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Isn't that why Harden wanted to leave the Nets too, because he thought Irving was nuts?Why are there apparently legit rumors that the sixers want Kyrie?
Why would a team want to replace a player who doesn't want to play with a player who doesn't want to play?
1. The Nets were in Cleveland Jan. 17. In their locker room before the game, Kyrie Irving lit ablaze some sage — a Native American ritual Irving has embraced to cleanse negative energy. Irving doesn't do this before every game, but he apparently still feels haunted by parts of his past on the Cavs. So he lit his torch.
Woj is friends with Marks and keeps throwing stuff out there to try to give the Nets more leverage (he did the same thing when the Harden/Simmons talks were going on).Why are there apparently legit rumors that the sixers want Kyrie?
Why would a team want to replace a player who doesn't want to play with a player who doesn't want to play?
So this is a thing all those "breaking/first report" guys do...thought I read Schefter got caught doing the same thing in the NFL.
I'll agree he wasn't quite as great when Giannis was new, but that's more due to skill level than being physically dominant.
Exactly- yes other teams were willing to do it but the Nets invested not only an entire year of rehab but paid his crazy buddy, fired a good coach to hire his hand picked coach, paid another buddy way over market and brought in a bunch of players he hand picked. They basically handed him the keys to an entire franchise and thats only good for about 1 seasons worth of games and 1 playoff series win- now he wants to control going to a top seeded team when the going gets tough? He should be embarrassed (which he isnt) - and his legacy tainted (which it is).
Zero clue what you are talking about. I don’t have a narrative that I’m trying to fit. But evidently you do.
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. 
That was PER
Chris Webber is #143 all time in career win shares at 84.69. He is nowhere near #50 Steph Curry with 120.23.
The point was to illustrate just how far away Steph is from Lebron. You could choose Chris Webber or Dwight Howard or Patrick Ewing and make the same point.
Where did I suggest Curry was on par with LeBron? I think you are targeting someone else’s narrative, not mine. Win shares is a counting number. Curry should be well past Weber when his career finishes.
Either way, I agree with you that LeBron >> Curry (and this is coming from a Curry fanboy).
But I also think any metric that has Curry in line with Webber, Ewing or Dwight is probably a metric worth taking a closer look at.
Yes the Nets should have expected Durant to demand to leave before he played one game under a 4 yr extension he signed willingly.
Sorry if I got you confused.
Either way, I agree with you that LeBron >> Curry (and this is coming from a Curry fanboy).
But I also think any metric that has Curry in line with Webber, Ewing or Dwight is probably a metric worth taking a closer look at.
No worries. At first I assumed it was just me spouting off (which wouldn’t be completely out of the norm). Happy 4th.
Yea for as much as I believe Lebron is an all-time great this is where he fails miserably.
A lot of people don't remember the Giannis of the 1970's. Actually he was pick 1.01 in the draft which neither coby or Giannis can claim.
True.
Anyone trying to act like Durant did nothing wrong at all here is just playing contrarian.
It does sound like it, but the difference is Ben Simmons is bad and sucks and nobody wanted him and Kevin Durant is Kevin Durant.
Also the Nets don't have the rights to their first round pick if this stand off carries deep in to the season.
That's fair. But I would argue that's why the player has MORE power, and the team has LESS leverage.
