Do sports today have... too much parity?

This mind-blowing NBA statistic is a microcosm of just how hard it is to sustain dominance in sports today. ... And yet the opposite perspective could be applied as well — that it's never been easier to win a championship. Everybody loves to root against Goliath, but when there is no Goliath to root against, it feels less special when David wins.

All of those titans from the previous generation still had their worthy competitors, and the vast majority of the great individual athletes of that era had their day at one point or another. For instance, Tom Brady may be the undisputed GOAT of the NFL, yet Peyton Manning won two Super Bowls during his reign of terror. Ben Roethlisberger also won two. Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees each won one. Even Eli Manning won two (against Brady)!

The same goes for the NBA. Stephen Curry and LeBron James both won four rings, with Kevin Durant along for the ride for two of Curry's. Yet Kawhi Leonard led his teams to the mountaintop twice, and in 2011 Dirk Nowitzki's Dallas Mavericks took down both Kobe Bryant's L.A. Lakers, the defending back-to-back champs at the time, as well as LeBron's Miami Heat, who would win the next two titles. 

In the NHL, Sidney Crosby won three Stanley Cups as the face of the league, but Patrick Kane's Chicago Blackhawks and Alex Ovechkin's Washington Capitals were always right there to challenge his Penguins. Baseball is the exception, as no player can impact their team the way they can in other sports, yet the list of World Series MVPs still includes plenty of the game's biggest stars of the time such as David Ortiz and Madison Bumgarner.

Sure, many of today's superstars are still coming into their own, with legacies that have yet to be written. Yet aside from Patrick Mahomes' Chiefs in the NFL, nobody has truly distanced themselves — or in the Chiefs' case, stepped up as a worthy opponent who can humble them on occasion. The other most notable quarterbacks in the game today — Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen — have combined to lead their teams to one Super Bowl appearance to date.

No one wants to see the same team win every year, but when a sport gets deep into its playoffs, there needs to be a "clash of the titans" type of feel in which fans are watching established winners battle it out while the rising stars have to beat the best to become the best. Because when everybody is a feel-good story, then nobody is.