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OHSportsFan
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Even funnier that the NBA has 60 picks and E!SPN couldn’t even bring themselves to cover all of them. Worldwide leader…
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Charles Barkley on Kevin Durant, Nets: 'I'm rooting against those guys. I root against all superteams'
Charles Barkley played in an era in which most superstars spent their careers playing for a single team. Free agency was still a relatively new phenomenon, and players largely played with whoever their front offices could acquire. The concept of player empowerment was still decades away.
The modern game has gone in a very different direction. Superstars now routinely change teams specifically to partner up with other stars, and Kevin Durant is at the center of that trend. He left the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors to play alongside Stephen Curry, won two championships there, and then left to build a new superteam with the Brooklyn Nets. Now, those Nets are championship favorites, and Barkley is no fan of theirs. In a conference call to promote the American Century Championship golf tournament, he explained that he roots against superteams on principle alone.
"K.D. is a great player, and I think he's a great kid," Barkley said. "I don't know him that well, but I'm not a fan of superteams. So listen, if they win it, they win it, but to be perfectly clear, I'm rooting against those guys. I root against all superteams."
Barkley's concern is rooted in the overall health of the league. He wants as many teams to be watchable and to have a chance to win the title as possible.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...nst-those-guys-i-root-against-all-superteams/
Charles Barkley played in an era in which most superstars spent their careers playing for a single team. Free agency was still a relatively new phenomenon, and players largely played with whoever their front offices could acquire. The concept of player empowerment was still decades away.
The modern game has gone in a very different direction. Superstars now routinely change teams specifically to partner up with other stars, and Kevin Durant is at the center of that trend. He left the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors to play alongside Stephen Curry, won two championships there, and then left to build a new superteam with the Brooklyn Nets. Now, those Nets are championship favorites, and Barkley is no fan of theirs. In a conference call to promote the American Century Championship golf tournament, he explained that he roots against superteams on principle alone.
"K.D. is a great player, and I think he's a great kid," Barkley said. "I don't know him that well, but I'm not a fan of superteams. So listen, if they win it, they win it, but to be perfectly clear, I'm rooting against those guys. I root against all superteams."
Barkley's concern is rooted in the overall health of the league. He wants as many teams to be watchable and to have a chance to win the title as possible.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...nst-those-guys-i-root-against-all-superteams/
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Lol the NBA refs really fucking ejected the league MVP in a elimination game for this. Fucking no way in hell do they do the same thing to like LeBron or Durant.
He was CLEARLY going for the ball, a little aggressively but still.
He was CLEARLY going for the ball, a little aggressively but still.
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OHSportsFan
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KD went the f off tonight. Probably best pure scorer of all time. Unreal to watch him when he’s on like that.
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OHSportsFan
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49 points on 23 shots. He was out there with out of shape Harden shooting 1-10, Joe Harris 2-11, Blake Griffin’s corpse and Bruce Brown (???). Against the 2nd best defense in the league.
Supporting cast or not, when HE gets going it’s poetry scoring the ball. He saved Curry’s bacon on the Warriors (that pull up, dead eye 3).
He’s 5th highest scoring average of all time. 3rd in the playoffs. And he does it at a way more efficient clip than most.
“No where close?” Cmon
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OHSportsFan
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By the way, I’m not his biggest fan personally but it’s funny when people watch literal greatness and find ways to be unhappy about it.
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Epic 4th quarter collapse by the 76ers. Outscored 40-19 in the 4th to lose by 109-106 after cruising for basically the whole game until about the final 10 minutes
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