Dude has the x factor

We have enough large sample size if he went to another team in summer 2016 besides the Warriors or stayed with OKC would he won a championship. Not knocking KD basketball talent, but vibes would erode eventually and really depends on locker room leadership to slow the erosion before it becomes major headache.

Dude just had to be a good teammate and just couldnt do it.

Hey now Rick Barry didn’t need to join a 73 win team to get a ring

Modern Melo. lota of talent, but is a boat anchor to teams and the play worse over all with him.  He only ever set his ego aside while on the warriors

KD isn’t like Rick Barry at all.

He will go down as a pure scorer. Nobody remembers twitter.

It’s funny because his first few years everyone just talked about how likeable he is.

I feel like this is the natural evolution of most star players.

If Wemby keeps dominating I guarantee in a decade people will dislike him and start hating his game.

He’s a pretty complicated fella.

On one hand, he has a side of him that’s very chill, down-to-earth, likable, and even self-aware. For instance – this story of his relationship with his Japanese roommate in high school is incredible, and shines a lot of positive light on his character.

But on the other hand, he’s also tremendously sensitive and insecure, and instead of filling his spare time with hobbies, friends, and romantic partners – he’s on Twitter responding to randos and shit-talking on burners. The way he took shots at Steph while leaving the Warriors left a bad taste in my mouth that I still remember.

He’s just an eccentric and complicated dude.

He’s the definition of a snake

Nothing criminal, sure, but are we sure he’s not all that bad of a dude?

In my experience, these are the bad people in adult life. He’s 38, last time I seen someone acting like this about coworkers, I was 23, and so were they.

People are quick to say “everyone complains about their coworkers”, sure, but not with this intensity, in public, to strangers. You keep that shit within the family and your family don’t really wanna hear it either.

He’s not criminal, but he’s a bad dude. Wouldn’t trust him with anything. Narcissist gets thrown around wayyyy too much the last decade, every single ex is a narcissist, but it describe this dude to a T.

Yeah, sobriety.

How would you know?

As someone who has done this this is true in some way shape or form it’s a coping mechanism

What is Willie Nelson trying to escape from?

No bro we’ve seen enough. Kd can’t pass out the double he needs someone else or another team

Dude should have never chased that and stayed with Golden State probably could have won at least 2 more maybe 3 and gone out as one of the all time greats hated or not. Now he just a hated “empty” calories stat chaser that road Curry’s coat tails for a couple chips and was toxic as hell everwhere he went.

It’s sad really cause I really think he just wanted to hoop.

Nobody is giving a “haul” for KD. He’ll still have some positive value, but nobody is really giving up very much for him at this point.

He didn’t even have a high price tag for Houston.

The “haul” he was worth last off season was

A 3-4th option on a contender
A guy who hasn’t proven to be a starter on an albatross contract
A late lotto 1st
4 2nds

His value isn’t going up, it’s like AD+ Max Christie+ a 1st

Haul? Suns won the kd trade by a mile lmao

What team? It’s not happening again

They all learned from Phoenix’s mistake. Gave up too much to get a player who brings drama, no one’s falling for it again, Houston surprised me that they gave up Green to get KD

Shit it would still be better if he addressed it and doubled down rather than ignoring.

“Yeah I said and I will say it again: y’all are trash” is obviously worse than apologizing but at least there is some honesty.

I agree it would have been better, but it’d still be really bad. Jabari looked up to KD and was happy he came to the Rockets, and KD was apparently nice and supportive to his face. Meanwhile, he was calling him the r-word to internet randos. Not even, like, close friends or family. Twitter buddies. Even if I forgive, I’d never forget.

“Address what? Im always right and everyone else is wrong”

• Kevin Ducunt

If that brother wasnt athletically gifted he would be a mod here

This is a big part of it. He was brought in to be the leader and mentor to these guys and then disrespects them all like that behind their back. Then doesn’t have the respect to own up to it.

I think there is also a piece about how KD still has the power to direct narratives. I’ve been checking the rockets subreddit and this whole series the have had top posts where users are saying KD was right and all the guys on the team are bums. There are posts from today saying this and in the comments KD stand and Rockets fans are arguing. To think players don’t see that shit is ignorant of human emotions.

KD effectively poisoned the locker room and the narrative around the team and never even owned up to it to those guys.

The Jabari one makes me so sad. Was reading him saying how much he appreciates KD. Imagine seeing that man.

That’s not what I’ve seen. A lot of people have been calling for his head ever since

That first game of the season was so fucking good. I know that’s not what you’re talking about, but it’s the first thing I thought of after reading your comment

As a KD hater but not a Rockets hater, Houston should have seen it coming.

What about side by side with a fellow Rockets & KD hater?

Aye, I could do that

i deserve to suffer because YOU are a hater? thanks brother

Yeah I mean that’s a legit character failure on him of he didn’t, he fucked up God’s know what would’ve happened if the word sorry was said even once.

probs on his phone all the time never interacting with teammates

I mean it’s one of the reason why draymond green crash out during the clippers game. Don’t get me wrong, dray’s temper need some tempering

Thank you for reminding me how much I genuinely enjoy the fact that that Nets superteam never won shit lol

The KD toe on the line is just the 🤌💋

The amount of hate that Sengun got on those texts and then seeing KD play with him sold it for me

hit em with all the office small talk like nothings wrong

“what your wife make you for lunch today”

Sorry ass teammates eating cereal and pancakes n shit no wonder they thicc as hell like sengun

• Getoffmydickerson

Or when someone gets traded. There’s gonna be a mudslide from both sides once Giannis is moved.

While on OKC he tweeted “KD can’t win with these cats” from his main KD account accidentally, then deleted it. But not before it got screenshotted a bunch lol

But you can say that about all NBA stars. Maybe it wasn’t as early 19 but they’re all treated like royalty from high school on. KD seems to be the only one who consistently alienates his teammates while refusing to take accountability in this way

I mean the usual pattern is that he leaves destruction in his wake lol…they don’t get better after he leaves; they’re worse than before he joined. 

His next chapter

He’s 37 he ain’t changing with a change of scenery

Probably one of the reasons KD knew the Wolves wouldn’t be a good fit, despite his friendship with Ant - he knew he’d be coming into a tight team where he wouldn’t be in control of much of anything. It’s Ant’s team, and in the locker room it’s Mike’s team. KD doesn’t like feeling like he has to answer to others.