It's amusing to watch Oklahoma City fans get all pissy when Kevin Durant comes to town.
Wednesday night, the Golden State Warriors discovered their way to the MidFirst Bank Arena and as it was a year ago, the Thunder Faithful rewarded KD and his burner Twitter record to a solid round of boos, insults and signs announcing things like "Respectability Trumps Rings," which is the sort of thing you need to reveal to yourself when you get Dumped.
Furthermore, there's a lot of bad blood between the fans or the groups. Russell Westbrook has never gotten over KD's it's-not-you-it's-me schedule. Durant reported his arrangements in a web post. It wasn't exactly "Taking my abilities to South Beach," yet of course, KD isn't exactly Lebron either.
In any case, the story is that Russ found out about Durant marking with Golden State through Twitter, which I could see being stunning. Russ discovered he was dumped when KD changed his Facebook status.
That stings.
A year ago he took it out on EVERYONE, averaging a triple twofold and bringing home the MVP trophy and even one-increased KD on the size of the agreement.
Durant, in any case, likewise brought home a MVP trophy. From the NBA finals. It goes with his ring. Furthermore, he's well en route to another.
He'd been in Oklahoma eight years preceding leaving, seven of them with Westbrook. Both Westbrook and Oklahoma City fans had come to consider him To be the establishment. He was their best player, their most splendid light, all they knew.
And afterward he dumped them for a more blazing, more youthful model. I am the weak link here.
What's more, they turned on him like he was a backstabber, which he sort of was. Rather than attempting to make sense of an approach to beat the Warriors, Durant went along with them. He's fortunate he didn't pull that poop in Philly. We've been known to toss batteries.
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Yet, even in Oklahoma - a spot I've never been, however envision to resemble living in a portion of stale Wonder Bread, with about as much shading and nightlife - things got chippy.
Westbrook and Durant went head to head during the game, butting heads with their crews behind them. Furthermore, just because, Westbrook bamboozled Durant and the Thunder got a success.
I've watched Durant's profession from the beginning however. Since I live in Seattle. A great many people overlook that the Seattle Supersonics drafted him (and Westbrook, actually, however the group moved six days after the fact), and he played his first season here, not long before David Stern held this city prisoner and let Clay Bennett take the group. It wasn't exactly the Colts moving in the night or even the Browns turning into the Ravens, however it was close.
You realize who hasn't overlooked? Seattle. That ought to have been their group, their season finisher runs, their shots at a motorcade.
In any case, regardless of his open vows to keep the group in Seattle, slime bucket screwhead Clay Bennett never had any aim of doing something besides lurking back to Oklahoma City and there are messages to demonstrate it. David Stern couldn't have cared less however. The city of Seattle, which was all the while taking care of the field they refurnished for the Sonics under 15 years sooner and voters were a piece leary of building another one.
So like the ravenous jerk he was, Stern made the city a model and let Bennett remove the group from the fourteenth biggest market in the nation and move to the 45th.
It was stunning.
Yet, it worked. Ask the Clippers. What's more, the Chargers.
Which is the reason it's sort of clever to me when those fans feel by one way or another insulted or begin discussing honesty.
YOU ARE THE MISTRESS. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?
Quiet down. Suck it up. You and your badly persuaded establishment have the right to be dumped, you philandering rats. You have the right to lose. For eternity. Or if nothing else as long as Clay Bennett or his beneficiaries own the group. I'm happy Kevin Durant abandoned your rear ends and I'm significantly progressively happy he won somewhere else. I'm happy he focuses on it your countenances and I trust this year it's James Harden, the person you push off, that pounds your fantasies.
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Sorry Thunder fans, however may the Curse of Clay Bennett live for eternity.
Long Live the SuperSonics.
Ok, however it's Thanksgiving so we should end on a high note.
This year I am appreciative for a great deal of reasons. I am appreciative to be a Philadelphia Sports fan, where I get the chance to pull for Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons and Carson Wentz and Rhys Hoskins for years to come. I am grateful to have never worked for Charlie Rose. I am grateful my group didn't modest out and sign Blair Walsh. I'm grateful for my lovely spouse and the infant that is prepared to show up any day now ("Embiid" is an extraordinary name for a kid or a young lady, right?). I'm appreciative that I live 3,000 miles from the family whose legislative issues I evade on Facebook so I don't need to attempt to clarify that "Tragic!" isn't a strategy position or that NO ONE IS PROTESTING THE ANTHEM before I can eat pie. I am appreciative to have met the Guru and the group off camera who got this off the ground.
What's more, obviously, I am grateful for you, the audience members and perusers.
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