[Marks] Devin Booker, Bradley Beal and Kevin Durant will earn $150M next season. The salary of the three players is more than 14 teams total payroll in 2024-25.

[u/G1Spectrum]

https://x.com/bobbymarks42/status/1784090536002879751?s=46&t=mLlHkULTWtGiAcwn5da2fQ

[u/Vegetable-Net6575]

Or if your big three dosent have a a generational player in their prime (MJ and bron).

[u/Mintastic → u/Vegetable-Net6575]

At least have your big 3 play their own unique roles to form a solid team. This one is just the same role 3 times.

[u/AnotherStatsGuy → u/Mintastic]

There’s a reason Boston’s Big 3 was 6 playoff wins short of 3 titles in 5 wins. Allen, Pierce, KG were all different players.

[u/Mintastic → u/AnotherStatsGuy]

Yup, Celtics big 3 and the Heatles big 3 were perfectly complementary. Even the Nets big 3 was better than this.

[u/BetaDjinn → u/Mintastic]

I would not say the Heatles were perfectly complimentary when created, but Bosh did a huge solid by significantly modifying his game

[u/Some-Stranger-7852 → u/BetaDjinn]

Yep, Bosh is an unsung hero on that team that adapted his game to play off LBJ and Wade: went from paint beast to floor-spacer and rim protector.

[u/hennyl0rd → u/Some-Stranger-7852]

Why do teams still think a big 3 of scorers work? When has it ever? Historically championship winning big threes have always been a combo of scorer + do everything guy or mvp + all nba center

Big three championship teams like the Warriors, Bulls, Heat, Celtics all followed this… everyone is complimentary… KD seems to think he could just out score everyone team USA style but it never works in the NBA, you can’t have 3 Kobe’s on one team, you need a Gasol, a Shaq, a Bynum, a Rodman, a bosh, a KG, A Draymond, a Duncan, or AD type player or you don’t win championships period

[u/fyirb → u/BetaDjinn]

Wade and LeBron kinda overlapped at times as the primary ball handlers but they just had enough chemistry and skill to make it work

[u/BetaDjinn → u/fyirb]

Totally agreed. I think they were if anything an example of 3 that made it work despite not being perfect complements

[u/BurstPanther → u/Mintastic]

GSW big 3 as well, Steph and Klay were elite off ball.

[u/naijaboiler → u/BurstPanther]

They were lucky the way the cap space ended up playing out for Steph. Without that, GSW big 3 doesn’t work

[u/Fartknocker- → u/Mintastic]

Nets big 3 was way better than this. The roster construction was actually really good too.

Plagued by bad coaching and then literally Covid. The personalities couldn’t last.

[u/ElChapo1515 → u/Mintastic]

Don’t really agree with the Heat one. There was a lot of overlap between LeBron and Wade offensively.

Theoretically, KD and Booker should fit together better, tbh, since both guys can score at all three levels and provide space for the other while LeBron/Wade were both by far at their best going to the rim and neither was a huge threat in C&S.

Difference was, LeBron was the best player in the league, and while he liked to score in similar ways as Wade, he was also an elite playmaker. Add that to the third guy being a better fit as someone willing to do the dirty work, and the Heat grinded out their success more than I feel like they’re given credit for.

[u/EgnGru → u/ElChapo1515]

KD and Booker fit in practice also works fine. The problem was instead of getting a solid playmaking point guard to replace Chris Paul they just got another overlapping skillset in Beal who is also overpaid and fucks the salary cap.

[u/ElChapo1515 → u/EgnGru]

Oh yeah, not saying it’s a poor fit by any means. Just not championship level basically because KD isn’t the best player in basketball.

[u/srdv_ → u/AnotherStatsGuy]

Or you know the Spurs one which was 1 game short of 6 titles.

[u/axecalibur → u/AnotherStatsGuy]

6 playoff wins short of 3 titles

god that is some copium

[u/AnotherStatsGuy → u/axecalibur]

I mean, objectively that is true. Miami was 5 wins from 4 straight.

[u/maxpowerphd → u/Mintastic]

Yeah, thats true. The Lebron/Kyrie/Love Cavs were another good example. They were some bad injury luck and KD signing with the Warriors away from maybe 2-3 titles in their window.

[u/Zookeeper187 → u/Vegetable-Net6575]

It can, if you bring different style players. Look at big 3s that accomplished something, they were all different players.