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Originally Posted by Chief Pagan
I haven't given up on the NFL but I have on the NBA. No the NBA doesn't guarantee the Lakers being great every year. But it is much harder to get star treatment at a small market team. And you can't win it all in the NBA without star treatment.
Look at a list of the last 20 or 30 winners. Sure Cleveland. Detroit is there somewhere.
But almost everybody else is either a mega market like LA or at least a big market like San Antonio.
And LeBron had to go to Miami to get his first title.
Durant had to leave OKC.
I moved to Northern California a little after the Kings did so followed rooted for them for a while.
But after seeing how they got reffed against the Kobe Lakers in a game 7, I swore off small market NBA teams.
Peyton didn't have to leave Indy to get a title.
Mahomes doesn't guarantee KC a title but if he stays healthy our odds are very favorable.
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The NBA has already been busted for the officials fixing games...it's strange to me that some people, here, forget that fact.
How they wired their brains, against overwhelming visual evidence, that it couldn't possibly be happening in the NFL is straight-up denial....especially when they've had Vegas betting odds for decades. How they rationalize this into a honest..and "no way could be corrupt" situation is bizarre. It's a multi-BILLION dollar racket...