fitzfarm wrote:Durant you will go down in history as someone who never could win it on their own. Your starpucked chips with GS will be remembered as lame sell out chips . Your second tier bro You don’t deserve New York, you deserve to be forgotten in Brooklyn a second tier franchise you got what you deserve. Now just chill and stop talking about your decision that no one cares about.
In order to promote the LeBron "narrative" to drive the leagues marketing, two things had to happen, mostly to cover up LBJ's mistakes
1) There needed to be a villain team to highlight what LBJ had to overcome to be a champion
2) There needed to be a storyline that LBJ did it "without help"
The GSW did everything the right way. They stuck to the draft, even when it did not work out for them, they ran an extremely clean cap sheet, they began, mostly under Jerry West, to trade players at the right time and always put themselves in the position for opportunity. They did have luck in Curry and Thompson to have historic level shooters who had NBA bloodlines and were basically very laid back team oriented personalities.
They played fundamental team basketball with a respected coach in Kerr and built a contender organically, mostly without tanking. There is very little to criticize in how the Warriors ran their team
Then suddenly the sports media, driven by the league and networks and brand interests, tried desperately to paint them as doing something wrong by signing Durant. As if any of the other 29 teams would do differently. They did not control Curry's ankle problems that created the value contract he was on , they did not plan the luck to have Bogut fall off their salary at the right time, they could not predict a historic cap spike that the players as a group voted not to smooth out.
Durant was painted as a loser and someone not man enough to run his own team. He earned the right to be a free agent. He earned the right to choose his destination. David Stern said it best Post Decision, that the league simply cannot force a player to play on a team past a certain point. It's not Durants fault that there is not enough elite talent to stock every team in the league. Durant always played hard, he played clean, he played the right way. He kept his nose out of legal problems.
The league felt compelled to push this "narrative" because it needed to force feed LeBron James as a hero to fit the marketing.
Except LBJ tried to get the best coach he's ever played for fired, who is now arguably the best coach in the entire league. He also became LeGM and ran every single roster he's been on into the ground. He left his own team and did what Durant was accused of, even more egregiously, and **** on his hometown in a half hour special on national TV. He's the only active player allowed to illegally tamper ( since he owns Klutch Sports and everyone has to pretend he does not) On the executive committee for the NBPA, he pushed for changes that benefited himself, Chris Paul and Melo that essentially ****ed over incoming rookies for generations to come. He singlehandedly spurred th reaction in owners that destroyed the middle class salary structure. His departure from the Cavs the first time was the reason behind the Super Max provisions that now have anchored teams into misery for stretches of up to a half decade or more.
The Warriors were never meant to keep winning championships, they were meant to get to the Finals and lose to LeBron James. Except the refs couldn't cheat a historic level three point shooting team. Even though the refs tried several times. So the league kept pushing the story that LBJ never had any real help, ignoring the fact that the biggest reason is LBJ himself and his dumb ass LeGM moments. The more the Warriors played the right way, aside from Zaza, the more the storyline got idiotic. The more Curry and Thompson succeeded as team players, the more dumb it all started to sound, so all the focus had to be pinned on Durant.
Now the league has to pander to the new LeMandela movement. Because Nike needs a return on it's billion dollar investment on a player who might never sniff another championship based on his own stupidity.
I get why Durant is frustrated. He's done nothing on the level of LBJ's nimrod behavior, but the media keeps painting him as some type of weak willed traitor.
His mistake was to talk about it at all in the press. And social media. He should have said nothing, given no interviews and kept winning. Stayed on the Warriors his entire career and just kept winning rings. The best way to stop the LBJ narrative is to force a situation where the sports media and networks can't make excuses for him anymore. If Durant stayed on the Warriors and won 3 more rings on top of the two he had then no one would ever say much ever again.
The story cracks the deeper you look. Some people want to cite Kobe Bryant stayed with one team his whole career. They ignore the issue that he forced his way there as a rookie then he raped a girl and tanked a championship run, he feuded with Shaq that caused problems in other runs, he tried to force a trade to Chicago that failed, he sank his team in his last years with selfish play. Charles Barkley, a big critic, didn't stay with one team and didn't stay out of trouble with the law. Jordan was banned for two years for gambling. The only story that adds up is Dirk, who ironically wanted nothing to do with any of the league narratives or marketing, which is why he hid in Dallas.
I said this for years, there is not enough real legit NBA news to fill a 24/7/365 cycle, so this fake feud/soap opera **** is created to try to make the NBA relevant all year long.
Durant should have stayed silent or embraced the villain role forced upon him.
Personally I would have gone full villain. I would have seduced LBJ's mother and plated her. I would have ****ed her, filmed a sex tape and released it into the public.
I would walk into the Finals wearing a T shirt that said " The King and I both came out of the same hole "
I would trick out and super charge a family mini van and be a part time Uber driver and film my exploits and upload them to social media to moonlight my NBA career
I'd start my own Amway and irritate people all over the league about buying my ground breaking life changing water filters
I'd have an entourage full of midgets and pay them to start fights with people in the league. Nothing would entertain people more than seeing another bull**** question by a reporter then a midget could come flying over a table and tackling them.
I would become a licensed Zumba teacher and teach Zumba in the arena parking lot right after the game for fans
I would walk around and sign autographs and give fans coupons. Like grocery store coupons. I would be known as "Prince BOGO"
I would troll the living **** out of the NBA.
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