I'll name this offseason thread later: The NBA 2019 Offseason/Free Agency Thread

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Yeah but kawhi is the better player. Dwade was equal to lebron at the time.

Bron has a huge ego as well. There will be drama in that locker room by all star

Yeah that’s facts. Basketball wise it’s going to be a bad fit. People think Lebron is about to be a full time point guard and be like Magic Johnson, when that’s never been his game. He’s also chasing stats (and scoring record).

Kyrie fit with Lebron because they played so different; Kawhi and AD operate in the same spots on the floor as Lebron and neither one are catch and shoot players

 

[cartierhoe]

Typical Bron Stanleys trying to spin this like it isnt a p*ssy move on Kawhi’s part


Yall were just complaining for the last 3 years that the competitive balance in the league was bushed because of KD’s move, but what Kawhi is doing is ok?

Bron stans and Laker fans joined forces now

Y’all was crying about competitive balance the last 3 years

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

If he's coming off a chip and the other two guys are coming off missing the playoffs, wouldn't they be the ones helping him get a ring? It's impossible for a person that just won a chip and Finals MVP to be operating from a position of weakness.



Bu...bu...but other players chose to player with other great players that they didn't have dead to rights and then turn around and suffer a historic collapse against though . Let's just be 100, people let the KD shyt ride or outright supported it because they thought it was the end of Bron and they are bemoaning this before it even happens because it would give Bron new life, well even newer life after Davis joined the squad.

This is some shameful revisionist history

 

[Ron Mexico]

Like, you HAVE to be a TRUE foreal to life fan of that muthafukka to do that shyt.
Thats like feeling a chick hardbody but setting your best friend up to get with her and shyt.

on some, "damn i wanna be with her!


BUT THATS MY MANS THO!!!"

True

Kawhi only has one less ring than Lebron despite not having the advantage of hopping from team to team stacking the deck. You'd think he would be trying to pass Lebron instead of going to the same team. NBA needs that competitiveness back among the top players.

 

[FTBS]

People didn’t let the KD move ride .... lmao

I heard way more "It's his life.", "Where else did you want him to go?" etc. back then. We can't act like it was anywhere near what Bron caught despite being clearly being a "worse" move. Sure you had people down on him but he had plenty of pleas copped on his behalf. Acting like it is comparable to Bron to MIA or even Kawhi to LA is a plea in and of itself.

 

[Brozay]

He would be coming off a Finals MVP to roll with two nikkas that have been home since April.

They weren’t even on the same team yet ... It’s very similar to Brons move to the Heat to team with Wade/Bosh. Less pure hate because Bron leaving his ‘hometown’ and doing so in a live tv spectacle, and a parade the next day

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Yeah but kawhi is the better player. Dwade was equal to lebron at the time.

Bron has a huge ego as well. There will be drama in that locker room by all star

This has never been true....wtf

 

[FTBS]

This is some shameful revisionist history

What is revised?

 

[cartierhoe]

Stars teaming up is stars teaming up don’t give me that record bullshyt because it doesn’t matter

Either stars teaming up and wrecking the league is good or bad

 

[Kang Deezy]

kawhi has wanted to be a laker since he was a kid

He was an Iverson fan, stop it

 

[Brozay]

I heard way more "It's his life.", "Where else did you want him to go?" etc. back then. We can't act like it was anywhere near what Bron caught despite being clearly being a "worse" move. Sure you had people down on him but he had plenty of pleas copped on his behalf. Acting like it is comparable to Bron to MIA or even Kawhi to LA is a plea in and of itself.

Kawhi hasn’t even gone to LA yet, and early indications are the sentiments are the exact same as KD to GSW.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

What is revised?

People letting KD ride

The only reason people are saying this move is okay is because they hated the Warriors that much after he joined the team and now Lebron has a chance to win again

“Oh I’m done with the NBA”

“This is the weakest move by a superstar ever”

“It’s not fair”

 

[FAH1223]

Still a weak move. Bron and KD all made weak moves. If Kwahi goes to the Lakers. I hope y’all give Kwahi the same energy like y’all gave Bron and KD.

Kawhi just won an NBA Championship as the best player on the floor.

MUCH MUCH DIFFERENT SITUATION.

 

[philmonroe]

Not comparable

KD straight up joined the enemy that just beat his ass, and was obv already a ready-made 73 win team.

Plus Kawhi is going home which he said he wanted to do before any of this

Plus he already won fmvp w two franchises, nothing to prove

Lol at bringing up player heights and of course the real issue everyone that tries to make this argument has: "Why would he help Lebron?"



Not even comparable situations.

This the exact bytch logic in talking about. nikkas sound like bytches with all the excuses and shyt. Either your with dudes teaming up forming these almost guaranteed chips or you’re not. fukk all the semantics of blah blah blah is different because end of the day this potential team will be just as loaded and deadly as GS or Mia when they got together.

 

[FTBS]

They weren’t even on the same team yet ... It’s very similar to Brons move to the Heat to team with Wade/Bosh. Less pure hate because Bron leaving his ‘hometown’ and doing so in a live tv spectacle, and a parade the next day

Nonetheless they missed the playoffs last year while Kawhi, while not on the same team yet, won a chip. He's clearly the power player in this scenario no matter what he does.

There are similarities. There significant differences as well. So significant that's rather silly to compare.

So let me get this straight...doing a TV special and pep rally (not alone mind you) is on par with blowing a 3-1 lead and then going to that team?