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Originally Posted by boggledepot
Personally, I find the later rounds of the NBA more exciting. In the NBA finals the best players are always still around. In the NHL, the teams go out and kill each other for two rounds (a good example was that crazy series between the Flyers and the Penguins last year), usually leading to a winner by default, instead of the best team winning the championship. In my opinion, hockey suffers when its best players are not battling each other for the Stanley Cup.
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I like that hockey requires more than two players to be elite. It isnt as good when you want to watch two teams that arent yours in the final but it is way better as a fan of a team. Each year in the NBA 3 teams might have a shot at the NBA title and 0 have an outside chance. In the NHL that list is at least 5 or 6 with a good shot at the title and another 4 or 5 with an outside chance.
So while watching the NBA finals its nice to see the best players but that sucks for all of the 25 teams who have zero shot at a championship in the net 5 years.