I just want to share a depressing story before I bail on this thread.
The night the Celtics won game 6, I went out to celebrate with some friends in Seattle. I was at some bar and some old man noted my Celtic jersey. He goes up to me, points at my jersey and says, "I still say the Royals are better!" ... My friends and I laughed a little. It seemed like a weird comment, but my buddies probably just figured the old man was a big baseball fan and was making a dumb joke.
The old mean repeated it, though... "I'm telling you the Royals are better!" At this point I realized he was trying to be clever and figured out what he was talking about. I answered, "I hear ya!"...
He leaned in with an incredulous look and goes, "Do you know what I'm talking about?"
I says to him, "Of couse! The Cincinnati Royals"
He goes, "YES!... Best Point Guard Ever!"
I goes, "Hah! Oscar Robertson. Sorta LeBron before LeBron, right?"
Then he bought my buddies a pitcher of beer. He didn't expect some young whippersnapper to know what he was talking about.
I thought it was a funny story until I realized that in 30 years... that's going to be my buddy Dan... Sitting at some pub out of state trying to explain to some young whippersnapper about Gary Payton and the team that became the Oklahoma City Thunder.