Nets, Lakers comprise four of the five biggest 'superteam' busts of the last decade
With Kyrie Irving getting traded to Dallas and Kevin Durant going to Phoenix, the superteam Brooklyn Nets are officially blown up. What a mess this whole Brooklyn era was. It inspired me to start thinking about the biggest superteam flops of the past decade. Here's what I came up with. Brooklyn Nets (2019-23) When the Brooklyn Nets signed Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant in the summer of 2019, then added James Harden in 2021, they were immediately regarded as one of the most talented teams in History , and it was expected they would become one of the actual best teams in History . Instead, they won a total of one playoff series in three years and were swept twice over that span, first by the Raptors in 2020, then by Boston last year. All told, the Nets went 7-13 in playoff games during the Durant-Irving era, and 7-9 with all three superstars on the roster. Not that we saw much of Durant, Irving and Harden toge...