LeBron joined a 47 win Miami Heat team. KD joined a 73 win GSW team that had gone to b2b finals.
The Heat were great because of LeBron. GSW were already great.
Big difference.
Yup... 100% agree.
I’m gonna go on abit of a rant here...
I wasn’t initially a fan of Lebron’s move either as it was artificially creating something as opposed to letting it grow organically... but I changed my opinion when I thought deeper about it....
KD on the other hand... that shit was shattering... and not because I’m more of a OKC fan these days than any other team....
But just the way it ruined the league...
The NBA Season and those Playoffs in 2016 were the best I think I had ever seen... it was the peak of the league IMO...
The Warriors broke the Bulls regular season record with 73 wins... the Spurs weren’t too far behind them too...
Then in the playoffs you had OKC coming from 2 games down to beat the Spurs... then the 7 game series in the WCF... and of course the 7 game series in the finals...
Going into that offseason the way they were all built... there was genuinely nothing between the Cavs, GS, OKC & the Spurs.
And then you had up and coming young teams like Toronto, Portland & Houston.
And then KD f**ks it all up by jumping to GS.... and it’s not even about KD leaving OKC... at the end of the day I don’t begrudge any player choosing where they want to play... but if he had left for a different team other than the Cavs, Spurs or GS it would have only weakened OKC... but the competitive balance would still have been about the same.
Anyway i better stop ranting... but that’s always pissed me off as it just felt like we had the perfect f**king league for about a month... and KD f**ked it all up...