ESPN's summer forecast

[bobcatniners09]

As you all know espn has been doing a summer forecast series, previewing the season. They have taken several shots at the Bobcats. The most recent installment was 5 questions about the heat. Here is the latest shot in response to if the trio are good or bad for the nba:

Jeremy Wagner, Roundball Mining Company: Bad for the NBA.

Everyone loves to hate somebody, and the Heat give NBA fans that fix. However, if this leads to a new era of two or three or four super teams battling it out in the Finals, the regular season becomes meaningless along with the other 26 teams in the league. If there were any Bobcats fans, they would know what I am talking about.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=SummerForecast10-Heat-1

[BlockParty]

Jeremy Wagner, Roundball Mining Company: Bad for the NBA.

Everyone loves to hate somebody, and the Heat give NBA fans that fix. However, if this leads to a new era of two or three or four super teams battling it out in the Finals, the regular season becomes meaningless along with the other 26 teams in the league. If there were any Bobcats fans, they would know what I am talking about.


The guy is a blogger for the Nuggets, he's trying to take pot shots when he should be worried about how marginally insignificant the team he follows when they lose George Karl and Melo in the next 12 months.

He carries zero credibility. http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/6003/meet-your-blogger-jeremy-wagner-of-roundball-mining-company

[Chef]

but he is right. if groups of 3 of the best 20 stars go to either la, phoenix, mavs, rockets, heat, magic, boston, nyk the rest of the league becomes a farm system for developing high picks/young stars and never seeing the championships in the end. it is a big concern. the lebron, wade, bosh thing was a unique circumstance, it is melo and paul demanding trades etc that is the larger concern.

[LiquidWayno]

The Heat are ruining the NBA. I want the 90's back.

[rsxnova]

but he is right. if groups of 3 of the best 20 stars go to either la, phoenix, mavs, rockets, heat, magic, boston, nyk the rest of the league becomes a farm system for developing high picks/young stars and never seeing the championships in the end. it is a big concern. the lebron, wade, bosh thing was a unique circumstance, it is melo and paul demanding trades etc that is the larger concern.

I agree with this. I will wait and see if a second superpower forms before worrying to much.

[BlockParty]

but he is right. if groups of 3 of the best 20 stars go to either la, phoenix, mavs, rockets, heat, magic, boston, nyk the rest of the league becomes a farm system for developing high picks/young stars and never seeing the championships in the end. it is a big concern. the lebron, wade, bosh thing was a unique circumstance, it is melo and paul demanding trades etc that is the larger concern.

I doubt that is going to be the case (groups of 3 of the best 20 stars going to only 7 teams). The Yankees (with very little monetary restrictions) have tried to do this for years in baseball and actually have earn less World Series Championships then most people think they should have. Other baseball teams (Chicago Cubs, Baltimore and LA) have spent tons of money attracting free agents and gotten very little in playoff results.

In football, the Redskins are a great example of how overspending on free agents is not any soft of guarantee for success in competition.

Miami basically created the perfect storm in clearing cap space, doing the right organization things to make their own superstar want to stay and timed it perfectly with a free agent crop that was unmatched in talent. In baskeball, the margin of error is so much greater than in football or baseball with regards to losing one player for the season due to injury. Like it or not the Heat has all of their eggs in 3 baskets, will they be successful? probably, will they win 6 of the next 8 titles...no way.

With the labor negotiations going on (and with David Stern's) involvement, I don't see the possibility of this repeating itself (to this magnitude..3 max contract free agents to same team in same season) repeating itself more than once or twice a decade. AND....Stern wants to grow the league, he's not going to attract new owners if there is very little chance the new teams will be competitive in the first decade of their existence.

Stern should aspire to be more like the NFL, where parity between all teams is predictible..heck the Panthers are predictible in that they won't have 2 good years in a row..or two bad years, hence it keeps the fanbase energized (albeit frustrated).

[bobcatniners09]

The Heat are going to have home court advantage at 90% of arenas this season.