Yep, Durant is a wonderful offensive player. However, I'm reminded of another draft--in 1956. Two players stood out from that draft--Elgin Baylor and Bill Russell. Elgin got all the individual awards, Bill got all the rings. Something tells me the Celts were cool with the way that draft turned out.
Fucking hilarious. This is a writer from the same team that put an entire city on suicide watch when they "Lost Oden" in the ping pong ball spectacular.
That poor, goateed dude with the backwards cap and his mouth agape did. That, or he's a heckuvan actor.
Obviously, there were a few diehards still around, but back then they probably had 1/4 of the local fanbase that they had the day after the KG trade, and 1/10 of the one they had after beating the Lakers in the finals.
Hell yeah, of course I wanted Oden. Put me in a time machine, give me the #1 pick, and I'm still picking Oden. Don't blame me for the writer's stupidity.
Jesus Christ! I'm not blaming you ffs! I was pointing out how stupid it was for anyone under the Celtics banner (or any banner for that matter) to now be putting down Portland for that pick. I thought Bob Ryan was going to cry on ESPN every time he came on to talk about it.
Can't blame him. Rondo/Pierce/Jefferson/Oden would have been an extremely solid core. And I'm glad we both agree that the writer is an idiot.
talk about over reacting. You always take a potential franchise center when he's available and 90% of the NBA fanbase thought Oden was that guy. He can still be that guy if he's healthy. Hell it's only his 2nd year in the league. The Media has created this knee-jerk reaction to talent and this is an obscene instance of it happening on that site. what a maroon.
