Kevin Durant has requested a trade out of Brooklyn: He has decided to stay in Brooklyn: Storyline over

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Why so people keep saying this inaccurate shyt? Kevin Durant never wanted Nash. That was ALL Marks hiring his best friend. You really let them spin this shyt. KD specifically said Tyron Lue. And what do you mean the team he wanted? KD told them to sign a bunch of undersized guards and to not get anything back for Spencer? To reject bringing back Kuzma? To trade a first round pick for Royce O’Neal instead of just re-signing Bruce Brown who they didn’t even offer? What are you actually talking about? Marks has been ass as a GM for KD’s entire tenure and he started it off by hiring his friend Nash. I’d want out too.
Undersized guards:gucci:
So I guess signing the corpse of Deandre Jordan on KD’s say so was a great solution huh
We had a promising young big man and capable 2 guard in Jarrett Allen and Caris Levert, but we traded them for Harden
And Harden left because KD’s boy Kyrie was on dikkhead timing not showing up to work
 

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everyone knows how you people operate in the bay area...double dipping and such

also everyone competing in the same env does not equal begging a top 15 player of all time to join your 73 win team cause you choked
ok, breh...i'm too grown to get in a catfight with you over monkeypox

and luckily i don't play for the warriors and have zero involvement in how or who they pursue :ld:, but those two rings are on the books and i enjoyed myself at the parade :pachaha: ...feel free to stay mad about it tho :umad:

hope you enjoyed your bubble parade :ehh:....oh yea, yall didn't get one :mjlol:
 

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Btw, Shams was on The Pat McAffee Showand said flat out that this never happened :dead:
 

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Undersized guards:gucci:
So I guess signing the corpse of Deandre Jordan on KD’s say so was a great solution huh
We had a promising young big man and capable 2 guard in Jarrett Allen and Caris Levert, but we traded them for Harden
And Harden left because KD’s boy Kyrie was on dikkhead timing not showing up to work
Did KD tell them to make those trades Nîgga? Deandre was benched for Allen what the fukk are you talking about? You’re the GM - you don’t have to make any of those trades. LA literally told Bron fukk outta here this year. Stop absolving this nikka Marks.
 

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Why so people keep saying this inaccurate shyt? Kevin Durant never wanted Nash. That was ALL Marks hiring his best friend. You really let them spin this shyt. KD specifically said Tyron Lue. And what do you mean the team he wanted? KD told them to sign a bunch of undersized guards and to not get anything back for Spencer? To reject bringing back Kuzma? To trade a first round pick for Royce O’Neal instead of just re-signing Bruce Brown who they didn’t even offer? What are you actually talking about? Marks has been ass as a GM for KD’s entire tenure and he started it off by hiring his friend Nash. I’d want out too.
Nets been on a “taking back our franchise” grand tour but somehow the guy KD allegedly hired as the coach avoids the axe? Nah.

The nets have played everybody
 
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who are you posting this to? i've been vocal about how fukked up it is for a player to commit in good faith to a team only to be dealt a year later, but like my post says, being against that doesn't mean you also can't be against players doing the same and/or making themselves GM. i think the next CBA there needs to be agreement that neither management or players can seek trades on max deals until after year 1 or 2...both sides need to be true to their word and give the team some time to see how the signing is playing out.
You can complain all you want …in the new nba players sign and ask to leave and the front office can sign and then trade a player …that’s the reality :manny:

but at the end of the day, as i said, teams do have the leverage as no deal gets made in any of these instances without GM's/front offices signing off. you can feel how you want about that :manny: it's reality
I can only recall 1 situation over the last few years where a superstar especially in their prime was traded to a place they objected or stated they’d refuse to play for and that was Kawhi … I’ll let you figure out why that is .. but yes if you think the GM’s control the leverage in these situations…that’s certainly your prerogative.. recent history says otherwise however
 

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These silly ass nikkas have no problem with the hypocrisy because they’re trained to be obedient at their own 9-5’s …they would never dare to disobey “boss” that’s why the players being able to exert power is such a foreign concept

I'm so anti-super player empowerment because it hinders any GM's ability to build a stable foundation. Why draft a potential superstar? You know there's now a 90% chance he's gone with the first reup. Why bring in a superstar FA, when he's gone in 3? Then, these draftees aren't ready to step into that role immediately, so you give them the 3-4 years to develop and now they're gone 2 years later. So if you're my "franchise future" I also can't bring in anyone on a higher level than you, because then you'll leave. But if I'm making moves to build a team around you, and the team still isn't making that next level leap, you're going to say we not trying to win. It's damn near impossible to build anything.

So how does one compete? As a GM, you now have to Lebron it, and throw everything at the wall for a 3-4 year window. In doing so, you lose your young superstar, and draft picks are worthless because you're trying to win now.
 

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You can complain all you want …in the new nba players sign and ask to leave and the front office can sign and then trade a player …that’s the reality :manny:


I can only recall 1 situation over the last few years where a superstar especially in their prime was traded to a place they objected or stated they’d refuse to play for and that was Kawhi … I’ll let you figure out why that is .. but yes if you think the GM’s control the leverage in these situations…that’s certainly your prerogative.. recent history says otherwise however
you really just replying to reply now...and who on the other end signs those trades to get players to their desired location - a GM/front office. takes two GM's and two yes's to make a move happen.
 

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He didn't ask for Nash that's fan-fiction
He still got kenny atkinson (an actual coach) fired, and still got everything he wanted

He wanted to play with Kyrie, check
He wanted Harden, check
He wanted DeAndre jordan to start over soon-to-be All Star Jarrett Allen, check

KD should really be thanking the Warriors, because if he didn't join a 73-9 win team that clearly didnt need him, he'd still be ringless :wow:
 

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I'm so anti-super player empowerment because it hinders any GM's ability to build a stable foundation. Why draft a potential superstar? You know there's now a 90% chance he's gone with the first reup. Why bring in a superstar FA, when he's gone in 3? Then, these draftees aren't ready to step into that role immediately, so you give them the 3-4 years to develop and now they're gone 2 years later.

Then fukking quit …get your weak non-communicative incompetent ass the fukk out of the nba and go work a government job …wash up and go home nikka this shyt ain’t for you ..you’re not tall enough to hop on this ride :camby: sick of hearing these nonsense fake ass sob stories about why a GM sucks at their job …these are the requirements if you can’t hack it move along for someone else who can ..there’s been plenty of orgs that have built great teams in this era so stop crying and the way the draft works you are practically guaranteed control over a player for their first seven years because no superstar player rejects that first max contract ..so given all of tht if you’re still too incompetent to do the job just say tht but stop with the excuses blaming it on “player empowerment” it’s clown shyt


So if you're my "franchise future" I also can't bring in anyone on a higher level than you, because then you'll leave. But if I'm making moves to build a team around you, and the team still isn't making that next level leap, you're going to say we not trying to win. It's damn near impossible to build anything.
This is nonsense …literally trying to make these GM’s victims for being incompetent..name me the players who complain that their team is “too talented” :dead:

So how does one compete? As a GM, you now have to Lebron it, and throw everything at the wall for a 3-4 year window. In doing so, you lose your young superstar, and draft picks are worthless because you're trying to win now.
Is that how the Warriors won JUST 2 moths ago? “LeBronimg it” :russ:
 

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you really just replying to reply now...and who on the other end signs those trades to get players to their desired location - a GM/front office. takes two GM's and two yes's to make a move happen.
It takes a superstar player wanting or willing to go anywhere before you even get to talking about a “GM sign off” but again …like I said recent history shows who holds the leverage in these scenarios…if you’d like to argue against that that’s certainly your prerogative :manny:
 
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