The Ringer asked \u201cWhat Has the NBA Lost?<\/a>,\u201d and used the Spurs as an example of a possible dynasty that might never become, well, dynastic under the current system.<\/p>\n![\"San]()
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San Antonio Spurs guards Stephon Castle (5) and Dylan Harper (2) embrace as they have their photographs taken during the NBA basketball team\u2019s media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama writes up a play as he and Stephon Castle watch their teammates compete in the Silver & Black Scrimmage at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Yes, the Spurs have put together a smart, promising long-term plan. Yes, Victor Wembanyama already has taken less than the maximum on a contract extension to help the cause. And yes, there\u2019s at least a chance he will play alongside Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper as long as Tim Duncan played with Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker.<\/p>\n
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But it\u2019s hard to count on that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBarring a change to the apron rules,\u201d Howard Beck of The Ringer wrote, \u201cit\u2019s almost inevitable that the Spurs\u2019 cap will eventually burst.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s sort of a shame, and not only for San Antonio fans hoping for four or five more championships over the next decade. The truth is, dynasties aren\u2019t so bad for leagues as a whole.<\/p>\n
How big of a step forward did the\u00a0NBA make during the Lakers-Celtics 1980s, and during the Bulls 1990s?<\/p>\n
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No matter which era you might consider the glory days of Major League Baseball, chances are a superpower like the New York Yankees (or the Oakland A\u2019s, or the Dodgers) were dominating it. And as much as people loved rooting against Bill Belichick and Tom Brady for much of this century, can anyone really say with a straight face that the NFL became less popular because of the New England Patriots?<\/p>\n
Giving everyone a common enemy can be a good thing. That\u2019s why, if the baseball owners get their way and wind up with an NBA-style \u201csecond apron\u201d setup, there could come a time when they\u2019ll realize that a dynasty wasn\u2019t so bad after all.<\/p>\n
Over the past 14 years, the Dodgers won 13 division titles. They went to five World Series, and won it three times. And they did it in part by signing a bunch of superstar players to huge contracts, and trading for others when they became too expensive for other teams.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not optimal, obviously. And for fans in Detroit and Cincinnati and Baltimore, it can be incredibly frustrating.<\/p>\n
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But if the answer is making sure no dynasties can exist again?<\/p>\n
Someday, people might mourn them after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle, left, and guard Dylan Harper are announced as starters before taking on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-929541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}