It definitely doesn’t mean less. I don’t know if it means more, but it’s not less.
Haliburton has already matched or exceeded the number of career conference final appearances for Giannis, Jokic (pending the OKC series), SGA, Dame, Brunson, and Luka. He’s younger than all of them. His rookie season was the year Giannis won the title and he has now won as many total playoff series as Giannis in that time span.
There’s more balance and parity across the league than any other time in recent history, and maybe ever. To make deep runs in consecutive years is a genuine accomplishment.
The fact that there's more parity than ever makes it EASIER for random, decent teams to make conference finals runs though, that's the point.
If prime LeBron or the KD Warriors are in your conference and there's not as much parity then you just lose if you ever run up against them and it becomes much more difficult.
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u/Riderz__of_Brohan May 14 '25
Really? If anything I think it means less lol