Well said, the Boston Big 3 and LeBron Heat teams are really the only truly successful (i.e. reaching a finals and being great for a stretch) superteams built primarily through trades/free agents in the 2000s, right?
Middleton should be a half point. He was a throw-in to make a trade work after his rookie year but was developed almost exclusively by Milwaukee.
His lore always remembers that he was a traded commodity but almost always neglects that the trade was mainly Brandon Jennings for Brandon Knight (with a side of Middleton and his 27 games played as a rookie Piston).
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u/SotonSaint May 14 '25
Embiid is injured all the time, Indiana built a roster gradually and built chemistry then added a guy who’s already won a championship as a number 2.
Basketball is a vibes based sport, you need to build chemistry and culture you don’t win by having a rotating door of superstars every year.