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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Well yeah there are a bunch of what if’s but the Rockets came awfully damn close and a major injury had a huge impact on last two games.
Sports has been full of dynasties. Bulls, Celtics, Lakers, Islanders, Habs, Oilers, Yankees etc. I don’t believe it means the sport is broken. My best memories as a Flames fan are when Oilers were a dynasty and Flames were competing like hell to topple them.
As a Rockets fan, it’s disappointing they lost but it was a very compelling season. Parity sounds great but it’s great to have a team to hate too.
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I mean I don't disagree that sport is full of dynasties, but a lot of those dynasties occurred in the salary cap-less era. In the era of the cap, dynasties like the Patriots are incredible, but even then we're talking 5 rings in 15 years. The Warriors are a Draymond nut kick away from their fourth straight title, with the possibility of it becoming six or seven in a row. As those third quarter stats show, when they are 100% engaged, they literally are unbeatable.
As far as a team to hate, the only reason people now hate them is Durant. People loved the Warriors when they were going 73-9, because they were a ton of fun to watch play. Once Durant joined it become another Yankees-like Evil Empire.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Not everyone is a big basketball fan and so it’s easy to find fault with the game but I believe the NBA is as interesting as it has ever been.
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I think the on the floor product itself is as good as it's ever been, but being interesting? Not really. The interest actually is all about the summers mostly. I mean consider this summer, the top three players in the league, LeBron, Durant, Kawhi, are possibly all available to move to another team (Kawhi is obviously more complicated). And this will be the second time in three years both LeBron and Durant are available . The NBA hot stove is far more interesting than the league itself.