Brownie Points: Howard trade furthers NBA's great divide

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• skeets77 posted at 9:11 am on Tue, Aug 14, 2012.

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  This has been going on for years in baseball and now were seeing it in college football with these power conferences. the NBA lockout wasn't the focus of franchise dominance as you protected but team and rookie salaries and NBA revenue. Your point Jerry is dead on, the focus is about power teams in all level of sports. People will watch Lakers vs. Oklahoma ( who would of thought Oklahoma would become a power team) and not Milwaukee vs. Charlotte. It's all about viewer ship and advertising. I'm waiting for Tiger Woods to start up his own golf channel, that's what the weekly PGA golf channel event on TV has turned into. People love having Tiger, love him or hate him, which is big revenue for TV covering his events.

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• Gronkowski posted at 8:01 am on Mon, Aug 13, 2012.

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  The only relevant pro sport is the NFL.

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• PackRat posted at 1:38 pm on Sun, Aug 12, 2012.

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  "Then when Kobe and Gasol aren’t enough to get to June, they get Dwight Howard for … well, what’s less than garbage?"

  Andrew Bynum, less than garbage? Really? Sure he's no Wilt or Kareem and the trade is lopsided, but Bynum did average about 19/12/2 last season. So are you going to demand that the Suns send Gortat to the D-League? He only averaged 15/10/1.5. He must be less than less than less than garbage, right?

  Maybe Dwight faked his back injury, maybe not. But Kobe and Nash are getting up there in age. 2015 is a long way away when Kobe has a high mileage body and Nash is nearing 40. In reality, Dwight alone may not get the Lakers more regular season wins than Bynum. And Laker regular season wins, not Laker championships, is what really matters to the Suns as far as the 2015 draft pick is concerned.

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