Lakers Rumors: Building the perfect super team for the Lakers
By Jason Reed
There have been far too many Lakers rumors to count in the last several months. Which of these rumors would build the Lakers perfect super team?
The super team, isn’t it lovely? Today’s NBA is obsessed with bringing together multiple superstars in one city to dominate the rest of the NBA. Heck, this year we are on act number three of Warriors vs. Cavaliers, and they look ready to go three more years as well. Everyone seemingly knows who is going to make the finals before the first tip-off of the season, and that may be a problem.
However, the idea of a super team is not new to the NBA, despite what many want to think. The 1980’s had the Showtime Lakers, consisting of arguably the best point guard and center of all-time. Before them was the Boston Celtics, who won ten titles in eleven years from 1959-1969.
Then in the early nineties, we saw the transition to the “Bad Boy Pistons,” who won two titles with one of the best defensive, physical, basketball teams we have ever seen. Michael Jordan took over thereafter, and with Scottie Pippen alongside him, formed the perfect two-man super team.
This new wave of super teams has been unlike any other in NBA history. Arguably sparked by the Boston big three, we now have Lebron James hopping between teams, bringing in established stars to win the championship and we have Kevin Durant going to the defending Western Conference Champions.
In no other era of basketball history would we see a guy leave his team for the team that eliminated him in the previous playoffs. The NBA has changed, now the Lakers must attempt to build a super team of their own.