I don’t really get this. I like basketball! I like to watch good basketball players play basketball very well. Therefore I like to watch entire NBA games, so long as they do not include the 76ers or Knicks.

Parity in football is, by and large, an illusion — the product of small sample sizes & a single-elimination tournament. In the last two decades, the NBA has produced nine unique champions (vs 10 in the NHL, its closest analogue in terms of season length and playoff structure); free agency, in allowing for the free…