The reports of the league's demise thanks to the "Superfriends" trend are greatly exaggerated. Not every team will be able to afford to stock their team that way. Those opportunities are few and far between. Heck, the jury is still out on whether or not it's even going to be a sound strategy. We want the players to play for championships and not money, but we don't want them to go for championships together on the same team. That sounds like wanting to have our cake and eat it too. We can't expect guys to go sign with the Wizards and Bobcats to try to win there.
After all the Lebron hate after "The Decision", Lebron's Heat jersey is the NBA's #1 selling jersey. Thats why I don't participate in all the talk about NBA people being the worst beings walking the planet. Its either hyperbole just so people can have dramatic story lines to talk about. Or people speak through their wallets and support them anyway. Baseball has already been like that, top tier talent going to the Yankees for the money. Just there's many more players on a baseball field. NFL players would do the same thing if rules permitted it. Its just that in basketball the top 8 players can reshape the entire landscape of the league cuz they are THAT vital to a 5 man team's success. People don't like them having that much influence and power, but thats just how it is. (Speaking of NFL, I can see NFL dying BEFORE basketball. Due to political correctness and all the new research on how really BAD the head damage to football players is. )
I hope he goes to the Nets Williams Morrow Outlaw Lopez Howard Solid line up....Lopez and Howard can be the kryptonite to the Heatles.
Exactly, plus the worst thing are probably said on Celtics, Heat, Cavs, Lakers forum anyways when Orlando played them.
I have to back this up also. The stuff posted here by some of the idiots who felt insulting Howard's ability somehow increased Yao's stature was pathetic.
It would be fun with him on the Nets, him and williams battling for control of New York with Melo and amar'e, although he'd raise ticket prices from 48 cents, so I wouldn't like that . I would hate for him to go to the Lakers, they've gotten enough lucky breaks, at least the Celtics had struggles, the Lakers have always been good, I think they're only missed the playoffs four times in the history of the league.
Nice theory.[QUOTE=Spacemoth;6073648]How I want the NBA to end: Mark Cuban and Mark Zuckerberg team up during the lockout to create a new league, called the NSA. No Sterns Allowed. One by one the franchises individually apply for membership just so their teams don't completely depreciate in value to nothing. Being prudent businessmen, Cuban and Zuckerberg obviously refuse certain teams like the T-Wolves, Clippers, Bobcats, and Nets, effectively contracting the league in a fiscally sensible manner. Also they force the Utah Jazz to change their franchise name, mercifully putting an end to the biggest oxymoron in the history of language. David Stern in his financial angst and indomitable penis envy sends his top assassins Joey Crawford and Bennett Salvatore to off his competitors. They get Cuban in a Dallas whorehouse by mixing rat poison into his coke stash. Zuckerberg however survives the attack--Joey Crawford with a wig and dress fails to fool him. He alerts the cops and they put Stern away for life in Hard Knocks penitentiary, where his cellmate is none other than Jayson Williams. In a fair league and under fair rules with no max contract and a hard salary cap, Daryl Morey guides the Rockets to four championships in eight years (take that, San Antonio). Everyone lives on happily, even David Stern, who cherishes every remaining day of his time on Earth with full knowledge of how much worse it will get when he is called to task in the purging flames of divine retribution for all his worldly misdeeds.[/QUOTE]
How many games a year does he miss due to injury? Not sure I want to trade everything including the kitchen sink for that guy. Maybe I'm just tired of guys who are constantly injured.
http://www.businessinsider.com/nba-attendance-is-downagain-2010-12 NBA attendance is down again this year. It will probably get worse when the buzz of Lebron joining the heat dies down. One of the problems with this league is a lack of true rivalries. With all the refs given free reign to T up any player for anything there is a lack of emotions when teams play against eachother. This is especially worse when it comes to superstars. Another is the leagues emphasis on playoffs, this has dampened the regular season. People simply don't care about the regular season anymore and its actually lowering the quality of the league overall because every team is either hurting their team by swinging for the fences or blowing up competitive teams simply because they can't win it all and tanking for draft picks. I think the NBA needs to have a system like Soccer in Europe. Have a champion for the regular season and then another for the playoffs, where teams actually feel some obligation to actually try during the regular season.
I do too, but it does make the regular season pretty meaningless. May as well just have the all-star game decide the title.
