For Trae Young and other young NBA stars, the path to the next level lies in the locker room, not the lane
Trae Young has found himself in a well-publicized spat with his head coach. Ja Morant has heard calls from Charles Barkley for his game to grow to include channeling his enormous talent to make his teammates better. Luka Doncic is putting up historic individual numbers while failing to push his Dallas Mavericks team toward the top of the Western Conference. Welcome, young NBA superstars, to the league's talent-leadership conundrum -- a kind of Spider-Man rule of NBA greatness: Where more is shown, even more is expected. In this league, it's one thing to be a star -- to show, night after night, skills on the court that lift you above your teammates and opponents -- and another to be a leader who can harness that talent and do more with it. Stephen Curry, LeBron James after he went to the Miami Heat, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan -- each, in their own unique way, was able to...