After the Los Angeles Clippers shipped away point guard Chris Paul to the Houston Rockets, another superstar duo was born. Now sharing a backcourt with MVP runner-up James Harden, Paul has immediately transformed Houston into a team with elite level talent.
We’ve seen teams with superstars go after other established pieces now more than ever thanks to the rise of the so-called ‘superteam’ and Houston looks to be the most recent team to hop on that trend.
While LeBron James joined the Miami Heat to form a supremely talented team in 2010, Cavs guard J.R. Smith thinks it was the Golden State Warriors and Kevin Durant’s decision last summer that has NBA teams desperate for pairing together multiple stars. Following from Aaron Torres of The Washington Post:
JR Smith, to his caddie, when he found out Chris Paul got traded to the Rockets: "This league is crazy."
— Aaron Torres (@AaronTorres_) June 28, 2017
JR Smith to @washingtonpost on Chris Paul: "It's just the way the league is going. The league is in a frenzy because of the Warriors."
— Aaron Torres (@AaronTorres_) June 28, 2017
There’s no doubt that the Warriors have become the standard of excellence in the NBA, currently having 4 all-star players on their roster. J.R. speaks the truth: teams are looking to piece together multiple world class players in the hopes of keeping up with the offensive juggernaut Golden State puts out on the court every night.
