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Daffy wrote:contract wrote:
As he should. Players have gotten out of control. They arrive making demands, and when those demands are met and **** blows up, they don't take responsibility. They just come up with a new list of demands. Owners need to put an end to this nonsense.
End to this nonsense.....after we get KD.
Timantha wrote:When does KD tweet back at Joe Tsai
IceColdCubano wrote:Timantha wrote:When does KD tweet back at Joe Tsai
If I was Durant I would tweet:
"You can do whatever your want, You can keep the dumpster fire of a Coach & GM, but you'll just be fanning the flames for the foreseeable future by keeping them"
IceColdCubano wrote:Timantha wrote:When does KD tweet back at Joe Tsai
If I was Durant I would tweet:
"You can do whatever your want, You can keep the dumpster fire of a Coach & GM, but you'll just be fanning the flames for the foreseeable future by keeping them"
Kobewade11 wrote:KD’s timing on this was all wrong from the beginning, I honestly dont even know what he was thinking waiting until FA to declare his intentions
contract wrote:IceColdCubano wrote:Timantha wrote:When does KD tweet back at Joe Tsai
If I was Durant I would tweet:
"You can do whatever your want, You can keep the dumpster fire of a Coach & GM, but you'll just be fanning the flames for the foreseeable future by keeping them"
Probably not a good idea to start the suspension process this early.
Kinda off like the drunk guy who forgot the safe word and finds himself in the European hostel bathroom facedown inside a sailors barrel with a glory hole behind him. MettaWorldPanda wrote:Kobewade11 wrote:KD’s timing on this was all wrong from the beginning, I honestly dont even know what he was thinking waiting until FA to declare his intentions
For real. Somebody is giving him awful advice.
IceColdCubano wrote:contract wrote:IceColdCubano wrote:If I was Durant I would tweet:
"You can do whatever your want, You can keep the dumpster fire of a Coach & GM, but you'll just be fanning the flames for the foreseeable future by keeping them"
Probably not a good idea to start the suspension process this early.
I think its the perfect time to start, let your intentions known now get the blood moving and migraines coming for management out of the way in the beginning. This allows the team can start the healing process and get through the acceptance stage quickly.
Grumpy Heat Fan wrote:KD is starting to feel some anxiety, he is going to need therapy and maybe his back hurts too much too. might need to sit out while he undergoes treatment for anxiety.
wadenation305 wrote:I mean does KD really move the needle for the Raptors or Celtics? Thinking as the GM for the Celtics, we just got to the Finals with homegrown superstar/star talent that hasn't even fully gotten into their primes yet. Does Moving one of those up and coming superstars along with Marcus Smart and the picks you have leave you in a better place to compete for a championship. You'd be loosing a young star still to reach his peak for one that is coming out of his peak and will be 35 before the season is over? What if he get's injured? What if he messes with the chemistry and you guys do worse and now Tatum wants to be traded because you traded away everyone for KD?
As for the Raptors, You trade Siakam and Van Fleet along with all your picks. You're already a first round exit. You trade away most of your stars ( their stars don't really have star power) and picks for KD and are left with KD and Scottie Barnes. What now? you have no picks, no assets, no avenue to get better, you're not gonna win one just with KD and Barnes. KD will most likely ask for another trade and get nothing out of it cause now he's older a year less on the contract and I wouldn't at all be surprised if KD retires after this contract is up. The Raptors took a chance with Kawai knowing he was a one year rental and got him pretty cheap. KD will not come anywhere as cheap as Leonard was to them.
IceColdCubano wrote:Saucee poure with a cherry on top, come get your saucee nuggets!!!
1. On the meeting, the team spoke to our players who actually spoke to Durant after, there was some advice given to Durant by another Top player in the NBA, he wouldn't tell me the name, but they know who it was as Durant said his advice definitely helped prepare him for the meeting. It's not a Heat player who gave the advice that much he did say. Since they reached out to him prior to the meeting to pre-face this was a run it back meeting with no talk about trades, to but to put their best foot forward and plan for next years season. He put Ownership between a hard place and difficult pointy rock by using the advice given to Durant, which was tell them your open to run it back so as long the coaching staff all the assistant Coaches, GM, etc are wiped from the map. The reasoning behind this is while a coaching change this late in the offseason is already hard, completely revamping the system, with all new coaches top to bottom, along with a GM prior to start of training camp is almost darn near impossible. So he played this card, which is gonna be really hard for Brooklyn to be able to do all the while committing to a winning formula so quickly.
2. Brooklyn already had their fingers on Steve Nash for the following year, to find a replacement, the word in the NBA circles is Nash did a lot of winging it during games and in the playoffs, something High IQ players can do but as a coach is a no no, something that frustrated the hell outa Durant. There was a lot of fundamental practices and general set play designs practices but in the playoffs Durant felt Nash and the rest of the coaching staff did not scout opportunities as he has seen in other organizations. Brooklyn however does like the GM, and but Durant feels as the decisions done to date where affected by all parties and no one was held accountable, the big thing mentioned by him in the meeting is that after the playoffs ended and team had their closing meetings, nothing was mentioned about playbook changes in the offensive system, or better play sets pushed by the GM to the coaching staff to figure something for the following year. Everything was left too uncaring as if a wasted year was due to inexperience and it should get better, something that pissed him off since these are his last best years.
3. Essentially Brooklyn was told, either you completely fire the entire coaching staff, and GM ie clean house and put together a winning culture in the next couple of weeks or trade me prior to start of training camp. He did tell them he would not be coming into training camp with the current regime, something that was left off shams article. His top two teams remains the same and did not add any other organization to his request.
4. Boston from what everyone around the league is saying has not increased their previous offer, neither have they contacted Brooklyn since the leak about JB. It is believed by the Heat Exec's right now if Brooklyn cannot clean house, and hire an entire new GM & Coaching staff in the next couple of weeks that Durant will not be coming to training camp and their competition unless Boston gets back in as in say their offer is still on the table That its Toronto (Best offer outside of Boston, but without Durant's by in) vs Miami (Durants Top destination still)
