Every year a new team, or teams rise up in the NFL. This year, it's the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers. When does that ever happen in the NBA (if you said the Dallas Mavericks, you're wrong — they've been a highly competitive team for years and they have money)?
In the NFL, small-market teams such as the Green Bay Packers can win the Super Bowl, as they did earlier this year. The Indianapolis Colts won in 2007, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2003, the Baltimore Ravens in 2001, the St. Louis Rams in 2000, the Denver Broncos in 1998.
This doesn't happen in the NBA, where the only small-market team to win a league championship in the last 30-plus years is the San Antonio Spurs.
Who would you model a league after — the NBA or the NFL?
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Great article!
If the NBA under Stern continues to do business the way they have, its death is eventually inevitable.
For me, it has already died.
It's like a conversation I had a while back with a friend who lives in More..
A good start would be to market the league as a cure for insomnia. It works.
does anyone really care?