For my money, the NBA has the perfect formula for how its teams operate financially. Sure, the NFL is hailed as our best and most exciting professional sports league, but its concerns about making sure everyone is on equal footing have left it with one inevitable flaw: the lack of true dynasties in the sport.
The NBA has no such problem, though, as teams are able to spend as much as they need to in order to keep players (or trade for others, if salaries match), so long as they are willing to pay the luxury tax if they go over it. That has helped lead to a type of nuclear arms race over the past two weeks, with several of the league’s best teams going out and improving themselves in order to position themselves as the favorites to hoist the Larry O’Brien trophy next June.
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