KD couldn’t beat them, so he joined them. Simple as that. You guys at deadspin can’t write as many stupid articles excusing it of you want. It’s NOT a competitive move, period. He’s free to do what he wants but don’t try to act all smart and cunning by pretending he’s embracing some big challenge here. He’s bitching…

Haha definitely. All the journalists across various platforms are acting all nonchalant like what KD did is something warriors do every day and its all normal. Just trying to sound smart by going against the norm. At the end of the day its simple: KD has a right to do what he wants. But its the most anticompetitive…

NBA players aren’t 10 and this isn't school yard kickball. Try again

Yeah, let’s just pretend that “can’t beat em, join em” is the ultimate way to show your competitive. Shut up already with your weak explanations. This isn’t the tech world or another industry. It’s sports. KD could’ve been paid more and been on a contender in OKC but chose to ride coattails instead because he doesn’t…

No, thats not what anybody is saying. Staying in OKC isn’t handicapping yourself. Joining the Celtics or Spurs or Clippers isn’t handicapping yourself. It’s called being competitive but clearly you know nothing about that since you want to be so naive about this whole thing. Let’s just pretend KD was stuck on some…

MJ had Pippen and thats it. Rodman was great defensively but besides that MJ and Pip did the very heavy lifting. MJ lost to his rivals many times before beating them, unlike KD. Keep trying to make excuses to cover up KD pulling a bitch, non competitive move.

The Lakers never had the best roster in the league when they won titles. 2000-2002 had Shaq/Kobe and the rest of the team was plug and play. 2009-2010 teams were completely built around kobe starting in 2004 and Pau Gasol was a second tier star if anything. Pau isn’t even a HOF if he’s American. So yeah, go figure out…

Why are we acting like KD had average teammates though? Give it a rest

Another good reply. Its not so much KD leaving and its how he’s just hoping on the GSW bandwagon after clearly showing an ability to beat them in the WCFs. If KD went to Boston it’d be like Shaq joining LA in 1996 - a superstar joining a talented up and coming team. That would’ve been cool. This GSW stuff though is…

Excellent reply. All the writers who casually act like this is the same as a regular person switching jobs is again, hilarious and isn’t convincing at all . Guys like Barry publish this stuff to sound all smart and cutting edge when really he’s just being a cosigner of modern day pansy tactics.

Those teams came together through the draft, not bandwagon hoping by rivals to join other rivals. Nice job though with the weak basic comparison.

Exactly. From a competitive standpoint this move is weak as hell and it’s a bitch move. But of course legions of “writers” like Barry will try to make excuses for it to try to sound smart and cutting edge. Give me a break. You’re up 3-1 on a team and your teammate RW is crapping all over Curry, and instead of getting…