9 years with 1 team and now moving on......Shouldn't be a problem.....He gave it his best....0-9 with the Thunder.....Time flies......Get yourself a ring Kevin.
I understand what you are saying. But sometimes "the easy way out" can also be the best fit and the obvious choice. It's not like he is leaving tons of money on the table to latch on, he is going to make a ton either way. It's not like he is going to just be a role player on a great team, I get the feeling to will be a huge part of the team, if I had to bet he will end up being their #1 option. It's not like he is Ray Allen going to the Heat to fill in the roster as a role player.
Where is the line when it comes to taking a challenge. Should these superstars go to one of the worst teams to "prove" how valuable they are. The main reason players superstar players don't normally join great teams is lack of opportunity! Not because they want a challenge and it would be too easy to join them.
Patsfan, Don't you think superstar receivers and offensive lineman would love to play for Brady and the Patriots? Or course they would! And the Patriots would love to have them. But the Pats can't offer them the money they can get elsewhere in free agency, and if they are young the Pats aren't willing to trade would it would take to get them. It's not because joining the Patriots would be the easy way out.
In baseball it happened all the time. Those championship Yankees teams were always outbidding other teams for the top free agents. Since the TV money came to baseball it's not as bad as lots of teams are overpaying for their players now.
because it is still going to be them and the Cavs in the finals unless something crazy happens. So how can you think they have no chance? Down to the final two teams. Every year there is another stacked team made and they always fall short of expectations that first year. Happens every year in every sport.
only team I can remember doing it was Celtics first year they got ray allen and KG. But they also accomplished the biggest turn around in NBA history as far as the difference in wins from the prior year. 42 to 66. So it is safe to say those pieces simply worked very well. and they weren't the type of pieces that made the public have an insane reaction and say automatically two championships. No one was saying that when the Celtics formed their championship squad. People are now though about the Warriors.
Wow dude you don't post very much but you nailed it again.
You did the same thing in the gorilla eatimg the kid at the zoo thread.
Can you run for president or something?
This is one smart guy right here.
Do you have a problem with that?
Do you think he and the rest of the should just roll over and die?
But if your supposed to be one of the best players in the league and on a trajectory to be one of the best players ever then joining a team that is already considered by many to be the best in the league is a little weak to me. You should want to beat them, not just join them to be a cog in the machine. That is what I would've liked to see Kevin Durant do. Do I really care? Not really, he can do whatever he wants. But it doesn't mean I can't think it is a bit of a copout move.
You ask where the line is? I guess it is subjective but I'd say it is right around "Don't join the best team in the league" if you're already 1 of the best players. Anything else is fine really.
I'm not saying I think it should be illegal or that he is tarnished forever or making up inane reasons why he isn't an elite player. I'm just saying it is soft. To take a loss like they took to GS and turn around and join that team would take a softer/passive personality type in my opinion.
Chop how do you think the LeBron haters feel about this? Has to be bittersweet obviously.
Bitching non-stop that he joined a 45 win team with Chris Bosh
Durant then joins a 70 win team that beat him in the playoffs and it is "Oh good for him, he wants to win!"
If LeBron was able to join the Celtics in 2010 because the cap was going up, people would want him drawn and quartered.
Bitching non-stop that he joined a 45 win team with Chris Bosh
Durant then joins a 70 win team that beat him in the playoffs and it is "Oh good for him, he wants to win!"
If LeBron was able to join the Celtics in 2010 because the cap was going up, people would want him drawn and quartered.
He bashed Lebron for selling out and joining the Heat in 2010. Now he has a change of heart because he is ringless and forms an all star team who just lost in the finals. How is that not selling out? I agree with you. He did the exact same thing Lebron did in 2010.
I heard Durant only talk about Lebron's return home to Cleveland how it was different than his decision, but how is it any different then when Lebron left Cleveland for Miami? It's not. I understand people change and I'm not holding him to a tweet from 2010....but it's still a sell out move. No debating that.
If I remember correctly, it was the way LeBron went about it with "The Announcement".
Living in Florida I actually rooted for the Heat, despite not caring much for LeBron himself...
Yea I've seen a few like what you said in the last sentence but more often then not I see KD getting some of the same unwarranted heat that LJ got.
Most of these people treat these real people's lives like its a video game or something .
I just don't understand why people hate like that .
Yeah, I'm fine with criticizing LeBron for the theatrics and the decision and the pep rally (not 5, 6, ,7)....All of that is fine. Not sure why people would hold a grudge about it for 5 years but I get the initial criticism obviously.
But people saying he should've stayed in Cleveland on a flawed team or shouldn't have teamed up with 2 other guys is unfair and off base to me. He can live where he wants and play where he wants and it isn't like he was joining the Celtics or Lakers.
Because if you follow the NBA, one knows that Kevin Durant has always been a humble, nice guy, while LeBron is basically the opposite...
I'm not too into assessing the players personalities but a lot of that has to do with media coverage. LeBron has been covered like no other athlete in the history of sports, just non-stop coverage.
If every single thing you or I said made headlines on espn.com, we would probably have a few people thinking we were jackasses too.
I've seen Durant and other athletes say plenty of things that if LeBron said them it would be a bigger issue or make headlines. LeBron is just covered in a completely different way than anyone else. It's just a different standard of scrutiny.
Curry is another 1 that obviously just isn't held to the standard LeBron is.
I think some of it is probably because LeBron was portrayed as a nice gregarious guy from the start, whereas someone like Kobe or MJ everyone always knew was an asshole. So they never got negatively judged for being an asshole.
By all accounts LJ is a very nice guy off the court. Married his high school sweetheart. Gives a lot of time and money to charities . Good with fans and autographs.
Basically the opposite of Jordan
