“It’s fine. It’s, it’s — you know, we’re not best friends, we’re not hanging out every day."
That's how Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love describes his relationship with teammate LeBron James. Love joined the Cavs in the 2014 off-season. Since he was widely considered one of the top five players in the NBA during his tenure in Minnesota, many pundits were penciling Cleveland into the NBA Finals almost immediately.
However, Love and James have really not hit it off in the slightest this season. Love is spending long stretches of games on the bench, and James is leaving passive aggressive notices to Love on social media. First LeBron tweeted in February that Love needed to learn to "fit in or fit out," and recently he's posted photos to Instagram of his fellow teammates (or "clique"), with Love being the only one consistently absent.
Still, despite the lack of friendship between the team's two best players, the Cavs are rolling and sit in second in the conference. Cleveland could very much still win an NBA title, and if they do, they won't be the first sports franchise to win a lot of games despite having two star teammates that disliked each other.
Here are a few other examples of successful teams that overcame the fact that their stars weren't always personally simpatico.
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