Former NBA Commissioner David Stern’s ideal NBA Finals was said to be “Lakers vs Lakers”. Which is silly, it would surely be “Knicks vs Lakers”, but he never got that one as Commish. Whatever the current ideal NBA Finals now, it almost certainly cannot be “Nuggets vs Heat”.
The Denver Nuggets are a team almost no one in their home market could watch on TV, due to silliness involving local TV rights (the collapse of some local broadcast consortiums is likely a bigger factor in the “real hardcap and luxury tax” we saw implemented in the new NBA collective bargaining agreement.