Hard to argue with the Warriors given the results but the Wizards…that’s a rough one. Beal as a third option for a chunk of his career is interesting as a thought.

This gotta be a weird revisionist history because around that time they chose Steph as their franchise PG over monta Ellis. Can’t imagine them choosing Steph than immediately offering him for a Center

West wouldn’t of did Klay for harden. They were debating Klay for love

I see interviews w Harden like this and i inch closer and closer to buying a retro harden rockets jersey. Dude is cooler than the other side of the pillow

To be fair, Steph being hurt to start his career is, ironically, quite lucky: GSW wouldn’t be able to afford KD otherwise. That’s a potential difference between a top-20 career (only 2 rings) and a top-10 career (4 rings) right there.

He lost a few tens of millions in short term but got almost free legacy points and lifetime earnings should be higher too.

Did you watch the Nets regular season? Clax 3 years ago was not the player he is today.

DJ was starting over Jarrett Allen until Harden got traded to the Nets. So, that meant DJ was starting over Claxton for only a few months in the 2021 season since he ended up getting traded in the offseason. You’re telling me starting a raw 2021 Claxton would’ve been the difference in beating the Bucks?

Anyone else remember Clax missing like 10 free throws in a row during the bucks series? Theres a reason he wasn’t starting lol

Hes a wack ass dude

In all the questionable things Kyrie had done, that one wasn’t on him. That’s borderline scapegoating at that point, I’m not an anti vaccine person but that was the best case anyone has ever had to not get it

Basketball absolutely has sway in NYC lmao. A Knicks team that’s genuinely contending for a title is the most important team this city can even have at this point. New Yorkers that don’t even follow basketball are keeping eyes on a good Knicks team.

The problem is the Nets don’t. If that big 3 was playing for the Knicks Adams would’ve changed the rule for Kyrie.

That’s what happens when you want to come to NYC but avoid the pressure and perks that come with playing for the one team the city actually loves.

Adams didn’t give a fuck about the Nets because nobody in the city did, the Knicks were still getting the backpage headlines in that era while you had to turn to page 33 to see a picture of Kyrie or KD.

Insane. I didn’t know that.

What a goofball that mayor was.

No, it wasn’t just the mandate. I’m simply chiming in to this great list of reasons this person has created.

Yes, you can add this to the list as well. That political/religious shit was unnecessary as well. Kyrie was trying to be some sort of crusader with that. Felt like that was the last straw for Harden, and KD started to spiral out of Brooklyn shortly after.

Telling someone to get a vaccine because it’s for the safety of the team and city and then having the same city invite a bunch of people in that aren’t vaccinated is insane. IDC if you like Kyrie or not that’s pathethic

Sure that’s one way to look at it, but I’m not gonna fault Kyrie on that because again, the NY mandate was stupid. Forcing someone to get something into their body that they don’t want is wrong and I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to get it. Do you get your COVID boosters still?

Again, why does Kyrie not get to play ball if he doesn’t get the vaccine, but visiting players who also doesn’t get the vaccine can still play when they’re in NY??? Made ZERO SENSE.

Anybody who actually watched the games knows the Nets were going to win the chip. They were blowing the Bucks off the face of the earth before Kyrie went down.

The 2014 Dallas Mavericks took the same Spurs, who swept the 2x champs off the floor, to 7 games. I don’t hear anyone call them “should be” champs.

I’m not trying to say that the refs did a good job that game, maybe they didn’t. But trying to say the game was rigged?? Or that the officiating was soooo bad that that was a legitimate concern? Nonsense. It’s one thing to have such a complaint when the other team is getting calls your team isn’t and only wins because of gifted free throws or something. But if they aren’t calling that many fouls on either side how can you get that salty about the officiating and blame the loss on that? Actually, it does make a difference because it’s bush-league to blame refs when your team bricks three after three and only knows how to score at the free throw line.

Also a classic case of confirmation bias. Obviously butthurt rocket fans pining about what could’ve been will find and point out poor calls on that side. Guess what? There were probably plenty of bad calls the other way, but warriors fans don’t really care because we won the game

The reason those 4 guys have rings is because they played with Curry.

If you rely on a whistle to win a game, it will also he inconsistent. Foul or not, they didnt get fouled on 27 straight threes. Switch the game to mid range or getting into the paint AKA the place where we were the most vulnerable.

Harden had KD as a teammate twice and russell westbrook as a teammate Thrice. Untop of having Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Kyrie, Embiid, Kawhi, and Paul George as teammates.

KD literally just joined the warriors because it was a guaranteed ring similar to lebron joining dwade in miami, Draymond is mostly a defense specialist looking to pass the ball to someone better at scoring, Klay was solid i’d give you that, and Iggy never had the same level of team success until he joined gsw.

If you replaced Harden with Steph Curry you wouldn’t see the same level of success due to Harden being ball dominant causing draymond to be useless on offense and KD getting less touches.

Curry elite teammates: KD, Wiggins, Klay, dray, Iggy

Harden elite teammates: KD, russ,Dwight howard cp3, russ again, KD again, Kyrie, embid, Kawhi, PG

It happened in the first minute.