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LBJ supports League Contraction

DutchJazzer said:
problem with that is 50% of the fans would like jazz to be one of those 5 teams
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That is why I said they should use franchise success record to determine it. Fan votes are the biggest joke there is, just look at the all-star game.
 
Since the same thread is in 2 separate sections I might as well copy this here:

I think he is right. I think there is a dilution of talent with this many teams. It would be better with fewer teams, imho. I would like to see them drop back to 24 teams or such. 2 division of 6 teams in each conference, or 4 teams per division in the current set-up.

They could drop the clippers and no one would notice. They never compete, even with the most top 5 picks in the history of the NBA they can't put a competitive team on the floor. Not hard to find 5 others to drop.

Maybe take the worst teams by history of the franchise and drop them down to the D league, after holding a draft to move their talent to other teams. Each of the 6 teams would open their entire roster to the reassignment draft, but once they have lost 4 players they cannot have any more taken from the team. The remaining players become free agents, the franchises move to the D-league and can take 5 of their remaining players with them, maintaining their contracts, after which they also become unrestricted free agents. They could have a reassignment draft in the D-league, similar to how the NBA does it when they start up a new team, and it would become more of a farm league than it is now, with a stronger talent pool.

That would make for better games in the D-league and stronger competition for player development (so you wouldn't get a Morris Almond, a non-NBA caliber player, owning the D-league thereby inflating his image artificially). Just an idea off the top of my head, but I think something similar would be possible. It would make for a better product all around too.
 
Woj is probably my favorite NBA writer nowadays. Stories are always filled with interesting tidbits instead of trying to be cute.
 
If you are going to go as far as contraction, why not shorten the season as well? 82 games is too much, and it's horrible to see SportsCenter highlights in mid-February of a game between mediocre teams like Grizzles vs. Wizards.

Crop the league to 25 teams, shorten the season to 50 or 60 games (extend playoffs to best-of-9 for the championship maybe) and start calling technical fouls on flops.
 
DutchJazzer said:
problem with that is 50% of the fans would like jazz to be one of those 5 teams
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...can't drop the Jazz. They are one of the more successful teams in the NBA and sports in general! Sell out, stay competitive, make the playoffs, advance most of the time when making the playoffs, fun to watch, fundamentally sound, and fiscally responsible, Klinko's contract not withstanding!
 
tatermoog said:
Woj is probably my favorite NBA writer nowadays. Stories are always filled with interesting tidbits instead of trying to be cute.
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His dislike for James completely taints his articles though. In many of his articles, his leaps in logic are quite dumbfounding.
 
Somebody doesn't seem to understand the difference in the talent pool between the 1980s and now. European basketball essentially didn't exist in the 80's, and now how many foreign players are in the league?

Fail. LeBron needs to learn when to keep his dumb mouth shut when discussing a topic that he obviously has very little information on.

What this sounded more like to me was "everyone should have teams that are loaded like mine, so I don't look like a coward for choosing to be on an all-star team".
 
carolinajazz said:
...can't drop the Jazz. They are one of the more successful teams in the NBA and sports in general! Sell out, stay competitive, make the playoffs, advance most of the time when making the playoffs, fun to watch, fundamentally sound, and fiscally responsible, Klinko's contract not withstanding!
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I KNOW YOU DONT HAVE TO TELL ME.

but seeing as the world does NOT like the jazz lots of people wouldnt care if jazz got dropped
 
So when collusion takes place between arguably 3 of the top 10 players in the NBA, contraction is the obvious solution for the mediocre teams left behind.

Forget the fact that a lock-out is looming; but shouldn't James at least have won something before making a comment like this? I admit, I love to watch the guy play - but he clearly is mildly retarted.
 
I would love to see a hard cap where 3 of the top 15 players couldn't get together and move over to Miami. I would also like to see James knees brokern Tonya Hardy Style for the betterment of basketball. (Ok maybe I wouldn't go that far.)
 
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