Contrary to growing sentiment, the recent migration of players to large N.B.A. markets to form cabals of superstar power is no more likely to wreck professional basketball than it is to ensure multiple championships for the teams that LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony decided to take their talents to.

Nor is this so-called trend that much of a “relatively recent phenomenon,” as Greg Miller, Utah’s chief executive, described it after the Jazz, unwilling to go down the path of free-agent peril as Cleveland did with James, proactively dealt the elite point guard Deron Williams to the Nets.

“I can only speak from the Jazz ownership perspective in saying that I’m not interested in seeing a congregation of star players on a handful of teams throughout the league,” Miller told reporters. “I don’t think it does the teams any good. It doesn’t do the fans any good. It doesn’t do the sponsors any good.”