The NBA sent 6 teams with 43 wins or less to the playoffs this year. 2 with 41 wins. That’s a lot of mediocre at best teams in the playoffs. that’s not Lebron skewing things, that’s a bad league filled with bad teams.
Where Lebron’s skewing effect really comes in is roster building. That trip to Miami to build a super team taught the league two things: if you want to contend you must blow up the cap, if you build a team that good jersey will pay your cap fines. And the Warriors followed suit. I don’t think their window will be closing that quick, because they’ve added another wrinkle to that Miami model: once you have that super team other great players (KD) will beg to join. As long as the Warrior don’t lose more pieces than they can gain, or nobody else in the Western Conference find the right way to rape the cap, they’ll be on top.
I wasn’t aware that anyone still watched Felonball.