BannersOnly wrote:jfs1000d wrote:The media likes golden state angle. They also love the Spurs and heat angles -- "Spurs do it right", "Riley is a closer."
Spurs make sense because of Leonard and LMA. Riley a closer? He may lose Dwayne Wade.
Pls. He's coming to Celtics are staying in OKC. I give OKC a big edge because of money and loyalty. But, does KD want to do this again next year?
If he doesn't, Boston is the choice IMO.
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The media is always anti-Boston. They don't want the best players here. It's the way it is. Always will be. The more the media says we have no shot the better chance we actually have. They are almost always wrong.
The media is ridiculously anti Boston and it wasn't until recently that the Lakers got the lack of respect their current asset base deserves. KD not even giving them a meeting shows lack of assets will kill even a glamour franchise like the Lakers.
KD is going to say tradition/Stevens/current players/great fans/Horford/Ainge et cetera as reasons that he choose Boston if he does -- and they all will have played major roles --- but I have spoken with a few NBA agents over the years and many of them are more logical than the foolish media members. Those damn upcoming picks are a huge differentiator.
The one thing I didn't fully appreciate before this season was the importance of the Nets finishing horribly this year and choosing to bottom out this year instead of bottom out after perhaps next year. I obviously knew that was important on one level to give the Celtics a better asset this year in the draft. But I didn't properly weight the affect until the past couple of months of how much stronger it made the C's pitch to the KD. KD KNOWS how high those Nets picks may be the next two years.
Whether they have the 3rd worst record or the 8th worst, not one is projecting the Nets as a playoff team next year. And obviously with injuries they could be even worse with whatever their talent dictates.