Let’s take a walk down memory lane and review some team-building trends in the NBA over the last 20 years. Let me take you back first, to the 2010s, where the NBA was dominated by the “big three.” After LeBron James famously took his talents to South Beach, the name of the game in the Association became trying to get a trio of star players in one place and fill out the rest of the roster with veterans willing to sign lesser deals for a ring chasing opportunity. Sometimes it worked, most of the time it failed. But the truth remained it was the best, and perhaps only viable path to winning a championship.
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