Sacramento Kings moving franchise to the OC, CA.

You said you wanted the league to blow up. You didn't say anything nor have you ever said anything about "returning a better league".

So baseball has had more teams win the in this century covers up the issues with teams like the Royals and Pirates. The Royal dumping Grienke doesn't generate nearly the same outrage as Carmelo being traded by to the Knicks. Why not?

What league has been reduced to rubble by past labor issues? Of the three major sports, the only league to miss its pinnacle event was baseball and the WS and I don't think MLB has been reduced to "rubble".

Rubble. Hyperbole.

Mizzou, it is easier to dominate in the NBA because only five players are on the court. The Spurs have won in a small market because of Tim Duncan. One great player is 20% of the lineup.

The Royals aren't winning with two HOF hitters which would represent 20% of the starting lineup.

 

I'd believe in the Stern conspiracy if the Knicks were winning titles.

 

He tried his best.

 

if he was really trying Lebron would have ended up there

 

Oh, I think you could find a number of people around the NHL who say certain teams get some extra favours and one prime example is the Crosby draft lottery. Seems a little fishy that 30 teams had an equal chance and he goes to a team nearing bankruptcy that the NHL made no secret could use someone like that.

Of course, Bettman was one of Stern's chief disciples at the NBA for some time.

 

He can't force a free agent to go to a team he doesn't want to play for. Plus, the Knicks have been mismanaged for so long that you could probably hand them LeBron and they'd do something stupid to fuck it up.

If you believe the conspiracy theories (I do) you can say, he gave them Ewing, who at the time was the best player to come out of college since Abdul-Jabbar, and that wasn't enough.

 

That's interesting.

I didn't know that was the way the NHL decided draft picks.

 

It was an open lottery done on national TV. No matter who would have won it there would have been conspracies about it. Anything can be twisted as to why a team would win.

Also, in the NHL lottery you can only jump 3 spots, so only the bottom 3 teams have a shot at the number 1 pick.

 

That's a good way to do it. I also like the old way. Here's the worst team from the East, here's the worst team in the West, call it in the air.

 

In the post-Jordan era, what high draft picks did the Lakers, Celtics, Pistons or Heat have to win their titles? I think that only the Spurs relied on a top 3 player that they drafted as one of their key players. And other than Wade at 5, who else was a player even in the top 9 (Pierce being drafted 10th)?

 

Big shock as the sports director for the Sacramento FOX station said he knows about a last-ditch plan to save the Kings, but can't say anything.

Glad to see a TV guy not talk out of his rear.

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-new-plan-could-be-gamechanger-for-sacramento-kings-20110323,0,6232256.story

 

You're right. It's been free agency and trades (a couple pretty questionable ones (Paul, Garnett), but that's not Stern's fault).

If the NBA winds up being able to have a "franchise player" I think it could return parity to the league. If a player wants to leave, they basically have to work with their current team to be traded. That's a lot better than watching a team go from one of the best to one of the worst overnight, like Cleveland has.