With Durant/GSW pulling their Harlem Globetrotter crap on the league now, I'm finding it difficult to care either way. I think implicit in the 10 good years route, which I would've voted for, you still believe there's a chance every now and then. That's completely gone now.
I enjoy hearing that we are the 3rd most winningest team in the regular season over the past 10 years Whatever that means....
9 bad years so other rivals can build up their bad mojo credit, ending the decade with the title so I can unleash a tsunami of sh*t talking to said rivals. Winning the hardware is hard enough so I would bet that rivals would have to wait a long time to get back at me for that.
1 title and 9 awful years IF it's a guarantee. Only reason why I don't think we should go 100% all out and mortgage our future is because I don't believe it's possible to assemble a team to beat the Warriors with our current assets and cap space.
Is this even a question? sports is all about championship. Nobody care if or how you played first round or second round or in final. People and fans will only remember the year you are champion. Once a champion, forever a champion.
If this is an argument about tanking, the fact is you don't KNOW that you're going to 1) draft a superstar, 2) that you'll ever win a title. So quitting, aka tanking, to get high draft picks isn't a guarantee at a title. The same teams are crappy every single year with very little change...obviously it hasn't worked for them. I much prefer the Rockets method of working hard and always giving the fans a reason to cheer for them. I would hate to be a 76ers fan. I think it's shameful, tbh.
