interesting read. so basically, the owners' familiarity and friendship made it possible. and that durant was respectful and professional about everything. and i understand why those thinks matter. but i feel like if the lakers got durant in the same way, people would be pissed. like everyone.
can't keep up with all the threads, but when i saw this surface, i thought more than one team is going to look bad here. everybody's going after portland, but where's the due diligence for gs? again, if the warriors and bob myers are the lakers and rob pelinka, we're in full scramble.
no, he just looks in the mirror to see who comes first in the world and makes every. single. decision. in. his. life. this way. this makes him a hero to some, but i think it's sort of emblematic of the decline of civilization. he doesn't make trouble on purpose. and he doesn't attempt to fix trouble when any escape is possible. he wants credit and not blame. lame. btw, none of this is to defend kyrie, who's exactly the same! or durant, who has more honor than either but also doesn't quite get it. kd's weirdly insecure, whereas harden and kyrie are far too secure in their own being than they should be. i'm only mad that their unholy union managed to ruin none of the parasites but only the host(s).
they're finally playing up to their talent level. having harden slot in as a #2 is great for them. can't say i'd enjoy embiid, harden, and rivers getting a ring, though. think boston murders them in a series anyway.
phrasing there is interesting. maybe i'm reading too much into it, but it almost implies that he did this somewhere else...hence the accusation...just sayin'.
Yeah. That’s an interesting statement and definitely makes you question what’s really going on. I think the league has to sort it all out though. I imagine there are certain duties to disclose information and “gentleman’s agreements” at play here between the teams. I think teams have to do their due diligence up front but if a franchise is saying a guy is fine then the other teams should be able to rely on that and any medical information the team provides for the most part. Particularly given that you really can’t do any physical exams of a player before you actually trade for them. we will see where the dust settles on this one but I think the league needs to send a strong message if the Blazers were hiding anything.
to be clear, one could interpret the comments as: "the warriors think he was being shot up because that's what they do". thought it was really weird for payton's agent--not the blazers--to be the one issuing the firm denial. it's obviously more credible coming from him, but still...weird.
Maybe the agent was trying to salvage the relationship because he thought there was a good chance of the deal falling through? Another interesting wrinkle in this that Hayes was discussing on the pod with Stein yesterday, GS wanted the league to look into the NO-POR trade from last year regarding Nance's injury to establish a pattern.
Mac McClung current events: NBA Dunk Contest, signed by Philadelphia on a 2-way contract, in the Rising Stars game with G-League entrants and in the G-League All Star Game.
Good for him. But it's pathetic that's what the dunk contest has become. They can't even get Sharpe to stay in the contest.
DAL still winless in the Kyrie Era, after losing tonight to DEN. When I was growing up, The Big O (Oscar Robertson) had done something that we all believed would never be done again: he averaged a triple-double for an entire season! Decades later, a guy did it three (or was it four? anyway...) seasons, and some of us were forced to realize just 'cuz you fill up the stat sheet you ain't necessarily a winner. (<----Humongous understatement, I know, I know...) Having 500 boards and 500 dimes before the ASB? Only The Big O, Brick...and now: Joker. If - IF - someone's gotta beat BOS in the Finals this year, DEN is as fine a team as any to keep BOS from moving one up on us, with 18. (I'd rather it not be PHO, but I just want the C-Bags to effing LOSE!)
