Yeah, but that wasn't about KP being unwilling to deal with the Blazers specifically. Beat writers are notoriously homerish--look at how they vote for awards. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they all thought their teams' offers were better because they overvalue their teams' players. Is it possible Pritchard is just petty? Sure. That wouldn't shock me at all. But I wouldn't take the word of biased parties on it. That's all.
Nobody is changing the narrative. Just following what everyone else is saying. Maybe they're all wrong and you're right?
Who said anything about changing the narrative? I said that other writers' tweets aren't about Pritchard being unwilling to deal with Portland, which you implied by saying that it's not just Quick, it's other beat writers too. I didn't say anything about spiteful. You were one of the people who posted that "apparently" Pritchard was unwilling to deal with the Blazers (which is based on the Quick tweet) and I picked one such post at random to quote.
Yes, Warriors are good, but they ran into tremendous injury lucky in both of their titles. It's like the injury gods rolled out the red carpet and paved their way to a title. Though to be fair, they did beat the Cavs who were at full strength. (though I highly doubht they would have beaten them 2 years ago full strength).
And the injury gods took away a title from them last year. They were up 3-1 even with a less-then-100% Curry, but ran out of steam with Iguodala and Bogut both injured (and Green's suspension). Had Curry been 100% or they hadn't lost Bogut (and had a gimpy Iguodala) or Green hadn't gotten suspended, they complete that series win. That makes it relatively obvious to me that they would have beaten the full-strength Cavs in 2015.
They beat them by an average of 7.2 PPG over the full series (including the losses). A +7.2 point differential is about the difference between the Spurs and Hornets this past season. It's enormous. And, as I pointed out, the next year the Cavs were full strength and the Warriors had all sorts of injuries, including to their best player and it took every bit of that for the Cavaliers to pull it out at the buzzer of game 7. If both squads had been fully healthy, it would have been a Warriors' walk-over.
Steams me because this doesn't bode well do real Ferguson who is a real talent. Kind of a stupid move by OKC, I'd be on the horn finding out the value of 2K in OKC. Then again they could play him at the 2 and pg at the 3 so maybe it will be alright for him. As long as he gets minutes he's fine. Kinda kills his fantasy value though.
What a deal for Thunder. Not only they dump Oladipo which will IMO almost certainly be considered a bad contract down the line, they also get Paul George if even for a year. Oladipo is not worth $21M a year anyway.
TJ McBride @TJMcBrideNBA about 54 minutes ago I just cannot wrap my head around Dipo and Sabonis for Paul George and why they said no to all those much larger reported deals.
How are they going to be better than Thunder if they move there, though? Unless Ball, Ingram and Randle make a big step up, the supporting cast will be at best equal to the one they have in OKC.
Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe George will decide that he prefers to stick with Westbrook and recruit a third star? At this point it's hard to tell. There is a very high chance that he will bolt to LA at the end of season but for this package it was well worth it.
