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Article Link:
https://bustingbrackets.com/2017/07/19/nba-super-team-mentality-trickling-down-college-basketball/
https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/7/21/12243850/duke-basketball-superteam-recruiting-rankings-jayson-tatum-harry-giles
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2738402-michael-jordan-on-nba-superteams-28-teams-that-are-going-to-be-garbage
Questions:
Do you feel like superteams are hurting the NBA?
Do you feel like super teams are hurting NCAA basketball?
Will people stop watching because of super teams?
How should the NBA and NCAA handle this situation?
I think that super teams are definitively hurting both NBA and NCAA basketball because it lowers the interest of fans of other teams and disinterests fans who are new to the sport because in my opinion it makes the sport less competitive. However, I feel that super teams are way more common and easier to produce in the NBA than in NCAA. NCAA basketball is far more competitive than the NBA as star players are more spread out across different schools. I feel like one solution that the NBA can do to solve this situation is to decrease the salary cap as it will make it harder for more than one world class player to join.
ReplyDeleteI feel super teams will hurt the NBA and NCAA. Although they are entertaining to watch, super teams make the NBA and NCAA more unbalanced than they already are. I feel this will bring the overall viewership down. If only a handful of teams are dominant, fans will get tired of watching the same teams win over and over again. Fans will either migrate to supporting the super teams, or stop watching in general. Teams will get upset too, resulting in protest and lockouts.
ReplyDeleteI feel like superteams are great for individual teams, but mess with league dynamics and eventually hurt the sport. When a school like Duke is able to get four or five recruits that all want to play with each other, the school knows that they will be able to maintain a sporting legacy. As the article mentioned, this has already been in the works for the 2018-2019 season with several top recruits. Fans and alumni get excited and come out to support the team because almost everyone loves seeing another team get crushed. On the other side, the other teams that are up against a powerhouse school may not watch or come to that came. Individual schools benefit if they are able to form a powerhouse school, but the league is worse off. As a result of decreasing television viewership, I think that the NBA and NCAA will have to act (or at least pretend) to do something in order to even the playing field. By ensuring that the playing field is even, it makes games more competitive and exciting, rather than a demolition derby.
ReplyDeleteI believe that super teams in the NBA are in fact hurting the NBA. It is only business that these teams are allowed to make the deals and the trades in order to develop these teams, but it does leave an unfair advantage. You cannot take away the rights of these teams to make super teams because it is just excellent business. I think super teams in the NBA somewhat ruin business. It makes the competition for the NBA so one sided and the teams that cannot compete, they do not receive as much revenue because people do not want to watch teams that do not have star players or good winning records. All the focus is on the huge super teams and they get all the attention in the league. These super teams leave these smaller teams in the dust.
ReplyDeleteI do believe super teams are hurting both NCAA and professional basketball, more so in NCAA than NBA. Especially in women's college basketball, you see the field dominated by essentially one team. In the past 10 years, UCONN women's basketball has won 6 national titles, and often go undefeated or suffer just one loss. Because of this, top recruits go to these dominating programs, and further the gap between them and the rest of the pack. The same is true for men's college basketball. Top programs like Duke or Kentucky attract the majority of the top high school recruits as well as other power five schools. These top collegiate athletes not only improve the teams play on the court, but also because of that bring in more money through things like ticket sales and merchandise. This gives these top programs to buy better equipment, technology, etc. to only further themselves from the rest of college basketball.
ReplyDeleteSuperteams are almost inevitable to stop in the NBA, because even though teams who play well are not given good draft spots, they still trade, and have lots of money from their good years to snatch up stars off free agency. This is not hurting the attendance and popularity of the sports, because more people focus on and want to watch these super teams. It is almost like an allstar game every day for the Cavs, Warriors, and Celtics. This obviously happens in the NCAA because the top players get to choose where they play, and most would choose to play at the best schools. There is no way to keep this from happening without compromising the freedoms of the players. It is not hurting the NBA, and there is nothing any league can do about it.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not superteams are hurting the league is dependent on the money they bring in. The Warriors and Cavaliers are extremely profitable because they have high profile players, like Lebron, KD, and Steph Curry, so most fans are inclined to buy those specific jerseys. However, there's also the issue that fans of almost every other team feel helpless that their team has no real shot at an NBA finals/playoff chance. It shouldn't really matter though, because no matter how an NBA team builds itself there has always been good, bad and mid tier teams. Just because the Warriors, Cavaliers and Boston are at another level doesn't mean in 5 years that they will drop off and the Bucks, Sixers and Nuggets will be ruling the NBA. For that reason, I don't think super teams are ruining the NBA. In college, it's different though since there is an actual huge talent gap between teams like Duke and BC since high profile recruits will always sign with Coach K. It might carry over a little to the NBA, but I think it's a bigger problem in college.
ReplyDeleteI feel that Super teams hurt the overall competition of the NBA because it almost creates tears of teams. However, I feel that these super teams make the games more interesting. In my opinion super teams my be unfair, but are enjoyable to watch, because there is always a star player on the floor. I am not an avid follower of basketball, so when I am watching a game I like to watch two elite teams competing rather than two OK teams playing. The formation of super teams my hurt the ratings, I feel that the games between the elite teams in the NBA have become more interesting to watch due to the many star players that are involved.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that superteams are hurting the NBA. Having a team that is phenomenally better than others decreases viewership because fans can guess the outcome. This means revenue also decreases, which means the NBA is taking a hit. Now the big question is how the NBA can stop this. The winning team of the NBA finals gets the draft pick of the next year, which should have fixed the problem. But with the allowing of signing players before the draft, superteams will continue to pick up good players. So maybe if one could limit signings and force teams to rely on the draft to collect players, that could help with evening the playing field.
ReplyDeleteSuper teams are definitely hurting the NBA. If fans of the league are able to (very accurately) predict who will compete in the finals for that season, their is not only a problem for the other teams as a whole, but it is also questionable for the health of the league as a whole. Athough people may watch more TV when the Warriors and/or the Cavs are competing, when other teams compete they would not care at all. This severely hurts the NBA’s ratings because fans are only interested in watching the superteams compete.
ReplyDeleteI think that super teams in the NBA bring a sense of domination that fans like in a team, and because the NBA is the way it is, super teams are always going to be in the NBA. It may dishearten other teams to know that a super team is almost impossible to beat, but without competition teams will not strive to be better. A league without competition will not be a very entertaining league. So super teams don't hurt the NBA but rather, can help improve teams.
ReplyDeleteI think Super Teams are both hurting and helping the NBA. This is because in sports you want to always find competition, however, this level of competition cannot be found if a team is so good they cannot be beaten. It can create an unfair advantage to be switching players to the point where they are not getting defeated. As the competition slows down, the audience could get unhappy or not want to go to games, which ultimately hurts the NBA
ReplyDeleteI think that super teams are both helping and hurting the NBA. I think that these teams like the Warriors, Celtics, and Thunder are helping because more fans want to watch the superstars play. But, it is hurting the NBA because you have some games that are blowouts and just not fun to watch. There have been many games where the Warriors don’t play Curry, Thompson, Green, or Durant at all in the 4th quarter. I don’t really think that fans will stop watching the games. I do think that they will stop watching some games like the Warriors vs Suns because they will blowouts. But, when it is Warriors vs Cavs it will have the most views of the year. I don’t think that the super teams is hurting NCAA as much because when it comes down to the NCAA tournament you want to see these super teams play in the final four and elite eight.
ReplyDeleteDo you feel like superteams are hurting the NBA?
ReplyDeleteNo I do not think they are. Fans of a team (usually) will continue to watch and support the team that they are a fan of. Creating a super team just amplifies a franchise's publicity, media attention, we will draw more fans it to watch games that team is competing in. Also, it draws publicity to the more understated teams who manage to beat these super teams. Yes, it is pretty unfair for a team to host 3 or 4+ all stars on a single team, but it's all fair game at the end of the day and I doubt is hurting NBA or it's revenue.
Do you feel like Superteams are hurting the NBA?
ReplyDeleteAs of right now I have mixed emotions over this topic of super teams in the NBA. I believe that super teams like the Golden State Warriors are hurting the NBA because they are drawing too much attention away from the other 29 NBA teams. This is because these other teams aren't even close to being as good and developed as the Warriors. When teams aren't as developed as super teams like the Warriors they begin losing many games, drawing many fans away from these other teams fanbases, hurting the business of these professional sporting organizations. Meanwhile, I also believe that it isn't hurting the NBA because they are bringing in more fans who want to see great teams like the Warriors play, which ultimately helps the NBA earn more money. So overall, I believe that super teams are helping the NBA as a whole (especially the good organizations like the Warriors), but are hurting other organizations that may not be as developed as the warriors.