2016-2017 NBA Season Thread [ARCHIVED] Basketball • Page 49

One less great team for KD to have to compete against in the West w/ GS than w/ OKC?

 

Wonder if Green will accidentally kick KD in the groin, out of habit.

 

Pau to spurs

Bogut to Dallas official

Via marc stein

 

Winner: LeBron James
Has the NBA ever seen a greater stack of house money than the one James will enter the 2016–17 season with? Of course, that stack was already pretty high before Durant began taking Hamptons house calls: LeBron fulfilled his hoops manifest destiny by bringing a championship to Cleveland. He clicked “MOVE TO TRASH -> EMPTY TRASH” on your Steph-as-league-alpha narrative. He reserved a permanent suite at the NBA pantheon’s Top-Three Hotel. But today? He just one-upped all of that. July 4, 2016, marks the most impressive feat of LeBron James’s career: Dude conquered the world and became an underdog — at the same damn time.— Sam Donsky

The Winners and Losers of Kevin Durant–to–Golden State — The Ringer

 

Another good quote from that article

Loser: Steph Curry
If Golden State had to turn to another superstar to reclaim the NBA throne, Curry’s claim as MVP and face of the league is suddenly in question. April seems so long ago. 

 

Would David Stern have tried to block this? Hahahaha

 

KD to the Warriors, Timmy probably retiring. This is all too much.

 

I'm not gonna jump on the KD hate train, he has to right to play wherever he wants, but I'll be rooting for the Cavs next year. Repeat Bron, repeat.

 

I hope Russ leads OKC to the title

 

shutdown twitter. nothing is beating that.

 

in the end, GSW has done what we all want our own favorite teams to do: draft very well, get a good/great coach, and sign awesome free agents. will be interesting to see how Durant deals with being a villain / on the heel team after being a babyface for nine years.

 

kevin durant is a bitch

 

Harrison Barnes will be the highest paid player in Dallas Mavericks history.

 

Durant getting all this hate for leaving OKC yet no one is saying shit about Wade.

 

and you are surprised this free agency has been a joke

 

cause wade won a champion without too much help that is why

 

Wade is looked at as a god in Miami with an evil dictator in Riley who refuses to respect / pay the man for what he has done after 13 years and three championships. hell, i don't even think Wade has ever been the highest paid player on his team and has taken pay cuts the last two years to help the team build. also, Wade is 34.

it's really not a close / fair comparison at all.

 

He got plenty of help from the refs for his first title

 

oh come now. every superstar gets 75 free throw attempts in the fourth quarter of a Finals game.

 

I'll take diaw if you include 1st milutinov and livio jean Charles lol

 

It's like this was a fully written out story. After today, I'm betting we'll be seeing a decent extension of this campaign from Nike this season.

 

Boris Diaw's weight stipulation in his contract is still funny to me