Cleveland w/o LeBron is to Boston w/o Pierce?

[Phil Maymin]

Playing a bit of devil's advocate (the rhetorical thing, not the pinball game):

Imagine perfect parity, where any team beats any other team about 50%
of the time. That would be so boring. No more upsets, nothing.

What is interesting is seeing how different teams in markets with
different strengths and weaknesses solve the problems of salary,
character, and talent. New York and Dallas have a competitive
advantage in amount spent but San Antonio and Detroit have a
competitive advantage in selecting and retaining talent. Boston has
its legendary past, and the more it makes use of that, the better it
will be. Charlotte has salary cap flexibility. Etc.

Parity, shmarity. Lottery, shmottery. They should have pick position
decided ahead of time so that (per Coase's theorem for the
economically inclined) teams could better trade amongst themselves.
Run a lottery today for the next 5-10 years.

Phil

On 4/2/07, Ryan, Patrick S Maj RES USAFR 439 MSG
<Patrick.Ryan at westover.af.mil> wrote:
>  Just throwing it out there.  Without the total 100% LUCK of getting the
> first pick in the draft a couple years ago this team would probably be as
> bad if not worse then the Celtics right now.  Just another definition of a
> system wherein in most cases you have to get really bad before you can get
> really good and being mediocre merely begets more years of being mediocre.
>
>
>
> Unless of course Jeff Van Gundy gets his way and Dallas could get the #1
> pick in the draft this year! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA! What a joke that is. The NBA
> needs MORE parity, not less (again why the lottery system is bad anyway -
> sorry Kestas, I don't care if teams tank - they would still have to face
> such decisions in the pocketbook like the 76ers are with all those empty
> seats). Parity helps the entire league - period and best way to parity is
> the worst teams getting the best players through the draft (especially in
> the NBA).
>
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