Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
That will NEVER happen in the NBA, unless your salary cap is so restrictive it causes the loss of franchise players, which would be disastrous. In fact any truly hard cap is already damaging enoguh -- people associate with NBA players much more than they associate with suits of armor in the NFL. Large numbers of fans can't even name their team's nickelback, let alone pick him out of a lineup. Very few wouldn't know their team's 6th man, and recognize him. Much different sport. Any system that forces teams to shuffle all but their top 3 or 3 players, routinely shipping fan fovorites out, is not doing the sport any favor. And the difference would not be that much. Forcing NFL teams to churn a) hasn't been nearly as effective as you might think (say hello to the normal dynasties in Indy, New England, Pittsburgh); and b) to the degree it has been effective has been so because its more of a collective effort. 22 starting players, restrictive widely disparate positions that can't easily be covered fo by other positions. In the NBA there are 5 starting players, they play both ways, and a single dominant player is FAR more critical to his team's success than any single player in football...except possibly a starting QB (and note who leads those dynasty teams in football -- the great player breaks any balancing system). As long as a team has the best stars, its always going to dominate teams with lesser stars.
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