Reacting To JxmyHighroller's NBA Hot Takes

What people don't realize about the term "superteam" is that its literally a term created to put pressure on a top level player to win. We call the Celtics and Lakers teams of old "superteams" but in hindsight. Jordan Pippen Rodman Bulls is not considered a superteam (superstar / all star / all star caliber role player) but LeBron / Kyrie / Love is which is inconsistent. We use Kevin Love's pre Cleveland accomplishments to try and mark him as a all star player, however, Jrue holiday who was an all star pre milwaukee doesn't make Giannis Middleton Holiday a superteam. Thunder with Russ Melo and PG is apparently not a superteam with 3 former all stars within 1-2 years of being on the team but Brooklyn Nets is a Superteam? Point I'm tryna make is superteam label really just used as a weapon to deter top players from leaving their team (hence why it is attached to KD and LeBron) but when we speak on Giannis or even Curry its absent or in Curry's case there's always a clarification that it was "his team"

16:29 mike conley catching strays with that make a wish all star comment 😂

Anybody else notice how they had kyrie listed as a SUPERSTAR But harden an all star?

Dear NBA community, saying someone had it easy cause their opponents were old is a weak argument. If age was what made the team weak, how did they get to the finals?

The thing is, Love was All-NBA in 2014 the year before he joined the Cavs, and Kyrie was in 2015. Those are not Fringe all-stars. Those are great players who took back seats to LeBron and when not on his team could be top 15 players in the league. This is why just using All-star as a ranking is pointless, otherwise the 2015 Hawks would be one of the greatest teams of all time with 4 all stars.

One thing I'll say about the superstar point (dunno if clique said it, I paused it before he comments on it) is that saying 2016 Kyrie is an all-star, 2016 Lebron is a superstar and then ranking 2022 Kyrie as a superstar, Devin Booker a superstar, Donovan Mitchell a superstar gives the impression that the 2022 Ky, Donovan and Book are closer to Lebron than 2016 Ky is close to them, I'd argue 2016 Ky is just as good if not better than them. Plus he says it as if the Nets weren't a superteam. Like, yeah they were, they failed, and there are such things as failed superteams, but they were, at the time James went there he was considered top 5, so was KD and Ky wasn't far behind.

Put some more respect on K-Love man, he was one of the great PFs of this era. He just had the misfortune of being wasted by the Wolves for so many years

Man I love your thumbnails. 🥴🥴🥴

Oh damn I didn't know Peja is 6'10" GD! I thought he was like 6'7" 6'6"

My hottest take is Dorian Finney-Smith is a less athletic less defensively talented Michael Kidd-Gilchrist with a good jump-shot

I've always defined superteams as a team where at least 3 big name stars join a team together like the 10 heat and the 08 celtics because in music a supergroup is a band comprised of multiple independently successful artists

Fun fact half the best players in the nba today were born in 88

I always heard "superteam" as coming from the classic rock term "supergroup", which didn't so much mean great as it meant putting a collection of already established musicians put together with the intention of being great

a reminder that k love averaged 8.5pts in the finals on 36% from the field as a center. he was a role player with lebron.

16:30 Make a wish all star had me almost die

Super teams: - 60's celtics (10 rings) - 80's lakers (5 rings) - 80's celtics (3 rings) - 90's bulls (3 rings) with rodman they were, without him it was just a duo - 00's lakers (3 rings) maybe not idk - 00's spurs (4 rings) kinda organic tho, so idk if it counts as a superteam - 00's celtics (1 ring) - 10's heat (2 rings) - 10's cavs (1 ring) - 10's warriors (3 rings) the first one was organic in 2015. two durant teams are obviously superteams, and then so is this year's, cause they flipped Durant for Russell, and flipped Russell for Wiggins, they have 4 all stars in the starting 5, and they're paying millions in luxury tax - 20's Nets (first super team to not win a ring)

Make this is nostalgic, I can't believe Weird Al is commenting on basketball videos!

clique is a casual

I like how he said Donovan Mitchell as superstar as if he’s on lebron level….

Theres no way in hell luka has a 38in vert tf outta here😂😂