Same old, same old. That's why the NBA is the third sport and always be. NFL, MLB and NBA. The other sports give all teams a shot. The NBA is a bunch of groupies. Probably stroke off the leader after every game. Cleveland vs. Golden State every year. Ground Hog Day. Yawn. Bet the NHL outdraws them in the ratings.
Golden showers again...yawn. Maybe LeBron will join them next season.
Golden showers again...yawn. Maybe LeBron will join them next season.
James Harden just lost two games that his team was +12.5 and +6 point underdogs in, without their 2nd best player, with 1 other guy on the team that can dribble the ball against a team that was 16-1 in the playoffs last year and had the other 4 best players in the game besides him. He's being called a "choker" for this.
Kevin Durant is moving onto the finals, where in all likelihood he will win his 2nd NBA title and when this happens in a few weeks then some people are even going to be as brazen as to suggest he is the best player in the NBA.
So whatever your own personal opinion of him is, I think it'd be pretty hard to say his chess moves aren't legit. Nobody will be calling him a choker anytime soon like they did in '12, '13, '14, '16 and possibly would've continued to do so had he continued to come up short.
Yes, but I'm one of many many NBA fans that will always remember him as the biggest piggybacker for an NBA championship ever. Especially given his talent level. Nobody can argue that.
It'll always be mentioned in articles in the present and future. ''Kevin Durant etc etc in 2016 (or whatever year it was) who received criticism for famously joining the Goldenstate Warriors after losing to them the previous season etc etc''
I can guarantee I can google him now and article after article will appear on that. He'll have to live with that. But whatever makes him happy I guess.
2nd best player in the NBA couldn't win a championship without joining the best and most stacked team in the league. What compounds it is the fact that they knocked him out of the playoffs the season prior (where OKC was up in the series and Durant choked)
Maybe it would have been nice to see him join the Rockets. Now that would have tipped the scale and he wouldn't have received all the hate he is getting and will continue to hate. But then joining the Rockets wouldn't have worked cause Chris Paul, Durant and Harden? Not enough balls to go around lol.
I'm not a big fan of Harden or anything like that by the way. Just saying.
I guess you could say his career was on a road to perdition after the '16 playoffs and he wanted to see the light rather than risk eternal damnation with no rings.
You'll see it that way, others will as well. It's not the most ideal way to win. But many won't and that's better than perennially losing. And he's not that polarizing of a personality/player so over time I'd think a lot of those criticisms fade into the background.
You'll see it that way, others will as well. It's not the most ideal way to win. But many won't and that's better than perennially losing. And he's not that polarizing of a personality/player so over time I'd think a lot of those criticisms fade into the background.
