Ultimately it will hurt the NBA as a whole. Some true fans who have been there year after year will drift away, while the league picks up a lot more fair weather/bandwagon fans. Those people will be out and on to the next fad as soon as the Heat lose a couple games, or one of the big 3 get injured for any length of time. The smaller market teams will continue to bleed money and will be selling off their assets to the bigger market teams for pennies on the dollar (Gasol to Lakers), just to survive. This will make the problem even worse, with a few superteams and a bunch of teams barely scraping by.
Wait, how does this help the NBA as a whole again? The NBA is significantly worse with respect to revenue sharing than the NFL or MLB. How are Cleveland and Toronto going to make up the lost revenue next season? Something needs to be fixed before it gets out of control.
The perfect situation for the league would be each team has exactly one franchise player. That would give each franchise a face, and the competition would be a lot more intense. Since that would almost be impossible to achieve, the closer to that ideal situation, the better for the league. As someone has pointed out. The basic intent of the salary cap system and the draft system is just that.
Yeah...he would be singing a different tune if Lebron signed with Dallas. Also, who cares what Jason Kidd thinks...he's never won a championship and never will. Especially with the current Rockets squad in there division :grin:
Toronto sucked last year and let's not act like Bosh was a huge attraction going on the road. The same Toronto fans that showed up last year will show up this year. Didn't Miami have trouble selling tickets with just Wade? Well I guess they will replace Cleveland. I don't really care about what happens with these other Franchises so I guess that is why I'm not that worried about what just happened.
there are not three franchise players in Miami, Chris Bosh couldn't even make the playoffs two franchise players, bothered no one when it was thought to be Yao and TMAC two franchise players in LA to start the decade, the NBA survived, hell that team should have lost to Portland and to Sacramento, not the most glamorous towns.
I don't think that this will hurt the NBA, just Toronto, and Cleveland, but then again that will make many teams around the league more desperate to get big name stars/prospects that can become "superstar players". Miami has a target on their backs and the only way to own them is to be better talented than them.
Wow. With a martyr complex like that you could try to buy the Cavs. Memo: people who disagree with you are not preteen girls automatically. Memo 2: you're "allowed" here, clearly. So quit whining, and let people have opinions about TEH BEST EVA PLAYAR ON ERTHS. Thank you. edit: disagree with Kidd on this one. The Deicision hurt the league, in terms of integrity, but a great team, and a big conversation topic, does not hurt it. Also Toronto will be better and more entertaining without Bosh. Cleveland probably ... um, not so much good to be watching.
What in the world are you talking about? I was being sarcastic because right here in this thread I was told to go to the Heat forum because of my opinion.
Yeah, and there were 23 teams in the league when the Celtics peaked in '86. Much easier to have a team full of talent with 7 less teams in the league.
also, james tried to get bosh to cleveland. now people are blaming james for cleveland being cleveland. wow, he must really be the chosen one
There was star power pretty much across the board back then. It seemed almost every team had at least a couple of players that could sell tickets. Boston had Bird, Parrish and Mchale Lakers had Magic, Kareem, Worthy Atl. Wilkins, Det. Thomas, Lambier, Rodman Knicks- Ewing, Starks Chi- Jordan and Pippen Sonics- Payton and Kemp Jazz- Malone and Stockton of course I could go on and on. I think today's league although very talented across the board, is a bit watered down on true stars. Can't say I really blame them for wanting to play together, to give themselves a better shot at winning, but I'm going to root for failure in a big way.
Well Jason Kidd might not like it, but Ricky Ross loves it! LOL. Definition of a bandwagon fan! <object width="448" height="374"><param name="movie" value="http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/e/16711680/wshh26d60TSXGQW7699r"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/e/16711680/wshh26d60TSXGQW7699r" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullscreen="true" width="448" height="374"></embed></object>
I see what you're saying but people act like this move is now preventing the whole NBA from having stars or that the NBA is about to end because of it. Bosh isn't even a Franchise Player like Bron and Wade so I don't get why people are even including him. I just simply think that reaction to this is kind of overblown. The league has been watered down for years according to most NBA Fans. It's not like this move made the NBA watered down.
Does anyone remember ten years ago when the East was well the East. The biggest stars were like Iverson and Kidd, and no big men, and they had no chance against the west. the nba will survive
Correction: There has NEVER ever ever been a team that had 2 of the TOP 3 players in the league, on a team! That's what's different!
