Are you for or against this trend of young superstars all wanting to play on the same team? Should parity be encouraged by the NBA and how should they go about accomplishing this? I really don't have a problem with the Chris Paul trade being rejected by the owners, they own the Hornets and I guess just like any other owner they should have the right to nix a deal. I'm a Raptors fan as well as a Rockets fan and I've gotten used to big name players not wanting to remain in Toronto. I guess that has more to do with location. But now with all these great players wanting to play on superteams its going to be impossible for both the Rockets and Raptors to compete. How does everyone else feel about this? I don't think I can watch a league with only a few teams capable of winning.
In before someone says "If the Rockets or Raptors got these superstar teams, you wouldn't have a problem with it, so why do you have a problem with it now?!"
I like the superteam concept. There are too many teams IMO in the NBA. Cut down the number of teams and let the big dogs battle it out. It's lame seeing one guy carry a team of scrubs. It's even lamer to have an entire team of scrubs. Nobody wants that.
Yeah. Minnesota needs to be scrapped, Toronto isn't even in the freaking United States, and California doesn't need a hundred teams.
If a superteam is constructed because a franchise is great at drafting, I have no problem with that at all.
Its a standard that has been set and hasn't been broken. Blame the GMs for panicking and solidifying the standard.
True. I don't see any solution to the problem. If a GM refused to trade a player and made him take less money to go where they wanted, I'm sure agents and players would black ball them, essentially ending their GMing career.
This isn't ****ing Soviet Russia! If you are a Free Agent, you have FREE right to go wherever you want! The only reason I hated LeBron going to the Heat is the way he did it not because he left.
"Superteams" have always existed. FAs will always be drawn to teams that have a chance to win championships, it cannot be avoided. Its the reason why the Clips and the Lakers are part of the same market, but one is constantly contending at the top and the other always in the toilet. Its about smart front office moves, and great coaching. The only real parity that the NBA could have is implementing a hard cap - and we all saw how that idea went.
The NFL manages to be the greatest sporting league in America without "superteams". Every team has a legitimate shot at winning it all someday, regardless of media market size. Even in baseball, despite the absence of a salary cap and the annual exhibits of payroll excess, you have big market teams going on decades-long droughts (Chicago, Boston) and small market teams winning it all (Rays, Reds). In the NBA, there are certain teams that just don't have a prayer of ever making it to the top no matter how hard they try to develop young talent, simply because superteams in big markets that can spend the money to put together 3+ superstar players will ultimately outlast them, and their young talent will eventually run away to join one of those superteams. Why would Chris Paul ever want to join the Memphis Grizzlies? (Never mind that he could probably lead that team to a title easily.) The Grizzlies are never going to be on TV. The NBA is fundamentally broken, and this half-baked CBA isn't going to fix it at all.
Where was all this talk of superteams when the Lakers and Celtics were dominating NBA basketball in the 1980s? I believe LA made every NBA Finals in the 1980s with the exception of the two times they were knocked out by the Rockets.
If the Rockets got these superstar teams, you wouldn't have a problem with it, so why do you have a problem with it now?! I think to be fair it is actually a somewhat accurate assessment that the majority of Rockets fans would not have a problem with a Houston super team. I can't really think of anyone here scoffing at the wet dream we collectively have of Chris Paul and Dwight Howard playing together in Rockets red, and I'm sure no one was complaining with Barkley joined Olajuwon and Drexler. T-mac joining Yao was also pretty super; we were just unfortunate that their bones are made of Rice Krispies. I blame the whole anti-superteam movement on James and Bosh joining the heat AT THE SAME TIME. It especially doesn't help that James had The Decision. If not for all of that, the rest of this would almost sound like business as usual in the NBA.
If you shortened the NBA season to 16 games and the Playoffs to 1 game elimination I'm sure more teams would be winning the title, as well...
It really has nothing to do with that or else baseball wouldn't have what they have when they have even more games than the NBA. It's mostly that in no other league can 1 player do so much for their team. I will agree though that the NBA is going to need to look at either contracting or shortening the season & playoff series. If it doesn't happen the same teams will keep winning over and over. If there is a 50 game season and 3 game playoff series. It's a daunting task to beat the super friends 4 out of 7, but 2 out of 3 is definitely doable, just need them to have a couple of off days.
