**OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD**

Which team will win the 2018-2019 NBA Championship?


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The 2016 Warriors were obviously great, but they also should've lost to OKC and did lose to the Cavs. Held court the first 2 games in the finals (winning G2 by a ton) and then got the piss beat out of them in Game 3. Warriors win Game 4, but Draymond does Draymond things, accumulating an unnecessary amount of techs. Can't make any excuses for that, that's just who he is. Just like how Russ can make 3 incredible plays and follow it up with 5 idiotic ones.

2017 Cavs were a better team than they were in 2016, IMO. Offense was clicking at an even higher level. Warriors obviously still would've had a great shot to win the title with HB and without KD, but the addition of KD gave them no doubt.

Next year will be fun if KD leaves.
 
Did Golden State need KD in order to continue to be a championship caliber team and probable favorite to win a title each year? No.

Did they need KD to become an unstoppable juggernaut that is basically guanteeed to win the title each year as long as they’re mostly healthy? Yes.
 
I'll never understand how a team that already won a chip, then went 73-9 the next season with mostly the same personnel, suddenly 'needed' the second player in the league to win a title :lol:

Yea', I don't see how anyone can imply that Warriors NEED Kevin Durant to win a championship. The word need is ridiculous in almost any context here. The "73 win Warriors were actually the indignant Warriors" argument ain't it

I think(I'm almost sure it was VARNELL) someone here said yesterday that Warriors couldn't win with Jimmy Butler in KD's place lmao Maybe we have to believe in the hypothetical future in which Steph doesn't play past April to see these needs
 
Yea', I don't see how anyone can imply that Warriors NEED Kevin Durant to win a championship. The word need is ridiculous in almost any context here. The "73 win Warriors were actually the indignant Warriors" argument ain't it

Agreed. To use an analogy I’ve leaned from the younger generation, the pre-KD Warriors were perfectly capable of beating the game playing the regularly way. But they went with using the cheat code instead by adding KD...
 
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