Superstars Run Teams Out Of Business Pt.2"/>
So Williams was traded by the Jazz to New Jersey, which isn’t New York, but it’s close. And if the Nets can’t acquire a superstar running mate, or two, for Williams before he becomes a free agent after next season, well, Stoudemire and Anthony could use a point guard in New York.
Unless, of course, Chris Paul forces New Orleans to trade him to the Knicks before Williams gets there. Paul is in line to be one of the next superstars to pick which team he will play for next, getting there either as a free agent or pressuring his current team to trade him. The leverage Paul will use is the same used by Williams and Anthony: “I’m going to eventually leave as a free agent, so if you want to get anything in return for me, you might as well trade me.”
Or maybe Paul will wait for Dwight Howard to become a free agent, and the two of them can commandeer their own team.
The NBA. Where stacking teams happens.
Among the many issues facing the NBA players and owners this summer as they attempt to hammer out a new labor agreement, the most critical one is the most visible one: The superstars are taking over the league.
It’s a new era of superstars, who have come of age in a culture of entitlement totally foreign to the superstars of past eras. Superstars today not only see nothing wrong with picking their teams, their teammates, and their coaches, they expect to.
Being able to do so means you’ve officially arrived at the top of the NBA superstar food chain. You’re no longer a mere star. You’re a superstar. The elite of the elite. The league itself is now officially at your disposal.
That’s not to say the superstars today are better than those of past eras. But it is to say the superstars of today are far less competitive. And because of that, because the superstars in many ways establish the culture of a given sport, the NBA is becoming competitively counterfeit.
The superstars of today care more about playing with their buddies, playing in the big cities, playing in the warm-weather markets, than they do about winning.
Reggie Miller didn’t care about any of that. He spent his entire career in Indianapolis. Larry Bird was only a Celtic. Magic Johnson was only a Laker. Kobe Bryant has been only a Laker. Tim Duncan: Only a Spur.
Related posts:
2 Comments
Leave a Comment
TEE'S SNICK OF THE WEEK
I AM NBA RADIO
I THINK THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES YET
2 WORDS…CHRIS PAUL! IF CP3 IS LET UP ON A FREE AGENT AND SNATCHED UP BY THE KNICK THAT WOULD BE COMPLEEEETE PANDEMONIUM FOR THE KNICKS & FOR MSG…I CANT WAIT TO SEE THE OUTCOME!
& IF CHRIS PAUL EVER SEES THIS…CALL ME BOO!
But with a lot of the talent being spread so thin around the league, it is move or end your career without a ring. Michael Jordan was not alone as a part of the Chicago Bulls championship runs and it doesn’t seem like fans rose up in arms against the thought of more than one superstar on a team until last year’s free agency. Boston has had a nice little ring of stars on their roster, Los Angeles Lakers have and adequate amount of stars as well.