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Originally Posted by TambaBerry
Because if you were in his shoes you'd go to the Timberwolves or Buck's right?
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He had other options than the Timberwolves or Bucks. You don't constantly call someone 'your little brother' and call the Thunder 'a family' and then go and play for the team that just knocked you out of the playoffs and who had one of their players kick one of your teammates in the nuts.
Durant is as fake as they come.
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Originally Posted by -King-
The "He took the easy way out to get a ring" argument is BS because why the hell would he take the hard way to get a ring? If you're a great player and you can go play with other great players with a great coach in a great system in a great city....why would you not go? Should you go to a shittier team just to prove something to NBA fans? Carmelo Anthony went that route and how did that turn out?
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Most of the best players don't want to play with other best players because they want to beat them. They have a competitiveness about them. Durant clearly lacks that.. He would rather play with the best than go up against them. It is painfully obvious given his choice to leave the Thunder the way he did.
A lot of people are probably like Durant but plenty are not. Plenty of people would never join a team they lost to after losing a tough 7-gm series like Durant did. They'd want to come back and beat the hell out of that team if given the chance.
As far as Carmelo Anthony, hey he had a chance to leave the Knicks and he resigned so clearly he couldn't have been that unhappy about going there. Winning a championship the easy way isn't always as attractive to some of these guys as you would think for a lot of reasons.