Should the NBA expand to 32 teams?

[FTBS]

The talent just caught up to expansion and you wanna add more teams? You want everybody in the playoffs? What's the point of the regular season then?

 

[CrimsonTider]

Nah... i'd love to have more teams but there isn't enough talent to go around as it is.

I love the 82 game-season but that 66 game season was fun to watch tho too many people got hurt because of the tight schedule and back2back2backs

Nobody got hurt for real in the strike season.

More people got hurt last year and this year

 

[intruder]

Nobody got hurt for real in the strike season.

More people got hurt last year and this year

Many players got nicked up from what i remember and you could tell most were fatigued by the 3rd of those b2b2b's. Mofos were running the court and had barely any lift in their legs

 

[Stealth]

This....And honestly, there's not enough talent for the current teams really.....Expansion watered the league down in the early 90s........

Yeah they need to merge a couple of teams. Theres too many bums in the league

 

[MikelArteta]

nba franchises are worth like 500 mill to 1.2 bill

of course in teh next 5-10 years there will be more teams, to many billionaires have the money to want one

 

[MikelArteta]

lol at folks saying folding two teams

The average NBA franchise is now worth $634 million, up 25% over last year.



even the bum ass milwaukee bucks with a old ass crappy stadium is worth 405 million

charlotte bobcats 410 mill

breh the golden state warriors are worth 750 million in that old ass arena

 

[ryderldb]

Add teams in Seattle and KC or St Louis. Make each conference 16 teams. Have every single team make the playoffs.

Playoffs would be:
Round 1 - best of 3
Round 2 - best of 5
Round 3-5 - best of 7

This basically turns the current first round into a best-of-5 like it used to be and adds a 3-game first round. It adds one playoff game for a team if every round goes the distance (28 now, 29 in this format).

This also would necessitate a change to the draft lottery. Odds could be rebalanced among all 32 teams, restricted to the 16 who lose in the first round, or just the 16 worst records. I like the last option the least since teams could still tank to get into the lottery and just give up homecourt with the idea being that if they aren't good enough to win on the road then they want a shot at the top pick.

What's not to like about this idea?

 

[tremonthustler1]

nba franchises are worth like 500 mill to 1.2 bill

of course in teh next 5-10 years there will be more teams, to many billionaires have the money to want one

Billionaires only want in if they can move the team to where they want it.

 

[intruder]

The ideal situation for ME would be for every state in the country to have one team but that would put it over 50 teams and there is no enough basketball talents to go around. I guess them small states can eat off DLeague