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The 2007 NBA Finals have been monumentally anticlimatic. The San Antonio Spurs are putting on a basketball clinic. Basketball fans can only hope that the Spurs put the Cavs out of their misery tonight.
Congratulations to the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs, although my congratulations are a month overdue.
The Spurs have been the NBA champions since their Game 6 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
So who’s to blame for this lackluster series? The NBA? The Cavaliers? LeBron? Tim Duncan? Eva Longoria?
Blame the NBA for marketing star players for the past decade.
The league shouldn’t be surprised at the lack of interest in a team as fundamentally sound as the San Antonio Spurs. Those rule changes implemented a season ago increased fan frenzy for individual performances.
LeBron James has been neutralized by Bruce Bowen and the stingiest defense in the league. To the dismay of David Stern, The King has failed to hold court.
The league and the fans wanted to see LeBron take over these NBA Finals. Unfortunately for them, the top team of the past decade had other plans.
San Antonio was never going to allow one player to beat them. LeBron needed a team to compete with the Spurs and he doesn’t have one. The Cleveland Cavaliers just aren’t a very good basketball team.
The casual fan doesn’t tune in to see Anderson Varajao flop all over the court. They want to see crisp ball movement and dead eye shooting. The Cavs possess neither.
San Antonio certainly isn’t boring. The Spurs lack a dynamic superstar and an up tempo style of play but they are champions.
Tim Duncan and company play the game the ‘right way.’
Basketball purists see that San Antonio has the greatest power forward of all time and two selfless stars, a defensive specialist, and a reserve power forward who is about to have more rings than MJ.
What’s not to like about that?
How does the NBA remedy this problem? Restructure the regular season and the playoffs.
The league has the stars and the elite teams to bring back the fan interest it desires but the Western Conference will continue to dominate the Eastern Conference.
No one wants to tune in to see a foregone conclusion.
It’s not star power or quality of play that this NBA Final is lacking.
LeBron James is the one of the biggest stars in the league.
This NBA Final and the San Antonio Spurs are lacking quality competition.
