Are there any leagues with just two basketball teams?
It's funny. Anyone following the NBA right now would tell you it's a league with just two teams :P
Right. And they'd also say the league is incredible uncompetitive.
The Harlem Globetrotters towed around a stooge team for a long time.
Right, and I don't think anyone would describe the Globetrotters vs. the Generals as competitive.
I'm not aware for basketball, but e.g. the Boat Race has only two teams, and is very much competitive.
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Basketball is winner-take-all and is itself part of a larger competition (a season which leads to a playoff), making it a poor analogy.
A better metaphor would be 2 people playing golf. They can both achieve personal bests during the same match.
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Some sports metaphors really don't work.
When two teams easily win unless they play each other, is it a competitive league?
On a tangential note, that might not be the case anymore next year. The Thunder got Paul George, the Rockets traded for Chris Paul, Gordon Hayward is now on the Celtics, and Jimmy Butler is in Minnesota. Meanwhile, there's rumors that Kyrie Irving wants to be traded.
This is not a accurate comparison as other commenters have pointed out...
There's usually a league with more than 2 teams :)