Just curious – are there regular posters/readers here who are season ticket holders? I’d love to go to a couple of games this year and would be happy to buy tickets off of folks for some of the less appealing matchups (i.e. when Minnesota or whoever comes to town.)..

LeBron is commonly listed around 245-250 lbs, but he weighed 245 at the pre-draft combine coming out of high school. From what I’ve read and seen, I’d put him more in the 270-290 range. I’ve also heard he’s grown an inch… The guy is a freak.

Yeah, his listed weight did seem low, but when that alone put him over McGinnis, I figured I’d just go with it. It very well could be possible that Lebron’s measurements are now roughly what Karl Malone played at during his prime years. In other words, yeah, the guy is a freak.

As someone old enought to vividly remember the Sixer-Blazer finals, I can tell you that the highly-regarded George M. was the clear goat of that series. He had a one-handed jumper that just wouldn’t go down, and things just got worse and worse. He never really recovered from that. That Bill Walton team was a thing of beauty.

Yeah, I could have written an entirely separate piece just on how poorly McGinnis played for Philly (and then Denver). It was pretty embarrassing. That said, also on a piece about Lebron last year, Bill Simmons pointed out something interesting – on that 1977 Sixers team, Erving deferred waaaaaaaay too much to McGinnis. McGinnis led the team in field goal attempts, with 18 while Erving was under 17 and Collins under 15. That’s not McGinnis’ “fault,” I would say, that’s a coaching problem.

By the way, Erving had a .553 TS%, Collins had a .569 TS% and McGinnis had a .503 TS%. So I’d say Gene Shue was a bigger problem for the Sixers in 1977 than McGinnis.

I especially love McGinnis’s candor. “Here’s one pile of money and there’s another. One pile is larger. It doesn’t take any intelligence to figure that out.” If only modern star athletes could be so straightforward!

“The six foot, eight inch, 235 pound McGinnis (just let it sink in for a moment that that is almost exactly Lebron James’ measurements and then note that McGinnis was a dominant power forward in 1975)”

LeBron is commonly listed around 245-250 lbs, but he weighed 245 at the pre-draft combine coming out of high school. From what I’ve read and seen, I’d put him more in the 270-290 range. I’ve also heard he’s grown an inch… The guy is a freak.