Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
So begins Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
The situation he describes, however, is flipped in the NBA. In the NBA, the perennially bad teams are all alike: they draft poorly, they overpay their players, and their coach and GM positions are revolving doors.
Great teams, on the contrary, come by their greatness through a variety of paths. Going farther back for literary inspiration, but at least sticking with the English language, ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.