The NBA title is the hardest title in Major sports to win.

SaintJ said

But how do you account for all that hard work you just described getting junked up by an organization that didn't do nearly as well as yours did in all this and whose mediocre goalie just got hot for two months, and they won a Cup and drifted back to mediocrity and were never heard from again?

Didn't they win a Cup pretty easily, on a relative basis?

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I guess from my standpoint, I see two months of playoffs as the ultimate test. Some average teams/players excel in big moments, some great teams/players fold. There are countless examples of this throughout professional sports history.

What it comes down to for me, and this is strange coming from a fan of the Saints, Blazers, Reds/Mariners, and Flames, all smaller market icities, is what you do in the post season is what counts. As long as you get there, and do what you need to do to win, you deserve it.

Why does everyone get excited when big teams get bounced in the NCAA Tournament? Shouldn't we all be hoping that UNC or UCLA, etc. makes it all the way?

That's what makes sport great is teams and players doing what they aren't supposed to do, or no one thought they could do. IMO :idunno: