Does the NBA have enough talent for 30 teams in this climate?

[Houston911]

 

[FS4LFE]

You could argue that half the league will suck or will be tanking next year. Another thing is I laugh at any new expansion teams. There’s already too man irrelevant treadmill teams in the league.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Short answer: no.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

The nba honestly never had the talent for a 30 team league

 

[Cladyclad]

Yes

Every team has a redeeming quality to me that make me want to watch. It wasn’t always that way to me. So I’m good

 

[Professor Emeritus]

There's way more than enough talent for 30 teams, look at all the talented players who can't even get onto a roster. It would be idiocy to rip away the chance for someone to play professional ball when they're that good.

The only thing weird about the league is that the Warriors stacked so many stars onto one team, so there's a lot more teams that know they're nowhere near a title. If the Warriors didn't exist then a lot more teams would be exited about how much talent they have.

Look at Portland - you could argue that the big 3 for Portland is their most talented ever. If this was 1986 or 1998 or 2010 they'd be a real problem. Yet they're talking about blowing it up because they know it's still miles away from competing against the Warriors.

 

[Jplaya2023]

The coli told me this was the most talented era in nba history and that the plummers and short line cooks MJ played against wouldn't even make thebG league today

 

[Rell Lauren]

Even before the Warriors exploited the cap, the NBA had too many guys that shouldn't have been in the Association. The league is in desperate need of a contraction or two.

 

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bad front offices and gms doesnt mean there isnt talent, there is more than enough
gsw is an outlier

 

[jaguar paw]

They all had the chance to draft Draymond. Some teams had more than one opportunity.

 

[SuperPawgHunter]

Lets let Lebron speak on it ...

PHOENIX -- This won't make LeBron James popular at the next players' union meeting, but Thursday he suggested the NBA would be more entertaining if there was contraction of teams.

In defending his decision to join up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat, James said the league was better when numerous teams had multiple stars. He said he hopes the league can return to that someday, because right now there isn't enough talent to support the 30 current teams.

"Hopefully the league can figure out one way where it can go back to the '80s where you had three or four All-Stars, three or four superstars, three or four Hall of Famers on the same team," James said. "The league was great. It wasn't as watered down as it is [now]."

In fact, James seemed to have a couple of ideas of which teams could go and some players who would make other teams better right now.

"[Contraction] is not my job; I'm a player but that is why it, the league, was so great," James said.

"Imagine if you could take Kevin Love off Minnesota and add him to another team and you shrink the [league]. Looking at some of the teams that aren't that great, you take Brook Lopez or you take Devin Harris off these teams that aren't that good right now and you add him to a team that could be really good. Not saying let's take New Jersey and let's take Minnesota out of the league. But hey, you guys are not stupid, I'm not stupid, it would be great for the league."

Perhaps that's a hint why James didn't seriously consider signing with the Nets last summer.

James spoke on the issue before taking on the Phoenix Suns, but much of the focus this week is on Saturday when the Heat are part of the Christmas Day main event against the Lakers in Los Angeles.

James said Wednesday he doesn't enjoy playing on Christmas even if it is the main attraction on the league's regular-season schedule.

James said the Christmas game wouldn't be such a big deal if there were fewer teams like in the '80s.

"You had more [star] players on a team, which made almost every game anticipated, not just a Christmas Day game," James said. "I don't ever think it is bad for the league when guys decide they want to do some greatness for what we call a team sport."

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The coli told me this was the most talented era in nba history and that the plummers and short line cooks MJ played against wouldn't even make thebG league today

They wouldn't though.

Look at Omar Samhan. He 6'11" and 260lbs, strong and has good footwork, all sorts of post moves, a soft touch, AND range out to the three-point line. Straight up destroyed Richmond and Villanova in the NCAA tournament with some torture chamber-level interior dominance. But when he came up against a team even with borderline NBA talent (they had Udoh), he got shut down.

This is what he's doing right now. This guy would have started easily in the 1980s, but nowadays he can't make it past Summer League in the NBA and is doing the struggle-tour of foreign pro leagues.




Tell me what Kevin Duckworth did better than him.

 

[SuperPawgHunter]

If I was emperor, the worst player in the league would be someone like Lance Stephenson. How many teams need to be cut to make that happen, I'm good with.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Yes

Every team has a redeeming quality to me that make me want to watch. It wasn’t always that way to me. So I’m good

 

[I AM WARHOL]

I'd say theres enough talent, it's just not distributed equally