>only 2-3 teams have a legit shot to win in any given season

>>75650279
that's literally every league and every sport

>>75650359
Not even remotely true in baseball and hockey

>>75650381
>baseball
>sport
mmmkay

>>75650381
So the leagues nobody cares about?

>>75650777
You have to go back, spic

>>75650359

Not really in football (NFL)

Nobody thought the Falcons would be in the Super Bowl at the beginning of the season

Nobody thought the Broncos or Panthers would end up making the Superbowl the year prior

>>75650359
A 6 seed has won the Super Bowl, all on the road, against undefeated teams

In baseball the wild card has won the World Series. In 06 the cardinals had the worst record of all the playoffs teams and won it all. Red Sox went worst to first, and won the eries from one year to the next.

I don't give a fuck about furpuck

But NBA has no parity. What's the worst seeded team to win it all, like 4th?

It's seems like more and more every year, you can pencil in the NBA finals teams. And that's not good. Like me being a Knicks fan. We were a borderline 8 the seed to begin the season. But that was it. Knew we couldn't beat Cleveland or Warriors in a 7 game series, like what's the point.

Yawn. Nba has the same amount of parity as the other leagues. Go count the champions up for the last 20 years. All leagues have 9 or 10.

Blame the Warriors for not letting anyone come of out of the west

>>75651245
That's because football is a meme sport that has to have single game playoff series or else the players would literally die, so teams just any given Sunday their way into meme victories. It's so difficult to bet on Superbowl winners because the sport is so god damn stupid that you might as well flip a coin.

>>75650279
NBA playoffs need to be like March Madness, 1 game sudden death. That's only way to have parity, only the Finals needs to be a 7 game series.

>>75650381
>>75650987

Those sports are based on luck, basketball is based on skill.

>>75650279
Since Jordan retired, and this is going on a generation ago at this point, every NBA finals has included either the Lakers, Spurs, Heat, or LeBron James.

Before that it was bulls for nearly a decade, and every finals in the 80s had the Lakers or Celtics in it.

>>75651330

but youre forgetting the MONIES boi

Champions since 2000:
NBA: 8 different teams
NFL: 10 different teams
MLB: 11 different teams
NHL: 10 different teams

>>75650381
and soccer and football

>>75651623
the nba stat is misleading because whatever super team lebron is on goes to the finals every year

>>75651623
>Op is talking about individual seasons
>Try to refute that by posting data on multiple seasons

>>75651623
This thread BTFO shut it it down

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>>75651451

Wrong

Detroit Pistons
Boston Celtics
New Jersey Nets
Orlando Magic
OKC Thunder
Dallas Mavericks
Golden State Warriors

I'm sure tehre

Tom Brady has the same amount of finals appearances as lebron

Damn... NFL sure is boring

>>75651623

It's not that different teams aren't winning, it's that you know which teams are going to the finals each year before the season even starts. Why the fuck have a 2 month long playoffs when 95% of the games are meaningless

>>75651810
Spurs, Lakers, Heat or LeBron has been on every one of those Finals retard

>>75651824
if i werent a patriots fan i probably would agree

>playing 82 games when you know its going to be the Spurs, GS, or Cavs

when do they cut the regular season in half?

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>>75651884

>waaaaaaaah
>why do the best teams keep winning

>>75650896
>if it's not as popular that means it's bad regardless of quality
What are you, are you a 12-year-old girl?

>>75650381
When your pitching lineup receives season long injuries, your team is screwed.

>KD, Curry, Thomson, Green

salary cap sure is working!

>>75650279
>last 11 argie football seasons
>9 different champions

Since 2004 the Superbowl has involved at least one of these teams: Patriots, Ravens, Steelers, Payton Manning

I can make up meme stats too

>>75651623
The point of the thread is that going into each individual season you are much more sure of what's going to happen, not what you are talking about. Nobody sane thought anyone other than the Warriors, Cavs, or maybe Spurs would win this year.

Put it this way, before the start of the season in each sport, you get to pick 3 teams to win it all for each sport. You will be right in basketball far more than the other sports.

I would argue that this is the fault of the other sports with their meme playoffs though, and not the nbas. It's hard to luck your way into winning a 7 game series in basketball, not such much baseball and to a lesser extent, hockey. Football is one and done so that speaks for itself.

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>>75651952
This.

>>75652095
now predict the 2 teams that will make the superbowl

this finals will either be GS vs Cavs or Spurs vs Cavs

and i could have told you that before the season started

next year will be the same btw

>>75651451
>>75651912
what league has 10 teams of the same 14 years in finals

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>different champion every year from 2003-2012
feels good to watch a real sport

>>75652187

A league where the best players and teams consistently win? I literally can't wrap my head around the opposing argument

>>75651378

Basketball is based on being an 6'4 ape or taller and that's it.

>>75651245
Are you seriously complaining that in basketball the better team actually wins? The 2006 Cardinals were a shit team and it's an embarrassment that they get to be "champions" for that year. NBA has as much parity as any other league, just without the elements of chance that help shit teams beat actual title-caliber teams.

>>75651245
Rockets won it as a 6 seed

>>75652095
nigga literally every year but 2002 since 1999 has involved one of those teams/players.

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>>75651451
LeGod

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>>75650279

>posting the shopped version

>>75652051
>pitching lineup
The adults are talking now, Timmy.

>>75651451
>>75651912
Why not say Lakers, Spurs, Heat and Cavs?

NBA is a meme league

Literally everything before (and sometimes including, such as this year) the conference finals is LITERALLY irrelevant preseason tier

You mean to tell me a game of skill is often times decided by teams with the most skill?

Wow. Nice sport, it should be decided by coin flips and lucky swings