If some owners don't want to play with the big boys why not have a separate division for them? Ratings were pretty high this last season with only a few teams really having a chance. When Jordan was playing and ratings were in the 20s was there more or less parity than now?
It's always only a few teams that have a chance. Would you be happy with the Rockets AT BEST having a chance to finish 6th if everything went right?
Yeah but at least the Spurs, Mavs, Cavs have all had a chance. With an EPL system it would be Boston, LA, Chicago, New York and maybe Miami. That's it. No one else would even have a dream
Players have complete freedom on where to go. LA's team would be Wesbtrook, Kobe, Durant, Kevin Love, Dwight
Maybe? How do you know Kobe would want to play with Westbrook and there will be some guys who would not want to be the 5th option on their teams in fact I think Durant, Westbrook, and Dwight would each like to be the first option on their team. Also teams will be looking for bargains. Why pay more for Dwight when a cheaper option that does what your team NEEDS it to do will suffice? Bball is still a team sport and those who build the best and most compatible team will still win. Not the ones who spend the most money.
With no restrictions on who you can sign? Bball is a team sport won by stars. EPL model would put all the stars on one team
Who says? The Heat is basically a team built by the players themselves. Besides, it is actually proving his point - James and Bosh teamed with Wade because they were tired of not being on compatible teams and wanted extra help. You know, the reason why everyone criticizes them so much.
And the heat were beat by a team not built by stars...but a team built around one player. Even the great Lakers team were not star studded teams. Great teams are built AROUND star players and each player does their role. NBA history shows that when you get star studded teams together the chemistry just doesn't quite work. If the Heat win one championship all it will have shown is that they finally settled into their roles and are playing as a team. Teams are not going to stack up like that in basketball because getting Westbrook means taking touches away from Kobe and so does getting Dwight and Durant...that won't happen. Instead you'll see them getting a pass first PG like Paul keeping Kobe...getting a defensive minded SF and keeping Pau and Bynum. Really the only thing that will happen is they get a better PG...and under the current CBA that would happen any ways. And forget stacking the bench with star players because they will rather go to other teams to play.
you mean promotion/relegation? Unfortunately it wouldn't work as well here in America. Americans don't want to watch what they would consider to be a second rate league, no one would pay attention to it. Basketball is not popular enough that people would follow 3 different leagues (NBA, 2nd division NBA, NCAA). In Europe, soccer is so popular that it works because there will be fan support no matter what.
Then they would have been blown out. As it was though Wade and Lebron act like they didn't know what to do in the 4th qtr of games. Those losses were on them, they were in those games to win them. While Dallas knew what they were doing and played like it.
So the big 3 joined forces because their supporting cast wasn't good enough, and they end up with a team where the supporting cast is still not good enough? I don't know about you but the Heat have decent role players (Bosh is probably the best role player in the league), certainty not the best but not the worse either.
The heat would have won if Lebron James played like lebron james. It was weird he wouldn't even try to take a shot and just pass it off.
American Sports are all about parity, we complain about the likes of the Yankees and Lakers, we do have our royalty, but the titles have been widely dispersed in all the sports, in the NBA for example Since 1995 Los Angeles 5 San Antonio 4 Chicago 3 Detroit 1 Houston 1 Dallas 1 Miami 1 Boston 1 Thats 8 champions, and virtually every other team has gone to the finals, or had a championship level team at some point. Since 1995 the EPL has only had 3 different champions Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea. The league has sent 55 teams to the champions league, Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, and Liverpool have accounted for all but 7 of those berths. That's true non-parity at work, we got 4 sports competing for our attention, if our team is consistently mediocre we move onto another sport. It's soccer or nothing in England, so the likes of Wigan are perfectly happy just to play at the top level.
The funny thing is that MLB has more parity than the NBA even though MLB has no cap. I think the main reason the EPL has no parity is because it has no playoff system. There would be no parity in american sports as well if the best regular season team was crowned champions as well.
The team with the best record gets bounced frequently. Clavland and Dallas won close to 70 games and didn't win the championship
Yeah but the team wouldn't be as good as Dallas. It would be a LOT LOT better. The gulf in talent would increase exponentially
