How Superteams are Ruining the NBA pt.2

Super-teams are also harmful to players, on both sides of the issue. If a player is better than you, you are supposed to put in the work to bury him. Instead, the league's best players are giving up. Rather than creating their own legacies, they are sharing them with teammates they couldn't beat. It’s weak, and it shouldn't be a part of the game. They are tainting their reputations, and compromising their integrity and character, and they are picked apart for it every day, by both the media and the fans.

On the other side of the issue, lie players on small market teams. Stars on small market teams don’t have the same opportunity to raise eyebrows and get the recognition and praise they truly deserve. Small market teams can neither, afford nor attract enough talent necessary to allow their one or, sometimes two star players to shine. Super-teams limit the potential of star players who are on small market teams by hogging the all the limelight and talent.

Super teams are made possible because of the soft NBA salary cap that allows the wealthiest teams to overspend their way to the top. The luxury tax for exceeding this salary cap is not significant to these billionaire team owners. In order to get the association back on the right track, a hard salary cap needs to be put in place. Whatever the solution may be commissioner silver needs to figure something out fast because continuing to allow the creation of super teams like these to form, is dangerous and harmful to the NBA and its future.