OT Will Durant Leave OKC in free agency?

OKCs probable road to a championship:
They beat Memphis/Blazers with HCA in first round of playoffs (Probable)
They beat Spurs without HCA in 2nd round (very unlikely)
They beat GS without HCA in conf. finals (very unlikely)
They beat Cleveland without HCA in conf. finals (unlikely, they'll be exhausted).

The most likely scenario is that they lose to the Spurs in the 2nd round. If this is the case, I believe the following will happen:
Spurs win 4-0 or 4-1: Durant leaves
Spurs win 4-2 or 4-3: Durant mulls, leaning toward leaving

IMHO, Durant will stay if they at least take 2 games from the Warriors after beating the Spurs. I don't think that will happen. I think Durant will leave.

538: Thunder have 7% chance to win the title.

 

If he wants a ring, he'll leave. He needs a better Robin. He'll never win a ring playing with a ball hogging, hero ball playing, poor shooting, turnover prone stat whore that freezes him out in the 4th quarter of close games.

BNM

 

Bollocks. I don't think they make it past the first round. Westbrook will find a way to frag their chances.

 

He leads the league in triple doubles and averages 10 plus assits how is he a ball hog?

 

"YOU HAVE LOST THE LEAD!"

 

If you find the link, post it; I miss that.

 

DAME/CJ/KD/HARKLESS/DMC


Do we need a bench? Make it happen....

 

At first I thought you meant this song:

 

I figure Durant will follow his fellow Longhorn LaMarcus in deciding to leave the team after losing 2 games and giving up on the team.

 

I don't think Durrant has a problem with Westbrook. They both get their 18-20 shots per game.
Same as CJ and Dame

 

I CAN DANCE ALL DAY, I CAN DANCE ALL DAY!

 

I don't even know to be honest. I don't think its guaranteed that he leaves OKC, I don't think it's guaranteed he stays. I think OKC will be front runners going into FA.

 

Easy, just look at the numbers I posted in Eric's Best PG Ever thread. Even though Westbrook has a healthy Durant this year and shares the ball more under Donovan than he ever did under Scott Brooks, the Thunder have the 5th lowest percentage of assisted 4th quarter FGs in the league. Westbrook racks up assists in the first three quarters, mostly by handing the ball to Durant and letting him shoot over his defender, but in the 4th quarter, he still resorts to hero ball, calls his own number (in spite of having the worst clutch time FG% on his team) and freezes out Durant.

"Westbrook's clutch field-goal percentage of 34.9 percent was the lowest on the Thunder (among players who'd taken at least 10 shots in those situations), per B/R Insights."

The closer the game and the higher the stakes, the worse it gets. I have been commenting on Westbrook freezing Durant out in the 4th quarter of playoff games for several years. Just look at these clutch time numbers from the last time Durant/Westbrook played together in the playoffs:

2013-14 (the last time the Thunder made the playoffs):
Kevin Durant: FGM = 17, FGA = 33, EFG% = .545
Russell Westbrook: FGM = 14, FGA = 46, EFG% = .348

That season, Kevin Durant won the MVP and led the league in scoring at 32.0ppg. So why, with the game on the line in the playoffs, was Russell Westbrook taking nearly one and a half times as many shots as the much more efficient MVP and scoring champ?

There's more, but that basically sums up Westbrook right there. He's an amazing athlete, but a selfish player who craves the spotlight to the detriment of his team with the game on the line. With the game on the line, he forces up bad shots, commits unforced turnovers and freezes out his much more efficient scoring teammates.

BNM

 

Thats interesting. Great counter.