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small market teams can win you just need to get the right breed of superstar/supporting players to do so. All of you bring up teams that are ran wrong like the Bobcats, Kings, Magic, etc. but what about the Spurs and Thunder? Both teams have done a great job in brining in not only players who are extremely talented and play well with each other, but are content with playing for a small market. Guys like Lebron, Dwight, and Melo just arent like that and that is something for teams to consider when building their teams. It was the same kinda thing back in the day. The Jazz did a great job in bringing a guy along like Karl Malone who had been a small town country bumpkin his entire life and pairing him with John Stockton who played at a small school and wasn't interested in playing for a big city team either.
As for guys like Kidd and Nash joining former rivals the way I see it, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I hated Jason Kidd when he played for the Nets. But he is not on the Nets anymore, we need a PG, and he wants to beat a team like the Nets also because he still holds bitterness from the Nets taking apart the championship-caliber team they had in NJ to move to Brooklyn. So it works. As for Nash, he wants to win a ring, the Suns are rebuilding, and the Lakers need a PG. I see no problem with that... Larry Johnson and Charles Oakley are 2 examples of Knick rivals that became great Knicks, this isnt new. Dennis Rodman was on those Pistons teams that Jordan and the Bulls hated so much, but the Bulls needed a player like him and he was great in Chicago as well. Im sure that there has been plenty of other examples as well
As for guys like Kidd and Nash joining former rivals the way I see it, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I hated Jason Kidd when he played for the Nets. But he is not on the Nets anymore, we need a PG, and he wants to beat a team like the Nets also because he still holds bitterness from the Nets taking apart the championship-caliber team they had in NJ to move to Brooklyn. So it works. As for Nash, he wants to win a ring, the Suns are rebuilding, and the Lakers need a PG. I see no problem with that... Larry Johnson and Charles Oakley are 2 examples of Knick rivals that became great Knicks, this isnt new. Dennis Rodman was on those Pistons teams that Jordan and the Bulls hated so much, but the Bulls needed a player like him and he was great in Chicago as well. Im sure that there has been plenty of other examples as well