When Breanna Stewart signed with the New York Liberty last week, on the heels of another women’s basketball superstar, Candace Parker, announcing her intention to sign with the Las Vegas Aces, it caused a nationwide chorus of the same two-word phrase.
Super teams.
This had been largely an NBA concept — the notion of a group of elite players orchestrating their way onto one team with the design of clustering so much talent together that a string of titles would inevitably flow.