I'll watch my Rockets, but outside that I'm done with the NBA

Yea. I am sure I will catch some Rox games next year. But I am not sure I see the point in wasting the time now. If the Warrior core stays then next season will simply be boring. I am sure Warrior fans are jumping up and down. But really. Are you THAT satisfied by winning the title with a stacked team? How about that first Olympic dream team with Jordan, Magic, Robinson, Bird and so on. After the novelty wore off it got boring watching them stomp the sh*t out of everyone. Same with the NBA.

I think the NBA will be in trouble. The Salary Cap was supposed to create parity in the league. Maybe there is Parity in the bottom 28 teams. I don't know. But going in to next season when I do watch the rox I will always have in the back of my mind what's the point. Unless there is an injury who can beat the Warriors and these d*** super teams.

 

I am with you Bro. Rockets only for me. I'm done.

 

I actually plan on watching less Rocket games next year. It really is hard to get emotionally invested in to a team if it faces certain doom in the playoffs. Luckily the Texans and Astros seem to have the brightest of futures for me to wait out the GSW dynasty.

To really keep me invested they need to acquire a Paul George or Gordon Hayward for me to feel the same emotional investment as last season.

This is my way of lessening the hurt of playoff elimination down the road. NBA should have found a way to veto Durant's decision, but obviously that would opened up a can of dog ****.

 

I only watch Rockets games and Game 7s, Ill keep to that routine...

 

david "basketball reasons" stern would have found a way. new rule, talk with the owners, horse head in joe lacob's bed. who knows, but he would have found a way. adam silver's too busy finding ways to make the nba fun on social media and getting cameras to tell us how many miles guys run after a timeout is called but before they drink any gatorade to care about things like this. I mean I guess if ratings are really up 4% and enough casual fans will replace hardcore fans, he doesn't have to care. but I can't think of any serious nba fan (and I'm going to assume pretty much anybody on an nba message board or who talks about it on tv are more than "casual" fans) who hasn't thought this playoffs was incredibly boring. and who doesn't think next year's playoffs will be incredibly boring.

 

David Stern and the NBA had control of the Hornets when he veto'd the trade.

The only thing Silver should have done was stress a gradual cap increase instead of the sudden jump, make it non-negotiable.

 

Ratings are up 4%? The most recent numbers I saw was that this year's Game 1 was behind both 2015 and 2016. In other words, despite adding another superstar to the mix, ratings were better for a series where the second best Cav was Delly. And these were also numbers for game 1... I'm sure ratings will tank after the Warriors blow the Cavs out at home.

 

Yeah, maybe some capologist can enlighten me. I don't get why they didn't go the gradual increase route. The sudden jump really doesn't benefit any players other than last year's FA. And it created an unnatural economy that warped everything.

 

cap is not the problem, it's the max contract limit

if there were no max, teams would offer players like LBJ/KD/Harden salaries that might be like 80% of the cap, and stars would not be able to team up without taking a monster paycut

 

because like most human beings, players are stupid. figuring out that a huge cap increase is just going to benefit that year's FA class, and might actually hamper next year's FA class after all the money has been sucked up, is way too complicated.

and deciding that cap smoothing wasn't a concession to the owners, who they hate, was also too complicated. it "sounded" like taking less money, so they were against it. it wasn't less money, because they get a prescribed amount of money no matter what and it would have just been prorated to the entire league, but they decided it felt like less money and didn't go for it.

for the owners part, I don't think they fought for it. they basically looked up from their iphone, said "hey, what do you think about this cap smoothing thing?" and when the players said no the owners said "cool, I'm going back to candy crush" and that was that.

 

the 4% was from an article someone linked about the entire playoffs. I don't know what the finals have done to that. at the very least, getting 4 games of finals ratings is going to be worse than getting 6 or 7 games of finals ratings.

 

now you know how fans of Lithuanian national team feel when we watch Olympic basketball.

 

True. Though I also don't like watching Olympic basketball except games when the USA team isn't playing. I really preferred it better before the Dream Team...

 

It's kind of intriguing to see a team so well put together that they haven't lost a single game in the playoffs but it kinda sucks too.

There are about 30 teams that will go into next season already knowing they have no real chance to win a title if the Warriors remain intact.

That can't be a good thing for the league.

 

thank you nike :X

 

The Rockets will still be fun to watch next year, but after seeing the Spurs destroy our offense and the Warriors possibly going 16-0 in the playoffs, I'm not gonna have any hope that the Rockets will win it all.

 

Warriors superteam doesn't appear to be hurting attendance and ratings.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mauryb...v-and-attendance-numbers-say-no/#116d558e6531

 

durant be like, "hey black people, hispanics and asians..get better at basketball, bros. It ain't my fault ya'll suck."

 

Didn't watch conference Finals but have tuned back in for first 2.5 quarters so far in the Finals.

While the current degree of the lack of top line parity is unprecedented, there's always been a lack of parity.

I'm surprised and disappointed the league didn't put in stronger efforts to change this in the most recent CBA bargaining, especially since that just happened. But we've known this for decades now.

I get from the league perspective there is the risk of a Bucks/Grizzlies finals. Whereas the current Finals is seeing amazing ratings. But the Finals are just 4-7 games. The rest of the playoffs, which represent many more games, are barely watchable. That said, the impact hasn't really been felt from a ratings perspective yet for the NBA. The question is will it over the next year or two as the rinse, wash repeat nature here really gets beaten into the consumers' mind?

In any case, the CBA was just renegotiated. Nothing is going to change here for a bit.