defector.
New Jersey - Vince Carter - Wants to be big time, but ultimately not that great. Also, it seems like every good player for the Nets must have a light mocha shade to him. Not being racist in any way, that's just the way it is for some reason.
New York - Patrick Ewing - Prematurely and undeservingly crowned by their fans, strong, can't back up the hype.
Orlando - John Amaechi - They're called the Magic.
Portland - Greg Oden - In a city full of weak knees, he's the granddaddy of them all. Literally.
San Antonio - Manu Ginobili - Foreign influence with some flash to it.
Utah - John Stockton - The most obvious choice in so many ways. Not just that one. I mean, he's even from the mountain west region.
Washington - People always talk about him, ultimately not very effective, a corrupt individual with a gun problem.

Piecake · Post #22 » by **Piecake** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:49 am

Minnesota - Sam Cassell - looks like he got a serious case of frostbite.

Dr Positivity · Post #23 » by **Dr Positivity** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:50 am

Toronto is Bargnani, for all the wrong reasons

andre316 · Post #24 » by **andre316** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:57 am

For the Miami Heat it used to be Zo (easily), now I'd say it's Udonis Haslem. Despite all the flash of this year's team, the franchise has always been and continues to be defined by defense, effort, and teamwork.

Piecake · Post #25 » by **Piecake** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:06 am

andre316 wrote:For the Miami Heat it used to be Zo (easily), now I'd say it's Udonis Haslem. Despite all the flash of this year's team, the franchise has always been and continues to be defined by defense, effort, and teamwork.

Miami Heat and teamwork? Wha?

Subway Token · Post #26 » by **Subway Token** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:22 am

Frazier for the Knicks.

OhMyBosh · Post #27 » by **OhMyBosh** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:23 am

Bargnani - soft, European, can’t defend, can’t rebound.

andre316 · Post #28 » by **andre316** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:33 am

Piecake wrote:
andre316 wrote:For the Miami Heat it used to be Zo (easily), now I'd say it's Udonis Haslem. Despite all the flash of this year's team, the franchise has always been and continues to be defined by defense, effort, and teamwork.

Miami Heat and teamwork? Wha?

It's been the Riley culture for years. There was rockiness early on this season as so many new guys acclimated to each other, but there have been vast improvements since then (first on the defensive side, but even the offense is far more fluid and selfless now).

Yes, there remain issues making the best use of both Wade and LeBron when they share the court, but progress was bound to take a lot longer than Boston's Big 3 considering neither guy has the 3-point consistency of Ray Allen or even Pierce.

I'm not sure if even then it'd be a pleasant-looking offense with the conservative and unimaginative Spoelstra at the helm, but it's defense that wins championships anyway and the Wade-LeBron tandem on that end has been working great for a while now.

AllBall · Post #29 » by **AllBall** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:33 am

Miami Heat

Alonzo Mourning (all time)
Udonis Haslem (now)

MaxRider · Post #30 » by **MaxRider** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:43 am

Hakeem

memgrizzlies · Post #31 » by **memgrizzlies** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:00 am

When people think of the Memphis Grizzlies, they usually think of the Pau Gasol trade, so I'd say Pau, unfortunately.

JT3000 · Post #32 » by **JT3000** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:19 am

Orlando - Nick Anderson or Darrell Armstrong. They spent the most time here and became fan favorites by just playing their roles and staying humble. Our star players usually end up on bad terms with the franchise, unfortunately.

SaveOurBullets wrote:Orlando - John Amaechi - They're called the Magic.

I don't get it...

mepatrick · Post #33 » by **mepatrick** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:36 am

raptors = vince

Post #34 » by **kingkirk** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:23 am

i_killed_kenny wrote:
RonMercerMVP wrote:Probably Kirk Hinrich.

heh. kirk hinrich is the heart and soul of the bulls even when he doesn't play for them anymore. i fully expect the bulls to sign him once his contract is up

Kirk is my modern day choice.

Jerry Sloan deserves a mention. What a tough blue collar guy.

Soap345 · Post #35 » by **Soap345** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:47 am

Got to go with KAJ. Always produced, year after year no matter what anyone said about his age etc. Also was in movies.

BadNFluenz · Post #36 » by **BadNFluenz** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:02 am

Blake Griffin

LV-Suns · Post #37 » by **LV-Suns** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:08 am

Nash/Barkley

King Of The 4th · Post #38 » by **King Of The 4th** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:35 pm

Celtics - Russell/Bird

Spicy P · Post #39 » by **Spicy P** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:39 pm

Alonzo Mourning for the Raptors

Takuya Kimura · Post #40 » by **Takuya Kimura** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:46 pm

Adam Morrison.

Seriously,Crash.