NBA playoffs 2017

[monocle_layton]

Nuvendil said:

monocle_layton said:

This year's playoffs were garbage. It seems like every year it has gotten worse!

If you're gonna let players huddle together and form their own mini all-stars team, just skip the 82 games and playoffs. Absolutely disgusting.

What I find irritating however is the Chris Paul veto. I'll never understsnd why Paul couldn't team up with Kobe, and yet everyone was fine with Kyrie/Love/Lebron and Durant/Thompson/Green/curry.

 

Edit: DNP rests and superteams need to be addressed by Silver. These two issues have taken out the excitement of the NBA. Everyone is getting ridiculous contracts and it's obvious who will reach the finals.

First off, the Cavaliers are nothing unusual in terms of star power.  Many, many teams have been lead by two or three stars.  The Bulls, multiple Laker teams, multiple Boston teams.  The only anomolous one is the Warriors, which is more an series of unusual circumstances and Kenin Durant being willing to sacrifice his dignity to straight upr ride their coattails.  But they're the first team to pull off this kind of stacking since...shoot, the 1960s Boston Celtics?

The Cavs have a loaded team. There's a difference between them and, say, the 2014 Spurs. 

As of now, regardless of who did what and when in the past, the NBA simply doesn't seem exciting. 

Soundwave said:

NBA kinda sucks these days outside of the Finals. No point in watching. This is probably the fewest NBA games I've watched since I started watching the league. I'm watching more of the hockey playoffs. 

I started watching hockey. Is this year just good in particular or what? Every game is exciting to me