Draymond Green and A'ja Wilson push back on calling their teams "superteams." Wilson traces Vegas's rise from missing the playoffs in her rookie year through drafting Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young, built on hard work rather than assembling stars.
And speaking of superteams, I've been a part of one.
I mean, I still question whether I was a part of a superteam, be that our team was so homegrown. And I feel like y'all were the same way. This wasn't like, "Oh, we plucked this player and now we go to championships." Is that your feeling? Because I know that's how I feel about ours.
100%. Kelsey, obviously, number 1 draft pick. She played in San Antonio, but then the next year, Vegas. Then it was me, then it was Jackie. I remember my rookie year, we didn't make it to playoffs. Like, we were trying to grind out wins and form a fan base to be like, "Come watch us." There were times that we would have a meeting and be like, "What are we doing?" Where do we wanna go with this? How do we win? And it just took us all being like, "All right, we gonna get in the gym and we gonna work our hardest." And so that's why I kind of felt some type of way when they kept calling us a super team, 'cause I'm like, we didn't just go pick everybody and was like, "Make it work." Like, this was something that we were building and obviously we just got great additions. And it's funny how it all at the end, it really came down to me, Kelsey, and Jackie. And that was supposed to prove to everybody like, this was it. The whole time, this was it. The whole time.