The NBA’s exceedingly star-driven brand of theater means the best players can shape their teams’ fortunes in profound ways. An incorrigibly driven type like, say, Jimmy Butler can challenge, provoke, and compel his teammates to care as much as he does (which, as he’ll have you understand, is a lot) while, in another Myers-Briggs quadrant, someone like Kawhi Leonard can keep to himself and let his all-world game do its own talking.
But a feature can also be a bug, and a modern player’s self-determination can just as easily undo everything a team is trying to accomplish when the two sides no longer see eye to eye.