More over you need 3 stars because then 3/5 of your starting line up can be judged by the superstar rules. God forbid you only have 1 or 2, then you are judged by the harshest rules known to man, the regular rulebook. If the NBA wants to fix the superstar/superteam fixing the officiating is a great first step. Ask yourself, if a rook acted like Draymond does would he play a single game without a tech? Therein lays a big problem.
Some Execs, Agents, Players Believe Superteam Era Beginning To Wind Down Adrian Wojnarowski said league executives, agents and players are wondering if we're currently seeing the end of the superteam in which three superstars join forces to compete for titles. The model was perhaps first launched in this era by the Boston Celtics in 2007 with Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen joining Paul Pierce, but it evolved to LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to collective choose the Miami Heat in 2010. It culminated in Kevin Durant joining Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala with the Golden State Warriors in free agency in 2016. Curry and Durant each sacrificed on an individual level for the good of the team. Durant has been linked all season with going to the New York Knicks and a pursuit of a more individualistic challenge. Kawhi Leonard has also proved capable of leading a very good team but without any other superstars to The Finals. "Does the superteam dilute the individual star?" posits Wojnarowski. "Is that what players want anymore to have to play a subordinate role in a bigger group? Lose out on the ability to win MVPs." Wojnarowski continued to suggest that this development is happening to the delight of Adam Silver. "Will we see the league trending back to one-star, two-star teams with a more prominent role. Perhaps the talent is more spread out around the NBA. Certainly that's the wish of Adam Silver who wants parity, who wants star players in smaller markets to keep teams profitable. "We may start to see a shift in that landscape we head into July."
camaraderie is getting worse but dun see it die out. The Thunder drafted KD, WB and JH, there are other ways to form a super team.
wind down? this summer has a collection of guys that by many accounts are looking to team with each other this era is full of guys who are close and wouldn't mind playing with each other. don't see it winding down any time soon
Gonna call BS. There's no evidence that this is "winding down". There will always be a few stars who genuinely like leading a team by themselves (Westbrook, Kyrie, Harden, etc.), but overall...the media is always going to slander you if you don't win a title, and the easiest way to a title is teaming up. There may never be another Durant-to-GSW situation, but superteams are going to be a thing for the foreseeable future IMO.
"In the old days," players didn't have the same level of free agency to make decisions to play together. We have no idea whether these types of teams would have formed through player decision in the past if the rules regarding free agency had been the same. I could easily see Michael Jordan pre-dynasty getting fed up with the Bulls and wanting to play with his great friend Charles Barkley, for example. Circumstances are different and so teams are getting built differently.
I don’t see it ending with the salary cap structured like it is. If there’s a max salary a team can pay then a superstar is capped. At that point he will make the same money no matter where he plays, might as well play with another superstar in a big market. The league needs to structure the cap such that true superstars would have to sacrifice extremely large sums of money to team up. That’s the only way to prevent it. Make a fair playing field where every team has the same budget and let them spend it however they want.
