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Originally Posted by Daradon
^^^ I agree that you can't lump them all together, and that's why in my response to you I admitted it may just be the optics of it all, it may not be as bad as it seems. Both Dallas and St. Louis aren't going anywhere, even if they do hit bankruptcy with their current owners (which they probably will). And they can probably be turned around very quickly.
Still, with everything that is going on, with so many unanswered questions, and so little room for error, I don't know if I'd say the league is the healthiest it's ever been, or the management group is doing the best they could be doing. As I said, I see the league on a wire of sorts right now. It isn't a crisis, but it's nothing to get excited about either.
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Every league, with the exception of the NFL, is on a wire of sorts now. A crippled US economy will do that to an entity dependent upon discretionary spending. Heck, there are very few corporations period that aren't a wire of sorts now, let alone sports leagues. And yet despite that uncertainty in the general marketplace revenues are up, a TV deal heralded by media experts as great for the league was signed, and the CBA situation is relatively stable for the foreseeable future. In what areas would you argue that management is not doing the best that they could be doing? I'm certain that there are differing views on particular decisions, but that doesn't mean that the choice taken is necessarily incorrect or poor and I'm generally going to defer to the people who have the ability to know the true reality of the situation over those who are relying on fractions of information found online.