The 7 Most Disappointing "Big 3s" in NBA History

Super teams have always been the foundation of NBA basketball since the beginning. Teams that are equipped with the

most

stellar players usually emerge victorious and compete for the championship year after year. Some big threes form naturally through the draft and tend to be more successful in the long run while other big threes form out of nowhere, sometimes three star players just decide, hey, let's team up and do this, how are you doing? ? My name is Andy and today we will talk about the great three throughout NBA

history

. They are, in my opinion, the seven

most

disappointing

.

By the way, I'm going to try to stick with just three grand, so there's no four grand or five grand or anything like that, but before we start, this video is sponsored by otis otis is the stock market of culture. They have a website and app where you can buy and sell shares of culturally relevant pieces. Drops available weekly include a mix of contemporary and pop culture collectors' items, for example, this Kevin Durant rookie card recently hit the market and investors are already jumping on board. They have basketball cards, shoes, posters, old games, and even Pokémon cards.

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This was also the same year that the Lakers formed their own Big Four and, despite their own disappointment in the Finals, defeated the Wolves. It was a bitter end for the best. kg race season up to that point and to make matters worse they couldn't run it again, the following season was atrocious as Sam Cassell battled injuries and Sprewell went down hard, the wolves missed the playoffs in 05 and this great 3 was never seen again. Number 6 Hakeem Elijahwan Clyde Drexler and Charles Barkley in 1996 Charles Barkley became frustrated with the Phoenix Suns despite their incredible achievements there was still one thing missing to achieve the championship at that time the Rockets led by hakeem and drexler also wanted to make one last push towards the title, so they blew up their team, traded some great role players to get barkley, a young ori, and cassell were super valuable pieces in their previous championships just ago a year or two so ditching them for an aging barkley sparked some discussion and debate now if these three stars were in their prime this would be a different story but they weren't they were all approaching 30 and clearly they had surpassed their peak in the '97 playoffs, they were crushing it until they faced the jazz in a very competitive game 6 stockton scored the winning triple that sent the jazz to the finals for the first time for utah it was the most iconic and emotional moment in The story of his franchise for the rockets was heartbreaking you could see in chuck's eyes that he knew this was his last chance and losing like this is devastating after this loss, in fact it was his last chance.

The Rockets floated in the first round for a couple of years afterward, but were unable to get another real shot at title number five. gilbert arenas koran butler and antoine jameson in the mid 2000s the washington wizards believe it or not they had a really very good trio a team with immense firepower and high expectations that were never met in the 2006-7 season they had The league's top-scoring trio Butler and Jameson combined to average over 67 points per game along with the fourth-best offensive efficiency in the entire league, which is crazy, especially for a team that barely won the league.

Half of their games, while the Wizards were an offensive powerhouse, defensively they were absolutely putrid. he always ranked near the bottom as someone who is a big fan of arenas, his play style was a lot of fun to watch, he would stop from 30 feet away before steph curry made him popular, he had the flash, the shine and the finesse to truly become an NBA Mega Star for a short time, I'd say he was, but injuries, knee problems and well, pulling out a gun in the locker room, those are things you don't want to happen. His career took a nosedive, and sadly, those Wizards teams have been largely forgotten.

Today they are only recognized as the first playoff rivals of Lebron number four Kevin Durant Russell Westbrook and James Harden were debating whether or not to put this trio on the list on the one hand they reached the finals at the ages of 22 and 23 . It's already better than any other trio on this list, so I wouldn't say it's a disappointment, on the other hand, because they were so good, had so many missed opportunities, had so much untapped potential, so many high expectations that were simply never met. Because Harden was traded, maybe he wouldn't have become the same player if everyone had stayed together or maybe the luxury tax was too disruptive for a small market team to handle if all three were paid either way. , this young trio is without a doubt the biggest missed opportunity in NBA

history

to separate them just after reaching the finals is quite damning the number three carmelo anthony amari stodomier and tyson chandler at the 2011 deadline layup at the knicks were doing quite well stodemeyer was one of the top five MVP candidates the knicks surrounded him with a solid supporting cast and for the first time in forever knicks fans were truly hopeful that the future would be looked brilliant, then Mello arrived, for better or worse.

Now I'm a big fan of Melo. I know what he brought to New York and I know he did it. he led them to their best season since 1999. However, the Knicks traded away what appears to be their entire supporting cast to land Mello. First of all, it was the killer guys like Wilson Chandler, Danilo Galinari, Raymond Felton, who actually came back later, and even Timothy Mozgov were all crucial to the team's success was giving up on them all when Melo could have easily signed with the Knicks as a free agent over the summer, yeah it wasn't ideal, the rest of the 2010-11 season was a disaster, they lost the same spark they had.

When Stodomier was leading the team, we all knew that defensively they would be terrible, but offensively they somehow looked even worse. Mello and Amari had no chemistry. A few months later in the offseason, they signed Tyson Chandler to help them with their defensive problems, which he did with the Knicks. They had a good run in the 2013 playoffs, where they won 54 games and reached the semifinals, but that was due to a combination of injuries and an aging core of players. They seriously lacked any kind of identity. It seems like 80 percent of their game plan was pass the ball to Mello and watch him do something that didn't work in Denver and didn't work better in New York despite their championship aspirations in three seasons these big three accomplished nothing more. than a No. 2 pick in the second round anthony davis demarcus cousins ​​and Drew Holiday when you combine arguably the two best big men in the league at the time plus a star-caliber point guard like Drew Holiday, you expect some unpleasant results and they were unpleasant, but no so unpleasant things you're thinking about.

They briefly played together on the Davis cousins' front court nicknamed Frosty because of the irascible personality of his cousin along with Davis and his calm demeanor. It was difficult for them to play together in the 2017-18 season. They were better when only one of them was on the court. while the others sat on the bench if they were on the court together the results decreased, it was quite evident after his cousins ​​tore his Achilles tendon mid-season the Pelicans played better without him finishing the season with 48 wins and reaching the second round of the playoffs at that moment was the furthest davis has ever gone it was that moment when the pelicans realized they didn't need cousins, that's why they didn't re-sign him, in addition to having a serious injury in the Achilles tendon, it's pretty difficult for players to recover if I didn't suffer that they could have still realistically been together, the only reason this super team existed was because the Pelicans wanted to make one last effort to keep Davis in New Orleans, but it didn't work out and a year later they finally blew up the number one team russell westbrook paul george and carmelo anthony ah the big three that were supposed to compete with the warriors and rockets in the western conference the big three that should having been the best team okc has ever had, turns out they were mistreated by donovan mitchell, a rookie, the addition of mello was supposed to be the final piece to get them over the top, the guy who is supposed to play with westbrook and george to take the pressure off because they needed a third option, looking back, I can't.

I think people even expected a sweetness that would help them in some way. Okc's game plan was essentially to just throw the ball to one of his stars and let them go. I guess that's been an okc thing for a while. Melo just wasn't good enough overall anymore. This post-during era with Westbrook failed drastically. This gentle experiment only lasted one season in which they won 48 games and lost in the first round, as usual over the years, regardless of the star players they added who failed to make it out of the first round. Definitely the most

disappointing

super team we've seen in recent history, anyway that's it folks, those were seven of the most disappointing trios in NBA history, expectations were through the roof but performance was poor , let me know in the comments section for any other great trios.

You can think of those with very poor performance, which ones generated so much buzz but nothing to show for it. Thank you all so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed the video and as always, see you next time. Peace.