when will durant start receiving ringless jokes and a choker status lebron got at 24

[Keno]

people are blaming scott brooks, westbrook, his supporting cast and no one is blaming durant. lebron was averaging 39/8/8 for a series and he was labeled a choker and would be ringless forever. it seems like the standard was high for one of these players.

[Mr Exlax]

He won't because he doesn't have the same pressure by the media and fans that LeBron had at 24. He's simply not as good and everybody knows it. KD will get there eventually though.

[Keno]

He won't because he doesn't have the same pressure by the media and fans that LeBron had at 24. He's simply not as good and everybody knows it. KD will get there eventually though.

so lebron was expected to win the title with a bum ass team while durant gets a pass for losing with a more stacked team. just doesn't make sense.

[dubeta]

people are blaming scott brooks, westbrook, his supporting cast and no one is blaming durant. lebron was averaging 39/8/8 for a series and he was labeled a choker and would be ringless forever. it seems like the standard was high for one of these players.

And LeBron had a scrub team

Its because deep down people know that Durant is not nearly as good as LeBron, even diehard Thunder fans know this, thats why Durant doesnt get the criticism.

Its Westbrook's team as far as i'm concerned

[PickernRoller]

No one was claiming Durant was the GOAT at age 24. Only mindless clowns like LeStans were.

[Beastmode88]

so lebron was expected to win the title with a bum ass team while durant gets a pass for losing with a more stacked team. just doesn't make sense.

so stack fisher had to guard diaw?

[DMAVS41]

It's not all on Durant, but this year he deserves a lot of blame.

His team was there...and there are real reasons other than Durant why they didn't win, but I think he was pretty bad overall...despite the great stats and minutes played.

[Straight_Ballin]

people are blaming scott brooks, westbrook, his supporting cast and no one is blaming durant. lebron was averaging 39/8/8 for a series and he was labeled a choker and would be ringless forever. it seems like the standard was high for one of these players.

Durant didn't wear shirts like "check my stats" and "earned not given". He's not insecure about his losses so no one is going to give him any shit for it.

[Mr. Incredible]

Durant is not as good right now as LeBron was even at 24. It's just the truth.

[Keno]

so stack fisher had to guard diaw?

compared to the cavs team, this okc team is like the showtime lakers. and fisher was guarding diaw because of poor coaching, how does that make them less stacked?

[VIntageNOvel]

if he played in eastern conference, he will, but he's not

[Beastmode88]

compared to the cavs team, this okc team is like the showtime lakers. and fisher was guarding diaw because of poor coaching, how does that make them less stacked?

so where was this stacked team during the game

alfred choked hard in ot but let's not get it twisted that was the worst match up i've ever seen in 1 quarter. you got ibaka defending tim mfing duncan? you got fisher guarding diaw? where was this stacked line up when it mattered?

[Natureland]

Where is this revisionist history coming from that people were labeling LeBron a choker after 2009? He started getting majorly shitted on the following year after Game 5 against Boston where he played like he didn't give a ****. The worst criticism he got in 2009 was for not being a "good sport" by heading to the locker room after Game 6.

And please spare me insecure Kobe Trolls/'09 Skip Bayless making complaints about '09 LeBron's play. That's as weak as it gets for trying to prove he was getting real, legit criticism from the media.

And by the way, KD this year deserves far more criticism for how he played than 2009 LeBron did.

[DaSeba5]

He's not as polarizing as LeBron and Kobe anyways. I don't think that will ever happen, at least compared to them.

[PsychoBe]

durant didn't get swept in the finals and have the worst superstar finals performance in nba history

people want to pretend like bran's 2007 finals didn't happen, but it did. he couldn't will his team to even one win and was the leader of the only team in the decade to get swept in the finals.

everyone was more disappointed in bran than anything, because he was lauded as the "chosen one" and was of course, the number one pick. durant wasn't even the number one pick.