[TheFactionCoalition.comParticipant]

This link is to a Bill Simmons column written today: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100224
I love the angry tone and I think he’s right about the owners and the GMs and the way they run franchises. I don’t like his idea about forced ticket price drops, that’s supply/demand IMO and if you can sell out a place without making the playoffs for several years and NOT drop ticket prices, more power to you. I’m usually not a big fan of ideas that change playoffs to include everyone, but his idea on only the top 12 playoff spots are guaranteed is at least intriguing. I don’t know that it’s the best idea BUT it certainly is a way to keep teams from trading away talented players for cap relief.
What in his column do you agree with? Disagree with? Is Stern the worst commish in sports right now, based on where the NBA could be vs where it is? Do you hate the only way to rebuild is to seemingly destroy your team, hope to draft a future superstar, and trade for another superstar/allstar? Or is that the way it should be?
The last lockout was just after MJ retired, could the NBA really have another lockout with this amount of talent?

[SportsNinjaParticipant]

Never seen a topic with no comments so I thought I would write one so you don’t feel ignored…
You may want to consider less serious topics like who do you want more, who will be better, who was better, who is on fire right now, and who sucks. Also The Knicks and Greg Oden will be sure to bring a lot of comments…
Either nobody cares about the state of the NBA which I agree should be better, or everyone cares so much they ar unable to express their emphatic feelings in words…
Sometimes when there is too much to say nobody says anything at all…I think I just made that up but it seems too profound for me…

[getacomb]

i think anyone and everyone who posts on this site cares deeply about the league and its well being. I agree with faction on one massive point, if the league were to lockout, the amount of talent is sitting on the sidelines with nowhere to go. can u imagine kobe getting another year older, and not even being able to suit up in the gold and purple? Lebron, CP3, Dwight losing a year of their youth? i would be beyond disappointed. i read mr. simmons all the time, and tho i like many of his ideas, i think he gets a little too extreme with his ideas sometime. i agree with him in that owners shed out money like it was pez dispenser and are now paying the price, i really really hope there is no lockout….

[llperez]

i think that stern has been doing fine. As for teams rebuilding, they don’t have to tank games. The lakers haven’t won less then 30 games in i cant remember how long. At least 30 years. Utah almost never misses the playoffs. Then you have teams like the clippers, warriors and knicks who get plenty of opportunities to have high draft picks but they still can’t get it right. There are plenty of variables to being a succesful franchise and if small markets like the spurs, jazz, nets, pacers and even the kings not long ago can win and compete for titles, that just shows that gm’s are what it comes down to, not the way the league is shaped.

basketball has become the number 2 sport in the world under stern and the marketing of the star players is second to none. The players are making bank. Now if they have another lock out, then i’ll be singing a very different tune.

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