With Lakers not making the playoffs and Nets being swept.. it sure seems like it.

It seems that more teams may decide that the way to going forward is either going for a balanced team or building around one big star, instead of creating a "super team" or a "big 3" type of team

Last year both Suns and Bucks proved that you don't need a "big 3/super team" to win and be great, and I think this seaon will prove that too as both Bucks and Suns are one of the favorites, together with teams like Celtics, or the Warriors, who are not a "super team" but rather a well-glued team (yes, the Warriors are not a super team right now, Draymond, Klay and Steph were with the team for a long time, my definition for a "super team" is bringing star players lwith the goal of winning a ring. Sort of like what they were when they got Durant), and of course there are teams like Denver, Miami, and Dallas who have one big star player and players arround them, or teams like Wolves, Jazz, Pels who seem to be all around a solid group of good dudes.

Will this be the last season where we see teams hire "mercenaries" in hopes of winning the title?