All this revisionism about how the media is and was pulling for Bron is so fukking decitful and hypocritical and totally in brand for you cili bedwetters
Kevin problems are his own
Why would he write anything bad about Kerr and Steph before KD got here? What could he possibly say negative about either one of them?Y’all really believing this agenda bullshyt from Ethan. Breh was writing love ballads about Steph and Kerr even before KD arrived. He’s a major reason why people were brainwashed into thinking Draymond was a superstar and called him the leagues top center at one point.
He was anti KD from the jump and KD called him out. He’s rightfully called out the media more than anybody the last few years and called them groupies but y’all wanna believe what the media say about him![]()
The media just tried to give bron an mvp this season using narratives like "Kobe's death" and "he's 34" despite there being being a much more deserving player and bron playing with a top 5 player. Rewind some years back, they tried to give bron a finals mvp in a losing effort just so he wouldnt have to walk away a loser. They shyt on Kd for stacking the deck and conveniently forget bron has done it 3 times AND they were damn near begging for a Kawhi/AD/Bron trio. The media is biased as fukk when it comes to lebron.
Yep KD would have gotten all the praise in the world back then.
He would have been called the best player in the world
Folks were back then was still mad at lebron.
The debates back then would have been KD>>>>>>>>>>Lebron
Yeah for every "MIAMI IS UNBEATABLE" take there were just as many "THIS TEAM IS INHERENTLY FLAWED" takes.He saw what Bron did but forgot that the Heat came out the gate so trash and flawed in 2011, that the narrative often flip flopped to portray them as underdogs at times during their first 2 years... that ended up benefiting Lebron, bc his inevitable win felt "earned" to the public.
Whereas with KD joining GSW, there was nothing to wipe that stigma of "taking the easy way out". Just easy work. 16-1 for a 'ship in year 1.
Why would he write anything bad about Kerr and Steph before KD got here? What could he possibly say negative about either one of them?
Marcus Thompson wrote an entire book about Steph...every writer in the Bay loves himnah it’s not about positive vs negative....he was on some over the top shyt slurping them like crazy. Multiple long ass articles that were basically fluff pieces. Slurping em on Twitter and podcasts. Around 2016 everyone knew he was a groupie![]()
Jay Williams basically admitted that the media narratives seeped into the locker room and broke up the team. That was all to help Bron win in the end.
Get KD off the Warriors and now the West is wide open.
Shannon Sharpe was gleeful talking about it.
There's some inherent differences here between KD and Bron...
Bron was the biggest superstar the game had seen since Jordan, and like Mike, before Bron actually won a ring he was already considered the greatest player and an All-Time great. Kevin Durant was definitely known as a great player but his stature pre-GS was not anywhere near that level...
He's said in his own words that he always measured himself up to LeBron, his first mistake was not realizing they were on different levels to start with. That's KD living a different reality in his own head...
KD took way less heat for going to GS than Bron took for going to Miami, anyone who was around to remember The Decision and its aftermath, it's really not an argument to be made against that. Now, LeBron did earn some goodwill back when he started winning in Miami, but let's not forget he lost Year 1 in Miami and that made a LOT of people happy...
The problem with KD is he never has seemed to understand that there were few parallels, if any, beyond the surface between his move and Bron's. He's trying to copy LeBron's career and has shown a complete delusion in the circumstances surrounding each's career...
If anybody was a media darling it was KD until he made the move to GS, for 9 years he was probably the most well-liked superstar basketball player. Even before The Decision, while it wasn't on the levels of post-Decision, LeBron was never the most "liked" player. He was used to a certain level of criticism and his shoulders were strong enough to carry all the animosity thrown at him afterwards...
This all boils down to that. KD had one "bad" headline written about him in OKC and had a fukking meltdown. He wants to be the most liked and shirk criticism, so because he didn't catch criticism like that in OKC, he thought he could go to GS and get the same treatment just because he's better than Steph; it's also evident now that KD puts a strong onus on who's "better" in basketball. I mean, we all know it matters to all athletes to a degree, but KD appears to be consumed by the notion of who is "better" and it fukks with his relationships with media and teammates alike...
I do think dude is a likeable cat but it isn't really deniable that he's quite insecure and bytchy at this point. It's like dude, relax. You're at worst a Top 15 basketball player ever if you never play another game. You're a 1%'er of all black people financially. You've been blessed with gifts and relationships that people work their entire lives and never achieve...
He does a lot of complaining about how "bad" he has it with the media and is tone deaf with understanding how that lands when he says this. He doesn't have it as bad as Bron has gotten it, AI had it worse, Vick had it worse, Bonds has it worse, and in the grand scheme of things a bunch of us would trade lives with this nikka any day for what is "bad" in his life and let him have the "bad" in ours...
I've been a fan his entire career but enough's enough with this dude and his dramatics...
Bruh you beat me to it, only on thos forum and this forum only do you heat about there being this mass media pull for LeBron. Completely revisionist and we all old enough to remember Bron's career in real time...
nah it’s not about positive vs negative....he was on some over the top shyt slurping them like crazy. Multiple long ass articles that were basically fluff pieces. Slurping em on Twitter and podcasts. Around 2016 everyone knew he was a groupie![]()
Reporter for a team that just won a championship with its best players as their own draft picks writing fluff piecesnah it’s not about positive vs negative....he was on some over the top shyt slurping them like crazy. Multiple long ass articles that were basically fluff pieces. Slurping em on Twitter and podcasts. Around 2016 everyone knew he was a groupie![]()
Marcus Thompson wrote an entire book about Steph...every writer in the Bay loves him![]()
Reporter for a team that just won a championship with its best players as their own draft picks writing fluff pieces![]()
Well Curry was homegrown and brought the warriors a championship and was the media darling back then![]()