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OKC is in no-man's land. Number 8 seed, no lottery, superstar possibly damaged goods for his career. Have a score first point guard left to build around.
OKC. Piece of rinky dink operation. Durant should have been off that foot for at least 3 months.
OKC is in no-man's land. Number 8 seed, no lottery, superstar possibly damaged goods for his career. Have a score first point guard left to build around.
Atleast 3 months of rest is recommended for elite level athletes with Jones fracture.He hurt himself in mid October.They should of never brought him back until all star break on cautionary side.Dumb s.
Agreed 100%. Of course, didn't OKC just guarantee that nobody else will sign Durant by damaging him in a contract year when there's been talk of him making 200 million dollars?
It is amazing how the media and fans project a team into greatness and how things can change. In 2011 after they beat the Spurs and go to the finals all the talk was about how the torch had passed in the west and with Durant, Westbrook and Harden they will dominate the West for years winning multiple chips. FF one year later and Harden is in Houston and suddenly Westbrook is battling injuries. They have a great year last year winning 59 games with Durant winning the MVP but the old boring Spurs had something to say about them going back to the finals.. Now Durant is dealing with injuries and there is genuine panic he won't be able to get back to his old level.
Clay Bennett is SO stupid. You NEVER get rid of talent like Harden over a couple of mil. Both Westbrook (meniscus, multiple) and Durant (Jones fracture) have dubious long term prognoses. Harden, meanwhile, cruises along, healthy as a horse.
Well for now.. Durant was Mr. Reliability until this season. I get why they traded Harden because it would have been 3 max deals on one team. And they probably would have tried to lowball him as well.
They DID lowball him, which was stupid. You don't trade that kind of talent. Philadelphia destroyed their team, for three years in a row, looking for ONE player that good.
If they had salary issues, they should have amnestied or traded Perk LONG before they actually did. That would have given them the $$$ that they needed, and he was no longer needed once Bynum left and Duncan moved to the high post.
I don't think the dynamic was going to hold up in OKC with Harden there. The last 2 years people have been telling Westbrook he shoots too much and defer to Durant. Add Harden to that mix a guy who was leading the league in scoring most of this season and it's a very difficult situation to manage for any coach.
Harden loved the Ginobili comparisons and being the bench guy who closed the game, and no way he leaves if OKC didn't try to lowball him like he wasn't an all-star talent. That was all about money.
Yeah, I hope Durant recovers to become an MVP level player again, and I hope it's in Washington since OKC was so reckless with his future. They don't deserve a player like him when they were too cheap to keep a guaranteed le team together and then put the team's short term interests ahead of both sides' long term interests. OKC has great fans and they would have still showed up for games and bought season tickets with Durant ruled out for the season, just like they did with that lousy Hornets team. I don't understand at all what they were thinking. Getting a player like Durant is so rare for a franchise, I mean the league sees a guy like him enter maybe every 3 years or so, and with 30 teams your odds of getting another Kevin Durant aren't too good. Bennett is like their Red McCombs.
Everyone and their mother knew Durant really shouldn't have even played this season. But OKC is known to panic.
They panicked two years ago and traded Harden.
They panicked after losing the first two last year and rushed Ibaka back.
They panicked this year while being under .500 and rushed Durant back....twice.
It's like they have insecurities about being out of the spotlight because they're in Oklahoma, and do everything they can stay relevant in every moment. They have no confidence to be patient even if that means losing a season.
Last edited by UZER; 03-29-2015 at 11:18 AM.
okc. Getting exactly what they deserve, tbh.
Usually I feel bad for franchises battling injuries to their stars. Not this time.
I feel bad for Durant. the Thunder.
They're currently on pace to pick #19, which would mean their selection goes to Cleveland (top 18 protected).
I remember telling people back in 2012 that OKC was going to be Cavs 2.0 (getting to the finals an never getting back) Everyone was saying how they would reach so many finals and how easy it would be for them, and how bright of a future they have. The Thunder are a year away now from confirming that.
And honestly you can blame injury but keeping Scott Brooks has been the biggest issue with them, and now with Scott Brooks back next year in all likelihood, they have no chance of getting back even if healthy. Durant will leave for Washington in 2016, Westbrook will leave for LA in 2017.....
The panicking goes deeper.
Amazing that a team that refused to sign Tyson Chandler because he once had a foot injury has ruined the best they ever had by playing him through a foot injury.
No chance he was going to be alright with being on that bench his whole career. Harden is an arrogant prick who loves the spotlight..
And every player wants to carve out their own legacy. Harden is on a hall of fame path the last few years of his career he needed to get out of OKC for that to happen. He was in the shadow of not just one but two players..
Last edited by dbreiden83080; 03-29-2015 at 02:35 PM.
You're just hypothesizing. I'm going by what he actually said, over and over again.
You honestly think he wanted to stay there and be a 3rd wheel? How does that make sense?
Because he'd be co-first wheel now? The ONLY reason he left was money. If they'd have paid him, he'd have stayed.
Uh okay. Did the contract come with a magic 8 ball?
i don't know if you followed this when it went down, but he CLEARLY did not want to leave OKC. It's also not a stretch to think that over the life of the contract, one of the other two would get injured in some fashion.
Man I wish Harden really would have been the third wheel in the 2012 WCF.
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