I paid no attention to the NBA Finals this year.
If Houston or Utah were playing Boston I would have been interested enough to watch (OKC Fan) but the Cavs Vs Golden State is as interesting to me as watching paint dry.

I think four teams can compete next year - Warriors, Rockets, Celtics and who ever LeBron plays with.
Not great news for the other 26.

I honestly find the NBL more entertaining. There are a few NBA teams that play an entertaining style of ball for me (Celtics in particular), but the min/max-styled offenses of teams like the Rockets are just dull for me, despite the high scores and the talent on the court.

As years go by I'm looking at box scores and highlights of the NBA a lot more than I am actual games. Meanwhile, I'm catching most NBL games regardless of who is playing.

/yawn

NBA started losing its appeal long before KD signed with the Warriors. KD was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

The NBA is now in a state like in NBA 2K where if you turn all the sliders up for the player team and down for the AI.

Will take LeBron signing with Philly or mockingly my Blazers to reinvigorate my interest.

Game 1 was great

But ever since the brain fade, the rest of the series has had a feeling of inevitability

Agree that Durant is public enemy number 1

NBL more entertaining? Haha what a joke. Any half decent nbl game is one awful ref decision away from farce.

The finals showpiece is obviously a bore for the foreseeable future, but on a game for game basis, there is no comparison. The NBL will never be close to the spectacle that the NBA is

"It is not as if teams (excecpt GSW) are showing great offense with great ball movement and creating open shots."

Golden State rarely play like this anymore (at least in the playoffs). The ball and player movement revelation from '14 Spurs is well and truly dead already. Playing that way, while effective and thoroughly entertaining, is apparently too much work for an 82+ game season.

The universal strategy of the playoffs was: set on-balls specifically to force the defense into a rotation through show-and-recover/ice coverages, or force the worst perimeter defender to switch on to your superstar and play 1v5 with shooter.

IMO the most entertaining element of the finals for was JR Smith's antics and Lue's "coaching".

The NBL probably won't ever be as "entertaining" as the NBA but it is infinitely more competitive. That many games, that much money and the "title or nothing" attitude has ruined it. I'm a 35 year fan of the the NBA and I'm pretty much done with it now, just like to see how the Aussie players are going.

"The NBL play defense"

It probably appears that is true, but only because the offensive players/plays are far less capable.

Haha. And then all of the guys who cant crack the NBA but put up massive numbers here (tokoto, Daniels) based exclusively on their athleticism...what does that tell you?

Daniels massive numbers? 15 and 8 were relatively high but not when you consider he played 30 minutes per game and the Wildcats ran their offence through him and Beal (each took 20% of all of Perth's field goal attempts in that season).

Similarly with Tokoto - 15 and 6 in 28 MPG. He and Cotton were teh focus of the Perth offence, both taking way more field goal attempts than anybody else.

Your point about almost-NBA players' athleticism relative to NBL players may be right, but perhaps pick examples that more clearly support that argument.