Adam Silver has ruined the nba. I don't blame the rockets. They didn't choke. The sad thing is that the rockets can pretty much sweep any other team in the league and even they can't give the warriors a run for their money. The nba is a joke. Why even have a playoffs anymore.
No I'm not crying, I'm just facing the reality. Sorry you don't get. Your team has no chance against the warriors, nobody's team has a chance against them. And Adam Silver loves that.
no we are crying because there is no real check and balance in NBA.. how can an NBA team who wins 73 games and loses a game tied with 53 seconds left in game 7 of the NBA be allowed to get a former MVP player who has yet to really hit his prime.. both steph and KD were recipient of the last three season MVP winners, and they got to play without having to make any trade or losing any real assets. We lost Lou Will, Pat Bev, Montrez Harrell and Sam Decker for a player who basically give us 60 games.. we could have won 60+ games keeping the players we lost.. Point is I dont want Lebron with no trade because that will be unfair for the rest of the NBA, but I don't want this crap done to us either.. Warriors would have been a really good story, because the team was organically built, then they got KD and in my view tarnished their legacy..
What's crazy is in the offseason the Rockets are going to ramp up and become a next level super team. Is that the type of league NBA wants to be? Where there are what 25 Allstars and two teams have 7-8 of them.
You can blame CP3 for beating the Warriors five years ago in the first round of the playoffs. If the Warriors had won, Mark Jackson likely wouldn’t have been fired and they’d still be playing ISO ball with Steph and Klay.
The Durant debacle isn't even the mainproblem with the lack of cap smoothing. It ****ed over SO many players from getting paid. The Player's Association and the league are supposed to look out for the best interests of all players, not just the Chandler Parsons, Mike Conley, and Evan Turners of the world who lucked into free agency that one particular year. Now more deserving players like Lou Williams and PJ Tucker are financially ****ed over because of the league's ridiculous decision-making. Adam Silver gets a lot of credit as a commisioner because he banned some moron owner for making racist statements in a PRIVATE conversation. Besides that, what has he actually done? Flaunt his delusional sense of grandeur over the league's outspokenness of liberal social issues? Make the league a few million extra bucks by pasting hideous logos on iconic uniforms? Silver sucks. The league revenue is at an all-time high but that doesn't correlate to great product. Right now, the Warriors are going to win the next 3-5 titles GUARANTEED if they stick together, and the incentive for teams to pay luxury taxes to compete against an unbeatable team becomes pointless. Harden and CP3's prime may be wasted because the league opted to allow anti-competitive superstars like KD to crawl to a rival team that just humiliated him and his guys the month prior. Such a shame.
So you folks are "upset" because KD - who was a FREE AGENT decided to go to GS which was already loaded at that time (I suggest that you get a dictionay and look up the term "free agent"). Now, where was all of this angst when LeBron decided to "take his talents" to South Beach? Or during the 80's when the NBA believed having super teams in NY, LA and Boston was the best thing for the league (translation TV ratings)? From where I sit, KD made the correct decision, as did LeBron, CP3, Harden and Kyrie because at the end of the day great players know that their legacy will be judged on how many rings they have won. And when a great player has given all he can give to an organization but that's not in the cards, then moving on may well indeed be the best course of action for that athlete. But don't take my word for it - just ask Karl Malone, John Stockton, Bob Lanier and oh yeah - Charles Barkley.
