>>150595850
The sooner you accept that this current NBA is almost as rigged as the 00s Stern era, you can appreciate the basketball. Adam Silver is the most incompetent and reckless commissioner of all the major US sports entertainment monopolies today. He can't even execute his own scripted league; Silver repeatedly rigs the draft, fixes the trade market, ruins free agency, grossly manipulates strength of schedules, predictably influences the outcome of games through his crony refs all in favor of the same handful of assets (as in the same big markets and handful of superstars that still actually attract eyes and dollars) and still you see teams like the Bucks, Suns, Nuggets, Thunder and Pacers make the finals only for the NBA to be completely incapable of processing any outcome that isn't Lebron vs Curry vs Durant episode MMXXV, let alone advertising it.