OT Paul Pierce Compares KD Joining Dubs to Kid Getting Beaten Up, Joining Bullies

I swear. There is a reason that the Yankees and Celtics have won so many championships. The excellence extends from the playing field to the front office. Red Auerbach, Ed Barrow, George Weiss are all in their sport's HOF for a reason. So many lopsided trades.... Well I guess a sucker is born every minute.

 

Pierce knows a thing or two about bullies.

 

This league exists to entertain the fans, a non competitive league is a shitty product.
These playoffs have been a failure for the fans,players,broadcasting TV networks and the league.

The salary cap exists for a reason, this is bigger than a few OKC fans feeling sad about losing their star.

 

Game 1 was the third-highest rated game 1 on ABC. IMO, it's just a small (but vocal) subset of fans who hate the league, the Warriors and Durant. The league has usually had one or two dominant teams (except the 1970s, a period of time in which the league almost folded). The Celtics winning nearly every title in the '60s, the Lakers and Celtics splitting up nearly every title in '80s, the Bulls winning most of the titles in the '90s (and probably 8 of them if Jordan hadn't retired the first time, maybe 9 if he hadn't retired the second time).

In all those eras, there were one or two dominant teams, a bunch of decent teams with little hope and a bunch of totally crap teams (except in the '60s, when there weren't enough teams in the league for a "bunch" of anything). Personally, I don't think the Warriors' (and Cavaliers') dominance will bring down the league. History suggests that most fans enjoy dominance.

 

I don't understand any of your arguments...

-Fans who want to see a competitive league with the same limitations on all teams are "fans who hate the league" ?? what?

-"most fans enjoy dominance"?? since when? why not abolish the salary cap then? lets watch the richest owner win it all each year.

-Rating for a game doesn't indicate success , TV networks deal with quantity not quality for 1 game. 2 teams sweeping the playoffs is not good by any stretch of the imagination.

-Who cares about the 60's-90's now? I mean yea, little kids will always like to watch this type of season because for them its amazing to watch MJ or Curry "smash" everyone else, but i would like to think that the NBA should be more than superhero entertainment for kids.

-Just because the league was fucked in the 70's-80's doesn't mean it's ok to have it all over again. There's a reason rules,caps and regulations where put in place since then!

-People still watch the NBA because they love basketball, it doesn't mean that the NBA should put an inferior product just because "people would watch it anyway".

 

Who hate the current league for being "uncompetitive."

You mean, like it was in the 1980s? Also known by many as the NBA's "golden age."

Two teams sweeping the playoffs is historically unusual. Let's see it keep happening before we start worrying about the league being in deep trouble, eh? I'd be willing to bet it doesn't happen again next year.

Can you support that it's only "little kids" who enjoyed the NBA in the 1960s, 1980s, 1990s or today? I'd guess probably not, because it's pretty obviously silly.

 

I'm not only boycotting the finals, I'm boycotting the finals thread. I won't watch one minute or read one word. I don't even want to know who wins the games. One team loading up and dominating their way to a trophy in the absence of any real competition is not "sport". I might watch great marksmen compete in the Olympics, but I'm not interested in watching them shoot fish in a barrel.