I've written tons about the NBA being an unfair league to certain teams. Lord knows I'm not blaming the league system here. In a lot of cases, it merely stems from monumentally bad luck. The league was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. The BAA merged with the National Basketball League in 1949 to officially create the NBA. Since then, the number of teams in the league has grown to 30, and only half of those teams have ever been champions. Even fewer have been even remotely … more