10 NBA Superteams That FAILED Miserably

super teams when a team in one way or another accumulates four to five star players that instantly makes them favorites to win a championship that year they usually come together with a team already has a core of a few all-star level players and they're able to bring in a couple more but for some reason or another they rarely ever work out and there's a lot more failed super teams in league history than success forms so we're looking at Hinna than today and to get them out of the way early on we can start with two of the more popular ones with the first being the 2013 Brooklyn Nets so the Nets gifted for Glo Pez in 2008 find Aaron Williams in 2010 brought in Joe Johnson in 2012 and when they treated all the role players in draft picks in 2013 for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett all the gears themselves to be like the Warriors after signing KD but they finished with the worst records than they had before they made the blockbuster trade 49 and 33 this season before and 44 and 38 after it I mean when they first made the move it looked like it had some potential but I mean kg and Pierce were already 36 and 37 at the time but maybe they'd be able to be the leaders of the team while the young stars took over most of the actual work but no the Toronto Raptors took them to Game seven in the first round then the Nets lost four games to one to the Miami Heat Brook Lopez led the defensive end when he was actually healthy but on offense it was like there were five separate stars and none of them ever stepped up and took control as a leader there was zero team chemistry and it was like five separate players playing against the other team and it was so bad that Kevin Garnett was traded the next season while Paul Pierce flat-out left and signed with the Wizards so all of this was given up or one failed season but seeing where the Brooklyn Nets are now I guess we can't complain then we have the 2012 Lakers and this was another team hoping to have that KD to the Warriors type feel to it but they did Ellie missed out on cp3 so they got Steve Nash and Dwight Howard the next year to pair up with their championship core of Kobe Artest and Pau Gasol and honestly at first this team did have that KD warriors feel to it they got a prime Dwight Howard straight out of Orlando and Steve Nash straight out of Phoenix but I don't even know where to start with their problems Kobe and Dwight never got long plus he was coming off of back surgery and battled injuries for most of the season and so did Steve well he also didn't really ever find his fit on the team so the team got off to a 15 and 21 started and by the time the season was ending they weren't much better but Kobe was doing everything that he could to get him into the playoffs at 34 he was nearly leading the league in minutes per game with 38 points 6 and was in the middle of playing over 40 minutes a game for the past seven games when he tore his Achilles in the regular season leaving Dwight Howard to lead the way into the postseason where he only averaged 17 a game and gots wept by the Spurs in the first round by this point was clear that Steve Nash wasn't the same player Kobe wasn't ever the same after his injury Ron Artest left for the Knicks Gasol eventually got traded and Dwight Howard left for the Rockets and that wasn't the first super team Kobe was a part of because 2003 was his first and if he thought Katy was a snake for joining the 73 and 9 warriors for a guaranteed championship what Carl Malone and Gary Payton did was almost just as bad because they both missed out on championships all of their careers mainly due to Michael Jordan of dominance so when a final effort to win one in Malone's last season and Leighton Payton's career they decided to do an Shaq Kobe and the Lakers with just three people now it might not necessarily have been a super team because Gary was 35 and Carl was 40 but they both did still contribute about 14 points a game in the regular season plus just the idea of having both men on the team and late-game situations with all of their years of experience really added to the team's credibility so they eventually finished with the third best record in the league it pretty convincingly made it to the NBA Finals then infamously lost four games to one to the Detroit Pistons and it didn't help that these two men only averaged these numbers in 33 minutes a game during the finals as a matter of fact nobody else on the team even averaged over 6 points a game during the five games they played the Pistons so I mean it might have looked like a super team to start the season but by the end of it it couldn't have been any further from and similar happened with the 1995 Houston Rockets at this point Michael Jordan had retired for the first time Hakeem had led the Rockets to the championship in 1994 Clyde Drexler still in his prime wanted to be on a contender so he got traded to the Rockets in 95 they won their second consecutive title then a 33 year old Charles Barkley was also traded to the Rockets at the start of the 1996 season and things look great Rockets now had an insanely dominant trio on paper and things started out that way with him going 21 and 2 to start the year looking like serious threats but injuries that bothered Clyde and Barkley at all season long really slowed them down so they finished with a 5725 records which meant that a key man to do most of the work through the playoffs until they got to the Utah Jazz where Stockton and Malone took down the potential super team and that was their one chance because after that things really fell apart and the team along with these three men never played at that same level again so we need messed up a few of these teams but they didn't mess up the Oklahoma City thunders super team who as we all know had three future League MVPs the best shot blocker in the NBA by far at that time and a pretty good supporting cast now this one isn't really the players fault I mean these four guys all only played three seasons together and we're in there very early 20s when they did it and they made the NBA Finals in their last season together so you couldn't really have asked for more from them but we can say that this was a failed super team because the Thunder organization failed to keep them together we can also say was possibly a coaching issue here because I mean they played hardness a six-man and the very season after he gets traded he after just 26 points a game so they also deserve some blame for not using him right and for the rest of MBA history the 2012 OKC Thunder will forever be one of the biggest missed opportunities that a team has ever had I mean honestly there's no telling how good they would have been if they had stayed together but for now like I said we can say that the team caused this to be a failed super team another young super team that ended up failing was the 1995 Orlando Magic who had an amazing starting five with a young Penny Hardaway Nick Anderssen Don royal prime Horace Grant and guys like Dennis Scott and Brian Shaw off the pitch and this was by far the best iteration of Shaq's where I'll end up magic beans they finished with the 5725 record beat Michael Jordan in the bowls in the playoffs in 95 B Reggie Miller in the Pacers the next series and they were looking like potential NBA champions at this point and they were in the finest only one step away from that championship the only thing that were missing Noah's experience something that the other member of that 95 finals had is there a plane Hakeem Olajuwon in the brackets where Hakeem outplayed Shaq dominated and helped sweep the magic four games to zero then the next year the team was even better in the regular season but eventually got swept by the bowls and back-to-back sweeps definitely makes us a failed super beat and makes people forget just how good this team was because of it and after that last week was when Shaq I traded so the team was broken up just like that then this next one isn't really mentioned too much with failed super teams but seeing how everything turned out I think we can throw it in here and officially say that the LOB city Clippers were a failed super team I mean I know you wouldn't usually think of this team as a super team but when you look at these guys and think about it they had arguably the best point guard in the league at the time in its prime a top two power forward in the league and what turns out to have been his prime a dominant center on both ends a Hall of Fame level coach The Sixth Man of the Year along with the great shooter and Redick and a roster full of veterans and this team could never make it out of the second round I mean honestly I don't think I ever saw this as a real championship level squad but looking back and seeing how they never even made a Conference Finals right away makes me think that they have underperformed now for the next team I don't know that you can really call the 2001 and to Sacramento Kings of failed super team but like the Clippers just for how things turned out we're gonna include they had a five of Mike Bibby Doug Christie possessed way a kovitch Chris Webber inand Vlade Divac on the court they look like the best team in the league even being in the middle of the Lakers three-peat and they backed it up to finishing with the league best 61 and 21 good night here and they went into the Western Conference Finals to face the Lakers and as most of us know they should have won the series made it to the finals and probably beat the Nets but their game was rape this team was so close to being an actual super team that lived up to the hype but they just couldn't beat the refs and this core group of guys did stay together for the next couple of years and remained at the top of the conference but never made it as close to a championship as they did in 2002 then there's the 2015 and 16 Golden State Warriors and let me clarify this one they aren't a failed super team because they had just dominated and won the championship in 2015 but they are a super team that had one of the biggest failed seasons so they need to be included like I said in 2015 dad won the championship step1 and VP and all of their stars had really broken out that year then by the next season they dominated again with a roster of Steph Klay draymond awkward ala Shaun Livingston and more Steph became first ever unanimous MVP they finished with the best record ever at 73 and 9 and we're playing the Cavs in the finals who really only had Carey Irving and LeBron at that point the Warriors were by far fairs to win it all but after all of that with everything in their favor they somehow lost in game 7 so in 2015 and 16 the Golden State Warriors were clearly the definition of a failed super team and now for this last one I really don't know which is worse the words losing to the Cavs or what happened to the 2007 Dallas Mavericks because check this out to close out the 2006 season the Mavs finished with a 1622 record one of the best in the league they had a roster of guys like Dirk's Jason Terry Josh Howard and Jerry Stackhouse and they made it to the NBA Finals but lost to D Wade and the heat in a series that a lot of people also considered to be rigged and there's a lot of evidence to back that up but with their mind on getting revenge they came out the next season even better and with that same core group of guys to finish league-best 67 and 15 record dirt won the MVP and going into the playoffs out of the year they looked like favourites to win at all but they didn't win at all they actually lost in the first round to the 8th seeded Golden State Warriors led by Baron Davis Stephen Jackson and Jason Richardson none of the Mavs stars were injured and there was no rake the game the words that you just figured out a game plan to stop Dirk and capitalize on their weaknesses and I don't know if there has ever been a more disappointing season for a team than this one but come on whether you think the 73 and 9 were losing to the Cavs was more disappointing or this one for the maps if you enjoyed the video drop a like subscribe and I'll catch you next time [Music]

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Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 10 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Mmicb0b]

The 11/12 Thunder aren’t one, the 95/96 Magic aren’t one, the 01/02 Kings aren’t one the Lob City Clippers aren’t one, the 06/07 Mavericks sure as HELL aren’t one (going by that logic the Bucks are a super team right now)

[u/Mmicb0b]

Only one I’m kinda iffy on is the 15/16 Warriors cause I can kinda see arguments for both