What is a “super team”? It’s a meaningless publicity label. There is no reason to believe that Kyrie Irving or Kevin Love could lead you to a championship or get you anywhere close to one. In fact there’s no reason to believe (and was no reason to believe in 2014) that Kyrie or KLove or even both of them together could even get you out of the first round of the playoffs if they were the best players on your team. Same for AD actually. The situation was VERY DIFFERENT with the Warriors.
Yeah, Lebron wanted talent or the hope of getting talent on teams he went to. Everyone does. But asking for a mid level all star or two on your team doesn’t guarantee anything and doesn’t make a “super team” in the sense of a team that will easily waltz to the Finals - although certainly the press may label you as one.
The Cavs went to the Finals because Lebron. Outside of Lebron it just wasn’t that great a team, particularly in that first year. That’s all I’m saying.
Lebron wasn’t a weak whiny bitch (or fill in your dumb sexist insult terms as desired) who rigged things to give himself an easy road to the Finals, he was proactive in getting himself help but still had a tough road. His situation by going to teams which had other all stars gave the depth that teams always need to reach the contender level. In contrast Durant hitched a ride on an already fully operational championship level team. Again, why does no one think Kevin Garnett did anything that should get him called a “bitch” by losing patience in Minnesota and joining Pierce and Allen in Boston?
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