LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love are obviously going to make the Cleveland Cavaliers into one of the NBA's best teams. Whether they're capable of moving past the Chicago Bulls and the rest of the Eastern Conference is up for debate, but they'll at least be a part of the competition for a No. 1 seed throughout the 2014-15 campaign.
But how do they stack up historically? Northeast Ohio now boasts an unprecedented amount of upside and potential, but does this Cavaliers squad have the best Big Three of the superteam era?
If we define the "superteam era" as the last seven seasons, dating back to when Danny Ainge assembled the Big Three that quickly turned around the Boston Celtics, then the field is a lot narrower. The C's of the early 1980s—Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish—don't count. Nor does the Los Angeles Lakers' trio of Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy, dominant as it may have been.
And that's how it should be.
Back then, those teams were the exceptions. They weren't the rule. Additionally, they were largely compiled in org ...
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Is Cleveland Cavaliers’ Big 3 Best of the Superteam Era?
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