Some Random Numbers Stuff that Might Fascinate Only Me

[Avitus1]

I found it interesting too. Good read.

[Johnny RIngo]

And it just so happens those four teams are the current four finalists.

David Stern has really blown it. The NBA right now has four out of their top six all-time greatest franchises in the Conference Finals (Chicago and Philadelphia being the other two). They should be hyping the out of that fact. Instead the NBA office is actively cowering in the face of the possibility that it might be the Spurs and Detroit facing off at the end, instead of the Golden Children Abetted by Su ious Trades.

Any smart basketball fan knows that Lakers vs. Spurs is the true classic modern-day rivalry, WITH RETURNING PARTICIPANTS EVEN, but the league publicists are too stupid to do that. (Yes, Boston vs. Detroit has history, but the Celtics have been irrelevant for over 15 years.)

If the League had a PR guy with a quarter of a brain, they would be marketing the out of old Laker/Spurs and Boston/Detroit playoff games on NBA-TV.

The league doesn't know how to market team rivalries anymore. They fell into this trap during the Jordan era(less emphasis on teams and more on star players). Stern milked Jordan for all he was worth. Now he's looking for another player to carry the league but he's falling flat on his face every time. Remember the ridiculous Lebron promotions during last year's Finals? Or the Nash hype two years ago. This year it's Garnett and Kobe. Then there's the split screen player ads for the playoffs. The league(foolishly) chooses to promote the star players when there's a lot of history behind some of these teams. The only history they're interested in promoting is the same Lakers-Celtics crap that we've been hearing about for the past 20+ years.