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What will KD do?
HillsboroDuck
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Now that he's officially out for next season, what do you think his next move is?
What will KD do? 28 votes
Exercise his player option to rehab on GS's dime for $31.5M and reevaluate his options next year
32%
9 votes
Resign with GS
10%
3 votes
Knicks
14%
4 votes
Lakers
0%
Nets
25%
7 votes
Clippers
3%
1 vote
Blazers (Hi Haie!)
7%
2 votes
Hawks
0%
Mavericks
3%
1 vote
Rye Tin
3%
1 vote
Comments
Assuming all is cool between KD, Klay and Steph offcourt -and there's no indication of any problems - it comes down to certainty of winning. So, even if KD has to sit out almost a year and comes back for the last 20 regular season games and the playoffs in 2020, the Warriors are still the team to beat. Arguably, you've got 3 Top 50 players of all-time on the same squad during their peak years - able to win maybe another 5 titles....that's reaching into Russell's Celtics stratosphere.
Going elsewhere holds the uncertainty of who is going to be available, chemistry, coaching, etc. KD knows what he's got in GS and it's pretty damned good from top to bottom. Even with Draymond going postal every once in a while.
The only reason I wouldn't go higher on probability is if there was some funny business/adverse pressure from GS to come back for Game 5 and some lingering scandal with the medical staff. Nothing indicates that's the case at this point.
Kawhi is the top free agent
AD is the top trade
The Lakers are the big story
The Warriors are the favorites next year with or without KD and its without regardless due to the injury
It’s hard to know how he’ll react to it but Golden State definitely has a better chance now. Unless they win without him.
LeBron aint winning shit in LA.
Much more talented roster than the Knicks and still in a big market. DLo, Dinwiddie, KD, LeVert, and Jarrett Allen is a damn good core, and they'd still have cap room to add another good role player
They'll end up with AD and they'll be a perennial 4 or 5 seed in the West with the ceiling being losing 4-1 in the Conf final.
KD has titles left in him ... but I'm not sure it's realistic to think with that injury that he'll be winning titles shouldering the load
At this point, it's really hard for me to imagine that the Nets are a title contender
I look forward to being a Warriors fan again. Maybe KD will finally get a ring once he’s healthy.
Everything he's shown since then suggests that he's a loser ...
Couldn't take the pressure playing 2nd to LBJ, whined about wanting his own team, and forced a trade out of town
Gets his own team with a legit title contender in Boston and essentially contributes to torpedo'ing the team in a way that hasn't happened in Boston since the late 70s ... they couldn't wait to get him out of town
I expect that the same story will play out in Brooklyn ... where the media intensity won't settle down ...
For as much as I appreciate KD's game, he's not exactly the best with the media and the attention that comes with it. It's something that Kyrie isn't good with either. How they react when all of the intensity is sitting right with them will be beyond interesting to watch.
For better or worse, the Warriors basically allowed KD to be the best version of himself in so many ways.
KD went about searching out a new challenge/opportunity which he is entitled to do so.
His injury is one that it's hard to expect he'll come back the same ... 80% of him though is obviously still a great player.
But there's good reason to be skeptical as to whether the Nets can win a title with this group ... it's far from a given.