The Portland Trail Blazers are one of several smaller-market NBA teams. From the perspective of their fans, this brings an inherent disadvantage compared to their large-market cousins. Could the Blazers and other small-market franchises get a boost if the league tweaked the salary cap system? That’s the subject of today’s Blazer’s Edge Mailbag.
Dave,
The era of super teams has hurt team identities, small market teams and the NBA as a leagues overall product. The teams of the 90’s all had identities .... easy for me to think of the key players on the Jazz, Suns, Sonics, Blazers, Spurs, Rockets, Kings, Golden State just to think through the west and I remember intense rivalries.