(06-21-2022, 01:12 AM)Mavsfan12 Wrote: And the W's winning the chip this year had to be a final kick to the nuts to top off this hellish season. I like Durant as a player. I have to imagine that he is revisiting some of his career choices right now.
I don´t know. Maybe. He certainly doesn´t like the perception that has been attached to his championships, but is having two championships worse than having none like loyal players like Ewing, Malone or Miller?
He seems to blame Westbrook for his OKC "failures", but the set-up with Westbrook wasn´t that. He was a better player than Westbrook, he was also never a leader/alpha. He´s like the super-charged version of Anthony Davis or Kevin Garnett. Even on the title-winnning Celtics Paul Pierce was the alpha.
Durant/Westbrook were both 27 years old at the time of his departure, so that´s usually when the winning championships window starts. I think they could have gotten a ring together with a better coach. Then if they don´t, we return to the original question: would you rather be Two-Ring Kevin or No-Ring Karl.
One thing is for sure I want nothing to do with Irving, unless it´s for THJ/Bertans straight up and even then I´d view it more as a salary dump than an on-court trade.