it makes being the fan of a small market team very, very tedious after a while.

"you're small market and your team lacks a AAA superstar? well tank, ship out any good players you have to save coin till you catch your white whale, and enjoy watching the Lakers deep runs into the playoffs while you scour the news on nbadraft.net."

and yes, I know the owners lacked the balls to really re-imagine how they're doing business and instead just threw a tantrum to get some more $$$ flowing back to them. that's why I've increasingly soured on the league.