lmao....we not getting any kind of NEW Ben Simmons next year, lol, lol, lol.
Meanwhile in Shanghai:
"Shanghai police barge down door in resident's apartment" https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/05/04/shanghai-covid-police-break-down-door-coren-ovn-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/around-the-world/
Ben "To Be Or Not To Be" Simmons AND Kyrie 'The Martyr" Irving
As a Knicks fan, I almost feel sorry for Kevin Durant.
But then, he wanted to BE THE BELL COW.
The notion that he felt a palpable spiritual ennui in feeling that he was somehow a secondary figure to Steph Curry in Golden State?
Playing with Curry, Thompson, Green? What's not to like? Curry and Durant both averaged 26 a game.
What am I missing?
Now he has linked his brand to a pair of great talents who also happen to be certifiable mental cases.
Kyrie is a generational talent. Still, correct me if I am wrong, but Cleveland, Boston, Brooklyn...he has detonated every team he's been associated with. Much as Durant didn't want to be second fiddle to Steph Curry, Kyrie didn't want to be second fiddle to LeBron James.
Steph and LeBron. All time great talents and winners.
Kyrie played 60 & 67 games in his two seasons with Boston.
Admittedly, he played very well, and in his first season, the Celtics went to the conference finals, where they took LeBron and the Cavs to seven games before falling. The Cavs went down 4-0 to....who? The Durant-Curry-Thompson-Green Warriors. Who knows how the Cavs might have fared if Kyrie was still with LeBron.
AS A SON OF BROOKLYN?
In three seasons, he as played in
20
54
29
games
He is a narcissistic head case, albeit at such a level of talent, that time and time again, people will put up with his nonsense and indulge him.
CONCEIVABLY, Durant-Irving-Simmons could start fresh as a talented triumverate in 2022-23. It is not beyond the realm of possibility.
But the self regard and fragile/inflated egos of Simmons and Irving are like walking land mines.
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