LOL… Well sounds a little bit like life:)

 and give each team one?

I bet they’d agree to be paid in Trident Layers.

Would be funny if Beiber ends up a pro… Not a fan of his, but he’s a fan of the game and I respect that about the little dude…

SCIENCE!

   He names an entire decade, 10 years…then presents 4 different teams that were succesful during that decade.

  Sure some teams like Los Angeles, have had incredibly long stretches of success. I think they have a slight advantage due to location and perceived prestige. But NY, one of the largest markets…has had equal stretches of futility.

  So let’s give some franchises some credit. A lot of franchises “fail” because they routinely make bad decisions. And the truth is, given any period of time, only a handful of team can be on or near the top…that’s just the way competition works.

  Is the N.B.A. perfect? No. Can adjustments be made that would encourage parity? I think so, in some cases. BUT…overall? There’s a lot of luck involved. Kobe Bryant was drafted 13th in 1996 BEHIND 12 other choices. Then traded to LA. Then against conventional wisdom of the time, after a run of success, LA kept Kobe and traded Shaq. Which allowed LA to obtain pieces that with the addition of Gasol, gave them another run of success.

  As much as I dislike The Lakers? They made the right decisions. The Blazers built a team, piece by piece, coming out of the 80’s that became the very, very succesful team of the early 90’s. San Antonio, was blessed in the draft and able to obtain David Robinson and then Tim Duncan, and they kept them and had success.

  So imo, you can counter every Cleveland loses LeBron story, with an example of a franchise that has either obtained players..or kept players to great success.

  The Blazers in relatively recent years I think are an example of this. The Blazers had some horrible years…and the system “worked” we got higher draft picks. The Blazers made some mistakes…passing on Chris Paul/Deron Williams…The Blazers made some good moves…drafting Aldridge/Brandon Roy. Do you blame the “system” or the league for the mistakes The Blazers made in hindsight? I don’t.

  Sure it isn’t a perfect system or perfect league. But I think a well managed franchise, will thrive given some luck. In general? I think succesful franchises have been succesful because they have made good decisions and made the right sacrifices. Conversely, routinely poor franchises, usually have themselves to blame, either because they are making routinely bad choices in the draft and/or are unwilling to keep talent.

  The phrase, " However you shuffle the league, it’s going to be the case that a few teams are dominant and a bunch of teams are not ". Is childishly idiotic. Yeah, that’s the way competion works…all the time, every time. That doesn’t mean you can’t build to improve, that doesn’t mean the league doesn’t work…that just means that given any given time-frame, only so many teams can really be near or at the top…and that is simply a reality of all competitive leagues.