add spurs, bulls and warriors and that is 50 of the 70 ...
Bulls 6
Warriors 6 (including philly)
Spurs 5
Lakers 16 And Celts 17
the other 25 current teams plus the long gone franchises like Sonics got only 20 ...
Spurfan wasnt ing about parity when they won 5 in 15 years though ...
Speaking of the Pippen Bulls: remember when you guys rushed the court to celebrate the Bulls winning a le in your own building?Remember this?
The NBA survived then, why not now? #ChickenLittleNatin
Dayum, you saw det huh?Speaking of the Pippen Bulls: remember when you guys rushed the court to celebrate the Bulls winning a le in your own building?
Difference was when all those teams you listed won they beat the best compe ion out there. There were other teams in the mix. They didn’t stack the deck and sleep walk against minimal compe ion like GS is doing now.
5 out of 15 is far from 3 out of 4. One is 33% the other is 75%, with a totally unexpected finish stopping it from 100%. The fact that the spurs never went back to back shows that it wasn’t so ridiculously dominant that it can afford to have one or even more of their Allstate injured for significant times to win or even make the finals. The spurs were built on a a level playing field with the rest of the nba. Golden states were built on controversial practice of collusion (same as the shaq and MVPau lakers, the Celtics and the Heat).
Even then, the other teams were put together in a way that didn’t immediately finalize the results of the champions for years to come.
The shaq lakers had the kings, blazers and the spurs. The Celtics had the MVPau lakers and vice versa, and the heat had ... I guess okc and the spurs. There was still compe ion. With the warriors, there is none.
The ironic thing is that the league sees its popularity plummet during years of relative parity (70s was the worst decade for the league with the aba and drug problems but achieved the most parity. Bad boys pistons led to rule changes to limit their effectiveness. Rockets led to shortened the point line and then back again. Spurs/ pistons and the hand check rules. The league has shown that casuals drive revenues and that casuals love superpowers (either to bandwagon or as a hater). So they are doing whatever they can to keep the revenues rolling in.
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