Bill Burr Slams NBA Superstars for Teaming Up to Win ‘Bullsh*t’ Championships: ‘Grow a D*ck and Lead a Team’
The Los Angeles Lakers had a busy offseason, acquiring aging talent on cheap contracts to form a super team for LeBron James and simultaneously anger comedian Bill Burr.
“I’m getting sick of talking about it,” Burr said on Thursday’s episode of his Monday Morning podcast. “But it just drives me nuts. I’ll put on ESPN thinking, ‘this is gotta be it – they added too many free agents, finally somebody at ESPN is gonna say something.’ And they never do! They just act like it isn’t happening. They act like it’s good for the f*cking league!”
“I just find them excruciatingly boring and I don’t like watching them and I just think they’re bullsh*t championships, they just are. Grow a d*ck and lead a team,” Burr ranted. “What is this, fucking Oceans 11 of the basketball team?”
It’s nearly impossible to win an NBA championship without at least two or three superstars on one team. That’s not a new development. See the 1969 Los Angeles Lakers, the ’72 Knicks, any of the Boston Celtics championship teams, the ’82 Philadelphia 76ers, the ‘90s Bulls, even the ’97 Houston Rockets can fall into the “Super Team” category. The only thing that changed is how they’re formed.
Super teams used to happen more organically because teams had an easier time keeping the stars they developed. In the modern NBA and era of player empowerment, super teams are formed by stars deciding where they want to go and who they want to team up with. But great players always relied on other stars to win championships.
