supermario21
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That's a team Deandre wants to go to? If they don't get you, they are ready to go into tank mode? Weird.
Add JR to that Kings team and it is the greatest entertainment the league has ever seen.
Would you trade JR and a future pick to SAC for Rich Paul client Ben McLemore?
Hypothetical of course, hard to believe the Kings would even consider it.
Rondo asked for a shooter... Dirk and Parsons were not enough...
Rondo and Cousins together.
Take how it felt for us as Cavs fans with LeBron in 2009-2010 and Love this year.
Then multiple it by two.
That's how its going to feel as an OKC fan this year.
8-12 teams and fanbases acting like they have a legit shot to take Durant away from you(LAL,LAC, GS, WAS, DAL, HOU, TOR, PHO, NYN, BOS)
Every loss magnified, every Westbrook/Durant spat or sideglance magnified, people revisiting the Harden trade, and every postgame conversation Durant has with a star on another team.
Hell even if they win and win big like we did this year, the talk will still be just as loud.
I legit feel bad for that fanbase.
Plus Josh Smith at PF and we've really got something.Add JR to that Kings team and it is the greatest entertainment the league has ever seen.
Long term I don't feel sorry for them but just remembering the day to day social media aspect and media aspect of 2009-2010, as a fan and with them not being a team or city that we have a rivalry with or hatred towards, I sympathize with them.LeBron was Cleveland.. I don't think it's the same for Durant, who already missed most of a season and watched Westbrook take a serious run at MVP.
I don't think the OKC situation is really comparable because as bad as the Cavaliers were managed under Ferry, we were really doomed by previous events - things that happened before he was ever the GM.
With the Thunder, well, ownership pretty much shit-canned their entire franchise's future. Durant is as good as gone according to most reports, and it's not because of the weather, city, etc; it's not to go off to "college," but because ownership is cheap, and is not willing to spend what it takes to compete in the NBA.
So I don't feel sorry for them.
I feel sorry for Seattle.. But not OKC.