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NBA Superteams Prove How Unsatisfied We Are in Life
After reading the headline, you’re probably wondering where the hell I’m going with this. But it’s also possible that you know exactly what this is about.
People tend to place the blame at the feet of Lebron James when he joined Dwyane Wade and recruited Chris Bosh to the Miami Heat in 2010.
At the time people celebrated that players were finally asserting themselves with regards to where they wanted to play, who they wanted to play with and not being pushed and pulled by the franchises. The “Big 3” weren’t initially as successful as many predicted but they did go on to win two titles in a row.
Now it’s ten years later and the Brooklyn Nets have what is largely considered the greatest shooters to ever be assembled on one team in their own Big 3 of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden.
In the ten years between the formation of these superteams, we’ve had the NBA commissioner block a trade of Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers because he feared it would make the Lakers too overpowered, yet somehow sanctioned the trade of Kevin Durant to the Golden State Warriors who already had the best regular season record of all time in 2015–16 (73 wins, 9 losses) and we’ve enjoyed a slew of other pseudo-superteams.
