NBA losing steam.

The NBA is basically not only going toward players who make $10+ million a year but also going toward two and three super stars per team. This leaves the league very top heavy and dilutes the league as a whole. It will essentially become 4-8 power house teams and 4-8 mid tier teams that have less talent but are better coached and better managed to help them stay afloat. Then there will be just the real garbage bottom of the barrel teams in high demand. These teams will sell only in local markets and be terrible media outlets. These markets teeter on the brink of implosion. The league will become saturated and top heavy. The poor markets will only sell tickets when high profile teams and players roll into town.

Even in high profile teams with low profile players still have little to no marketability. The lowest tv rating for any NBA final in the last decade was the Pistons versus the Spurs.

So what becomes of the league? What becomes of those who are set to wither and waste? Media beloved Colin Cowherd keeps hounding people/fans for being mad at Melo and Lebron for going to better markets and playing for winning teams. Which I have no problem with. If you offered me more money to go work in an area with more entertainment and that has more to offer along with money or a better work environment who would honestly say no?? But the unions and CBA aren't set up to accommodate the guy who plays for $15 million its set up to make sure the reserves make more than $20,000 a year. And that's what people are missing! Especially these all business Colin Cowherd types. Its not the high profile guys that lose out. Rush Limbaugh got fired for being a racist and still makes multi-millions a year. Its the guys who can be the 15th man on a team but will get cut when the league is contracted. Where do they go?? ABA? Then the ABA bottom players get shoved out the door too. I'm sure league minimum in the NBA is higher than any ABA contract.

We put in these things to protect workers rights and players rights but then have high profile Lebron James come out and say they need a contraction when he "doesn't understand what contractual means." Give me a break. If all the high profile guys go to the same 8-16 teams the NBA will die and there isn't enough high profile talent to keep it afloat.

--Joseph Champey