Nobody is going to look back at Durant's titles in 10 years and say he was a winner

[Ben Simmons 25]

Unless he does it somewhere else. True, stretch the timeline out long enough and people that weren't born when he played might regard him as a winner for about a minute, but the truth is his star isn't bright enough to last throughout the ages, as few are... so everyone that's currently around already knows how hallow his rings are.

Nobody is going to suddenly change their minds in 20 years after watching his career and say "BUT 3 RANGZ DOE!" after he wins another this season...

People want to pretend that other people are going to forget and he won't be judged as a guy who never won a ring... but they're still going to judge him for how he got his rings.

Durant and Curry have both self cucked their entire legacies unless they go on to win more after this apart.

[Marchesk]

As much as I like to criticize Durant for going to the Warriors, does anyone discredit Magic or Kareem's rings in the 80s?

[Da_Realist]

Will they discredit LeBron for assembling his personal dream team every four years?

[Marchesk]

Yeah, Lebron, Wade and Bosh on the Heat was at the time considered on the same level as what Durant did.

Not one, not two, not ...

[warriorfan]

Op is experiencing some recency bias. Remeber how the league felt after the decision? Actually to come to think about it, LeBron isn’t widely recognized as a winner. Op may be into something.

And that last part about Curry cucking himself? I don’t get that one at all. He built the most attractive destination the league has seen in 20 years out of one of the most toxic franchises in history. Everyone wants to come play with Steph Curry. Curry plays intelligently and unselfishly and creates a successful winning environment and now he is a “cuck”? Doesn’t make sense.

KD on the other hand. He had some incredible teams in OKC. They treated him well and did everything in their power to create a good team and good environment for him. KD couldn’t do what Curry did in Golden state. He figured if you can’t beat them, join them, just like what LeBron did years earlier.

[Indian guy]

The whole nobody's-going-to-care-in-10/20-years is a tired argument and just not reality. How stars won their ring(s) has always mattered. Context has always been applied. It's been 20-30 years since Kobe's first 3peat and Pippen's 6 championships. Guess what, nobody still considers those alpha rings. They are part of each player's greatness, sure, but still 2nd option rings at the end of the day.

So yeah, KD's rings aren't respected today and surely won't be 20 years down the road. He'll always be the guy who won a bunch of cheap rings joining a 73-win team. And that will always be his legacy unless he leads a different team to a championship.

[stalkerforlife]

In case you don't speak OP's language, let me translate...

"Please love my Bran and pretend his titles are real and he didn't start the cowardly inorganic super team era."

[Gileraracer]

So yeah, KD's rings aren't respected today and surely won't be 20 years down the road. He'll always be the guy who won a bunch of cheap rings joining a 73-win team. And that will always be his legacy unless he leads a different team to a championship.


Just like the guy in your avi

[stalkerforlife]

As much as I like to criticize Durant for going to the Warriors, does anyone discredit Magic or Kareem's rings in the 80s?

Such an idiotic response.

Kareem won without Magic and Magic never left his original team.

Nothing can save your Bran.

[bullettooth]

Just like the guy in your avi

Truth.

[stalkerforlife]

[QUOTE=warriorfan]Op is experiencing some recency bias. Remeber how the league felt after the decision? Actually to come to think about it, LeBron isn

[Marchesk]

Such an idiotic response.

Kareem won without Magic and Magic never left his original team.


Magic forced his way to the Lakers to play with Kareem. But it doesn't matter. Point is that Magic and Kareem were winning titles playing with each other.

Kareem won one title in the 70s without Magic, and that was with Oscar.


Nothing can save your Bran.

Bro, I'm Wilt, Westbrook, Harden fam.

[Indian guy]

It absolutely kills LeBron haters knowing that he got all the credit in the world for his 3 rings and it propelled him to consensus top 3-5 status and past their boy :oldlol:

Desperately trying to draw parallels between him and KD's move :oldlol:. Too bad nobody actually buys it. Thus one's top 3. And the other is.....well, nobody actually cares to discuss KD's place in history. Cheap rings don't pique anyone's interest.

[warriorfan]

They seek Curry out.

Bran has to constantly leave his own team.

Big difference.

Look at all the undeserved credit players get in the Curry system; that shit has Bran's PR team hyping Dray and Klay as superstars. :roll:

:oldlol:

[warriorfan]

It absolutely kills LeBron haters knowing that he got all the credit in the world for his 3 rings and it propelled him to consensus top 3-5 status and past their boy :oldlol:

Desperately trying to draw parallels between him and KD's move :oldlol:. Too bad nobody actually buys it. Thus one's top 3. And the other is.....well, nobody actually cares to discuss KD's place in history. That's how little the last 2 seasons meant.

Is this guy one of wheels

[Phoenix]

As much as I like to criticize Durant for going to the Warriors, does anyone discredit Magic or Kareem's rings in the 80s?

For one, Magic and Kareem joining didn't create a competitive imbalance when you had teams like the Sixers and Boston running alongside them. Second, Kareem had already won a title in 71 and Magic in 87 and 88 when Kareem was well past his superstar expiration date. Durant running to the team he choked against in order to win titles will never *not* look like a bitch move. Great player, top tier scorer, but has yet to prove the winning/leadership intangibles that define the GOAT level players.

[game3524]

OP is in complete denial.

Durant is going to go down as a top 15 player because of the championships. People like to pretend people care how rings are won, but deep down no one cares. Dirk’s 2011 run was legendary and yet no one ranks him in the top 15.

It is just not that important.

[stalkerforlife]

[QUOTE=warriorfan]Is this guy one of wheels

[warriorfan]

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

:lol

[Stephonit]

With the rings he is safely in the Moses Malone and Dr. J comparisons and he can get more depending on how the rest of his career goes. Without a ring Charles Barkley was his ceiling.

[FKAri]

This is why "ranking" guys based on rings, stats, or accolades is meaningless. You judge them on how well they actually played basketball. And KD was pretty damn good at basketball. He's played long enough that we've seen his flaws as a player and we've seen what makes him good. That's all you really need to evaluate a player.

[bullettooth]

This is why "ranking" guys based on rings, stats, or accolades is meaningless. You judge them on how well they actually played basketball. And KD was pretty damn good at basketball.

Was?! What happened to him?!

[egokiller]

Unless he does it somewhere else. True, stretch the timeline out long enough and people that weren't born when he played might regard him as a winner for about a minute, but the truth is his star isn't bright enough to last throughout the ages, as few are... so everyone that's currently around already knows how hallow his rings are.

Nobody is going to suddenly change their minds in 20 years after watching his career and say "BUT 3 RANGZ DOE!" after he wins another this season...

People want to pretend that other people are going to forget and he won't be judged as a guy who never won a ring... but they're still going to judge him for how he got his rings.

Durant and Curry have both self cucked their entire legacies unless they go on to win more after this apart.

He will be known as the man who took LeBron's idea of collusion to the next level, and prevented him from winning any more rings. People will look up

"durant's bitch"

and there will be an image of lebron.

It's OK, you'll learn to live with it just like everyone else.

[Kblaze8855]

In 10 years there will be adults who aren

[bison]

Why wait 10 years from now? People are already saying this today. Most underwhelming superstar rings in recent memory.

[ArbitraryWater]

The whole nobody's-going-to-care-in-10/20-years is a tired argument and just not reality. How stars won their ring(s) has always mattered. Context has always been applied. It's been 20-30 years since Kobe's first 3peat and Pippen's 6 championships. Guess what, nobody still considers those alpha rings. They are part of each player's greatness, sure, but still 2nd option rings at the end of the day.

So yeah, KD's rings aren't respected today and surely won't be 20 years down the road. He'll always be the guy who won a bunch of cheap rings joining a 73-win team. And that will always be his legacy unless he leads a different team to a championship.

basically this

bron detractors scrambling

[smoovegittar]

After he wins 2 chips with The Knicks, everyone is gonna be riding his d1ck.

[egokiller]

10 years from now people will look at how many finals LeBron was in and how many times he won. They will see 3/9 and then they will look to see who he played against. They will see that Durant was on the team that beat him the last 3 of his finals and see that Durant had the most points during those wins. Then they will conclude that Durant was a better player because when he had enough help to get him to the finals, he beat his opponent more times than he lost.

And that is how the story will end, with them knowing Durant got the best of LeBron. It's just like how people know MJ got the best of Stockton, Malone, Ewing, Barkley... etc. No one will give a shit that LeBron generated good stats due to playing in a weak conference just like no one gives a shit that MJ and Kobe made first defensive team 9 times.

The ironic part of it all is that those who still try to argue on behalf of lebron are completely fvcked. 10 years from now at every future family dinner, their kids will be shitting on them because the guy of that generation is sure to do better than 3/9 as the man and the guys who saw Kobe and MJ play in their family will be shitting on them from the other side of the table talking about 6/6 and 5/7.

Most of the lefail stans left ISH long ago once they realized how wrong they were. So many of them left in fact that people like straight_ballin, redblackattack, phong, and many other left also because the writing was on the wall.

Anyone still hanging on lefails nuts is a lost soul. That ship set sail a long time ago, but I stick around because it's fun to watch him fail in the west and get pushed by his own teammates into the opposing team. It's the only thing they can do to get him to play defense.

[The Iron Fist]

We can look back to right now and see lebrons not a winner. Why wait 10/20 years?

[knicksman]

Bron against kobe. But 3 rangz doe. But when it comes to durant vs lebron. They are not of equal value. LOL bron stans.

[Young X]

The thing I'll never understand is it wasn't like KD was getting carried. He was the best player on the floor in both finals series.

In fact, he was the one who carried the Warriors in game 3 last season. 43/13/7 on 15-23 in a finals game.

[the mesiah]

As much as I like to criticize Durant for going to the Warriors, does anyone discredit Magic or Kareem's rings in the 80s?



Damn M, u are better than this crap u posting, :facepalm

[game3524]

The thing I'll never understand is it wasn't like KD was getting carried. He was the best player on the floor in both finals series.

In fact, he was the one who carried the Warriors in game 3 last season. 43/13/7 on 15-23 in a finals game.

Seriously.

Averaged 35 ppg on 70 TS% in the 2017 Finals. Came back the following year and averaged 29 ppg on 65%. You can hate the move to GS, but KD put in work in those finals.

[305Baller]

Dur-biotch is already tuning Steve Kerr out.