CodeBreaker wrote:yellowknifer wrote:CodeBreaker wrote:with his caliber, of course he'd win the MVP award for getting wide open buckets from the effect of Curry's gravity.
What has he done outside Curry? Yea, none.
You can criticize the guy for sure. But this is quite the hot take. He recently almost single handily willed the nets down two stars to the finals against a really good Celtics team.
"almost"
He was really good at doing almosts. Since you're nitpicking, he almost took down the 73-9 Warriors team, only to choke the series away with those horrible Game 6 and Game 7. Let's stop praising "almosts" and judge players for what they have actually done.
The problem with this take which a lot of anti KD fans don't want to address, is why does LeBron, the greatest "winner" of his era get a pass, when he's never won a title on a team he didn't hand pick, and played with 3 other Top 5 guys in AD Luka and Wade, and other Top All-NBA dudes in Kyrie, Love, and Bosh...
What has LeBron and Kobe done without another Top 10 player on their team? Literally nothing. KD is the only star that was expected to just sit their and take it, the LeBron show was too important and didn't have room for a co-star until Curry kicked the doors down.
If we are going to go at KD for going to the best situation possible, than we need to do that same for all the stars from that terrible era. If the LeBron propaganda machine wasn't in full effect to do the Hero-Villain-Comeback arc, he would still be the villain. Why don't people cry about him leaving Miami? Melo forced his way to NY to play with Chandler and Amare, two other ANBA guys. What about dudes like KAwhii, George, AD, Dwight, Paul ect who forced their way to LA? Deron forced a trade to BRK to play with Lopez, Pierce, KG, and Joe. Kyrie did the same.
We don't care about those guys because they didn't win when they did this. LeBron won. KD won. So we hate them. KD did it in a way that made the formers accomplishments look weak, so we hate him even more. No one says Wade lost shine because of LeBron joining like they do Curry.
As long as LeBron stans and the NBA media in general refuse to acknowledge that KD going to GSW was just the natural counterbalance to LeBron's superteam forming habits, we will get no where with these discussions. It was an arms race, and one guy showed no self restrait, respect for the sport, owned the media and an agency company, so the other guy had to do what he had to do to make sure he got his. That's just how it is...
Most of yall arn't docking LBJ, so it just becomes tit for tat, and whenever you disrespect KD, i'll point out LEBron probably did it first.
No one cares about 73wins when you don't win the title. If healthy in 2015, Cavs win that one too. KD going to the Warriors made the NBA broken, but it also gave the NBA the only team that could match the CAVS with literally 3 All-NBA players and a deep squad of proven veteran role players. Cavs also stormed through the NBA during that time, making 4 Finals in a row...But that's all because of LeBron's greatness though, right? And not because he teamed up with 2 other All-NBA players.
