beeshma wrote:Draymond's comment makes me hope for a Denver - Milwaukee finals. That would be awesome.
I want this more than ever because it's clearly two teams and two stars the mainstream media do
not want to see in the Finals. In the East it's clear they want Boston or Philly over Milwaukee for tv ratings. Hell they probably even want Cleveland there now that they have Mitchell. In the West they want GS, Phx or the Lakers(which is the least likely) in the Finals. After that they would probably take Mem(Ja), Dal(Luka/Kyrie), and last LAC(cause of the market and not cause of their players). You already have some talking heads openly saying if Lebron, KD, or Steph are not in the conference finals or Finals that the ratings will be terrible and no one will care. A Den vs Mil would also force the media and probably casuals who watch or cover the NBA to finally admit something that they don't want to believe in that the two best players in the league would be Giannis and Jokic and they're not American.
What I anticipate actually happening in the future is that media will start to complain if the best players in the league happen to be all international players and that the sport is better when the top player(s) is American in the same way that people have complained about it in heavyweight boxing or tennis all these years.