With regards to Super Teams in Jordan Era, players at that time are competitors as you can see with the way they foul each other. If you've seen the games in the 90s you know that those are not cheap fouls unlike today. Scottie and MJ has been team mates for such a long time and the movements of players changing teams at that time are less. There are less stars changing teams at that time.
Back in the day so called superstars didn't wanna team up with another superstar, they wanted to beat them.
Rules changed so much that I could easily say today's players are simply soft(er).
hand-checking, no def 3 seconds, no defensive perimeter, etc.
players like Irving would start crying after 5min if he was guarded by Starks or Dumars.
General public, TV companies, and owners wanted more excitement, speed up the game, etc so they changed the rules.
Gotta agree here with some of it. Dumars and company would hand check
the heck out of you back then and play "real defense" But in the leagues
defense they had to do something. Games were 81-77 and boring as hell.
Nba has never been more popular ever in the history of the game. I cant
believe so many people are still talking nba in July. That never happens. Shoot
normally people are talking NFL even in the nba playoffs. So they changed the
rules to have a more exciting fast paced game and let the stars be creative and
have more offense.
sucks for people who liked old school lock them up defense but its been much
better for the league as a whole.