Bandwagon2019 wrote:So basically you win the same amount of titles in both scenarios but in one you reach the finals every time vs the other where you lose earlier every time? Seems like an easy decision to me
Except it is really another irrelevant hypothetical. It is basically impossible to compete in twelve successive Finals and win half the time for the same team under current salary cap and other equalisation rules, and Kevin Durant apparently has earnt eternal condemnation for leaving his drafting franchise after 9 years during which his team made 2 conference finals series and 1 NBA finals, succeeding in winning a single conference title only.
And sure if we are to be specific if LeBron finishes with 12 conference titles and 6 NBA titles then that will be better than 6 NBA titles and no additional conference titles, but to be hypothetical myself if he does this it will likely involve moves which have ‘destroyed the competitiveness of the NBA’ much more than anything Durant has putatively done, and won’t be with a single franchise which has never won a title without him and playing with whomever the Bulls FO put next to him as was the case with Jordan.
I do think most players and teams would take 6:0 over 3:6 btw (EDIT as has been said).