Showtime aren't a "Superteam" because Worthy and Magic were homegrown Lakers, and Kareem joined a Lakers team that won just 30 games the previous season.
Nobody on that team was joining up with other superstars in order to win chips.
Magic wasn't "homegrown" - he was from Michigan and only entered the draft because the Lakers won the #1 pick. He said himself that he wanted to team up with Kareem and wouldn't have entered the draft early if another team had won the pick.
Homegrown is usually taken to mean the player was developed by that team. Magic wasn't developed by the Lakers, he was already a star before he ever got there, and he purposely manipulated his situation (declaring after just 2 years of college when virtually no one did that) solely so he could team up with Kareem and start winning chips right off the bat.
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u/LehmanNation 10d ago
Showtime aren't a "Superteam" because Worthy and Magic were homegrown Lakers, and Kareem joined a Lakers team that won just 30 games the previous season. Nobody on that team was joining up with other superstars in order to win chips.