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Not really, the less teams are in the league, the more condensed the talent will be among the other teams.
I disagree. You can field 30 good NBA teams, just not 30 or even 10-12 power teams.
The NBA needs a hard salary cap. Look how compe ive football is. Is their talent pool "diluted" despite having 3+ times as many players per team?
The New Orleans Saints turned a team around in 3 years. Can you imagine if 3 years from now, the Clippers or Pacers had a shot at a le? Would those teams have half-empty stadiums if the crowd that there was a chance for a turnaround on the horizon? I mean, why would you even want to go to a Raptors game these days? They aren't going to win the le in the next 5-8 years, minimum. Basically if you have nothing else to do, you don't mind seeing your team lose, AND you have disposable income, you might go to see the Raps play. There's no buzz on the sports talk about them in the local city. There's no fan support, because they know any talent they have is leaving to richer climes.
Now imagine if they could afford to keep a star (because they don't have to pay him $25,000,000 a season) and actually build around him. Suddenly the team is making runs to the semis and even a couple of conference Finals. Fans increase as they see they might have a shot at winning a le. Team gets more money. Suddenly they are helping the NBA, not hurting it.
Now look at the NFL. What team (especially this year) didn't have a shot at going 5-0 to start the season if they would have made fewer mistakes? What team doesn't have a chance to win a le in 3-4 years? Every single team could conceivably make a le run or at least get deep in the playoffs with good management and signings.
The NBA's system sucks. It's actually worse than baseball, because baseball is random enough that you can go out and sign all big names and they could all have horrible seasons. Basketball, you basically know what you're getting.
The league doesn't need fewer teams. They need to give smaller market teams a chance to matter.
Can you imagine if Boston got Tim Duncan? You would have 3 teams from 1991 to 2010 that won the le every year, the Bulls, Lakers, and Celtics (oh, look at that, the three largest markets in America... what an equal opportunity NBA we have!). The Heat would never had a chance in a Duncan-powered East. The 2004 Pistons might have been able to make a run, but that still leaves us with 3 teams winning 19 les and a 4th winning one.
And you're arguing the NBA needs to allow those teams to be even stronger? Come on, man.
contraction. Can you imagine if the NFL had decided to contract the Rams in 1998? Or the Saints in 2003? How about those ty Arizona Cardinals that never won a playoff game in forever?
Yeah, all those teams went to the Super Bowl. Just about the only teams that haven't made runs in the past decade or so are the Lions and Browns. If you think it's a coincidence that football is suddenly the most popular sport in America by miles and the fans realize that their team has a shot to win it all almost any given year, well, I don't know what else to say.
Last edited by Cry Havoc; 10-22-2010 at 09:30 AM.
Not really, the less teams are in the league, the more condensed the talent will be among the other teams.
On the other hand, I'm all for contracting the Trailblazers and giving the Spurs all of their players.
CBS sports is never right.
now people arent making fun of those folks who used to warn about the NEW WORLD ORDER in every thing we are being globalized and america has become so stupid and chicken that no one fights for anything anymore!!!
you guys ever heard of the north american union bill passed and signed by bush?? probably not look it up!! so this just falls right into place with whats going on with the rest of the world.
they have to have sports or else what is going to distract the masses while they pass uncons utional laws ??!?!?! thats why theyll be no lock out there i said it dammit
man, i bet stern is going to tear apart the cavs and raptors in the east and just give a random team like the heat lebron james and chris bosh. as for the west, he'll probably get rid of the grizzlies and send pau gasol to the lakers. oh wait...
This. I hope it happens even though it won't.
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