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When Michael Jordan destroyed the superteam fashion

Steve Mitchell / Brian Drake / Scott Strazzante

After a season spent without a real superteam in the NBA, the practice could become commonplace again as of next year. The opportunity to remember the inflammatory words of Michael Jordan concerning this meeting of talents in the same franchise.

Few of the former NBA players appreciate the new trends that emerge in the league many years after their retirement. Those who manage to live with it usually end up on American television. The others testify to their melancholy in the US media.

It is therefore common to see the former glories of the league complain about the game being developed today. Too focused on shooting from afar, favoring attack, where defense and physical impact no longer really have their place … Critics which aim above all to rule that it is indeed their time that was the most important.

And at this little game, even Michael Jordan can play the cranky old man. During his rare media appearances, he has indeed already deplored some developments borrowed by the NBA from the ’80s /’ 90s. One of them, namely the draft of players under the age of 20, for example had left him perplexed.

In 2017, in an interview for the magazine Cigar Amateur, His Airness also focused on a very popular practice at that time: the formation of superteams. You guessed it, the Heatles meeting in Miami, or the arrival of Kevin Durant to the Warriors, hadn’t necessarily thrilled him.

I think everyone wants to have a competitive league. And if a player is in the ability to choose or determine which team they want to play with, then you’re going to have an unfair talent balance. So if everyone wants to play in Chicago, then all the best players are going to end up in Chicago.

We are gradually starting to see this kind of practice these days, where all the stars try to come together in the same team. But I think it hurts the league when it comes to competitiveness. Only one or two teams are going to be strong, while the other 28 are going to be throwing.

Rest assured, Chicago doesn’t look set to bring together the best talent in the league anytime soon. As for the rest of his statement, he joined a thought that was already very common in the NBA landscape for the past decade, and which has earned him LeBron James or Kevin Durant a flood of criticism.

The two men, respectively at the Heat and at Golden State, have indeed acquired two rings of champion, but by teaming up with other immense talents to do so. As a result, many fans feel that these titles won are of little or no value compared to those obtained without such help.

For example, LBJ’s recent coronation with the Lakers is seen by some fans as much more deserving than those he acquired with Miami, even though it benefited from Anthony Davis’ contribution to LA If he came. to attract a 3rd star in the City of Angels, there is no doubt that Jordan, as well as his detractors, would not see it favorably.

Nostalgic for his time when superstars wanted above all to win their championship ring alone, Michael Jordan could only stand against the trend of superteams. His argument to explain his position was intended to be crystal clear.

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