Wizards center Marcin Gortat tweeted.
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They did so, it should be pointed out, by great drafting and development.
Though not everyone is anointing them next year’s champions. Oklahoma City can trade Westbrook to get value for the high-scoring point guard or it can allow him to become a free agent, risking losing Westbrook and Durant in back-to-back offseasons.
Instead of announcing where he’d play next on a poorly put together, dragged on interview, Durant took a less disastrous approach, opting to write a piece on The Players’ Tribune detailing his decision to join the newest National Basketball Association evil empire.
Then he told readers he was moving on with the Golden State Warriors.
“Everyone is so hyped up on the match up problems on the offensive end?” They have to appeal to other things. The Warriors have the skeleton of a championship team already.
“None of us are under the illusion that Kevin Durant would be here forever”, Presti said. The team moved to Oklahoma City and was renamed the Thunder starting in the 2008-2009 season.
While sources have confirmed that Durant was pretty quiet during his meeting with the Warriors, the team’s core spoke up.
Hey man, if I was a Thunder fan I’d be pissed also.
“If you can’t beat um, join um”, Clippers forward Paul Pierce tweeted to tweak Durant. In doing so, he left a party he could actually see the summit with, might have even reached if the lack of oxygen hadn’t choked him the way it seemed to during the Western Conference finals. “But that’s… things are different”.
Durant would feel like a tool joining a team that won back to back championships.
Presti says that while it will be challenging without Durant in the lineup, he believes the current players will be able to step up and take on bigger roles with the team.
They would involve injuries to multiple Warriors, and Durant and Curry both have had scares in their career. It’s time for Cleveland to get ready for next years’ free agency.
The Thunder have been making changes to their roster, and now more will undoubtedly come. And they are all in their primes, all between 26-and-28.
And only so much money, as odd as that sounds this summer.
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The Warriors made history last season with a 73-9 tally in the regular season, breaking a 72-win record by the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls that held for two decades.
