Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
I didn't claim that KD has made a million trade demands. I said he skips out on teams when things aren't going his way, and that's clearly true. Stuck with OKC for a long time, to his credit, and eventually left. Then went to GSW, where he was getting paid huge money to win chip after chip, and left because of drama. Went to Brooklyn, now he's asking for a trade because things aren't going his way there either. The narrative has changed since he left OKC because he has behaved differently. Pretty simple.
''Look how far we've come man!''
I know! It's exciting isn't it! We've got a deep team filled with promising, likable talent, with a bunch of assets to continue building around 3 all-star calibre players - at least one of which may be MVP calibre sooner rather than later! - ready to make deep playoff runs for years at a time, maybe even contending for a chip! It's fantastic! It's sustainable, it's a team that's likable, that's fun to watch, filled with personalities I appreciate, and who also have the possibility of winning consistently and big for years to come! There may well even be championships down the line. It's awesome! What a change from the years and years of lottery picks and traded first rounders! I love how far we've come!
Which is exactly why I don't want to trade all of it for a 34 year old who has played 80 games in the last 3 years, can't get off Twitter for more than 30 seconds because he can't resist getting into drama with nobodies, who got swept in the first round last year and therefore has shown that he alone cannot guarantee us a championship, and who - let's be realistic here - probably doesn't even want to be here. I don't want to trade all that happiness and potential for a wild telegraphed haymaker that has no real promise of connecting and, which, if it misses, launches right back to being a trashfire lottery trawler for another 5 years.