KevinMcreynolds wrote:HiRez wrote:I'm not quite as pessimistic, I'll say 45% Knicks, 20% Clips, 10% Lakers (don't think he wants to play second fiddle to LeBron and deal with his passive-aggressive drama), and 25% Warriors. Which still means I think he's probably gone though.
I'll go...
20% Clippers
20% Dallas
60% Dubs
0% Knicks
I don't see any stars wanting to sign up to play for Dolan/Mills/Perry.
I'd really be surprised if he'd go to a team which couldn't sign Kyrie or some other max player at the same time.
I doubt he wants to give up all chances to compete for a title. He's not getting any younger so what's he going to do now, try to emulate Harden and try to maximize individual stats?
In that case, sure he'd have to dominate usage. But he isn't going to be able to do that at Dallas and I would think the Clippers and Knicks would both want to sign two max players, not just one.
I don't know if you can say the Warriors have a better chance than other teams to have him next season and beyond. Unless things change by the end of the season, he seems pretty alienated from the rest of the team. I guess he talks to other people at half time instead of being in the locker room with the rest of the team.
I wonder if there were signs like this his last season at OKC. But the fact that he didn't sign an extension and then after the season he held all these pitch meetings certainly were tip-offs that he was leaving.
Maybe he was more pissed off from the parade than we thought at the time.
