If you look at teams like the Brooklyn Nets and the LA Lakers 2 of the teams where the players had the most influence over building the team they're garbage. And teams that are at the top have strong coaches strong GMs strong owners who focus on their own shit and let others do their jobs and the players play. Like The Heat, The Warriors, The Celtics teams like that. Being a NBA player on it's own is a tough job and thinking you have everything figured out as a GM and a coach too when you have no experience in those jobs is delusional. And as usual it's the absolute dumbest clueless people who think they don't need the slightest help or anybody telling them what to do.
I mean it's probably a good thing for the league that all the difficult players group together and take themselves out of contention the coaches of the other teams are probably loving it but for the players in general it might not be a good development.
I don't even know what to say about Westbrook why Lebron wanted him at all why they chose to keep him for a second season. I think even Lebron shot himself in the foot a bit he kept changing teams and mortgaging their future for instant success and then leaving but now he doesn't have the same leverage and not as many players wanna play with him so he's in trouble. But if he stayed in Miami long term and didn't give up every pick they had maybe he could have won more championships. Because he'd have a team to fall back on that he invested into so they would have his back too since he's still a good player but he doesn't have a team that's loyal to him because he wasn't loyal to any team. So now he's stuck choosing between retirement home players and nobodys. And he's one of the smarter guys who won championships but it still kinda backfired I think but of course I can't prove it or be sure.
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