Gary Sutton

if you have high interseason parity, you have churn at the top of the league year over year, right?

So let's say you've got your top eight teams for one season.

Well, if you really have interseason parity, the next year you should see a lot of churn at the top.

So the same eight teams that were at the top of the league this year would not be the same eight teams at the top of the NBA the next season, right?

But that didn't fundamentally change.

There was always some churn.

Yeah, the top few.

But even before the cap was implemented, there was some churn.

After the salary cap was implemented, there was the same amount of year-over-year churn.

So that didn't really change either.

So I'm not exactly sure what the NBA was looking at.

I'm not exactly sure why the Players Association would have approved the cap, given the data that was then available.

But I don't think there was a problem to begin with.

I don't really think the NBA had a parity problem.

I know we think that, okay, the Celtics or the Lakers are winning most of the titles.

But in the whole scheme of things, I don't really think there was a problem.

There were.

There were.

And when you add more teams, maybe temporarily, there's an opportunity for less parity because newer teams might struggle at first.

I tried to account for that in my analysis.