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That story's been written every season since the Big Three — LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh — linked up in Miami in 2010, and honestly, the Super Team has been dead since the Los Angeles Lakers most surely did not have "fun" with Dwight Howard and Steve Nash.
Super Teams are a necessary evil within the NBA. On one hand, it's not in the league's best interest to have the best players siloed off into the country's biggest media markets.
But on the other hand, chaos is good. Nearly every form of entertainment requires a supervillain, those you love to actively root against, those you love to hate. Hating the Miami Heat or Golden State Warriors brought the same joy as rooting for nWo pro wrestling.
So when it comes to the current standoff between Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets, a team constructed by its two stars, the issue isn't that two of the best players in the league — not to mention a third, James Harden, who asked out after just one year — wanted to play together in search of a championship and inevitably failed.
Rather, star players teaming up is just a byproduct of the actual issue infecting the NBA: player empowerment.
LeBron James scored 42 points in a successful return to the Drew League while teaming up with DeMar DeRozan for a 104-102 win in L.A.'s famed pro-am basketball league Saturday.
Longtime Drew League commissioner Dino Smiley told ESPN he expected Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving to play in the game preceding James and DeRozan's, but that did not occur.
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