Durant needs to experience frustration like all other greats

[Eric Cartman]

I'd like to see both kd and Westbrook leave just to see okc itself implode lol

All of us do and it will happen.

[Replay32]

magic johnson,

james worthy,

Lou alcindor,

dwayne wade,

Kobe bryant,

tim duncan

Bill Russell

Feel free to add to the list.

[Replay32]

Am I the only one who thought that Durant got to the finals too easy? He was very luck to have a contending team already at age 23 when he reached the finals.

How many other superstars had their way that smoothly at such a young age? Jordan didn't get a contending team until he was 28 years old. Lebron was stuck on his Crapaliers team for 7 seasons. KG was on his timberpups teams for 12 years. Heck, even the lucky boy Kobe had 3 seasons where he was surrounded by absolute crapheads.

The thing is, it's good for young players to go through frustrations, it makes them grow and and learn to cherish opportunities. All other greats have been through it, and now Durant is going through it too.

[Derivative]

And of course he ran like the beta he is.

[Hey Yo]

Nothing??

So improving them by 10W with a weak ass team, is nothing?
Having one of the best peaks/seasons in 1977, just playing like an absolute beast, taking them to 53W with a weak ass team, with a new and young coach in West (who only coached for 3 seasons), tearing shit up in the playoffs (losing to a much more stacked team)... is nothing?
1977-78 and 1978-79 also two pretty great seasons, especially with chemistry-killer, absolutely-no-defense-playing, not yet in his prime, Adrian Dantley, and only Wilkes was a good defensive player pretty much.

And from 1975-76 til 1978-79 ain't close to a decade.

Furthermore, Magic was only clear-cut better than Kareem around 1986 or 1987, and we're talking about a 39 year old Jabbar, mind you.
Kareem had a crazy season in 1980 with MVP, leading the way to a ring, that FMVP is his. He still had some great years after that as a leader/captain/best-player, he had one of the GOAT individual Finals series in 1985 at age 38 against the Celtics with an injured Bird, had it not been for him (you can also say injure to Bird) and they don't win.

So yea you could say Magic was really lucky to arrive at a team a top3 all-time player still in his prime(past his peak) to lead them and take the pressure off, plus Nixon one of the greatest PGs in the league at the time to learn from, Wilkes was a really good player, and Coop started playing the same time as Magic.

Go learn the history of the NBA.

Sarcastic got his ass handed to him and nothings changed since then.