LeBron James and the Miami Heat: One of Many "Super Teams" to Come Up Short

My boss loves oysters, and he knows the best places to find them. He even once discovered a Dairy Queen that sold his beloved treat.

Oysters do in fact hold nutritional value to the one eating them. My boss knows this, but that is not the only reason he slips dozens of these slick shellfish down his throat. He simply adores the taste; the flavor.

In fact, he will eat so many in one sitting that he has been known to make himself sick. Sometimes when a person gets sick, they end up losing a stomach-full of the one thing they so love the most.

Reminds me of the Miami Heat.

The city of Miami, the owner, the team management and even the players hungered for the sweet taste of an NBA championship.

They had tasted it once before, but their thirst for Finals victory had not been quenched. For several years they had attempted to develop a team of players that had chemistry, continuity and experience working together in order to try to once again climb to the top of the NBA food chain.

It didn't work.

At season's end they kept finding themselves shaking their heads wondering what went wrong after suffering disappointment after disappointment. So they did what many other teams had done in the past: they got desperate and impatient.

They wanted, they needed to win now.

They went out and emptied their bank account and bought the best players available, puting together a “super team” of celebrity-status superstar athletes with the determination that if they could not grow a championship team naturally, the old fashioned way.

They would instead buy a team, an instant contender with the hopes and dreams of once again laying hands on the championship trophy.

Plenty of teams have used this strategy in the past. The 2000 Portland Trail Blazers stockpiled the likes of Scottie Pippen, Rasheed Wallace, Steve Smith, Damon Stoudamire and Detlef Schrempf only to lose in a tragic Game 7 to the Shaquille O'Neal lead L.A. Lakers.

Only four years later that same Lakers team, thinking they could make good where Portland failed, tried the same tactic. They compiled Karl Malone, Gary Payton and Kobe Bryant to create an overnight success—only to fall to the Detroit Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals.

The overnight sensation that is the Miami Heat, with all their pomp and circumstance and their multi-million dollar superstar players could not overcome the naturally born Dallas Mavericks who have been trimming the fat off their team and sharpening their edge little by little for the past several years.

Like wine, the Mavericks had aged, allowing all the ingredients to meld together, creating a hungry team that had chemistry and knew what it was to outwork their opponent. To put it simply, the Dallas Mavericks simply wanted it more than the Miami Heat.

So continues a legacy of super teams biting the dust when it matters most providing even more evidence that a true champion is not made but rather born.

My boss loves his oysters. But if you're not careful and willing to take your time only to eat as much as your body can digest, you find that it is possible to have too much of a good thing and end up losing it all.