lol, would never have expected bridges to score 45 in a game. what are the nets putting in the water?
And it's not like it was against a bad team either. Maybe now they get 5 first rounders for him this summer instead of 4. I wonder, can he be your #2 guy? He can't be a #1, but can he be the team's second option on offense? If he continues to put up big numbers, that might change the type of offers they get for him this summer OR maybe they decide to keep him, already having their Robin in place.
i know kd is (appropriately) controversial, but i liked this candor. it really seems like he was one of the adults in the room in brooklyn, and that there were others. just not kyrie, harden, and probably tsai. i think if tsai gets out of the way and lets marks run the team, they'll be good long term. but tsai seems to have some cuban in him, which cuts both ways. he needs to be ballmer. sign the checks and cheer.
F*** KD, weak a** superteam chaser. All the hate LeBron gets rightly belongs to Durant, if he hadn’t been a total wuss and joined the Warriors LeBron probably has 6 rings right now. Not that I care about LeBron’s ring count, I just find Durant’s inflated at best, fraudulent at worst. Also LOL
lebron's miami move was as bad to me as kd's gs move. i just lost a ton of respect for both guys when they did those things. lebron redeemed himself a bit by going back to cleveland (though that was also sort of personally advantageous in itself) and then by taking up the mantle of delivering us from knicksville. kd may still have that turn left in him, too. though he's running out of time.
creepy. and while i can't imagine anyone being super interested in that particular application, it makes one wonder what else can be done. maybe the nba can stop bullshitting about interpreting their own rules in last two minute reports and just alter the video!
The Miami thing bothered me at the time, because I couldn’t stand LeBron then and didn’t want him catching Kobe. But in hindsight he was basically taking on the C Bags big 3 year after year by himself, look up the ‘08, ‘09, ‘10 Cavs rosters, they’re even worse than I remembered. So I get that move, he was going to struggle to win in Cleveland with that awful owner. What I didn’t like was Ray Allen joining Miami, loser move jumping ship to ring chase to me, and I thought that put them over the top more and I hated that team. Regarding Durant I get him wanting to leave Russ, who wouldn’t, but to join GS was for me the weakest move I’ve personally ever seen in the NBA in my 30 or so years watching. Then he forms the team in Brooklyn, and I get injuries happen, but the team slowly falls apart, and you hear no talk of his leadership, or his part in that. LeBron wouldn’t get dragged through the mud for a similar situation, he’d get dragged through the manure. Then he once again maneuvers his way to another superteam, it’s just weak to me, I can’t respect the mentality. LeBron and his moves made Kobe look oldschool and tougher, well Durant makes LeBron look the same way to me, Durant is part of the first generation of players acting entitled to a degree I just can’t understand. Anyway, doesn’t really matter, history will look at Durant as having the rings he does no matter how he got them, but that’s my take, I have no respect for him, where I used to love him all the way back watching him in college at Texas and briefly in Seattle and the early days in OKC. I like parity in the NBA and he keeps single-handedly ruining it.
it wasn't about leaving cleveland for me; i thought he should have. it was about joining forces with TWO of the other top players in the league. that year, a prime amare stoudemire and those three were on the market. if any two of them joined up, i--and most others--would have immediately been like, ok, i get it. when they colluded to corner the market, it was just so...non-competitive. and they knew it--hence the 7 titles talk. none of them catch as much s*** as they should for that whole thing, imo. and it's the fans and media letting lebron and wade off the hook that emboldened durant to take it to the next level. i foresaw that (not what durant did, specifically), which is why i hated that miami team with the fire of a thousand suns. they sort of permanently harmed the product, imo. so while the offense was a tier lower, it's the reason the worse thing even happened, imo.
At the time, I didn't think anything could top Bron to Miami. That was the most egregious act against the NBA I had seen. Then KD joined the best team in the NBA which guaranteed a free ride to the 'ship. I get that wouldn't have happened if the Heat 3 didn't happen, but the Heat weren't already the best team and Bron didn't coattail ride. Wade and Bron had to figure out their balance of power. Then Bron went on his redemption tour. Going back to Cleveland. Then going to an empty cupboard in LA. Whereas KD doubled down and tripled down on his super team approach. It's disgusting and pathetic. In doing so, Bron hasn't damaged his legacy, whereas I don't think there's a better player who, rightfully so, has torpedoed his legacy more than Durant.
We were robbed. I hate Bron never entered and teased will he/won't he for over a decade. I get it for him, he had nothing to win by doing it. But still hated that he ducked that.
vince carter's the best dunker i've ever seen. mj, dr. j, and even nique have arguments, but it's not really even close for me. there's no artistry to the dunk contest anymore, but part of that is that the real artists require some truly rare physical gifts. carter's and mj's dunks were absolutely balletic. mesmerizing stuff, like olympic gymnasts pushing the limits. now we've got props and stuff. that's not what it's about.
Those guys are on Mt Rushmore for sure. A tier below, I really liked J-Rich's win. I don't think that performance gets enough love. The LaVine vs. Gordon showdown was probably the best thing we've had recently. Last year's was really bad. I think the problem is it's tough to come up with new stuff each year. If they did it every 4-5 years instead, it'd be a much bigger spectacle. That'll never happen because it's the draw of All-Star Saturday. Impressive win tonight by McClung. Congrats to the former Laker. I appreciate the readiness of all 4 participants. Most of the dunks were in the first try. The multiple misses can really suck the energy out of the building
