
Like NBA superstar Kevin Durant, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a league MVP, and one of the best players in his sport.
Rodgers, however, has spent his entire career with Green Bay, and if he has it his way, he'll end it there.
The signal-caller this week was HBO's Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons, and touched on multiple topics, including super teams in the NBA and what it means for an all-time player to go the distance with one team in his career.
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Rodgers first acknowledged to Simmons the precedent for a star-studded core.
“You know, when LeBron (James) went to Miami and it was ‘The Big Three,’ they talked about it more than the Boston big three, for whatever reason, when Ray (Allen), and Paul (Pierce) and KG (Kevin Garnett) got together," said the quarterback. "There was a lot of talk about kind of stealing a championship. And there’s been a ton of that; I know (Charles) Barkley’s had some comments about it.
"There’s a lot to be said for doing it without having a number of great players together," Rodgers added. "But if you look at the championship teams—at least from my era growing up in the 90’s—you had Michael (Jordan) and Scottie (Pippen), you had Kobe (Bryant) and Shaq (O’Neil), you know, Shaq and D-Wade. You’ve always had at least two guys.
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"But when you put three, or in this case with the Warriors, maybe four of the top-four players in the league, that doesn’t sit right with everybody.
After signing Durant this offseason, the Warriors will put out a starting lineup in 2016 that features the last three winners of the MVP trophy in KD and Stephen Curry.
Durant and Curry will also receive support from All-Stars Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, as well as NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala.
When asked if it was more meaningful to start end and one's career with one organization, the Northern California native Rodgers replied, “I think so, (too).
"Look at two of my favorite players from my sports watching lifetime: Derek Jeter and Kobe Bryant. And now Tim Duncan, who just retired. Those are three amazing examples of guys that played the entire time—their legacy, I think it’s made in those later years where they’ve already proven to win championships and be at the top of their game. Derek, one of the best shortstops of all-time, one of the best Yankees of all-time. Kobe, one of the best players of all-time, one of the best Lakers of all-time. Tim, one of the best power forwards of all-time.
"You know, but later in their career, they stay with the same team, they stick it out. Tim, they won a championship a couple years ago. Kobe did in the last couple of years," he said. "But I think there’s a lot to be said about finishing off your legacy the right way with one team. And it’d be nice to be able to do that."