Perspective: The NBA's superteams are gone. The playoffs (and the future) will be better without them.
and advancing to the Eastern Conference finals. After the classic seven-game second round series, the Bucks went on to win the NBA title, with Giannis Antetokounmpo delighting over proving that an organization constructed diligently around one patient superstar can prosper during an era in which the best players have preferred to team up and turn the game into fantasy basketball.“It’s easy to go somewhere and go win a championship with somebody else,” Antetokounmpo said in celebration last July.
The top teams this season were all built in a classic fashion, meaning a heavy emphasis on drafting and using all avenues to upgrade instead of stripping the roster to clear salary cap space and pursue multiple all-star free agents. It usually takes a glamour market to employ the superteam strategy, but right now, there is solid parity of opportunity in the NBA.
In Brooklyn, the Nets are three seasons into the Durant-Irving partnership. They expected a slow start because Durant was recovering from Achilles surgery when they signed him away from Golden State three years ago. But over the past two seasons, Durant has been available for just 90 of a possible 154 regular season games. Irving, who sat out and opted to resist a New York vaccine mandate this season, has played in 83 of 154 games during that span.
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