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Clyde Drexler disagrees with LeBron James, believes super teams started in the ‘60s

By Nam Tran

Mar 26, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; Former Houston Rockets player and hall of fame member Clyde Drexler is honored during the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 26, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; Former Houston Rockets player and hall of fame member Clyde Drexler is honored during the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports /
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Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler disagrees with LeBron James’ assessment of super teams and believes that super teams started in the ’60s.

The topic of super teams has been a hot one as of late, due to Kevin Durant joining the Golden State Warriors, and then the Warriors dominating every team they met in the playoffs. The topic got so hot in fact, that the NBA’s commissioner, Adam Silver, had to take an entire season to analyze if super teams were good or bad for the NBA (he concluded that they are not harmful to the league and actually wants more of them if you were wondering).

But after Game 5 of the Finals when LeBron James said that he has never played for a super team, and the Warrior’s Draymond Green calling him out for it, saying that James was the one to start super teams, a whole new debate topic was birthed: Which team was the original super team?

James, who appeared on the “Road Trippin'” podcast earlier this month, said that he “definitely” did not start the super team trend. He believes that the 1995-96 Houston Rockets and the 2002-03 Los Angeles Lakers are the original super teams of the NBA.

However, Clyde Drexler, who was part of the 1995-96 Rockets, disagrees with the King (though he appreciated the mention). Prior to the premier of the BIG3 League on Sunday, Drexler told ESPN that he believes the original super teams originated way before the mid-’90s.

Via ESPN:

"“You know, I love LeBron and anything he says is gold. But I’d really like to give you a different opinion,” Drexler told ESPN on Sunday. “The Big Three was Kareem, Worthy and Magic, way before Bird, Parish, Maxwell and McHale and D.J. Those great teams always had four, five great players. Not only three, they had four to five great players.“The early Celtics from the ’60s with Bill Russell, Havlicek, Cousy and Sam Jones, that was the first Big Three. So it goes further back from that.”"

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With the question of who the original super team is now answered, will this discussion end? Probably not because people tend to like to find things to hate, and super teams are easy to hate if you are not cheering for them. So, if you are going to continue to debate about this topic, the least you can do is have your facts straight. Check out this post (from Nylon Calculus) for a scientific breakdown of what super teams are and educate yourself.