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birdman:
2 pages of blocked posts. Wetin happen

A40 I know sey u go get hand inside


I kid bro, i kid

Lol my days of violence are over

Una go beg Kevin Durant again las las.

Omo. This Celtics na squad mehn. Any other team would have packed it in after that 3rd quarter. The way they methodically cut into the lead those first 2 minutes of the 4th before going into that run

Oro di hmmmm. Oro pe si je oh

Android22:
Will GSW beat Cavs in 2015 without Iggy? So why will anyone laugh if we say we lost that game without him? That is the same way with Bogut playing we were 3-1 up against the Cavs in 2016. There is no special spin anyone can give to it.

That 2015-16 Rockets played GSW without Steph, 2016-17 we beat Portland without KD
2017-18 we beat Spurs first round without Curry
2018-19 we beat the Rockets/Portland without KD
2018-19 we lose to Raptors without KD and Klay

If we are going to nitpick, Cavs played all playoffs without Love and lost game 1 with Kyrie playing. Kawhi 67-15 played against OKC and got beat 4-2 in 2015-16 but somehow will beat the 73-9 warriors with KD playing. How?

If you want to say this is 3rd final without KD that is fine, but you cannot use injuries for Cavs in 2015 and then belittle the warriors injury in 2016.

Yeah you would have missed Bogut's 3 points and 3 rebounds in that series

The Rockets were the 8th seed ffs have some shame. Vs Portland KD played 2 of the 4 games. I don't know why you're bragging about beating inferior teams.

KD-Klay and Draymond can't beat Lamarcus Aldridge, Rudy Gay and Ginobili who was like 42??

Stop this without Klay nonsense vs the Raptors. He played in 5 of a possible 6 games.

Cavs beat up inferior teams when Love was hurt but when facing a team of equal quality they were shorthanded while the Warriors were complete. Those are the facts on ground for the 15 season

What does what happened the previous season have to do with the beatdown San Antonio were serving in the Oracle? The Warriors were down by 27 before Zaza took Kawhi out. You want to use the Raptors with Klay missing 1 quarter as an excuse but I can't use Kawhi missing the series?

Rockets were up 3-2 and lost their second or arguably their best player. Can't talk about Klay when CP3 lost 2 full games

No team has caught more breaks than the Warriors against evenly matched competition

Android22:
Warriors beat Cavs 4-2 in 2015, OKC 4-3 in 2016, Rockets 4-3 in 2018 etc. Klay was present for 2 of the 3 confirmed losses and at the same time the Raptors had lost 2 games with him playing. So it was 2-2 with Klay and Steph against a raptors that had homecourt in that finals which means they were a solid team. You might say Klay left the game with GSW being 2 pts up but GSW lost that game by 4 without Klay who already had 30. That is how important he was.

Same way Raptors won 4-2. For each Warriors injury I would show you more significant ones on the other team.

The Warriors had no advantage over the Raptors. Klay being there only meant at best they won Game 6 but the game was still in the balance anyway. Klay played 32 mins in that game 6. He was present for 3 losses. Not 2

Android22:
GSW were not complete the times we lost as well. Both Cavs and Raptors series we played with injuries. Everyone mentions injuries only when GSW is concerned.

Giannis played an injured Nets. Suns played an injured Lakers. Celtics played an injured Bucks and Miami. Like Skrrrrrrr said, KD made us practically unbeatable but we were good for 2 more rings had it been another max level player. Wiggins is proving it now and he is not 1/3 of the player KD is.

Nobody absolutely nobody has benefitted from injuries like Golden State. Who was injured in the Cavs series? Andrew Bogut? LOL. Abeg

2015
They beat the Cavs who were missing Love and Kyrie

2017
Beat the Spurs thanks to Zaza taking Kawhi out with the Spurs blowing out Golden State in Oakland

2018
Beat the Rockets thanks to Chris Paul getting hurt while the Warriors were down 3-2 after Game 5

Several games with key players injured in multiple title runs.

Again the Warriors issue was not getting to the Finals. They did that before Kevin Durant came. This is their 3rd attempt at winning a Finals without him. They have only succeeded once at this. So nothing like they are good for two rings. They absolutely need to win

Skrrrrrrr:
What you are saying makes no sense, in that you cannot make a team with a championship a dynasty when you have zero titles yourself. Why didn't he make OKÇ a dynasty? He had Westbrook and Ibaka.
No one literally whined about injuries, i only mentioned injuries because you mentioned it first in attempting to make the loss to the raptors about Durant. Who was injured when the warriors knocked out OKC after in the conference finals.
They won 2 games against the raptors without Durant and an unfit Thompson, they could have won 4 if Thompson was fit.
The warriors have already done it without him by winning one before him and going to the finals without him while he got swept. Whether they win Boston or not changes that not.
The argument would always fester but if the win Boston, it's over.
But that is not my bold claim. The Bold claim is that KD would never win another ring... Not with Kyrie at least.

What is this megedefegede you are talking about? KD came to a team with just one title, were coming off a losing finals appearance. Durant came and the team won 2 straight titles and it could have been 3 if Durant didn't get injured. Durant won Finals MVP 2x. Whether you like it or not no amount of KD bad belle will erase the fact that on the Warriors Kevin Durant was the best player. That is what Warriors fans will forever have to deal with.

I don't know why you keep dribbling back to OKC. We already established KD couldn't win there. However Warriors could not establish dominance and dynasty status till they got KD. That is the fact on ground

Stop repeating this Klay Thompson alternative facts. Klay Thompson played 5 games and only missed 1 quarter out of a possible 6 games. He was healthy and available to average almost 40 minutes per game
If they don't beat Boston then it will ultimately prove they would not be a dynasty without Kevin Durant

KD was in the league 9 years and didn't win anything. Predicting he wouldn't win a title after suffering an Achilles tear at over 30 is hardly a bold take

Mynd44:
A40 And donlittle25

Yall oldies na.

Lets do right please

I no follow for this matter nau. Haba

Skrrrrrrr:
Oga, in a series where they won 2 games, missing one game and getting injured in a game 6 makes a lot of difference. Especially when you are Klay Thompson.
Whether they were up by two or not is not important, bottom line, they were hot and game 6 Klay was cooking.

Klay was present in 3 of the Warriors losses. Stop pushing the narrative that he was absent for majority of the series. He missed essentially a game and a quarter.

They were hot and Klay was cooking but they were only up 2. 2 friggin points

Skrrrrrrr:
The warriors could have gotten another player and became champions.
So whether they begged KD or Not, KD could have declined, the fact that he accepted and hid it from Westbrook points to the fact that he knew he had as much chance getting a ring as I do joining the KKK. After all, he blew a 3-1 win against the warriors the season prior.
That series against Toronto ended when Klay got injured, they could have won that game and gone on to game 7 had Klay not blown his ACL. They finished off the Rockets without KD.
The warriors were good but not unstoppable without KD. But KD was basically useless without the warriors...
KD fans and KD himself should just shut up, this is the wrongest time to defend his legacy, the warriors are in the Finals with a hobbled up klay and he is playing Poker in Vegas after getting swept in the first round.
And even if the warriors lose to Boston, the fact that they got to the finals their first healthy season post Durant, is a clear message.

Why did you need to get another player? Why didn't you stick with Harrison Barnes. There were other free agents around why una no go for them. Why KD? You also wanted easy rings as much as KD did.

They flew all the way from Oakland to the Hampton's to beg him to come. That's a 5 hour flight my guy. Why will KD decline when a suitor who is willing to pay his fees shows so effort. Will you decline such a serious employer if you're Kevin Durant? Abeg die that argument

Westbrook? What the hell does this have to do with Westbrook? Their two follow come league?

The Warriors lost 2 games Klay played. You cannot definitively prove they wouldn't have lost again even if Klay didn't get hurt. They were only up by 2 but Warriors fans like to pretend like they had won the game.

Whatever KD said is immaterial. Golden State Warriors fans are the last people that should be whining about injuries. No dynasty in the history of basketball has benefited more from injuries than Golden State. Every title they won somebody crucial on the opposing side has always suffered significant injuries that made them miss multiple games.

KD has never gone out of his way to overinflate his importance. He knows he needed Golden State to win. I doubt he is dumb enough to believe otherwise. It is Warriors fans however who believe they could have done it without him. Which is technically correct but this series we are going to find out

If they fail to beat Boston then don't come and tell me they're not a franchise that owes it's dynasty status to Kevin Durant because they would have yet to beat a complete team in 3 attempts without Kevin

Skrrrrrrr:
No mind A40, he wants to put the loss down to KD. Ignoring the fact that Klay was in and out of games and was hot in Game6 before that injury effectively ended the series. They were even in the lead before that injury.

In and out of what? You have started with fake news. Klay missed 1 game which was Game 3.

He played every other game in the series. And even the Game 6 before he hot hurt they were only up by 2 the second quarter. You would think it was a blowout

etidy:
lets ignore that Klay was injured and curry finished the toronto series with a hobbled Iguodala, alphonso mckinee and jordan bell as starters

Taaa! He played 5 games from a possible 6

One would think Golden State have never benefitted from injured players before

He got hurt at the end of the 3rd. Don't pretend like he missed the entire series or something ridiculous like that. He only missed Game 3

greypencils:
He should prepare a text because the media are going to poke him on this issue. My comment is not snarky.

Whatever happened he has the right to speak or not. He's not a sitting senator he's doing what he can by using his voice. Seeing 17 kids in Elementary school getting killed is enough to evoke an emotional response out of anyone

benji93:
So wait, if GSW beats the Celtics you will concede to the argument that, GSW didn't need KD after all, at least for now?

Of course. If they beat Boston there is no argument to be had. Failure to beat Toronto however showed that the team was vulnerable without KD

Now if they fail to win even with his replacement and a younger arguably deeper team then we have to ask questions

greypencils:
Mass shooting in Oklahoma. Steve Kerr had better prepare a written speech about gun rights. No one demanded he spoke about the massacre in Uvalde, this one is in his backyard. The media will come for a prepared speech.

What is this snarky comment I don't understand. He shouldn't have spoken? Is it till someone shoots at an NBA game before you guys wake up?

Android22:
Troll him because Draymond said Steph got doubled 7 times more than KD? Is that what KD should be responding to? He is the one who made his rings small and with each reply, they get smaller.

Nobody is buying the warriors needed him and begged him story which helped his ego at the time. Steph and Draymond could have come out to deny it (because it was not true) but they let it fester because that is what good teammates do. Draymond has even subtly corrected Ernie on TNT by saying nobody called KD in any parking lot nor did anybody cry to him. If Draymond was trying to be as petty as KD, he would have done so from the beginning but he knew KD needed the narrative to justify his moving to the Bay area.

Sure, the warriors 4 flew with Bob to pitch KD. Big freaking deal, that is called great lobbying. The Celtics, San Antonio Spurs and Wizards pulled big shows to convince KD to move to their respective teams. Warriors had space for a max level player were they not going to do so?

Let us say KD opted for Boston instead. What difference would it have made? Warriors would still be able to get a max level talent and even better, we would still have been able to keep the bench - which is what we lost by getting KD.

No doubt his time with us was a huge success and we thank him for that but with Steph, Klay and Draymond as the core winning before KD and getting to a final after KD (so far), good luck arguing that adding a max level player to that team would not have touched 2 more rings at the very least.

Bottomline the Warriors begged Kevin Durant to come to Golden State. Draymond is the last one that should be taking any shots at KD. He's a bus rider that has never carried a team for any stretch of time in his NBA career

There were other free agents available. If the bench was so good then why not keep the bench and forget KD. The Warriors did not need to go for him at all and yet they did. Because they wanted a surefire ring. Can't shade KD for getting an easy ring like he wasn't recruited and courted. The Warriors sought after him. Facts

Anyway we already saw what happened to Golden State when KD went down against Toronto. Now they are condemned to beat Boston else no amount of salaye will explain away the fact that it took a Kevin Durant to cement the Warriors as a dynasty.

Roland17:
Add Andre Iggy to that list of recruiters. This right here and it annoys me that people and mainstream media intentionally leave out the fact that they all sought him. The chase for KD intensified immediately after the Warriors choked a 3-1 lead to lose game 7. After the Game 7 loss, Dray called his GM from the freaking parking lot about getting KD! I mean come on...If that is not even insulting on Curry and Klay then I don't know what is. After he got off the call with Meyers, he called KD before they got themselves together to visit with him at his hotel and sold the idea to him.

People wey dey craze. The man came from a devastating injury that potentially shortened his career. Shredded his Achilles and people are still yarnin dust. Even Warriors fans.

I won't say KD has been innocent in all of this too with his passive aggressive nonsense but people need to stop pretending like the Warriors didn't need KD to be an undeniable dynasty

They could have gone for absolutely anyone else but they aggressively pursued Kevin. All of this is lost in their poor attempt at shithousery. He got there and was the star of the team. No amount of long talk will erase that

Blueelf:
Another hater spotted



This one is a bronsexual in disguise

Me Bronsexual?

Who is going to tell him?

benji93:
We troll him for joining and when he leaves, we troll him again. Things you see in sports.

Na Bronsexuals still dey cry till now oh. Like say he did an Osaze and pulled up to their facility unprovoked. Like the entire GSW brass didn't fly from Oakland to the Hamptons to beg him to join them.

If you dey work for Toyota. If Elon Musk call you come offer you stocks and better payment deal you no go port?

birdman:
Lebron went to an ok team with another superstar (Wade) and a very good role player (Bosh). Without Lebron, Celtics/Pistons would have come out of ECF instead of Heat. And year 1 they still lost to a more complete Mavs team, showing they had to go back to drawing board. That pain allows Lebron to feel like he put in blood sweat and tears.

Lebron fans trying to justify 3 top draft picks forming in their prime will never not be funny to me. Who never fvck up hands in the air? No hands

Alaye was the competitive balance of the league altered or not?

Lebron went from 1 Finals appearance in 7 years to 4 straight Finals. Because he formed a super team!

Chris Bosh was not a role player. He was a franchise player that led his team twice to the post season. He was a 22-9 guy. Add that to a Wade who Finals MVP and scoring champ that had led his team to multiple deep runs in the playoffs

Can Draymond and Klay Thompson lead a team to the playoffs? Even Steph we saw him with just Draymond and they couldn't make the playoffs

birdman:
Durant went to arguably the best team in the league, with the best scoring duo in NBA history. A team that bounced him the previous year. And he left without telling his partner in crime. Advice that you do not take when young, you will eat of it when you are old. Thats why he's fighting on twitter. That move, and the way the move was done was not kosher. It allowed Durant to jumpshoot his way to an easy ring, they flogged Cavs like small boy. And the older Durant now knows, it wasnt as sweet as it should be.

It cant be as sweet as Giannis winning with the Bucks. Lai lai.

Durant simply took one step further what Lebron started.

Also a key detail butthurt fans keep leaving out. The Warriors recruited him. He didn't ask to join them. They begged him to come.

Durant's fvck up is being too sensitive to people's criticism instead of embracing the villain role. Also his babysitting of divas like Kyrie made them lose the chance to finish with a higher seed and go further in the playoffs. People forget the Nets were #1 seed before KD got injured

Whatever any hater wants to say they are not a dynasty without him. And if they lose to Boston again then it would beg the question. Are they really that team without him?

I've never understood the trolling of KD joining the Warriors. Troll the Warriors and Steph for recruiting him instead. One would think Steph, Klay and Draymond didn't fly to Durant's house to convince him to join them.

Like he just showed up to their facility and begged to join them. Didn't they recruit him? Was he the only free agent available?

raumdeuter:
The below is from former Liverpool player Didi Hamman

Lol. I don't like to drag him cos he's a Bayern alumni. But I've seen Thiago ghost too many big games I've never seen him dominate when we face any midfield with similar quality. We saw him do absolutely nothing on Saturday and I was not even surprised.

I hope we just get Mane from Liverpool. Even if we can get two good seasons from him I'm content. That man is their engine in attack and they are going to miss him sorely

budaatum:
Not confident at all. Like last year deflated him. I feel for him so much.

I've always said he didn't know how to set a car up and it's now showing, and is why Mechanic Michael Schumacher is my idol after Senna.

Get your hands greasy, Ham! This is where you get to show character.

For where? He's an excellent driver no doubt when he has the equipment but I've never understood the argument of him being GOAT over Schumacher. Anyway this season will shed more light. Me I already know who he is without the fastest car. Can't finish higher than 4th. This year fit no finish for top 5

raumdeuter:
We wey sabi Thiago for almost a decade vs someone wey just stumble on night market Thiago

Be like person wey stumble on babe wey you date for 7 years come dey tell you say she be this and that you no go just dey laugh?

Lewandowski is really talking greasy. Anyways let Barca pay up. I don't mind Lewa leaving at all. He's 34 and we need someone that will actually show up in the big CL games. He's not done that lately

budaatum:
I expect Hamilton to get a couple of wins this season. The sport needs it so they might engineer a win for him somehow. But that car is a lemon which might not be fixed any time soon and I just don't see Hamilton doing a dedicated Raikkonnen.

Can't realistically see Hamilton winning a race unless Max and Leclerc crash out in the same race. It's going to take something wacky like that to happen

He's not as confident as he used to be when he had the fastest car on the grid. You can see small boy George Russell outperforming him. He's 75 pts behind Max even with two DNFs for Max

Something is wrong with these Celtics

Why is Udoka challenging? No way they are reversing that. 5th foul on Brown

Spinaroonie. Congrats Celtics

Unlimited22:
Omo this isn't the full picture but this GIF funng

Who was he marking there? My grandma's ghost?

Point and kill defender

Lol this is such a weird series man. All I know is Golden State is going to torch either of these teams. Barbecue chicken

budaatum:
He wanted to save his engine in Spain, which made me think he's done like a worn part and needs replacement.

He surely marked the end of an amazing career, in my opinion.

Let's see if he can outperform his teammate never mind compete for anything