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NBA = National Boredom Association

While I think the NBA Finals will feature the two best teams bar none, in the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers, and I'm hoping the series goes 7 games and is tightly contested throughout, I'm personally getting bored with these two teams' dominance and sincerely hope other teams start competing more in the coming years, because this is just becoming too predictable to my liking. 

Sure, the New England Patriots have sat or near the top of the NFL for a number of years, but in that same time-frame, the following other teams have won Super Bowls: Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Denver, NY Giants, Green Bay, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, and Seattle. In baseball, the Kansas City Royals and Chicago Cubs have won the World Series in recent years. The Nashville Predators just made it to their first Stanley Cup Finals. In the NBA, though, we're about to witness the third consecutive finals between the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. While I actually like watching both teams and have nothing against either one winning their second title in three years, everything that led to this point, especially in the post-season, has been sleep-inducing. Golden State is a perfect 12-0 this postseason. Cleveland, if not for a late-game stumble against Boston in the Eastern Conference Finals, would also be 12-0. Even with that single setback, however, the two teams have gone a combined 24-1 this post-season, and many of those games weren't even close. The Warriors have averaged to win their 12 games by approximately 16 points per and the Cavaliers have averaged to win theirs by about 13 points. 

So, while I wish both teams the best in their third consecutive finals, and hope they're able to at least partially make up for the awful postseason thus far, could some other NBA teams please step up next year and make the playoffs at least somewhat competitive? Boston, Washington, San Antonio, and Houston, I'm talking to you, and whoever else wants to prevent the National Basketball Association from being renamed the National Boredom Association.
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