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> the playoffs weren't very exciting this year.

You do understand why, right?

Your solution is "The other teams will improve!" and you're citing the Cav's improbable record setting game as evidence?

Sorry, but it takes a certain willful ignorance, or looking the other way, to defend the state of the NBA.

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Or maybe you just enjoy seeing historic excellence at an athletic event. It's not clear to me what heinous crime the Warriors or the league have committed by allowing a team to exist that is really good. I'm not a big sports fan, but I thought the point was to be as good as you can at that sport. It would be one thing if there were behind the scenes inequalities unrelated to the athletic event itself, like one team spending way more money that everyone else, but as far as I can tell that's not the case here.

Go watch the Olympic Men's basketball team or the All-Star Game if you want "historic excellence"..

Having a team like this in the regular season is a joke and only serves the most base basketball fans.

I definitely don't understand that. I would consider Olympic Men's basketball more of a joke, since everyone knows that professional basketball in the USA is far and away a bigger deal than in other countries. It's completely stacked from a financial perspective, whereas (AFAIK) that's not the case with the Warriors.

So teams can only be stacked financially and not talent-wise?

i'm not defending the nba, nor being ignorant. but it's just not that upsetting to me. for me, it's still fun to watch harden and westbrook face off, or to see if deandre jordan will ever make a free throw, or to see if the spurs can find their motion offense groove again, or watch what the best player on earth will do against a stacked team. you certainly have a different perspective, and that's fine too.

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