"Well, I think we would love to spread everybody out. We had 10 or 15 of the top players on separate teams, where guys were coming into town and they could sell tickets. It's not going to be easy for teams to sell tickets in Cleveland or Toronto now because those guys aren't on the team. I think everybody can say Miami will sell out wherever they go all year, but that hurts the NBA in the sense of selling tickets. It's just for them to go Wes,t teams are only going to see them once, and then on the East coast they only go there twice, so it may be disappointing on that aspect but when you talk about just straight basketball it will be interesting and fun to watch." Here is the link http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...t=Ak9nzO9DChFzY76fFKl_7aq8vLYF?urn=nba,257087 Kidd has a good point. Toronto is going to have a hard time selling tickets!
Those Lakers and Celtics teams back in the day were filled with All-star caliber players right? Did that hurt the NBA? Really how is this any different? In fact this helps the NBA. Another team for people to tune in and hate.
This helps the NBA during the initial season and the success of the Heat come playoff time. If there's drama on the team, it also helps the team, because all of the bandwagoners will either support the Heat or go back to slurpin' on individual players, and starting the blame game in South Beach. Give it 2-3 years and I do agree with Kidd, it will hurt the NBA.
Filled? What years and players? There was never a 2nd and 3rd best player in all the league signed on the same team for years and years in their prime. Then add a top fruitcake velociraptor and that's nuts.
The same people that are complaining about this are also the same people that will say the Heat won't win a Championship because of depth. I don't get what the problem is. Those 3 players took less money to team up. Kudos to them. Whole thing is overblown to me.
Guess you should pack your bags and head with me to the Heat forum even though we are not Heat fans. Apparently you're only allowed here if you whine and act butthurt like a preteen girl.
Ya, this doesn't hurt the NBA at all. Let's take it a step further and get CP3 and Carmelo to join Amare in NY for another trio. Then maybe we can trade Yao to Chicago to join Boozer and Rose. I also heard Deron Williams will replace Fisher in LA. D-Howard thinks there are too many stars in Florida so he convinced Steve Nash to demand a trade to OKC. :grin:
The move will help the NBA overall while hurting Cleveland and Toronto, Cleveland much more than Toronto. It will take Cleveland a long time to recover. But Bosh was never that big of a draw for Toronto. They can get over Bosh quick if they were smart.
Every team was pretty stacked back then. They became hall of famers because Magic and Larry got them rings. The pistons, blazers, sixers, rockets, on and on all had great players on them. The league is just much different now because of college coaching getting worse and there being so many teams, players don't have to be as good to make a team.
With regards to Kidd's point, the league was smaller then, so I'm guessing the smaller teams would be playing the lakers and celts a higher percentage of the time than they would against the heat now.
kidd is talking about franchise players...not all-stars.....it's as if MJ, dream, patrick, malone, stockton, and barkley were to have joined forces on two separate teams, 3 on each team. It means those two teams would have sell outs and they'd sell out when they visit other cities, but that's only a few visits a year. On the other hand, teams like houston chicago, NY, utah, and phoenix would be left without franchise guys who bring in mos tof the money..therefore they'd sell out when those super teams came 2-3 times a year, but every other game they'd struggle to sell tickets.... obviously there's more franchise players to go around than the 3 in the miami heat, so i dont think it'll hurt the NBA significantly, since it'll make up the money in other sales generated by the move...but if the trend continues, then it possibly could. You'd suck out all the franchise guys out of every team and they'd pair up across 5-7 teams and leave the other 20 something teams without one and they'll struggle to win and sell tickets...unlikely to happen, but that's Kidd's point.
