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As a Heat fan it was a strange position to be in when Lebron joined.
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Yo fam you remember that Philly game where he dunked on Shawn Bradley TWICE? How bout that game in Milwaukee where he jumped from damn near the FT line? Good ol days growing up as a youngn watching EJ and Nick
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AD was there 7 years dawg. Let's not play dumb to the Pelicans being a mess. He wanted out to better himself. Same way Dallas traded Harrison Barnes, same way the Raps looked Demar in his face and said we're not trading you, then traded him. If it's all business, not personal then keep it that way. Y'all just doing a bunch of "well that was different" sounded like Red.
What black eye (pun intended). The people still crying are just upset he went to the Lakers.
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Bottom line. Teams trade players under contract all the time, but when a player does what's best for him, it's bad for the league.
I ain't going. Kerr can shut the hell up.
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Lol at taken our of context. Just sounds like sour grapes to me. Organizations do this **** all the time. He probably just mad that light years Lacob wasn't able to take advantage of a disgruntled star situation this time.
You know what was really 'bad for the league'? Adding KD to a 73 win team and nuking any thought of competitive balance in the league on paper.
Kerr need to shut the hell up and coach now that the division is going to be the best in basketball. Going to see what he's really made of with a level playing field.
dacomeup
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But KD had a right to become a FA at the end of the year and he chose to leave. You're comparing apples and oranges.Dray was recruiting KD all that season while he was "under contract" with OKC. Does Steve Kerr think that was bad the leauge?
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Thats what I was thinking.
dacomeup
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Clippers were my favorite team growing up for sure. Those young dudes at the time were iconic without even making the playoffs.
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It's not taking outta context. You can hear the whole statement.
Teams have tanked seasons to have a better future if you wanna go there. No matter how you cut it, these owner are flat out upset they players have the power.
Dray was recruiting KD all that season while he was "under contract" with OKC. Does Steve Kerr think that was bad the leauge?
When I say “taken out of context”...I’m speaking entirely to the context that Perk/Talking heads are putting it, into.
And that’s the “bad for the league” and comparing it to competitive balance ****.
Kerr literally said, “Fully healthy players with years left on their contracts” DURING the season. That COULD be bad if taken to the extreme.
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Why y'all keep saying AD shut himself down. We were debating for a week if the Pels had the right to shut down a healthy superstar because he wanted to play. New Orleans was the one trying to protect their asset as well as punish him by playing him only 20 minutes a game after the whole trade debacle.
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Sammeee. I remember hating Kobe after they traded EJ.
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dudes hated curry when the warriors traded Monta too lol.
In both instances...Jerry West made the right call lol.
Logo goals.
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I hated Kobe when he jacked up 4 air balls in that sweep to the Jazz. I was ultra heated.
My Laker favorites went from Byron Scott, to Sedale Threatt, to NVE, then to Kobe. Now, prob Kuz lol
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Granted...AD is now playing with LeBron (the year 17, 35 year old version)...
But he also played with a healthy Boogie, Motivated Rondo, Mirotic, Jrue.
Two of those guys are with AD again on the Lakers. Let’s see if that’s “enough in the west” now. Cuz it could go downhill...and I’ll be here to tell you how this Lakers 19-20 team with AD could play out like a 6/7 seed AD Pels team....
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Seriously
. But even if that was the case, a bunch of people were saying it's perfectly fine for a team to shutdown a player. It's bad for the league if the player shuts himself down tho
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He wasn't a FA while him and Dray talking about him going to GS during that regular season. By Kerr's logic KD "owed" OKC to wait till he officially became a FA.
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athletes talking about linking up during FA =/= demanding a trade midseason while still under contract for 1.5 seasons
KD didn't stop competing for OKC just because he knew he wanted to go to the warriors the following season.
dacomeup
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KD played out his contract and didn't demand a trade a year and a half away from Free Agency. Apples and oranges.
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What's the difference between what AD did as a player and what the Clippers did to Blake?
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i'd say there are alot of worse things for the league than that singular issue
but pelicans were purposely sitting dude because they were tanking and didnt want dude to risk getting hurt to hurt his value
hell, i a bigger issue to me that wont get discussed, is silver making the 76ers fire hinkie AND hire colangelo who then hired his kid
i say that because you got teams like the lakers and knicks who were/are being incompetently run and werent/arent told shh.. meanwhile the 6ers take advantage of something and are straight forward about it and the league steps in and ends up screwing them in the process
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