Will new CBA bring more parity in NBA?

Will new CBA bring more parity in NBA?

The NBA has certainly gone off the route of super teams, or that’s its intention with the new CBA. But, with the new CBA, will the NBA finally bring more parity to the table? Or will we be seeing the same team over and over again in the Finals? Read more to find out.

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(All quotes via ESPN.)

“Parity ends up being beneficial to smaller teams,” former Milwaukee Bucks owner Marc Lasry, who was on the labor committee that helped negotiate the agreement, said on ESPN’s “The Hoop Collective” podcast last month. “If you just think of it that way, the problem if you’re a small-market team is that people are going to want to play in New York, L.A., Miami, Dallas, any of the big cities. And so going forward, that’s going to be harder to do, from the tax aprons and just the way things are.

“All everybody wants is competition,” Lasry continued, “because the more competition there is, the more teams at the beginning of the season that can say, ‘We have a chance to win a championship,’ the better it is for the league.”

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To keep it short, the new CBA is essentially the destruction of building super teams in the NBA, but that’s not entirely the case. Just this offseason, the Phoenix Suns have built one of the most talented rosters the NBA has ever seen in the modern era.

They aren’t playing by the rules the CBA wants them to play by. But not all super-teams work out, of course, like we saw with the Brooklyn Nets only a few years ago. The point is that the idea of parity and being balanced in the NBA will never happen ever. Teams will push themselves to get into the luxury tax to form the best team they can make.

Years later from now, the salary cap will increase little by little each year. It’s almost punishing teams who don’t spend money and go out and get that free agent. It’s confusing at this point.

What is the NBA truly trying to accomplish with the CBA? It’s just a matter of how each team wants to build their teams and how players react to the market rising.

What do you think of the new CBA? Will the NBA ever be balanced? Let us know in the comments down below.

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