The NBA Needs Chris Paul To Stay In New Orleans
In an offseason where we've seen LeBron leave Cleveland, Chris Bosh leave Toronto, Amare Stoudemire leave Phoenix, and Carmelo Anthony vowing to team up with Amare Stoudemire in New York, therefore leaving Denver as soon as next offseason.
Did you catch that theme? Yes, I thought so. Everybody is leaving a small city for a bigger one and, in most cases, teaming up with another star.
After looking around, Chris Paul has decided he needs help, basically telling the Hornets to give him help or trade him. The Hornets met with Paul, trying to convince him to stay.
The odds seem to lean toward a blockbuster trade deal with a perennial powerhouse, making the rich only richer. Lets say Paul goes to New York, you then have Cleveland, Toronto and New Orleans without any star power. These three cities now are irrelevant, once again and a seven team league is formed: L.A.(the Lakers), Chicago, New York, Miami and Orlando, with secondary cities in Atlanta and Oklahoma City. I would count the Spurs and Celtics but it looks as if their current cores will disband soon. While some other teams may make the playoffs, they won't have a chance to advance further.
With the way this is headed, yes the seven teams would be great, but 23 teams are left with next to nothing. Those 23 cities would most likely not sell their arena's out unless one of the big seven comes to town.
This is why we need the star power spread out, and not on a handful of teams. I don't have a huge issue if there is one super team, but the NBA will have no parity, and there will be more blowouts every night of the NBA season.
Before this offseason, you had small market teams thriving, and now the league looks like Major League Baseball—only the big markets can compete. It's like the NBA doesn't have a salary cap (which in part is true, but not to the extreme of the MLB.)
The idea of big names teaming up in a big city is going to get out of hand. If the Hornets do decide to trade CP3, the NBA will never be the same.
