Anthony will be in the HOF. Wade will be in the HOF (Rondo and Butler might get there as well). Guys like George have a great shot at making the HOF though he hasn't done enough yet (someone like DeRozan or Wall has a lot of work to do but could get there). Take George and the Pacers who played the Cavs this year. Teague is a former all star. Ellis and Jefferson near all star players for years. Turner is an up and coming player. Young solid vet. How is Indiana any different than Atlanta with Nique? What because Nique was a 1 man show with a great playoff series that somehow makes Atlanta a great team. That is just nonsense. Westbrook averaged a triple double I guess that means OKC was a title contender. Chris Paul is a top 5 PG in league history and plays on a team with 2 other All NBA level players and they have never made a conference finals.
The 80's had 2 super teams and at various points had a 3rd (Sixers early and Pistons late). The Rockets were a very strong team though not a super team. Those are the only 5 teams to make the Finals in the entire decade. Some of that is because those teams were that good but a large portion of that is the other teams just weren't very good even if they had a star (like Nique). I mean Tree Rollins and Randy Wittman were the other 2 starters for the Hawks. The bench was Spud Webb, Antoine Carr, Cliff Levingston, John Battle, and Scott Hastings. Does that strike you as a great team? Does that strike you as a team that should in anyway challenge a Celtics team with Bird, McHale, Parrish, Johnson, Ainge, Lewis, Acres, Gilmore, Minnifield, Roberts, and Paxson? And frankly the only reason it was even a series was the age of the big 3. 2 years earlier with basically the same starters it was a 5 game series and Nique did nothing. That is much more representative of those respective teams.