Biggest reason for super team trend

[KGs Knee]

For those mentioning the Celtics as a super team, they don’t really fit my definition.  I’m thinking of teams that came together in free agency with players essentially colluding with each other.  The 08 Celtics came together via trades.  That was more the old fashioned way that what you’re seeing nowadays.

A super team is just 3(+) superstars, regardless of how they came to be. The Celtics were the first superteam in many years. They had 3 perennial all-stars and future HoF’ers still in their primes (albeit the tail end).

The Warriors won 73 games featuring 3 players they drafted. They convinced Durant to join fair and square. Nobody saw that coming but you can’t fault GSW for going after him when they had cap space. Durant on the other hand...

The Cavs drafted Irving and traded for Love. They signed LeBron and you can’t blame him for wanting to come back home.

The only team to ever collude was the Heat.

Even now, elite teams build their group through drafting and trades. OKC drafting RW and trades. Houston trades and drafting. Minny trades and drafting. Toronto drafting. Philly notorious for their drafting.

Surprisingly, the Celtics are the only contender featuring two max free-agents.

this is how I see it as well.  So far, the Heat are the primary 'team' culprits in this stunt.  Durant is the primary 'individual' example.

I have no issue with teams improving themselves via drafting or trades or even free agency (when they've gone after free agents without colluding with them or the players themselves colluding to play together). 

If Lebron (who was under contract to Cleveland) orchestrates a 'superteam' for the Lakers by colluding with Kawhi (also under contract to a different team) and possibly Paul George (who is a FA free to do as he pleases), it should be prevented by the league office for the good of the game.  The Miami fiasco was bad enough with Wade already there and Bron colluding with Bosh (and Miami mgmt) to join forces there but at least in that circumstance, Bron and Bosh were FAs and Wade was already on the team they joined.  This should be stopped before this can occur.

That's all well and good (though I disagree that players "colluding" is a bad thing), but the burden of proof is on the league.  Hearsay doesn't count.  You'd need irrefutable evidence discussion between said players actually involved collusion.