The superteam is an existential threat to the NBA — or so goes conventional wisdom.
It's understandable. 2017 was particularly fraught with the perils visited upon us by a superteam, and we love nothing more than recency bias. The Golden State Warriors added Kevin Durant and rolled through the rest of the Association, capped by a 4-1 evisceration of LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers.
Yet this grand hazard must be placed in its proper context. When Draymond Green accuses LeBron of starting the whole superteam trend, as the Warriors forward did on Thursday, he glosses over years of NBA history.