There was always Super Teams in the NBA.
The difference was that teams could hold onto to their star players much longer, so if you were able to get 2 or 3, you were set up for many years.
The difference now is the star players are just teaming up together at locations they want to be. .Paul George says don’t hate him for trying to win. Here is what he had to say to Washington Post.
“No team has won [a title] where one single guy was the lone star and it was their team. It’s not that era. I’m not sure how the veterans, the legends, don’t understand that part,” said George, who stayed with Westbrook by re-signing with the Thunder this summer. “It’s a different game now. For those guys to chime in and say we’re not built the same … I never understood that, because who would we be fooling if we went out alone and tried to go up against the Warriors?
“Back in the day, guys were stuck on teams,” George said. “It was up to the front office to build around that one guy, and that one guy was going to bring championships to them.
“It’s not the same now … [players] understand that, and we know what it takes.”
Besides Dirk’s Mavs team you will be hard pressed to find a championship team without at least 2 legit all-stars on the squad since the 80s.
In the end, the players have to do what is best for them and their families.