This is actually the funniest post I've seen in a awhile.

Decidedly more inspired than most mults.

I don't see it as inherent. Cut 5-7 teams out of the league. Once the redistribution of players without teams is done the rosters of most teams, particularly weak ones or middling ones, is improved remarkably. Engenders more parity because competition is stronger.

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If you did that right now GS is still winning the title. If you did it 5 years agp Miami is still winning the title. If you did it 17 years agp the Lakers are still winning the title. I agree it would make the regular season more competitive but if a team has 2 of the 5 best players in the league and no other team does that team is winning the title.

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what a league

It's inherent to the sport. If Brady and Moss played their careers together in 7 on 7 football Brady would have like 10 rings. If Trout could bat whenever he wanted to he would have at least one ring by now. There's not much you can do outside of disbanding free agency, which isn't realistic for obvious reasons.

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but they dont play 7 on 7 and trout has never won shit.

your point has fallen completely flat.

The NBA has always been top-heavy, and the regular season has always been largely meaningless. It's just uglier now because these pussies go team up with other superstars to get their titles. And once a few do it, other superstars are pretty much forced to follow suit or spend their whole career outside the big stage.

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Everything is cyclical. Many stars have already come out and publicly called Durant a pussy. I think we are going to move out of this phase Lebron got us into when Durant goes to NY next summer.

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You're making the point I tried to make back when it was Miami vs SA. Back then you argued super teams like Miami were beatable because of teams like SA. The best case scenario post-contraction is teams like SA: deep and talented but not necessarily led by super stars. Alternatively contraction will be the thing that gets teams like OKC or Houston over the hump - they'll be adding a sixth man or some critical postion player that helps even the playing field between them and GS. Anyway who knows: if teams in a post contraction world are generally good anyway and there's parity then that decreases the motivation for creating a super team. You only create a super team if you feel like you have no shot anyway. When there's parity then everyone feels like they have a shot.

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That version of SA was better than Miami. They were a super team too. They had historic two year numbers. I'm talking about the season before that

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SA wasn't a super team in 2012/2013. If the Bulls added a above average playmaker in 2012 via contraction then maybe it's Bulls vs OKC in the finals.

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The two years the Spurs faced Miami in the Finals is among the best two year stretches in modern history. They won at a historic pace in the second half of the season the first year they played them when Ray Allen hit that series saving shot and they were clearly the best team wire to wire the next year when they got their revenge on Miami. You undersold their talent level then and you're doing it again now.

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