Gotta agree with rogue here. OKC was known as an incredibly loyal and passionate fanbase around the league. It seems a little odd to demonize the fans for the owners shitty actions.

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Fare you well, fare you well
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Well FF don't be swayed by reality. It easier to believe OKC fan base is all redneck racists with guns.

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Elections have consequences.

Nah...I never had a beef with Bron leaving Cleveland..it's the way he he left..just be like everyone else in history and sign a deal...the "Decision" is what pis sed most people off.

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So Durant took less money because he wanted to win? How does that make him a bad guy?

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He could've won in OKC. OKC with Durant was probably the more talented team.

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Yeah probably, but this GSW team will be very fun to watch. Could average 120 per game if they wanted to.

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great league. champ is known before the season starts! NBA needs its own NIT.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Hasn't it pretty much always been like this? It was exactly the same with the 90s Bulls.

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Heat didn't win the first year after the Decision.

It'd be great if OKC knocked the Warriors out of the playoffs.

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I agree. Sure, on paper the Warriors look unbeatable right now, but every team has a weakness. A great coach with the right players can exploit a vulnerability.

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Don't overthink this my friend. They will find a guy chasing a title to play the role of Bogut. This team will be just as good as they look on paper. There isn't a team that can't matchup with them. It's going to be scary.

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GO BEARS!!!

What did the owners do? They were extremely respectful and gracious.

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Westbrook was the best player on that team. It was clear that Durant lacked the killer instinct. He clearly couldn't be the guy to put them over the top.

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GO BEARS!!!

He's gonna look great in a Spur uniform in 2018.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The heat weren't even that good, Spurs should have beat them and a decent Dallas team did take em out..the East is weak...this GS team just won a title and then had 73 wins and should have beaten Cleveland...GS is going on a historic run with KD..nobody is stopping em.

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Completely agree.

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That Spurs team, with the right bench, could give GSnWo trouble.

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No

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Ok

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Yeah wasn't it Ginobli missing free throws down the stretch or Miami loses that series? Id hold off on crowning GS for next year.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

They won the title with Cleveland missing 2 of their 3 best players. Cleveland won the series more than G.S. lost it. Curry was dominated by Irving and James showed that he was undisputedly the best in the world. That's why G.S. lost.

Durant leaving a championship caliber team in order to back door his way into a championship says a lot about him as a player. If he has any pride he'd have resigned with OKC. This should especially be the case after he sold them out.

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The guy signed where he wanted to. He thought GS had a better chance to give him a title than OKC. Idk if you followed OKC throughout the season, but they didn't get their shit together until right before the playoffs.

You are over valuing the likes of Dion Waiters, Andre Roberson, and Steven Adams.

Idk why I'm even typing this. I truly don't want to have a debate with you. It's the 4th of July, and I'm working. That's punishment enough.

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In case you didn't notice, I responded to 312 not you. Oladipo is an upgrade and Adams is a player. Don't care for Roberson. Like Waiters but he'll be gone. Isn't Draymond Green overvalued too? For that matter Curry also?

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Thats the thing though. He himself is the reason ( or a large part of) that his team didn't beat GS. He and the rest of his team choked. A team he's the supposed leader of. Also sorry, but he's a complete hypocrite with his previous tweets that have been exposed about others joining super teams and giving up trying to win with their teams. He's a spineless fraud.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Yeah LTG, but questioning a man's pride to fit into your own narrative was Stephen A. Smith-esque.

Obviously, Durant takes pride in his legacy, and wants a shot at multiple rings. The Thunder are just not as good as you think.

OKC fans will survive.

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Yes he deserves a little heat for that tweet way back when.

I just don't get why you guys are taking this so personally. I don't think anyone here is an OKC fan above all else.

You guys are acting like he's dating your daughter or something.

It's not that serious. It's sports. The Bulls won't be good again until the Warriors era is almost finished anyway. Knee jerk hatred is a Chicago specialty, but I just don't understand it here.

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Yep. A true competitor would be ashamed of his role in the collapse and make it his goal to beat them.

It's interesting when people try to compare new guys to people like Isaiah and Jordan. Isaiah had to beat both Boston and L.A. in order to win. Detroit wasn't shit when he was drafted. He learned about how to win and made it a point to beat Boston and L.A. when the Bad Boy thing was on its last legs, he vetoed a trade to the Knicks because he didn't wanted to abandon the Pistons. That's a competitor. Same with Jordan. He found a way to beat the Pistons.

I wish dude the best but the perception of him will undoubtedly change.

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It's not just me. If you don't think they are legit then you haven't been reading the tea leaves. A large number of people left that Series thinking OKC was the better team.

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To be honest I think it's you that's taking it personally. I like competition. It's why I began watching sports as a youth. I like guys that compete. It's not just guys on this message board. Durant himself had these same views until he didn't of course.

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Where is this book on the steps to be an elite competitor?

You are too much of a purist in this evaluation. Holding on to the past so tightly, and running your basketball opinions through that filter is silly to me. It's not 1985 anymore. I'm sorry, but I just get dismissive when I see posts about how the game was.

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