The era of the parity of the NBA goes deeper than they think

Also as someone who Framed the entire NBA season 2024-25 Whether the league will continue its record level of parity-there were six NBA champions in the six seasons from 2019 to 2006 and drove in 1975-80 for the only run in the league history-I-I spent most of the season I thought the era would end soon. Either the Boston Celtics would repeat themselves as champions, or maybe the LeBron/Luka Lakers, Denver Nuggets or Golden State Warriors would do another run-even if an emerging city like Oklahoma City or Cleveland had won everything, we would see them as strong candidates next year.

But with Most of the favorites of the season in ShamblesWe are guaranteed to have a seventh season in a row with another NBA champion – for the first time in the league history that was ever true.

And as a loyal reader David writes that this is only the tip of the iceberg for the strange era of the NBA parity, in which we now live:

“[D]If you realize that the NBA has had 12 different conference champions in the last six seasons (including this)? That has never happened in the Great Pro -Sport history. We will also have a 7th season without repeat master. This leads to the previous NBA record that ran from 1974-75 to 1979-80.

(I have always assumed that the reason for such a parity was the breakdown of the ABA at this moment; at least that seemed to be something One reason for the chaos in the NBA, which is the most stable pro sports league in terms of its master.)

The new NBA record of seven seasons with various champions has was exceeded in the NFL in an eight-sized route (2008-2015) and a nine-socket route from 2002-03 to 2011-12 (due to the strike year) for a decade in the NHL (because of the strike year). But both of this Seasons had at least someone Repeat this as a conference champion. No such story in the NBA. In the last 7 seasons, 40% of the league will have made it to the NBA final.

A kind of fun that more fans wake up every season with a real chance! “

Thank you very much, David, for this observation – and for the fact that this era goes as much about how many different teams and fan bases become part of the championship discussion like everything else.

Now I would like to examine this trend a little more detail by using my different sentences of historical data that I have collected over the years. Here is an action by all six -year spans in the NBA/BAA Win the east In 2002 and 2003) and the number of different/unique franchise companies that have won a conference title during this time: