Why cant players form a super team?

[ShackEelOKneel]

Just realized that image showed 26 home sell outs with a big 3 as if that is impressive.

[FKAri]

money and individual glory > winning

This. No one actually wants to win in this league. It's just a fairytale we tell ourselves so the charade can continue. This is entertainment; it's show biz. Otherwise people might stop, look around, and realize we're watching and rooting for grown men in shorts playing a children's ball game.

[Fallen Angel]

A championship ring isn't gonna pay my bills and send my kids to college.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Max contracts can pay 20+ mil per year. It would take a lot of ad revenue to make up for that. Plus guys that become superstars generally get that way because they have a strong desire to dominate. It's considered a big thing for a guy like Wade to just become a second option. OP iss talking about great players being roleplayers and even reserves. Not going to happen. And that's a good thing because the NBA needs a little bit or parity, a few stars joining up is ok, maybe even beneficial but you don't want one or two teams having every star.

[SugarHill]

Seriously, though, soccer is the worst sport in the world when you think about it. Clubs legit have 3 of the top 10 players in the world on the same team. All the top teams have multiple top 30 players on their team. It's like what is the point?

[Chief Keef]

Just realized that image showed 26 home sell outs with a big 3 as if that is impressive.

Miami though

[chocolatethunder]

I feel like this has been mentioned on here before, but what is preventing 10 stars from taking $6m a piece and forming a super team?

The contract is small, but the amount of marketing revenue you'd get from a 10 player super team in NYC or LA would be stupid.

Plus, they'd set all kinds of records, and just win every year over and over again.

Is there any legal way to stop this? Or could the Cavs, Rockets, and Thunder all opt out, go to NYC, and combine teams when all the players take pay cuts?

You're overestimating marketing revenue and needing to be in a large market to make endorsement money. Only a few players are truly marketable and there probably aren't 10 real marketing studs in the league right now. With the Internet and social media now, which city you play in isn't as important.

[FKAri]

Seriously, though, soccer is the worst sport in the world when you think about it. Clubs legit have 3 of the top 10 players in the world on the same team. All the top teams have multiple top 30 players on their team. It's like what is the point?

Yeah the NBA's been lucky to have something like this happen yet:

[ralph_i_el]

See post above.



His endorsement deals are more than his salary, easily. Imagine a super team full of big names. They'd get every endorsement in the world.

Like great player (looking at you Kobe), their salary is nothing compared to their endorsements.

How are they going to get more endorsements by playing less minutes and a smaller role? Putting all these guys on the same team is not going to help any of them financially.

[SugarHill]

Yeah the NBA's been lucky to have something like this happen yet:

Barca once had the top 3 vote getters for Ballon d'Or on the same team at the same time

Real and Barca have most of the best players in their league. The best scorer in the EPL just went to the best team in the Spanish league to join the best scorer in the world and another top tier scorer to form the most dangerous attack in the world

Between Chelsea and Arsenal, most of the top 10 players in the EPL are accounted for.

The German league's second best team is a farm for the best team where their best players just jump

[Papaya Petee]

Barca once had the top 3 vote getters for Ballon d'Or on the same team at the same time

Real and Barca have most of the best players in their league. The best scorer in the EPL just went to the best team in the Spanish league to join the best scorer in the world and another top tier scorer to form the most dangerous attack in the world

Between Chelsea and Arsenal, most of the top 10 players in the EPL are accounted for.

The German league's second best team is a farm for the best team where their best players just jump

In regards to German Bundesliga, its about the money. Borussia was better than Bayern for a few years until they bought out Gotze and Lewandowski.

You have 2 dominant teams in Spain, with 3 other strong teams (Atletico, Valencia and Sevilla)

About 4 strong teams in EPL.

PSG in France
and Juve in Italy

And until the richest men in the world own those top teams, this will never change.

[Clyde]

they would lose a lot of fans. NBA will eventually make a rule because they can't lose all the revenue. "No more than 3 players in the top 20 in PER can be on the same team."

well.....that would never happen

[ShackEelOKneel]

Miami though

I know, it is just further evidence of how pathetic their fans are. Did they sell out any once LeBron left? Maybe just the home opener or something?

[DaSeba5]

Because players want to succeed with their own brand. They don't want their legacy to be that they teamed up with a bunch of stars to form an all-star team. And I don't mean forming a big 3, I mean forming an all-star team.

As somebody said, a player like Wade accepting to be the 2nd option is huge. A lot of stars would not be on board with that in their primes, never mind being a reserve.

[TheMarkMadsen]

this thing called competition....

not much of an accomplishment if the team you play on literally has the 5 best players on the court at all times..