NBA: Biggest winners and losers of 2019 offseason
By Tony Pesta
The 2019 NBA offseason has been one of the most memorable in league history. Which teams walked away victorious and who was burnt by the fire the most?
Wow. Everyone knew that the summer of 2019 could be a big one for the NBA, but nobody expected it to be this fantastic. In a never-ending cycle of Woj bombs and plot twists, the league has officially ushered in a new era.
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See, LeBron James began the trend of superteams the moment he announced his decision at the top of the decade. This move would cause a ripple effect in the NBA, as the league saw more and more All-Star players team up than ever before.
The era of superteams reached its peak when the Golden State Warriors attempted to put together a lineup of five All-Stars in Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and DeMarcus Cousins.
As this mad scientist experiment by the Dubs came to a crash-and-burn, another team, built far differently, emerged as the NBA champions.
Behind the star power of Kawhi Leonard and a gang of talented role players, the Toronto Raptors accomplished the unthinkable, beating the Warriors in six games and ending the era of superteams.
Now that the league has been completely shaken up, the power between teams is more balanced than we have seen in quite a long time. Of course, this means plenty of franchises had successful offseasons, while others are wondering what went wrong.
Today, we are going to dig through the ashes of the 2019 NBA offseason and figure out which teams have risen out of the flames, and who will be stuck in the fire for the foreseeable future.