The nba is turning into a Power 5 conference situation

It's eerily similar. I'd rather let LeBron and the warriors play themselves in an arena tour like the Washington generals vs the globetrotters.

I'd love for the bottom feeder teams to break away to create a new league.

I'd welcome the grizzlies and other teams to move to the liga acb, in a smackdown vs. raw situation. Maybe the only way as fans to get the nba's attention is to have competition.

I care nothing about the nba as a league, but stop the B.S. The only way that Lebron and Steph have this delusional sense of satisfaction is that they are 1 of 30 teams in the league. What if it were 1 in 7 teams because the rest of the league says y'all play yourselves.

It would take a lot, and might not even be possible. If say steve Ballmer and Pera, and some of the other young owners decided to create a new league, how would that work.

 

Maybe you offer top draft picks ownership rights to the teams they play for to incentivize them to play for your league.

You create teams in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Hartford, Vancover, etc.

Most likely the teams in the nba now won't be able to leave unless contracted out.

 

No, I mean like a competing league to the nba. And try to get college players to choose that league over entering the nba draft, plus trying to cheery pick current nba players once their contracts are up.

 

I think you are thinking of a true power 5 move, which is possible also I suppose. But I'm thinking that it would be possible if we could have an actual competing league to the nba to give fans what they want. I'm sick of the super teams acting like they just play harder and work harder than every teams with 4 ringer on their team.

 

The legitimacy of any startup league is required for it to actually be a foe to the nba. Pointing to a dumb league like the new aba doesn't make your point. That's why I said, in my first post, that it would have to be a league like liga acb or the euroleague for it to work, and maybe a combination of all european leagues to compete with the nba.

However, since you do point it out, I don't think the and1 league has ever found it hard to find an audience. The nba is king, until it isn't. Also, next year, if the same **** happens, I believe there will be a shift in viewership even more.

 

In local markets viewership is down across the board. I believe the trend is going to continue. This is not 1979 anymore when Magic and Bird was trying to keep the nba alive, and people aren't idiots. They know when they are being sold a bill of goods.

That's largely why I have stop paying for boxing ppv and ufc fights. It's a money grab.

The nfl is largely a boring sport that has been oversaturated by greedy people looking to cash in. Very few nfl games live up to the hype of those games. Right now, I'd say baseball and hockey has the best playoffs. The main problem with baseball is that regular season games are too damn long, and the season is too damn long to really get invested in it until there are like 30 games to go, and you are in a pennant or wildcard race.

I think (and hope) that sports gets a wakeup call, because the product for a lot of these sports are pretty shitty. I mean you watch sports all your life and it is like a drug, it is really hard to kick the habit, but these kids growing up today don't have that problem and sports don't interest them nearly as much, and they aren't dumb enough to drink the koolaid of Steph Curry saying his team worked their butts off, please man. You troll much?

 

Like I said, sports are a drug. And old heads like me, it will be hard to fully go cold turkey on them, but for younger kids, they don't have that same problem.

And then you have the nfl shaking down cities like Oakland for how many ever billions of dollars from the taxpayers and then bolt on the team when they won't approve another 10 billion dollar stadium.

I don't know man, the older I get the less I like the greed and bs in sports. I see a lot of cracks in the veneer.

 

There is a reason kd came out and said he isn't the reason for a lack of parity. Obviously it isn't all in my head. Fans know that the league is rigged, just like they knew Roger Goodall wasn't taking domestic violence seriously. You think people who paid for Pac-Mayweather were happy about the fight they paid good money for, or Canelo and Chavez Jr, only to learn after the fight that Canelo is fighting GGG, come back for more.

No, Cavs and the warriors aren't completely to blame for all of this, but they are apart of the bigger problem with sports these days. I know I keep complaining about something that ain't changing, but watching the smugness of the cavs and warriors have got me sprung and I can't control it. Sorry for your inconvenience while I rant.

I don't know why anybody would support these allstar teams acting as if they are some underdogs to get to where they have gotten to.