NBA commissioner Adam Silver: 'I don't think having 2 superteams is good for the league'
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/7/12/12168934/adam-silver-warriors-kevin-durant-superteams-bad-for-nba
Finally Cavs have bee recognized as a Superteam.
Does Silver not remember the Celtics and the Lakers of the eighties? Both these teams were built by the GMS cornering the draft market.
Drafting reform comes and then one team emerges and nearly dominates an entire decade.
Then you have have the Lakers create their own superteam again to kick off the century. and the majority of the league turned into development squads for teenagers.
Celtics then take a stab at the super team model and the Lakers buy out the league follow by the Heat making the super super team.
keep changing the rules Silver. teams will find other ways to gather talent better than others.
Adam Silver instead of going to the Players union and blaming them for these "superteams" take a look at the Owners.
This cycle of teams tanking. then having impatient owners continuously blowing up rosters after a couple failed playoff runs is far more detrimental.
also its not as easy to build a "superteam" Brooklyn, Lakers, The Knicks, Atlanta and Houston have all failed at some level in the last 5 years trying to build their own superteams.
If Silver wants to really give teams a chance he would require that players entering the league have 3 or 4 years of College/Dleague/ European league experience before being allowed to play in the NBA.
This is the first few season hat a team has to spend 90% of the cap. give it some time to have its desired effect.
Look at Memphis. A contender Built by drafts and trades. not able to spend a dime to support their core because of the salary and cap limitations handed to them by a CBA intended to bolster small market teams.
The NFL has parity. that's mostly because you have 50 man rosters
so their structure works for them
NBA has 13 man rosters and the top 3 players can have a huge impact on the teams fortunes.
What they should be doing is exempting all first 4 year contracts from the salary cap and 90% min. increase the roster size to 15 with an additional 3 spots dedicated for d league call ups( this would allow clubs to use those players for emergency purposes and structure things so these teams may be competitive while they rebuild.
Then the league should look at the 82 game schedule. bring back some regular season rivalries and go to a baseball style schedule where teams play each other 2-2 series 3 times a season. that's 48 games. then 5 more 4 game series against other divisions and 3 series against western conference teams. + 1 2 games series.
This will force teams to get to know each other and force matchup strategy.