Haven't been on the boards in a long time and I know I'm quite late hooping on the NBA free agency talk...but after KD left OKC I feel like someone injected my veins with hater-aid. I lost every ounce of respect I had for Durant after he "Avengers Up" with the Warriors, if ya can't beat em join em style. I absolutely hate the new Marvel Team Up format the NBA is going with now a days, something needs to be done before things get out of han....oh wait Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and now KD? Their starting lineup could pass for an all star squad minus a center. Plus they have decent depth with Livingston, David West, and Iguodala, all of which could probably make for effective starters on weaker eastern conference teams. SMH This might be the super team of all super teams.
KD should have signed a 2 year deal with OKC with a player option in yr 2 and gave OKC one more try, I feel like OKC could beat any team in the playoffs/finals with the lineup of Westbrook, Oladipo, KD, Kanter, and Steven Adams with solid options off the bench like Andre Roberson, Ilyasova, and rook Sonatas Sabonis. Add a point guard and bigman to that bench and Thunder could have been 50-60 game winners in the same situation they were in this past season but with upgrades.
But nooo, KD had to roll over and pull a Lebron and do whatever he could possibly do to win a title. Imagine if the NFL was like the NBA, OBJ, and Julio Jones joined the Steelers lol game over.
Im hoping for an OKC vs GS season opener, and for Russell Westbrook to drop 40pts , 12reb, 12asst beat the Warriors then after the game just stare down KD with the meanest ugliest stare until KD leaves the arena.
We saw what Westy could do without KD on a much younger/weaker OKC squad in 2014 where he was putting up Oscar Robinson numbers...human triple double and scoring leader, where Steph Robbed his MVP. Westy about to show out this season.