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There is talk that Carmelo Anthony will take his huge scoring talents to South Beach, joining LeBron James who is strongly rumoured to be staying put.
This would mean a starting line-up consisting of four recent All Stars – crazy to comprehend.
I love the idea in the sense that anything which gets LeBron to six championships is a positive. I just want to stop hearing how the amount of rings defines who is the greatest of all time. After all, I think most would agree that Michael Jordan was a better player than Robert Horry.
The problem is, what does this mean for the rest of the NBA? Yeah, if one of the current challengers from the west snags a big name in free agency, we could have some amazing games. Kevin Love to Oklahoma City, or the Clippers for example.
But more likely than not, it would see the “not one, not two, not three…” almost a certainty.
Should the NBA put something in place blocking such moves, as they were able to with Chris Paul to the Lakers? Should the NBA cut to 24 or 20 teams and thus close the gap between the top two or three and the non-competitive teams? Or change the draft system so that those non-competitive teams are guaranteed much better picks in the draft, and this would then rotate teams from the bottom of the ladders every three to five years?
Either way, this post season could have bigger repercussions on the NBA than when “the decision” was broadcast so spectacularly.
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