Bill Simmons goes on his monthly "Harden Trade" rant. Kevin Durant responds...

[RightToCensor]

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[CavaliersFTW]

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[Milbuck]

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[navy]

Seriously. The trade is over and done with.

[JohnFreeman]

Stay winning Simmons

[gts]

Kevin Durant :applause:

[ProfessorMurder]

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[Micku]

Hahah! Awesome.

[imdaman99]

lol KD funny.

[Im so nba'd out]

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LOL KD buried this dude.Dude is obsessing over this trade day and night like its his life KD could give 2 ****s :lol

[Heavincent]

He's right though. It's literally one of the worst trades in the history of the league.

[dazzer87]

KD could give 2 ****s :lol
then why did he reply back to Simmons for? IF he doesnt give a sh!t....

[bobopenguin]

like when hornet traded Kobe away. ppl there still mad about it. let it go!:lol

[Im so nba'd out]

then why did he reply back to Simmons for? IF he doesnt give a sh!t....
just to shit on him...thats what makes it so hilarious

[bagelred]

Look, Bill Simmons has a point. Thunder got so caught up in getting value for Harden, they forgot the most important thing - trying to win a title.

He's right. Try to win a title that year, worry about Harden's free agency in summer.

[Pushxx]

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[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Simmons is right, but the way he went about it made KD's tweet appropriate. Well done. :oldlol:

[J Shuttlesworth]

Wait Bill still goes off about this? :biggums:

[Lebron23]

That's why the Spurs management are better than the OKC managament. Can you imagine them trading Manu Ginobili when he was hitting his prime??

[gts]

Wait Bill still goes off about this? :biggums:it's something he does to fill in the time between making podcasts/tweets about the NFL commissioner :lol

[Marchesk]

Seriously. The trade is over and done with.

So this trade won't be evaluated 10 years from now with big what if?

[navy]

So this trade won't be evaluated 10 years from now with big what if?
Bill Simmons brings it up every week. Anything to be said has been said.

[Marchesk]

Bill Simmons brings it up every week. Anything to be said has been said.

Sounds like an ISH poster.

[alanLA92]

Simmons will never let this go. :oldlol:

[warriorfan]

simmons is mad beta

[RoseCity07]

Damn KD made Simmons look like a Harden stan.:oldlol:

[knicksman]

does simmons realize that OKC were at their best when there was only durant on the floor. Their greatest mistake was choosing westbrook for jackson. I would even chose harden over westbrook.

[sportjames23]

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[salwan]

Lolol, Bill rustled KD's jimmies. He knows he's at a shit organisation.

Stay winning, Bill!

#freeKD

[inclinerator]

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[Derka]

I don't mind Simmons most times, but writing "Fact." after every point you're making in a medium that doesn't really foster a true conversation is just supremely douchey.

[KembaWalker]

lmao KD, it seems we also get a thread about that trade every month here too

LET IT GO.

[Chadwin]

and there's a good chance Westbrook doesn't get injured

[bagelred]

I don't mind Simmons most times, but writing "Fact." after every point you're making in a medium that doesn't really foster a true conversation is just supremely douchey.

Derka makes an interesting point. Fact.

[SsKSpurs21]

Simmons wont let it go. hes still upset the Spurs go to draft Duncan even though Boston had the worst record. He brings it up every time the Spurs are in the playoffs.

[I<3NBA]

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KD mad as fk.

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[I<3NBA]

this cracked me up


Which current NBA franchise seems like the safest bet to become a dynastender and possibly even a dynasty? Here’s a hint: It’s not Oklahoma City. Miami already has two Finals appearances and one title, as well as the best basketball player in 20 years. They could easily rip off four or five straight titles … you know, assuming LeBron keeps himself motivated and actually stays in Miami. (I have my doubts.) There’s a remote and semi-alarming possibility that LeBron could cruise to two more Miami titles, switch teams in 2014 (when his contract ends), rip off two or three more titles in New York/Cleveland/Los Angeles/London/wherever and become the NBA’s first player-centric dynasty.

(So if you’re scoring at home, we’d have Russell’s Celtics, Jordan’s Bulls, Magic’s Lakers and LeBron’s LeBrons. Doesn’t that sound horrifying? Let’s hope he doesn’t read this column and decide it’s a good idea.)
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[tmacattack33]

Simmons is an analyst It is his job to talk about stuff like this.

It seems like kd is a little salty.

[jzek]

Wow, only a few hundred re-tweets. I thought Simmons was more popular than that... :wtf:

[HurricaneKid]

Lets go back to that part about OKC not willing to pay Harden 15M/. Because that is currently < the cost of guys like Chandler Parsons, Brandon Knight, etc.

[Thorpesaurous]

I don't mind Simmons most times, but writing "Fact." after every point you're making in a medium that doesn't really foster a true conversation is just supremely douchey.


I agree with this.

I like Simmons. The trade hasn't worked out great. But Simmons has reveled way to much in being "right" about it. For a guy who tries, and claims, to be sort of pseudo analytically bound, he just won't cop to the process at least being thoughtful. If Harden stays, he's not the same Harden. He dominates the shit out of the ball. They've built the offense around him in Houston to the point of his ball dominance being completely vital. And there's plenty of point to be made that rather than trying to play with three ball dominant guys may not be as smart as trying to diversify your talent with a few more defenders, rim protectors and rebounders, and straight spot up shooters to space the floor. Now some of those guys haven't worked out very well, but to me that's a different issue regarding talent evaluation and development.

I personally would've tried to have kept Harden, and talked him into being a dynamic bench player like Manu. But it irks the shit out of me that Simmons is unwilling to admit that the trade had some real life common sense to it. And using Harden >>> Lamb + Steven Adams isn't really an argument that means much to me.

[game3524]

does simmons realize that OKC were at their best when there was only durant on the floor. Their greatest mistake was choosing westbrook for jackson. I would even chose harden over westbrook.

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We honestly going to let this shit slide?

[RightToCensor]

Wow, only a few hundred re-tweets. I thought Simmons was more popular than that... :wtf:
Because the number of retweets reflect how popular you are in the real world...

The Insidehoops Twitter account barely gets buzz, yet we all are here, right?

[r0drig0lac]

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[qrich]

Did Durant apologize yet?

[DukeDelonte13]

Simmons is captain hindsight. He never brings up the multitude of things he's wrong about.

It's easy to look back at a move that went bad and laugh and call the GM a stupid idiot. He's like that one effeminate kid that's in everybody's high school that is really good at talking sh*t about people. You all know what i'm talking about. Simmons is that guy of the basketball world.

[Young X]

Completely agree with Simmons. One of the worst trades ever. You don't tamper with a nucleus of players ages 23 and under that improved every season to the point where they made the finals ESPECIALLY in the western conference.

You have a bunch of teams killing themselves every season to get that level and OKC just threw it away. Same thing with the 2012 Mavs.

[Soundwave]

Simmons isn't wrong. When you have a chance to be a dynasty type team you don't cheap out over a few million bucks.

[The Macho Man]

Bill Simmons and harden have something in common that makes Simmons unable to see why it was a good trade

They are both unbearable fvkboys of the highest manner

You don't want that on your team no matter how good he is at drawing fouls or being pure trash in the playoffs

[mehyaM24]

nobody said bill simmons was wrong.

its the way he constantly brings it up. guy sounds like a bumbling ex trying to pickup the pieces.

[The Macho Man]

And if you're like "eh I kinda like Simmons" I've got some bad news for you...

[SilkkTheShocker]

He's right though. It's literally one of the worst trades in the history of the league.

This. FT35 is straight up mad about Simmons bashing it all the time :oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:

[Fudge]

KD stays ethering fools

KD da gawd