The Denver Nuggets are NBA champions! JJ discusses how Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and The Denver Nuggets won Game 5 of The NBA Finals against Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and The Miami Heat. He also talks about if teams will try to build more like the Nuggets instead of superteams like the Heatles or the Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving Brooklyn Nets.
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Pistons with Wallace bill rich,, mavs dirk kidd marion n this nuggets team.. dont happen often
Just so we’re clear “SUPER teams” have existed in every decade going back to the 50s! They’re done now bc there is essentially a hard cap now with all the penalties you can’t hit with 3 max guys.
If Grant Hill didn't get hurt and Tim Duncan would've gone to Orlando with Tracy Mcgrady. Orlando would have a championship
No super team has won since 2018… the super team narrative has been dead for a while and no one talks about it 😂
I had no idea Aaron Gordon was the dude that was robbed at the dunk contest by Zack Lavine.
I recently found that out. That man can duuuuunk.
There will always be super teams. Look at the Phoenix Suns, before the Suns were dismantled in Game 7 by Luka and the Mavs they were a 64-wins team. CP3 and Booker were one of the best duos in the NBA. Not even 1 year later KD joins that duo. It didn't work out this season but it still seems like the Suns tried/are trying to build a super-team
Depends. I still feel like teams are desperate to win. There are less “Super teams” but the era for it isnt over yet.
I like it this way. 1 superstar, another all star level person maybe 2, and then solid role players throughout. Gonna make parity a hell of a lot more existent.
It just needs another LeBron chip for super teams to be back. Super teams were all to be beat one man and that man is almost gone. However hopefully he still has 2 chips left in him.
My thoughts on the matter is that it’s a multilayered situation. 1. FOLLOW THE MONEY, if I were an NBA billionaire owner the last thing I want is to form a big 3 that’s not even guaranteed to work (KD Nets, CP3 Suns, LA Clippers etc.) what’s the point of spending all that money if I’m not guaranteed at least a finals appearance? And even when they do work out (LBJ Heat) it’s pretty much a guaranteed rebuild after the big 3 eventually become too expensive to keep. 2. The rise of overseas/Euro players has brought us a new type of superstar archetype that was taught the right way to play basketball and not just ISO on every play. 3. The new CBA pretty much makes this even more difficult to pull of. And 4. The league today is just WAAYYY too talented that even if you do have a competitive squad for a chip you can still get upset by an unexpected team that matches up great against the championship caliber team, I mean JUST THIS YEAR the 8th seeded Heat beat the 1 seed bucks and the 7th seed lakers beat the 2 seed grizzlies. Point it that even with a big 3, it’s no longer as easy as it was in years past
I hope so. It put my Thunder in rebuild mode since 2016
Id argue that super teams didnt really have an era. At least not one where they worked really well. Celtics got one chip out of it, heat got 2, Cavs got one. The warriors with KD were a super team but it was a once in a lifetime capspace opportunity that will never happen again for a team that has already been to back to back finals. Something like Kawhi and PG teaming up will still make sense on paper, but more than 2 guys hasnt worked too well without lebron.
Umm … Didn't Phoenix literally just trade for KD to build a 'superteam' with Booker and CP? That was four months ago.
But the new CBA will make it essentially impossible to have more than two stars. And even having two supermax guys is probably gonna be untenable. Hence why people are saying you gotta trade Jaylen Brown.
The way Denver is operating with same coach and building team through draft, can they become a dynasty like SPURs had built in the 2000's
Nets would have a ring if kyrie didn’t land on ginnnas and if harden wasn’t out drinking every night and Pullin his hammy 😂😂
Superteam era has been over since lebron in miami. They have proven to not have long term success. Teams like the warriors that built through the draft are the blueprint now.
Superteams…in my opinion, rob the league of good coaching and GMs because owners are more heavily influenced by star players and agents, rather than scouts and coaches who have put decades of work in to get where they are.
Given players have more power today, they can also leave pretty much whenever. That's why once superteams end at an organization, it takes damn near a decade to rebuild.
You may get 1 ring, maybe even 2 out of a superteam these days but nothing like the warriors have been able to accomplish.
It sounds like you're saying Denver created the blueprint 🤣 what happened to GSW
I remember this saying from when the Spurs won their 2014 championship.
“Built, not bought.”
It’s those seasons where the trophy seems to mean a bit more.
Odd clip for a subject discussed for maybe 20s
Superteam has been outdated for a while. All the recent ones have failed. Brooklyn & Lakers. Can really only afford 2 stars max with the new CBA. The Finals was a great matchup anyway – I loved seeing teams with zero egos, something that is not easy when you have a superteam.
JJ, I thought L.A. figured something out at the end of game 1…
OKC is in the process of drafting a super team, but I think they need to get some muscle going in the middle.