That nikka Draymond cost them the 16 Finals getting suspended and KD.Remember Draymond comments to KD that last season
We dont need you. We won without you
KD had beef with Warriors reporters + their obsession with Steph Curry / Klay according to new book
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That nikka Draymond cost them the 16 Finals getting suspended and KD.
he really did
but bringing KD helped them win back to back so it all panned out I guess 
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SadimirPutin
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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
Kevin problems are his own
Great choice of Joining GS. KERR just did t do a great job of blending KD into the offense, more forced iso. That's why KD had difference with Kerr throughout the season. KD just wanted to Ball. If he wanted Iso through himself, he could of went to any team.
KD wasn't wrong tho. Journalist don't want to believe it, but they exhibit privilege behavior as if their whole existence in the field isn't predicated on the actual athlete. However, they get in their feelings when athletes don't want to talk to them. And a lot of that is because of what the writer chooses to put out there. They hide behind "sources" when the role of the person they get the info from is minuscule or probably doesn't even exist at all. Or take a snippet of an answer to a question to create a rumor. Plus, in the days of news being 24/7 journalist are more in tune with getting the news out fast rather than being factually correct. Then when add the fact that a lot of sports media is debate and opinion based. I see why some athletes don't fukk with the media too much.
The fact that journalists get their panties in a bunch when players wanna be left alone is ridiculous. Just that excerpt from the book shows how privileged sports reporters have become. If KD doesn't wanna talk, you have other players in the room to talk to. That's why I don't blame Marshawn doing what he did during the SB a few years ago. They were looking foolish scrambling tryna throw out filler questions to get him to talk, but it didn't work.
The fact that journalists get their panties in a bunch when players wanna be left alone is ridiculous. Just that excerpt from the book shows how privileged sports reporters have become. If KD doesn't wanna talk, you have other players in the room to talk to. That's why I don't blame Marshawn doing what he did during the SB a few years ago. They were looking foolish scrambling tryna throw out filler questions to get him to talk, but it didn't work.
SadimirPutin
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True
Its why Bron not sulking kills so many coli dudes
Its why Steph can gp home amd enjoy his vacation wiyh his wife and kids and his time off in injury
Cause them dudes are quite okay with who they are.
KD will get there one would assume
SadimirPutin
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So what exactly did Strauss do wrong? 
Dwight Howard
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Double teaming KD in OKC only "worked" because the team had poor ball movement and zero shooting. But even then you could argue KD was just missing shots because a couple seasons before when he was playing without westbrook he was crappin all over doubles.that's false and a made up talking point.
in the series of OKC vs GS, GS made sure to double KD to slow him down and it worked, they came back and beat OKC. You can slow KD down with double teams.
the defense can not lie, it will always set their defense to stop the opposing team's best player on the court because that player's ability dictates the defensive coverage in the end.
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KD had his most efficient seasons in the league as a Warrior
Dwight Howard
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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.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
murksiderock
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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...
David_TheMan
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Nah, give me Ralph on Sensitivity over Johnny singing My My My... everyday.Strictly singing... fukk yeah he is
But thats just my personal preference.
I agree! However, it was still through Iso for him. No doubles! But you win due to the Steph A Face plus the other meme.KD had his most efficient seasons in the league as a Warrior