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I Think People Fail To Realize That Teams And Organizations Have Been Stacking Teams Since Way Back In The Day. The Lakers Had The Showtime Era. Boston Had Six Hall Of Famers On One Team. You Had Detroit, The New York Knicks, And Now The Miami Heat. They Were Stacking Their Teams Back Then, It Just Fell Off Over The Years And Now It Picked Back Up. Boston Did It First, Then La. I Was Fortunate Enough To Play Against Them When They Had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... That's Five Hall Of Famers On One Team! So You Can't Get Mad At Miami For Doing What They Did.

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Carmelo Anthony

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I Think People Fail To Realize That Teams And Organizations Have Been Stacking Teams Since Way Back In The Day. The Lakers Had The Showtime Era. Boston Had Six Hall Of Famers On One Team. You Had Detroit, The New York Knicks, And Now The Miami Heat. They Were Stacking Their Teams Back Then, It Just Fell Off Over The Years And Now It Picked Back Up. Boston Did It First, Then La. I Was Fortunate Enough To Play Against Them When They Had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... That's Five Hall Of Famers On One Team! So You Can't Get Mad At Miami For Doing What They Did.

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