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They really need to fire Scott Brooks and hire a real coach.
Really, though, it all comes back to that Harden trade. How must Durant feel watching Harden win the MVP playing for another team because Oklahoma City was too cheap to pay him an extra one to two million a year?
Fact of the matter is that OKC has two (formerly three) of the very best players in the league and has had five of the last six scoring champions, and they have one Finals appearance to show for it. Plenty of that can certainly fall on that awful James Harden trade, although I don't think he would have broken out or produced like he is now by playing in Kevin Durant's shadow.
Brooks has to go if that team is ever going to take the next step. It might even be too late now to keep Durant. He has shown a visible edge and attitude that we haven't seen out of him before, and he has to be entertaining the possibility of going home to Washington to team up with those guys in an easier conference. With a healthy core of Westbrook, Durant, Ibaka, and Kanter, they should be able to stack up against probably any other team in the league on any given night.