Can we please move beyond all this woe-is-the-NBA sniffling that has accompanied Kevin Durant’s seismic move to Golden State?

The latest hand-wringing having come from Adam Silver, the league’s commissioner, who noted after the NBA’s Board of Governors meeting Tuesday night, “I’ve read some stories that the league wants this notion of two ‘super teams’ that is a huge television attraction.

“I don’t think it’s good for the league, just to be clear,” Silver told the media, saying what was presumably on the minds of several governors. “I do not think that’s ideal from the league standpoint. For me, part of it is designing a collective bargaining agreement that encourages the distribution of great players throughout the league.”

To be sure it isn’t good if you are the commissioner who is trying to sell an unachievable NFL-type model of balance in a player-driven league. And it isn’t good when you are Silver and getting an earful from the owners of under-performing franchises.

And it definitely isn’t good if you happened to be the NBA’s lead negotiator on the last collective bargaining agreement that opened up a window of historic proportions making Durant’s current association with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green possible without a wholesale salary dump.

That was where the league failed to incorporate a mechanism for periods in which salary cap money rockets dramatically. As it has in the wake of the nine-year $24 billion TV contract boosting the cap from $70 million to $94 million, the largest jump in the league’s history. It is forecast to go to $102 million next year.

When owners finally realized the potential for TV money to do what it has done, they were unsuccessful in getting the NBA Players Association to back a “smoothing” out process that would have spread out the increase over several years and made the Durant move unlikely.

And, really, why would the players have agreed to it? Or, the networks for that matter.

This isn’t the first time that the NBA has heard shrieks of doom when a megastar has moved. Recall Shaquille O’Neal to the Lakers and more recently, LeBron James and company assembling in Miami.

Despite the TV ratings that two super teams produced in this year’s finals, the commissioner has vowed action to keep the “anomaly” as he terms it, from spreading. “In a way, the good news is that we are in a collective bargaining cycle, so it gives everybody an opportunity, the owners and the union, to sit down behind closed doors and take a fresh look at the system and see if there is a better way we can do it,” Silver said. “My belief is that we can make it better.”

“On the other hand, I absolutely respect a player’s right to become a free agent and, in this case, for Kevin Durant to make a decision that he feels is best for him,” Silver said. “I have no idea what’s in his mind or heart in terms of how he went about making that decision.”

Rest assured he wasn’t asking himself, “What would Adam Silver and the owners want me to do.”

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