KD had beef with Warriors reporters + their obsession with Steph Curry / Klay according to new book

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goatmane said:
backgroud info on their back and forth:


Warriors reporters Ethan Strauss and Marcus Thompson did a podcast discussing why the things fell apart with the Warriors. They start discussing why the players haven't said anything publicly. Here's the full conversation:

MT: How much of that is because the stories coming out have been about how insufficiently the Warriors treated KD?

ES: You can understand things from KD's perspective to a certain extent but everybody treated him - they wanted to placate him. They would talk about more about him and everything he meant - best player, best player, best player - than anybody else. Nobody else is getting those compliments and it rarely went the other way especially in the final season. How often was KD talking about how good his teammates were and how lucky he was to play with them?

MT: I think he did his praise a little bit different, it was more, "I'm here for my teammates." I think if you ask him a specific question about a guy, he would answer it. I've asked him a specific question and he'd answer it. Steph doesn't do it that much either. I've been kind of monitoring it.

ES: Oh, Steph does it way more than KD.

MT: No, not really.

ES: Steph also wasn't going up to reporters and questioning when they're going to start criticizing his teammates, either.

MT: Oh, who did that Ethan?

ES: Kevin Durant did that, semi-frequently. Semi-frequently.

MT: Wow, wow.

ES: Look I'm just saying there wasn't a lot of praise coming from him towards his teammates and I guess from his perspective, maybe they didn't deserve that. Maybe if he's getting told, effectively, just leave already by Draymond in November, that's not something they're allotted considering everything he's given them.
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Marcus Thompson sounds like a complete KD stan in this exchange. :huhldup:

I always thought it was weird how everyone associated with GS, especially Kerr, went out of their way to praise KD. You could tell it was a conscious effort to placate him.
 
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Regular_P said:
Marcus Thompson sounds like a complete KD stan in this exchange. :huhldup:

I always thought it was weird how everyone associated with GS, especially Kerr, went out of their way to praise KD. You could tell it was a conscious effort to placate him.
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He won them two titles would've been 3.

fukk that 73 win team. They lost in the finals, that shyt doesn't matter.
 
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Hopefully this thread takes off with actual discussion

KD on the Warriors is interesting because it touches on many things we never talked about

Also the book had several different names with more including KD and one was a cover with his face darkened

Wilt himself said nobody loves a giant KD is a seven foot dark skin man who went to the Warriors where their two stars are light skin black man (one being biracial) who played in a style that was seen as “smart” they were playing in a more diverse area that over time was becoming more “elite” and white a literal valley of billionaires from when Mark Jackson got fired and Steve Kerr hired there was more of a shift to the other side. in 2015 the Warriors lucked into the championship ( Lebron plays a huge role because he sets the narrative love or hate him and he hold a lot of power and sway) 2016 came and they once again lucked into a championship but it was evident that Curry didn’t have the body to win and losing also cost Under Amour the chance at their own MJ (at minimum you need to be in the 6’5 to 6’10 range to win through history) and Lebron used sway to get Draymond suspended (Cavs literally sent hundreds of emails to the league office) the Thunder also play a role in this because as a new team they were gifted things including KD and other players OKC getting rid of Harden was one part of their death and the other part of their death was their “media training” the young Thunder were given to kinda shield these young black men in Oklahoma. So they already had a them vs the media mentality. Of the Big Three in OKC two of the three were Nike athletes.

The Warriors from 2013 on had planned to get KD if he hit free agency so they were already one of the teams in addition to the Celtics that had a chance to get him if he left. The Warriors went to the Hamptons to get KD and pitched that their movement would be unstoppable and the offense in OKC was stagnant. That first year they were ran through the league but after the first championship with KD they overpaid their old players and KD took less money leading to the last season where their margin of error was so small that it hanged on just their four guys in a league where teams were seven deep and Steve Kerr being a smart ass. The team that was “light years” got caught up to. Draymond got fat and fell off a cliff. The team wasted draft picks like Jordan Bell and expedited itself into the luxury tax. The new billion dollar stadium was another piece of bullshyt.

If the Warriors win another championship they the Spurs but they could’ve been like the Lakers and if they don’t win again they will forever look like frauds because nobody would boost them up. If KD wins a championship without them he raises what he already was. If he doesn’t then he gets framed as less when he never didn’t battle the greatest.

A lot of it is smart people being ignorant by blinding themselves with their intelligence that they lose their soul, touch, and feel things that a real hooper like KD never lost.

The media in the Bay Area let the basketball world down when Jordan was Jordan ,Chicago never would’ve, When Bron was in Miami they didn’t let it down when Kobe and Shaq were running and after Shaq left LA did not let it down
 
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