2013-2014 NBA Thread - IND @ WAS and OKC @ LAC on ESPN

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problem is they already have more than 50% of teams making the playoffs. so they can't really contract at this point.

i would like to see them think outside the box like bill simmons says and do some other format for playoff seeding and spots...when the west has 50 win teams missing it and east has a team with 38 wins
The best 16 teams regardless of conference?

Or top 4 from each conference. Remaining 8 spots to the best record regardless of conference.
 
there's way too many teams in the league. nba should consider contraction

milwaukee? charlotte? sac?

problem is they already have more than 50% of teams making the playoffs. so they can't really contract at this point.

i would like to see them think outside the box like bill simmons says and do some other format for playoff seeding and spots...when the west has 50 win teams missing it and east has a team with 38 wins

that's another thing. there are too many bad teams making the playoffs. first round is usually a drag, especially having it best of 7

maybe do what baseball or nfl does and a a couple wild card and have them battle for a spot
or even 1/2 bye and 3-6 in the first rd playoffs
 
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The best 16 teams regardless of conference?

Or top 4 from each conference. Remaining 8 spots to the best record regardless of conference.

yeahh exactly.....that would make the playoffs so much more interesting from round 1.

NFL playoffs has hands down the best format. makes weeks 15-17 of the regular season that much more interesting with all the scenarios.
 
the successful teams have always been the ones that are well run, NY and BK have the highest payrolls in the league and look where they are, the spurs and suns had great teams over the last 10 years and they are both small markets, okc too. 

the CBA didnt make things more competitive, changing the salary cap doesnt help much the only way to get trash teams competitive is to give them new management/ownership. bunch of crybabys that are bad at their jobs blaming other's successes on big/small markets when really its their own incompetence that created their bottom feeder team.


the nba fanbase will grow faster when the good teams are in the big markets and they make attending games a must see attraction. in the 90s if you visited chicago you HAD to see the bulls play, people who were not NBA fans that were visiting chicago went to see bulls games, liked what they saw and became fans. Same thing happens at lakers games, people go because its LA and its the Lakers, they enjoy the experience and leave lakers/nba fans. im sure it was the same with the knicks in the 90s and even the clippers now. all this adds to the NBA fanbase and makes the game more popular on a global level. this wont happen to the bucks or bobcats because no one visiting america is going to go to a small town like milwaukee.

Those visitors went to see the Superstars on those teams, not the teams. Lebron in Cleveland was as much a draw as somebody in a big market to a casual fan.

With the cap large market teams can no longer take the best players whenever they want. (Which by the way is why the large market teams were good and the small market teams were bad.)

If there had been a cap and the Lakers don't get Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, where would the teams they originally played for be?
 
 
the successful teams have always been the ones that are well run, NY and BK have the highest payrolls in the league and look where they are, the spurs and suns had great teams over the last 10 years and they are both small markets, okc too. 

the CBA didnt make things more competitive, changing the salary cap doesnt help much the only way to get trash teams competitive is to give them new management/ownership. bunch of crybabys that are bad at their jobs blaming other's successes on big/small markets when really its their own incompetence that created their bottom feeder team.


the nba fanbase will grow faster when the good teams are in the big markets and they make attending games a must see attraction. in the 90s if you visited chicago you HAD to see the bulls play, people who were not NBA fans that were visiting chicago went to see bulls games, liked what they saw and became fans. Same thing happens at lakers games, people go because its LA and its the Lakers, they enjoy the experience and leave lakers/nba fans. im sure it was the same with the knicks in the 90s and even the clippers now. all this adds to the NBA fanbase and makes the game more popular on a global level. this wont happen to the bucks or bobcats because no one visiting america is going to go to a small town like milwaukee.
Those visitors went to see the Superstars on those teams, not the teams. Lebron in Cleveland was as much a draw as somebody in a big market to a casual fan.

With the cap large market teams can no longer take the best players whenever they want. (Which by the way is why the large market teams were good and the small market teams were bad.)

If there had been a cap and the Lakers don't get Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, where would the teams they originally played for be?
lebron in cleveland as much as a draw as lebron in miami/ny/la 
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they could have lebron/kobe/mike/magic/bird on the cavs with pornstars as cheerleaders and still no one would take a vacation to cleveland just to see the cavs

when you draft a star player you get around 5 free years where he cant leave, in these 5 years if your sorry excuse for a team cant impress a player enough for him to stay then he will leave. the lakers didnt get wilt, kareem, shaq because they stole them from small markets, they got them because the small market teams they used to play for were trash and they moved on to bigger and better things. small market teams like san antonio, portland and dallas draft stars like dirk, duncan, LMA and they put good teams around the players so they dont leave, some even take paycuts to stay.

the in the past 20 years there have been 3 teams that have won 4 or more championships, a big market team (lakers) who used a mid first round draft pick (kobe) as the superstar and even he was going to leave before the pau trade. theres the small market spurs who built around duncan and put out a product good enough for duncan to take a pay cut in order to stay and the bulls who drafted both their two stars, took a chance and gave the greatest coach ever his first nba coaching job AND had an owner that was known to be cheap.

yes when it comes to freeagents big markets are going to have an advantage, you cant give utah good weather or an exciting nighlife, thats just the way it is. but even utah was able to keep stockton and malone for 20 years, making the finals twice then build with deron williams and make another solid team 10 years later. good teams are good because of good management and bad teams are bad because of bad management, stop blaming big markets for your own teams incompetence.
 
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lebron in cleveland as much as a draw as lebron in miami/ny/la :rofl:

they could have lebron/kobe/mike/magic/bird on the cavs with pornstars as cheerleaders and still no one would take a vacation to cleveland just to see the cavs

when you draft a star player you get around 5 free years where he cant leave, in these 5 years if your sorry excuse for a team cant impress a player enough for him to stay then he will leave. the lakers didnt get wilt, kareem, shaq because they stole them from small markets, they got them because the small market teams they used to play for were trash and they moved on to bigger and better things. small market teams like san antonio, portland and dallas draft stars like dirk, duncan, LMA and they put good teams around the players so they dont leave, some even take paycuts to stay.

the in the past 20 years there have been 3 teams that have won 4 or more championships, a big market team (lakers) who used a mid first round draft pick (kobe) as the superstar and even he was going to leave before the pau trade. theres the small market spurs who built around duncan and put out a product good enough for duncan to take a pay cut in order to stay and the bulls who drafted both their two stars, took a chance and gave the greatest coach ever his first nba coaching job AND had an owner that was known to be cheap.

yes when it comes to freeagents big markets are going to have an advantage, you cant give utah good weather or an exciting nighlife, thats just the way it is. but even utah was able to keep stockton and malone for 20 years, making the finals twice then build with deron williams and make another solid team 10 years later. good teams are good because of good management and bad teams are bad because of bad management, stop blaming big markets for your own teams incompetence.
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I hope the Cavs keep losing because of Dan Gilbert's whiny ***
Too bad he can't whine enough to have a winning team again
 
imagine how much hate lebron would get if he stayed a cav and never won a championship, now he's won two in a row because he moved to miami and people are calling him the greatest of all time (dont agree). lebrons legacy was saved by his move to miami, players should get to choose where they play to put themselves in the best position to be successful. teams should not be able to waste an all time greats career because they were lucky with some pingpong balls. If love doesnt come to LA i hope he goes somewhere else where he can play for a great team and achieve greatness, it would be a waste of his career for him to play on the useless wolves for his entire career and never make the playoffs. 
 
Contract em ^ nobody outside Milwaukee cares.

Seattle needs a team man. Damn shame they don't have one.

seattle doesnt need ****

they want an nba franchise again?

cool

but out of every city seattle is far from the first city to need an nba franchise.

they already have 4 pro sports teams there

so when people think seattle is entitled to an nba franchise i say cry me a river
 
What 4 pro sports team are in Seattle?

Unless you're counting womens soccer or some ****...the only major sports teams in Seattle are the Seahawks and the Mariners
 
they even have a lingerie football team :lol:

you walk out your house in washington state a few steps you will be in a sporting event whether it be minor league hockey, baseball, soccer, or arena football :lol:
 
Not sure what Hedo has left in the tank but it'll be interesting to see what contender picks him up.
 
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