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The Kevin Durant Thread -- One of our Own?


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2 hours ago, Porterhouse said:

I’ll never understand the CP hate. I’ve always loved the guy. His mom is a grade A cunt, though. 

I hate his fucking game.  Always looking for a cheap foul, flopping all over the place.  Can't stand guys like that.

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4 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

Why would anyone care about getting CP3 a ring?  I can't stand that fucking guy.  

oh no doubt. the only reason i would care about cp3 getting a ring is because he would owe that ring to KD. 

2 hours ago, Porterhouse said:

I’ll never understand the CP hate. I’ve always loved the guy. His mom is a grade A cunt, though. 

he's one of the dirtiest players of the last 20 years, and he's part of the whole banana boat crew. seems pretty hate worthy to me. 

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3 hours ago, Porterhouse said:

I’ll never understand the CP hate. I’ve always loved the guy. 

I hear this a lot from people who have never watched him play in person. He's not as demonstrative and obnoxious as as Dray and Luka when it comes to riding the refs, but he's every bit as cunty. Dude is nonstop in their ear. Every fucking play whining about something. While he simultaneously sneaks in every scratch, claw, and elbow he can.

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54 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I hear this a lot from people who have never watched him play in person. He's not as demonstrative and obnoxious as as Dray and Luka when it comes to riding the refs, but he's every bit as cunty. Dude is nonstop in their ear. Every fucking play whining about something. While he simultaneously sneaks in every scratch, claw, and elbow he can.

That’s most people in the NBA. I’m fully accustomed to it. One of the absolute worst at that was Duncan when he’d get big eyed at every fucking whistle. 

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2 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

oh no doubt. the only reason i would care about cp3 getting a ring is because he would owe that ring to KD. 

he's one of the dirtiest players of the last 20 years, and he's part of the whole banana boat crew. seems pretty hate worthy to me. 

What he said. He’s a cheap shot artist 

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17 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

warriors W/L since Durant left: 136-142

119-73 and an NBA Championship in that span and when Steph plays. Works out to about a 51 win team, which checks out. All-time great team with Steph and KD, just a perennial contender with Steph.

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8 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

119-73 and an NBA Championship in that span and when Steph plays. Works out to about a 51 win team, which checks out. All-time great team with Steph and KD, just a perennial contender with Steph.

man i wish KD had never left. 4-5 titles for him at this point if he hangs around, yes? he and steph would probably both actively be in the "10 greatest players ever" conversation if that were the case.

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2 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

man i wish KD had never left. 4-5 titles for him at this point if he hangs around, yes? he and steph would probably both actively be in the "10 greatest players ever" conversation if that were the case.

He's had some pretty bad luck since leaving--some partially self-inflicted, some not--or he'd have another title as well. 

For comparison, the Nets won at a 52-win clip when KD played, despite Kyrie being Kyrie and KD/Kyrie/Harden playing a grand total of 16 games together.

If CP3 can stay upright (a big if), gotta think he gets back there this year or next.

 

 

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Of his 10 makes only one was at the rim. His other 9 buckets I don't think even touched the iron. This dude is unreal. Comes off a month rehabbing an injury and goes 10/15 on 14 jumpers. Just continues to be incredible on the offensive end and has picked up his defense in the last 5 years despite the injuries.

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On 2/16/2023 at 5:50 PM, ztejas said:

I've never seen anything like this. 

The highlight intro video at 2:55 was interesting. They only showed clips from his years in Brooklyn, nothing from OKC or GS.  The rest of that just looks like generic pep rally bullshit, and softball questions like "how are you going to mesh with Booker" or "what would it mean to win a championship here?"  

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47 minutes ago, SilasCoade said:

Of his 10 makes only one was at the rim. His other 9 buckets I don't think even touched the iron. This dude is unreal. Comes off a month rehabbing an injury and goes 10/15 on 14 jumpers. Just continues to be incredible on the offensive end and has picked up his defense in the last 5 years despite the injuries.

His defense since the last few years at OKC has always been highly underrated. He’s a high level shot blocker despite not being a rim protector and his ability to keep guys from driving due to his length is high high level. 

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He looked really good last night. Then again, I can't recall a time when he didn't. Granted, the Hornets were in a race to the bottom before Lamelo blew out his ankle but still... Phoenix is going to be a problem.

Should be some really fun games down the stretch. They get Dallas for a KD/Kyrie reunion Sunday. They have two games against Denver, two against Sac, two against the Lakers (would be good TV if LBJ gets back), Golden State, Milwaukee, Philly and finish up the regular season against the Clippers. They are in 4th place right now, but only 3 games up on the 10th seed. There's going to be a lot of jockeying down the stretch and teams trying to get home court or avoid the play-in or just make the play-in. The end of the season should be a great ride in the west.

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1 hour ago, statsman said:

KD gets a mention here, for some kindness-

https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/nba/2023/3/8/23629542/greg-oden-butler-nba-ohio-state
 
Oden is a fan. 

Right before Oden joined Butler’s staff in 2022, he took his family to Miami on vacation. The Heat were playing the Nets, and Oden wanted to watch Kevin Durant, the player he’ll forever be tied to for surpassing as the no. 1 pick in ’07.

 

Oden never forgot how Durant, the no. 2 pick, responded in 2016 when asked on ESPN if he thought Oden was a bust. “Nonsense,” Durant said. “He didn’t get a chance. He was injured. … When he did play, he was a force. Protecting the paint.” It meant a lot to Oden to hear Durant dignify him in that way.

 

And, during halftime of the Heat-Nets game, Durant came over to chat with Oden. Oden pointed out Sabrina and Londyn, and Durant waved to them. Then, the two top picks embraced. The small gesture meant more to Oden than he had words for. “That was big time,” Oden says. “I’m a KD fan for life.”

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My mistake. I thought he was still playing the 36 mpg that he played in Brooklyn, which I think makes him, at age 34, more injury prone. I see Phoenix had him at 33 mpg. 
 
KD loves to play, lives to play. At his age, with his injury history, he needs to manage load, even if he doesn’t want to. 

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KD is awesome- he’s amazing- he’s a top 15 player of all time and his career has been great. 
I still think that this career is only about a 50th percentile outcome and there’s a world where with a little luck and better injury stuff for him (and his teammates) he has like 7 or 8 rings in his NBA career and is thought of as on par with Lebron and MJ as opposed to “merely” on par with guys like Steph and Kobe and Jerry West and the like. 

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Basically he probably should have 1 title with OKC and with Good injury luck. it would have been 3 with golden state and 1 with the Nets. 
Phoenix seems like a place he could win a couple of the cards fell right. 
I know his career wouldn’t have played out exactly how it did if he won one with OKC. 

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14 hours ago, statsman said:

That universe where he wins one in OKC is a universe where they trade Westbrook instead of Harden. One where the GM realizes how fundamentally the game was changing. 

I was screaming that from the mountaintops. Have always hated Russ. 
boy they could have gotten a lot more for him than they did Harden as well. 
Imagine a trade to the Hawks for like Al Horford, Kyle Korver and Jeff Teague. 
OKC could have trotted out this lineup in 2012/13:

Teague/Harden/Durant/Ibaka/Horford. 

Have a rotation of Nazr Muhammad, Korber, Deshuan Cook, Jeff Green and Reggie Jackson.  I mean- you probably ship back out Perkins in that deal and her even better that way. 
I feel like Atlanta would have jumped at this deal. 

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