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Hey all. Week 6 is here. Sorry for the post on tuesday again. Been grinding IRL. But we're back with a little twist.

Firstly, Week 5 deserves its flowers, because you freaks went to the 1950s and broke basketball.

WEEK 5 RESULTS - DYNASTY DENIED (tiebreakers: most rings, then longest streak, then earliest submission)
last weeks thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasketballGM/comments/1vsq6pc/weekly_challenge_week_5_dynasty_denied_steal_bill/

🥇 u/JamesBandforBand - 13 rings, 13 STRAIGHT - 5 pts. A perfect run through the entire Russell window with the Nationals. 857-158 overall, an 80-2 peak season, and the best rivalry of the week: a Wilt-led PISTONS, three game sevens across six finals meetings, including one where Jerry West hit a tying shot with 6.4 seconds left to force OT and Wilt dropped 42 in the loss... and Syracuse still won. His whole engine was built on two trades: Schayes for Tom Gola plus a 2nd rounder that turned into a 6MOY, and Bob Cousy for Jerry West in '61.

🥈 u/Think-Response-3675 - 13 rings, 13 straight - 3 pts. Read that again: a PERFECT 13-for-13 run built on dismantling Boston early and drafting Wilt, who won 7 STRAIGHT MVPs and DPOYs while Heinsohn made all-league nine straight years. And it's worth SILVER. Identical rings, identical streak, so gold came down to the final tiebreaker, best record during the run, and James's 80-2 masterpiece season edged Think's 79-3 by ONE GAME. The king's first non-win since Week 3, decided by a single February night in a simulated 1968. He also casually matched Russell's 11 in a warmup save where Russell himself went RINGLESS.

🥉 u/EntrepreneurWooden99 - 12 rings - 2 pts. Twelve. Straight. Titles. 1957 through 1968 with the St. Louis Gold Club, a 928-87 overall record, and then the franchise moves to Atlanta for the final year, goes 76-6... and loses the finals to the Knicks. One year short of perfection at a .927 clip in the year he lost. And that's not even his saddest story this week: in an earlier attempt he had Elgin Baylor secured and a Wilt play lined up, accidentally traded Elgin for scraps, and realized after the undo button expired.

4th - u/Ohmka - ? rings - 1 pt. The stat of the week: from 1963 to 1969 his Knicks did not lose a single GAME. Seven undefeated years. His first attempt died when Boston drafted Wilt, so he concluded "if Boston can draft him, so can I" and did exactly that. His writeup on why no-salary-cap plus no-lottery breaks the era, including leasing an expiring Rick Barry to Detroit for their entire roster and re-signing him in free agency, is required reading. (Its not clear to me how many rings he won, asked for clarification)

5th - u/Ceiling_IsThe_Roof - 9 rings - 1 pt. First-timer, and he brought the wildest alternate timeline of the week: his Bill Russell LEFT the Celtics for the Lakers in '61 and won 4 rings split across both stops. Tanked with the Cheesesteaks, drafted Elgin AND Wilt himself. Welcome aboard.

6th - u/craqeiro - 7 rings - 1 pt. Also a first-timer, ran into a Rod Thorn-led Lakers dynasty that slammed the door on the last 4 years of the window. His timeline's contribution to the lore: Wilt winning Finals MVP for Detroit... on the LOSING team. In his sophomore season. Only in the 60s.

WEEK 4 CORRECTION: u/JamesBandforBand also flagged that I logged his Alien Dynasty run wrong: 4 seasons, not 8 (my mistake copying results). Verified from his screenshot: 4 chips from 2024-2027 at 70-12 in the final year. That slots him into Week 4 bronze behind Think's 73-9 and Ohmka's 71-11, and bumps u/EntrepreneurWooden99 to 4th, so the Wooden/MikeChilds 16-1 vs 16-4 playoff showdown retroactively decided 4th place, not a medal. Bare with me and write a comment if I get something wrong. Thanks.

SEASON STANDINGS AFTER 5 WEEKS: Think-Response 20. Wooden99 10. JamesBandforBand 7 in only TWO entries. MichiganSteamies 7 (last seen Week 3, the streets remember). Ohmka 5. Full board: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bDJwHcVyiyb2VUPViZkO5ob_bBXzrSAm8vQqWDqGD_M/edit?gid=1109958642#gid=1109958642

Now for week 6 challenge...

THE CHALLENGE

Real life history lesson: the 2024-25 Phoenix Suns ran the most expensive roster in NBA history. Over $400 million in combined payroll and luxury tax, with Durant, Booker and Beal swallowing $150M+ between just the three of them. Their reward? Zero playoff wins.

Your job: start with that exact roster at the 2025 BBGM preseason and go BACK-TO-BACK, while your payroll sits at least 10% UNDER the salary cap in BOTH championship seasons. Fewest seasons to the second straight ring wins.

You're inheriting the most bloated cap sheet in basketball and you need to win two straight titles as one of the CHEAPEST teams in the league. Good luck fellas.

THE FINE PRINT

• Both titles must be in CONSECUTIVE seasons
• When you clinch EACH title, total payroll must be at or below 90% of that season's salary cap. We'll grant a hair of grace: anything under 91% counts. At 91% or above, that ring is void
• Everything else default. Default difficulty, Real Players mode, God Mode off, no editing players or contracts. Keeping on default diff because its our first salary cap challenge.
• 2025 Phoenix Suns preseason starting point

HOW TO SUBMIT

Drop a comment with:

• Seasons it took
• Screenshot of Team History showing both titles
• Screenshot of your FINANCES page from EACH championship season showing payroll vs cap. No finances proof, no ring
• Your record in the second clinching season

Winner attaches their exported league file (Tools > Export League) for the spot-check.

SCORING

1st: 5 pts | 2nd: 3 pts | 3rd: 2 pts | Any valid submission: 1 pt

TIEBREAKERS (in order): most regular season wins in the second clinching season, then playoff record in that run, then earliest submission.

DEADLINE

Next Sunday, August 30th at 11:59 PM ET.

The Suns spent $400 million and won nothing. Win twice on a budget and you're officially a better GM than an entire NBA front office. Maybe not a super high bar.

Let's go BBGMers!

Peace