re: How many years do you think Durant has left at an elite level?

he’s also really close with booker, and knows Monty from OKC. Dude wants to go to the suns. The suns want him.

they’ll figure it out

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at least 4-5

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No. No way. 2. Tops.

I don't like the precedent of a player bailing on a team with 4 years left on his deal after he got paid 40 mil for a year recovering from his achilles.

Neither do I.

He seems to always be looking for "better"...when you are not happy winning multiple chips with the best team in the last decade than what will make you happy?

He’s a douchebag who took 40 mil from a team to rehab his injury and then 1.5 years later demands a trade BEFORE year 1 of his new max contract begins. Because he and his bro ran the team into the ground. Every basketball decision he and kyrie made went to shite and now both are trying to bail now and the reasoning is that their team isn’t all that great. FFS woj is reporting that kyrie and kd STILL want to play together. Just not for the nets. After the nets gave them more input and power than any players in history outside of bron and maybe jordan.

People get mad at the way AD handled his exit from us. This is easily 10x worse.

KD had an up and coming playoff caliber coach fired because he wanted to play Allen over a objectively washed deandre jordan.

KD pushed for the team to drain virtually all of their future assets to get jim harden, who he then helped run off the team the following year.

I’m sorry but sticking by an objectively toxic teammate like Kyrie and telling the nets that THEY are the assholes for not coalescing to Kyrie’s wish to be a part time player is fricking absurd and the height of douchebaggery. Could you imagine a player like Jrue shitting on the pelicans for benching AD after his trade request? No you couldn’t, because jrue is not a douchebag.


Say you want about LeBron and his team building ways, but I would certainly welcome the “LeBron” experience every single day and twice on Sunday versus the “KD” experience.

Bron plays out his contract, never asks for a trade and actually delivers championships everywhere he goes.

KD is just another example of players who want ALL the benefits of being a top player with none of the risks or downsides. He wants the big fat long term contract and all the power but once the going gets tough he wants out and YOU’RE the a-hole if you have a problem with that.

frick that shite.

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He literally spends significant parts of his day arguing with randos and media people on the internet. The only person who embraces drama moreso is his best friend kyrie.

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You just described 95% of the people on this forum…and every message board everywhere

If KD’s biggest character flaw is posting, he’s the most benign superstar in NBA history.

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what is the likelihood that BI is ever as good as KD is currently?

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0-1%

KD is an all-time top 10 player, once he hangs them up... Ingram is no where close to that, and will never be... and that's totally OK with me, b/c he serves a role here in NOLA for my Pels...

Durant was the undisputed leader of the US Olympic team that won the gold medal last summer.

Seriously, how does that happen if he's such a locker room cancer?

People only discuss KD's leadership (or lack thereof) in the context of NBA titles, and I understand that. But leading a team to Olympic Gold isn't nothing.