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Originally Posted by bhlloy
I don’t know how you can have a league where the best players only want to play for 5 or 6 teams. The NBA really should consider contraction. If you are a small market the chance of competing is basically zero.
AD has basically come out and said he’s only going to resign with the Lakers, tanking his trade value even further. And they are basically limited to trading for young players who will be stuck there for a while anyway. What’s the point having a team
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There's 2 NY teams, 2 LA teams & one in Chicago, and the Lakers are the only one with sustained success in the last 20 years. Meanwhile San Antonio, SF/Oakland, Miami, Cleveland and Detroit have won titles, and Milwaukee, Denver, Toronto, OKC, Boston, Indiana, Portland and Utah are all on the top 12 records right now.
There's issues here with superteams, but blaming it on market size seems very questionable.