The NBA title is the hardest title in Major sports to win.

SaintMeaux said

So, using this argument, why have playoffs at all if we're concerned about making sure that a team with quality regular season play can get a championship? The 2007 Giants and 2005 Steelers don't like that idea.

If a team is good enough to squeak in to the playoffs in any sport, they are worthy of the championship, IMO. There are too many factors to put into play, maybe they started out slow, and really came on in the last half or third of the season. If this team just barely gets in, are they not deserving?

I view the regular seasons in professional sports as sort of a round robin to gain position for the real season, the post season.

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Playoffs are really only around to keep people's interest at this point. Back in the day, baseball was two separate leagues that never ever played eachother except for the All Star Game and the World Series. The World Series was the ONLY way to determine who was the best of the best, and it only involved the two regular season champions. Now to keep interest they added the LCS series, the wild cards, and interleague play. Now the best team in the baseball can lose in three games in the wild card and their season to the 8th best team in baseball because their pitchers are hot/cold at the right/wrong time. Hell, the Royals have beaten the Tigers twice already, one more win and that would be a wild card sweep. But would you EVER try to claim that the Royals are the better team? Its kind of BS.

And as much as I hate the Patriots, cheating notwithstanding, could you really say they weren't the best team this year?

In an NBA type setting, the Pats would have won it, no question, IMO.