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GoddamnyamanProf said:
This is what you want to happen, not what will happen. Lebron is Lebron. Durant aint Lebron. Everyone ain't magically gonna like Durant again, especially when you have constant reminders on national tv of just how fugazi the Warriors actually are with this nonsense.
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It’s what I know is gonna happen. Nobody magically liked Lebron again either. He had literally had to work his way back up
 
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King Brim said:
The same thing was said about Bron and after he lost to the Mavs, a lot of people and media crucified him. 6 years later nikkas leap frogged him all the way to a discussion with Jordan as the GOAT. Give KD 2 more rings, hell even a ring and FMVP this year with another outstanding performance and he’ll slowly but surely start to win the media and public back.
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The difference so far is that Lebron had to overcome real adversity (lose Bosh and go down in multiple series in 2012, go down 3-2 to the Spurs in 2013, down 3-1 to the 73-win Warriors in 2016) and turn in some of the most epic performances in NBA history (the 45-15-5 Game 6 in Boston in basically three quarters, putting up 37-11-6 and hitting huge shots to beat the Spurs in their own house in Game 7, and back-to-back 40-10-10 games followed with a 27-11-11 and The Block to beat the Warriors in Game 7 on their own floor) in order to win those three titles. And along the way he said annoying stuff at times, but also was as real as any NBA player and was making a lot of dope moves left and right.

Durant, meanwhile, joined a team that had already had a title in the bag and had won 70+ games the year before. They basically sleptwalk to the title - yeah he played great, but often it was unclear whether he even needed to. He won the Finals MVP by making the plays he was asked to make, but the other team still centered their entire defensive strategy around Curry, not him. And along the way he's been really, really annoying on a personal level without doing much to counteract it.

I think Durant is a top-3 NBA player (already was for years before the move to Golden State happened) and I like the way he plays a lot. But he isn't the most enjoyable player to root for. Right now even if Lebron were to retire today, I'd get a lot more fun over seeing Kawhi or Giannis or even Embiid take over the league than watching Curry, Durant, Klay, Draymond, and the rest of that squad just steamroll teams by default.
 
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AvadaKadaBreh said:
Or maybe, just maybe....hear me out on this....it really isn't the end all be all for him.
I swear, folks on here take this more serious than the players do.
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Maybe if he was more dedicated he wouldn't have lost that many finals

If it was love, his passion


But he don't even really care about ball like that
 
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Inertia Creeps said:
Lebron was the most widely hated and reviled athlete in America for YEARS after the Miami move; y'all are either being purposefully disingenuous, weren't paying even the slightest bit of attention to the NBA during that time, or both. KD has never, not now, last year, or ever before that, come close to approaching that national phenomenon of visceral hate and scorn that LBJ had to deal with after The Decision. Salty casuals might cry foul over their perpetual scapegoat of "parity" (How many total rings do the Lakers and Celtics own all time??) and former OKC fans will boo and whine on twitter and yahoo comments for a few years, but when all's said and done, if KD continues to accumulate accolades and performances like he did in last year's finals he will absolutely be in the same historical conversations that people vault James into now and his sudden change of teams forgotten/excused just like Bron's was.

Deny it if you want, but don't be moving them goalposts or backtracking with those takes once it is over and both of these guys are on the verge of, if not outright retired.
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Bron said it himself aint no team including these warriors or KD catching the hate that 2010-2014 Heat had got idk wtf these nikkas thinking bout :laff:
 
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Inertia Creeps said:
Lebron was the most widely hated and reviled athlete in America for YEARS after the Miami move; y'all are either being purposefully disingenuous, weren't paying even the slightest bit of attention to the NBA during that time, or both. KD has never, not now, last year, or ever before that, come close to approaching that national phenomenon of visceral hate and scorn that LBJ had to deal with after The Decision. Salty casuals might cry foul over their perpetual scapegoat of "parity" (How many total rings do the Lakers and Celtics own all time??) and former OKC fans will boo and whine on twitter and yahoo comments for a few years, but when all's said and done, if KD continues to accumulate accolades and performances like he did in last year's finals he will absolutely be in the same historical conversations that people vault James into now and his sudden change of teams forgotten/excused just like Bron's was.

Deny it if you want, but don't be moving them goalposts or backtracking with those takes once it is over and both of these guys are on the verge of, if not outright retired.
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That's why I laugh at what these dudes say because it's literally just a rehash (albeit some differences) of what the entire sports world said about Bron, hell his/Miami's hate was 10x worse. Let KD keep winning chips for a few more years and the same sports world that demonizes and crucifies KD right now will be asking the question "Is KD the GOAT?" Like clockwork lmao. Hell Bron only won 2 in Miami and he had them saying that after the second one. Clear as day, you can even go back and compare articles from when Bron just joined Miami to after the second ring/return to Cle.
 
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