Dirk was drafted (I know Mav draft a #6 pick and trade him to Buck who draft at #9 for Dirk so they could get more pick). And never traded. Mav for 10 years never has any winning season even when they have Kidd and Mashburn, so they start to rebuild, and the 1st year they draft Dirk. You can actually add Kobe since he refused to play with other team except Laker, so Laker basically manage a trade to draft him. Also Howard when Kobe retired if he stay in LA. Chris Webber probably should belong in the list also. I think Chris Paul will be the 1st super star in Clipper's team also (although Griffin has potential to be one, but he is maybe 2 years away if Paul did not joint Clipper). Not sure about Melo, since Amare sign to NY before him, although he is more star than Amare (since Amare has bad injury) than and now. If you loose it (super star) a little bit, you could including at least Arenas before he got hurt and involved in the bad lockroom issues was on his way to all-star and super star Marbury (he does bring Knick to playoff once). Prob has few miss. You can try to build team, but does not matter what you do, you need to first start with 1 super star, and they usually don't jump ship unless it is LA or NY or they really have bad relation with the team. Which basically left you only with draft method, and usually, player will get hyper all the way if they have any talent, so you usually need to be in top few picks to get them. With new CBA, we may see more teams give up some player with good potential but because they have skill set that overlap with the players they already have and are behind in the development stage or don't get enough explosure.
