Nuggets' elimination seals for seven years of unprecedented NBA parity, but is it good for the league?

When the Boston Celtics were eliminated by the New York Knicks on Friday, the Sixth NBA season in a row in which the defending champion did not come over the second round. It was the latest bullet point in the current study that is NBA parity and questions about how it happens and whether it is good for a league that has traditionally been ruled by more dynastic institutions.

Now we have another bullet point: With the excretion of the Denver Nuggets game 7 by the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday, the NBA is crowned seven different masters for the first time in the history of the league over a period of seven years in the history of the league, which goes back to 1946.

This is different from just no two consecutive champions since the Warriors in 2018. This means that since then no team that has won a title in the past six years since a second has won. This list contains the Raptors (2019), Lakers (2020), Bucks (2021), Warriors (2022), Nuggets (2023) and Celtics (2024).

There are countless reasons for this, each of which could have a multi-layered conversation, but the end result is the margins between all NBA teams, and certainly those at the top of the food chain have become so low that almost all-matchups, calm, coaching or certainly injuries-a series can vibrate.

This is parity – no team is head and shoulder about someone else and a whole bunch of teams who challenge themselves under the right circumstances. The luck that all of these circumstances will break in the way, since the depth of the competition is exposed to nowadays, asks a lot. It has become impossible to get it in the way twice in the past seven years.

The new CBA, especially the salary names of the first and second apron, will probably only continue to promote this trend. For the taste of most owners, it becomes a criminal-sovock for financial as well as from the point of view of the duty roster, a top-end team for a long time.

The Celtics were probably on the way to a separation this summer, even before Jayson Tatum broke his Achilles. Some of the nuggets have lost against Oklahoma City because they lack the depth because it is too expensive to sign several high -quality bankers when their starter earn so much money. Super teams that can simply continue rolling over the league are no longer a reality.

Is that a good thing? That is a question of taste. I personally will say that I enjoy not watching films for which I already have a pretty good idea of ​​the end. Voltage sold. Not everyone agrees, and yes, I have the draw of having one or two monsters at the end of the video game, all of which are trying to switch off.

But I only think that this is better, for the same reason why I think March Madness is such a popular product. Everyone with a hat in the ring can win, whether they talk about a game, a series or a championship. And in the end, whether you like it or not, we will continue to see this in the trend in the NBA.