Let's take a moment to remember the Brooklyn Nets of James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving -- the greatest theoretical team of all time, and for 16 glorious games an unstoppable scoring machine capable of making magic through beautiful ball movement or domineering one-on-one play.
The Nets traded everything they had to add Harden to the Durant-Irving tandem. They recouped a good portion of that and got younger by flipping Harden and Paul Millsap for Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round picks -- a roundabout, if unpleasant, vindication of their decision to nab a third star.