Contraction Talk

I routinely find my radio tuned into 1450 am.  For those of us in Milledgeville, Ga. (yes...I know...everyone knows you don't have to remind me) that means ESPN radio.  Well the talk of NBA contraction came up today and got me thinking about what it would do to the league.

Now clearly the owners of the eight teams, who will be saved the ebarrassment of being named, would love to simply shut the team down and save the million upon millions of dollars they spend every year.  But how would David Stern go about doing this.  How could you just shut down NBA franchises and simply ship All Star caliber talent about the league?  Well the answer is you can't, so the idea of contraction is just silly.  The NBA is a league where it is very difficult to create a consistent championship contender, arguably the most difficult of the three major sports.  However, it is also the easiest to create a playoff team.  Sixteen teams go to the playoffs, eight from each conference, and judging by the talent pool available at the top of every draft one could easily imagine why this would be so.  The Wizards (John Wall), 76ers (Evan Turner) and Nets (Derrick Favors) are perrenial playoff partcipants in the near future especially considering how poor the East is.  So get over it...NBA fans aren't stupid.  Win and the money comes in.