There are plenty of teams in the NBA with two All-Stars on their roster, yet only a handful are actually in championship contention. Why is that? Compatibility obviously has something to do with it, as does those stars’ surrounding cast and coach, but what’s to say that some of the players we consider studs are, at the end of the day, just stat monsters?
That seems to be how former Houston Rockets coach Kevin McHale views the NBA’s best true center. He’s simply not a winner, which is why he was traded, and also why the Pelicans won’t immediately become a better team now that he’s there.