Kevin Durant Gets Real About The Challenges Of Playing On A Super Team

[@War_Maker]

“Create nothing out of something” - KD, modern poet.

[@mattpassos5689]

😂😂😂 that Freudian slip in action right there

[@xertifiedthicc]

W oyasumi punpun pfp W berserk username W comment

[@kingdavid5932]

1:03

[@amaziahyaohsharal9840]

Lol

[@larrybird6860]

The perfect quote for the Nets superteam experiment

[@marcusgreer7331]

JJ really the best in the game at nba podcast because he’s just so real and honesty with no need to throw controversy in the discussion.

[@BRAWLIC215]

Nawwwww

[@ZombieLincoln666]

Zach Lowe is

[@daindigokid]

@@ZombieLincoln666 naw Zach too political. He not real.

[@drakotv9240]

Knuckleheads, All the smoke

[@kingofemperors7887]

Just in podcast

[@matthewroller5412]

This is why your better off with just 2 max level players so you can have good depth you never know when the injury bug strikes and this also doesn't mess up your future.

[@clemence8623]

Clippers & Boston come to mind with that concept coz they are solid team specially clippers PG & Kawhi but they got depth from Reggie, Morris etc.

[@emmanuelo9743]

I agree wit you but the Nets got a big 3 and elite depth. Goran,Seth,Blake,LA,Harris,Cam Thomas,and Bruce Brown. The Nets got KD and Kyrie to superstars that elevate their games in the playoffs,and Simmons a 3 time all star that is a elite playmaker and a elite defender

[@maxbolton5227]

Worked great for the Lakers this year

[@RedE4NBA2K]

No you’re not lol. If you’re talking about contractual structuring then yes you are right it is hard to put guys around your best players when you spend that much on your top guys but historically some of the greatest teams of all time had 3 max level talent players. If you have a chance to get 3 of the best players in the league on 1 team, you did it every time, and worry about the rest of your team/future later. It doesn’t work all the time, but when it does, it usually results in multiple championships.

[@MohamedAli-sx2wu]

Nets should’ve kept there team at the start of last year KD, Kyrie, Allen, Levert etc they had great depth

[@brucemichaelgrossman4913]

I love how JJ was like, “we had a super team,” and KD was like, “nah, so all of us could create our own shot.”

[@kingofemperors7887]

I dont even know who jj redick is lool

[@kyletrosper8953]

@@kingofemperors7887 ur just a casual then

[@kingofemperors7887]

@@kyletrosper8953 hahahaha

[@yerik6034]

@@kingofemperors7887 he isn’t kidding. How do you not know jj reddick?

[@PlanetJigobotTV]

I love this side of KD. Great interview JJ.

[@MrR9999]

I understand the change in attitude where players are looking out for their own interests. The sad thing about losing the team loyalty of the past is that fans in smaller markets really don't have any hope.

[@jepb6990]

Yeah teams like Portland , Indiana, Okc. But you have to smart and hit big in the draft lottery

[@g.a.m.e.1800]

Good point, smaller markets have to do it the hard way, so it's much more meaningful when they succeed. Milwaukee should be praised heavily for their success last year. Then look at the Spurs this year!!! 10th seed with their roster!!!!!! AMAZING! The Lakers are 11th seed with 5 sure Hall of Famers...the Spurs are 10th with one potential All-Star (D. Murray).

[@altdelete7696]

The warriors are in a a small market. Cleveland is mid market. It don't get smaller than san Antonio. Okc is trying to tank otherwise cp3 was there, pg choose to go there Russ chose ta stay, kd extended. If you win they will come. Don't excuse teams for being sorry.

[@w3x8m2173]

@@altdelete7696 Ain’t no way you said Bay Area is a small market but Cleveland is a medium market

[@altdelete7696]

@@w3x8m2173 however you want to define it point is it's not LA.

[@tsenguunodgerel1706]

The best channel I've ever seen for basketball fans. Glad to see JJ Reddick his fun and rewarding activity after his retirement. So hyped and felt real compared to fake boys in ESPN

[@marbhaboknongbri7066]

I hope you guys get Shaun Livingston on the podcast. His is an amazing story

[@zombies_killz1869]

I don’t care what anyone says but that golden state era was fun to watch, beautiful offense.

[@alexescutia4805]

Wasn’t fun knowing which team was winning the title every season

[@woahstuh]

@@alexescutia4805 although they didn't win every season

[@lowdown4444]

It was boring after while why u think the nba broke it up

[@Tehui1974]

I loved the Warriors side before KD decided to ride their coat tails and cheat code his way to a championship.

[@Xxxx-pb4fe]

@@alexescutia4805 you say that but if it was your team you would enjoy it because as a fan it was great basketball

[@ampinghard111]

GS has figured out how to draft and develop players. There’s no cap on player development and scouting staff, so they doubled the size of their draft room and built an entire staff dedicated to developing their young players. They used to draft like the spurs, high character guys with length and defensive chops.. but after whiffing on players like Jacob evans, Pat Mccaw and Damian Jones, they realized that there was something missing from their mold. The confidence and swagger that steph, klay and draymond have… and so they break their usual mold and draft Jordan Poole with the 28th pick.. a guy that wasn’t even on anyones pre-draft boards but had the confidence and swagger of steph and klay. Every analyst said this was the worst pick of the draft having him going undrafted and could’ve been snagged with one of GS 2nd round picks, but GS was so high on him that they refused to risk missing out on him. You can coach players up defensively and the culture they’ve built there guarantees defensive effort out of every player, but you can’t teach confidence and swagger to be an elite offensive threat.

[@ragavendarranju9130]

Remember when only Harden and Kd played they were no.1 seed for almost 4 months..,.

[@modolief]

I'm glad the players stick together in this sport, at least for the most part. Because _this day and age_ is all about the business, and loyalty (human values) ... hard to find.

[@ObiC]

Yea look at Isaiah Thomas and the Celtics lol that’s what happens when your loyalty gets exploited and why players don’t stay with 1 team no more

[@C-Hood]

@@ObiC or Derozan

[@paulmccarthy4277]

nope i hate it . their too friendly need some beef to make stuff interesting .

[@sharifnasser7635]

@@paulmccarthy4277 beef was all fake anyways. Even kobe and shaq was faked. Go watch the wwe respectfully

[@camerondaley6902]

They don't stick with each other the all tuck they tail when it's time look what they did to kyrie why no one ain't say since Kyrie ain't getting the vaccine why everyone ain't Step up and say I'm with Kyrie they ain't getting it tbh lebron is the biggest sell out imagine if everyone in the NBA said we not taking it the NBA would of try to make agreement Cuzz bonus ain't gonna wanna see nobody's Also why no body stick up for veterans Isiah Thomas carmelo Jamal Crawford and more they black ball the veterans but yet got the scrubs on a roster

[@adams6438]

The Heat’s big 3 was a whole lot of adjustment for Wade and Bosh. And honestly, Wade was probably a top 5-10 player on the first two season of that big 3 and he fell off to top 20 in the last 2 seasons.. Bosh was always in the 20-30 range.. Bosh quickly found his role, pick and roll, 3. And his defense was so underrated, he moved so quickly to blitz and trap the p&r. Wade always played elite on or off the ball, he knows how to set himself up to score without having to dribble. And he was always a good defensive player.

[@davidchandler6885]

All the teams stars got adjust to Bron n take a hit on their game

[@Blekkkkkkkkk]

the best type of big 3 cus wade was great off ball and playing defense, also can set bron up for oops and run the second unit. Bosh was the birth of a small ball basketball . He was a 6'10 rim protector that can shoot 3s and stand in the corner offensively

[@D.P.Miller]

Wade didn’t fall of because of the adjustments he needed to make. It was due the injuries. His knees were breaking down.

[@andrepeazant2016TheDeuce]

@@Blekkkkkkkkk stop it. He couldn't shoot 3s and bron hurt his game. Je never shot more than 1.5 per game and he never shot better than 37% that's not good...🤣🤣🤣 His scoring dropped 8 points per game. Bron hurt bosh period. On the flip side Klay Thompson scoring only dropped a point when KD came to rhe warriors. Big difference. FYI the Warriors with KD would sweep Miami in any year.

[@Chavanun555]

@@andrepeazant2016TheDeuce well of course bro. That GSW with Kd is a cheat code lol. They just got injured. Pretty sure they would still win like 2 more. The only team that they would have somewhat of a hard time would be last year Bucks or fully healthy Lakers when they won in the bubble and I mean fully healthy with AD having no lame injuries lol

[@AskAboutGunn]

KD explaining GSW’s aura speaks volumes to the clip I watched earlier where Steph Klay and KD all open all pointing to opposite people like “he’s open”.

[@rpvofficiel2184]

thanks to JJ and also ibaka for these real interviews

[@jamesmarshall6619]

Love this conversation. I've always hated fans who dismiss teams because they didn't "build a championship the right way." It's a dumb sentiment and as a Suns fan I've seen our franchise try to "build it the right way" and we have no championships to show for it. The job of an organization is to win a championship, if you can draft the right guys then great, if not you do what you have to do and like KD and JJ said, when you have that guy, however you got him, you go for it because there is no guarantee you get another shot.

[@smoothsavage2870]

This is something people say because their team had a chance to win, but lose that chance because a superteam takes it away. I can understand this viewpoint because i was a Bulls fans during the early 2010s. This was when Lebron made the Heat superteam. He took away the Bulls chance to win a chip when he did that. Now on the flipside, people have been very hypocritical about this viewpoint. Very few teams have built SOLELY from the draft. So what is the "right way"? Organizations drafting and trading? If you're putting together dominant teams, it doesnt make a difference who does it because it has the same impact to the league whether a player does it or a GM.

[@jamesmarshall6619]

@@smoothsavage2870 exactly. Even when we were doing it "the right way" we signed free agents or traded. Barkley Suns we traded for Barkley, trade for KJ, and signed Tom Chambers as a free agent. By the way, still mad DRose got hurt. I know we're all mad about but damn it, I loved watching him play.

[@smoothsavage2870]

@@jamesmarshall6619 Yea D Rose getting hurt made those years very tough to be a Bulls fan. I gave up on them by 2015, or whenever it was that they hired Hoiberg.

[@davidperkoski1132]

@@jamesmarshall6619 even as a Sixer fan, Derrick Rose was such a special player to watch.

[@kyhxx]

. hm well said tbh- fans just live in th hype and rarely think about this sad of th NBA reality ^

[@jimtriantafyllou7978]

I mean there is a Karl Malone, John Stockton situation in Golden State, with 3 guys actually playing together for 10 years straight and probably till the end of their careers

[@brendanbloom3366]

They aren't on the same talent level

[@jewmail5395]

@@brendanbloom3366 he never said they were

[@brendanbloom3366]

@@jewmail5395 it's what I'm saying. They aren't a dominant duo like that. That was two players top 5 at their position all time.

[@nateolison7553]

@@brendanbloom3366 Golden State plays positionless basketball, so it's apple to oranges. The cumulative impact is what counts. GSW for the win honestly.

[@brendanbloom3366]

@@nateolison7553 That doesn't matter. Steph and Klay can play their traditional positions and they won't be top 5 at them all time. They are not as good as Stockton and Malone were.

[@bjensen]

Because of the cap spike, the warriors could have a big 3 and afford lots of good role players. They didn't have to compromise on roster composition

[@clutch7548]

You can clearly look at those teams and see you are incorrect… they got guys who took massive paycuts. Like David West and Zaza The rest were minimum guys barely in the league

[@ray79683816]

when I hear that 'create nothing out of something' part at 1:03 I was like that sounds not right but that can be right lol

[@MyMiniMovieMagic]

As a Dubs fan, let me say I have zero ill will towards KD and I'm thankful and appreciate what he did for our franchise and feel he had every right to do ultimately what he wanted to do and what he felt would make him happy- have said that, the quote "I mean we wanted to stay together as long as possible" followed by "I left in free agency" made me chuckle 😅 I'm just glad to see both him and Klay healthy after those horrible injuries.

[@JoeG2324]

yeah, must be tough playing with potential hall of famers.

[@curtj8605]

hall of famers don't guarantee rings tho so what's your point 🤷 again...

[@thesandman1384]

So tough, just look at Lebron, Russ, Ad, Melo, wonder what happened there

[@CAxALLDAY]

it is tough in a way...its called egos and these players have huge ones.

[@smoothsavage2870]

Yea, just ask Kobe how easy it was playing with Shaq, Karl Malone and Gary Payton. Then ask him how easy it was with Dwight and Steve Nash lol.

[@InV1sible9688]

SO TOUGH /s

[@MAFion]

Notice how a sports journalist could not get this kind of access? The relaxed candor and all? Great stuff.

[@jonathansykes4986]

They could if they stopped chasing the drama headlines but they are too busy trying to "make a name" for themselves not realizing that their profession is meaningless without the athletes. ESPN / FS1 is the TMZ of the sports world right now and it's pretty sad.

[@devinmccampbell8110]

Everyone will remember him for becoming who he is through OKC....but when he won ROTY he was a Seattle supersonic lol

[@macabree5856]

dang that's crazy. I forgot that OKC was Seattle supersonics before they changed the name

[@shakoimnadze7604]

@Plus ¹ ⁹⁴⁹⁴³⁶⁶³⁵² What'sapp me shut up bot

[@defstone999]

something I noticed. NBA has an issue of management not being loyal towards a player, while the NHL is the opposite with a lot of the times being too loyal. there's a lot of NHL teams that hold onto players way past their prime, which sure is great for fans but if they aren't consistent with their output, mannnn do they drag the team hard

[@jayanderson7508]

It's popularity of the sport, love hockey but the salary cap is what 84 mil, Watson just got $240+ guaranteed after allegations, when hockey becomes more popular the money will increase and create divas

[@youngw.a.r2709]

Hardest part of a super team is staying healthy and not allowing the media to divide the players through "hot takes" and click bait narratives

[@cameronbeatson6425]

kd could be a killer gm

[@YvngGoat_]

This is the first double podcast I’ve ever seen

[@vizzlemaaane7713]

I’m still waiting on this guy to win a chip

[@lowdown4444]

KD? Lol

[@vizzlemaaane7713]

@@lowdown4444 it was a joke

[@clow0824]

Love this version of sports talk. Cerebral

[@CoolTy23]

Must be real tough playing with a 73-9 team 🧁

[@Ausnapify]

Lol chill

[@ItsAnEndlessWorld]

Right 😂

[@TheBronzeBomber38]

Two Finals MVP’s on Lebron’s head 🌝🌝

[@Ausnapify]

@@TheBronzeBomber38 Not hard to do if you have Steph and Klay now he's lucky to be in a play-in

[@smoothsavage2870]

Yea, that team couldnt win in the playoffs that year. It was very tough.

[@dwayne5110]

I dont why i just dont watch the whole podcast i just watching everything part by part 😂

[@fxbeliever123]

Ya'll started calling the warriors a superteam AFTER the fact. Dray, Steph, and Klay developed and were drafted; they weren't built or signed.

[@johanzo88]

Facts

[@pandabear1576]

A super team doesn’t need to be built. They had 3 all nba players on one team and a DPOTY runner up twice they were a super team.

[@macabree5856]

perfectly said. The only "superteam" that was actually developed into one and not just traded into one like the Miami Big 3 superteam

[@user-ly5uh7cs7o]

Steph curry, Draymond and Klay probably be Warriors for life... Gotta talk about Damian too

[@jsm2687]

That's why I'm so mad the Lakers had to sacrifice good depth just to get a 3rd star when they were able to win with just 2. It literally fucked everything up!

[@A.GonzalezTO]

3x. That OKC team was stacked. They had Ibaka!

[@user-ih6fg1hx3f]

The challenge of playing on a superteam is having to respond to all the haters from multiple burner accounts

[@yishenyong567]

a superteam to me is when there's 2 top 5 players pairing up in a team, with a 3rd star, so kd steph, kg pierce, bron dwade so on and so on

[@SKTV1991]

Who cares?

[@sIatt]

DWade a top 5 player in 2011? 😬

[@pattyfrickinsmokes4118]

Paul Pierce a top 5 player?

[@Christappedin]

@@sIatt exactly idk wth he talking about

[@smoothsavage2870]

@@sIatt Yes, Wade was a top 5 player in 2011 and played better than Lebron in the finals that year. Did you even watch basketball back then?

[@NaritusPwN]

The challenges? It's the only time KD got a title lol. The challenges for him have been in OKC and Brooklyn

[@azel155]

Better watch the video first you prat 🤦‍♀️ If you can't understand that winning a championship is never an easy thing, stop watching youtube and go to school again

[@lio8161]

@@azel155 it’s not an easy thing but if i got an mvp and a dude who scored 36 in a querter on the same team as me who’s already an established scorer then it gets a lot easier a lot easier

[@josecarranza7555]

@@azel155 This is kevin durant lol durant’s 2 bandwagon rings mean nothing.

[@Masterchief12455]

Jaylen and Tatum are a loyal duo @ your Stockton Malone comp

[@ganja8150]

Can’t wait to see KD win his first ring

[@davidurraca2613]

lol A$$h0l3

[@eurongreyjoy1008]

me too but im not sure he will. he will end up as the greatest player to never win a ring

[@CoolTy23]

😂😂😂😂

[@victorjay3392]

He will never have one!... In my personal record book-Stugotz

[@ivosotatted4123]

2017 2018 he won back to back but I can’t wait to see him myself get his 3rd ring In person

[@Punisher5384]

You are so correct! Church!

[@setokaiba5636]

KD talking like what he did wasn’t outrages. Imagine Hakeem O. Signing with the 72 win Bulls team smh

[@AlexiusS]

this comment is old. get over it.

[@brendanbloom3366]

Hakeem Jordan and pippen is way better than what gs had

[@flash012234]

@@brendanbloom3366 No it wouldn't. It'd be the exact same. Hakeem joining a 72 win team, KD joining a 73 win team.

[@setokaiba5636]

@@flash012234 exactly, both ridiculous

[@pandabear1576]

@@flash012234 they wouldn’t be the same at all. The bulls had their entire team locked in for those next two years. The warriors just had Steph, Klay, and Draymond locked in. The rest of that bench and other role players left

[@RestaurantManager101]

KD and Ky put Brooklyn back on the map. Mets/Nets baby. Go get it

[@driddo5k282]

Kd thanks for joining the warriors. That was some of the greatest basketball I have ever seen. We definitely miss you in the bay!

[@josecarranza7555]

Lol that snake ruined the NBA.

[@angeerkihun]

If only this podcast was just KD and JJ...

[@NorthEast]

Durant has to be the most intense top tier player in the league. On and off the court. It's inspiring tbh

[@zt9233]

What was intense about him?

[@matej___7___871]

Good content, keep it up

[@skipbayless4375]

KD should just let it be, because he's never gonna convince us that winning with Golden State was some miraculous achievement. He's clearly sensitive about it because he always feels the need to justify it. But the fans will always know that it was easy and boring. Watching the NBA with a team as indestructible and inevitable like the Warriors was boring af. Even great teams in the past there was some uncertainty if they could win. Not with the Warriors. 16-17 playoffs were the most predictable and boring playoffs ever. Cavs and Warriors romped their conference and instead of getting a good finals as compensation for the boringness and predictability of the season and playoffs, the Warriors pretty much beat them in 3 (no team comes back from 3-0).

[@Charlie-jf1me]

While the competition was a bit more boring, it was some of the most beautiful basketball I have ever seen

[@brendangilmartin4002]

Yeah. The Toronto series with kd would have been easy. Instead we got an exciting series. If Klay didn't get hurt game 7 would have been amazing.

[@Chaoskae]

But basketball has always been predictable Showtime Lakers... Bulls, Shaq/Kobe Lakers like this isnt new.

[@nostalgicbliss5547]

So only the first year? Cause every year after that was pretty challenging for them in the postseason

[@SKTV1991]

Maybe you all should just shut up and watch the game and stop letting your emotions trick you into thinking the players owe you something when it comes to where they play

[@ADoc1980]

"There's no John Stockton/Karl Malone duo any more." I would say Steph, Klay and Dray are those guys for this era.

[@sakarilawrence6342]

More like Duncan, Parker, and Manu

[@vonbolt2631]

Need a kawhi interview asap

[@josecarranza7555]

@Plus ¹²⁶⁷⁹³⁵⁹⁵⁸⁷ What'sapp me scammer

[@basiclyric]

KD and the Warriors the only super team that lived up to the expectation

[@funkyfreshkid08]

I thought that year it seemed like the nba moved away from teams with 3 stars to 2 was going to be the future and it lasted like a year. 😅 lakers won and then nets became stacked

[@neworleans018]

When jj said you done it TWICE . that right there just at you know giannis is the best

[@gringoboy701]

I'd love for KD to just get a regular consistent player that is dedicated to the team and off a Kyrie and make an actual legit run next year with Ben Simmons manning up and just doing his job.

[@cakesboo6554]

I just love hearing KD talk. The more I listen to this man the more I love not only what he does on court, I love what he says. Same as Kyrie. Don’t both ever leave the pleeaaase 🖤🤍🖤🤍

[@kdsmindset5484]

Cakes i remember you. Lemme clap bae

[@cakesboo6554]

@@kdsmindset5484 what happened

[@kdsmindset5484]

@@cakesboo6554 Netskingdom

[@civcell958]

he asked to smash

[@Sam-hv7kj]

The hate and pressure is a difficult too.

[@C-Hood]

Blake did not need to be force-fed baskets lol..Blake put up 22-12-4 his rookie year before CP came

[@smoothsavage2870]

Blake's game wasnt as refined when he first started. He mostly scoring in the paint and getting lobs until later on.

[@johnhilasgue3673]

Warriors Management are top notch!

[@shilljin8896]

KD ain’t play on a super team he played on THE SUPER TEAM. Igoudala slept on that team had 5 HOFERS

[@thuglife2ea424]

Iguodala was not prime just good defense n clutch not an allstar at all curry deserved the fmvp

[@smoothsavage2870]

HOFers dont make a team a superteam. They were A superteam. People use the term HOFer in the most out of context ways just to try to make their arguments lol.

[@thuglife2ea424]

@@smoothsavage2870 facts thts like saying the 06 heat was a super team because they had like 4 or 5 HOFers lol

[@MarvelousJP]

@@smoothsavage2870 they had HOFers in their prime though so it does matter. It’s not like that Rockets team with Barkley, Olajuwon & Pippen or this years Lakers squad. That GS team had two top 3 players in their prime one being the greatest shooter ever and the other arguably being the greatest scorer, one of the best two way players in the NBA & a top 5 sg at the time in Klay, and dpoy in Draymond with Iguodala as a great 6th man

[@smoothsavage2870]

@@MarvelousJP Klay is overrated tbh. In the playoffs he had as many (if not more) bad games as much as he has good ones. He has so many single digit scoring games in the finals or games where he scored less than 15pts, it's ridiculous. Iggy's defense is overrated on that team too. Other than that, you have a point.

[@joshc3898]

This podcast makes me like kd. His analysis of the game and his respect to his craft is admirable.

[@hoodyfrog7036]

"there's no John Stockton or Marlone in the league anymore" lol Curry Klay and Green been playing together for nearly 10 years now

[@samsoltani3]

JJ WE NEED PAOLO BANCHERO ON THE POD... NOT AS A DUKE FAN BUT AS A SEATTLE HOOPER... YA'LL FR THE SEATTLE HOOPS PODCAST AS MUCH AS UR A HEAT PODCAST LOL

[@highlightcenter5651]

Why he saying “we lost in the finals” he wasn’t even on GS in 2016

[@johanzo88]

He lost the same way in the conference finals the same year

[@smoothsavage2870]

It's highly likely that he was saying that he relates. He lost in the finals in 2012. To the same guy. And he never said "we lost in the finals". He just said "losing in the finals".

[@shamsulhassim]

Spurs can make superstars humble and not thinking about their interest rather than team first. But its hard nowadays.

[@StarvinLG]

The term "Super Team" means nothing at this point. The Clippers never made it out of the second round! Deandre Jordan was never a real star.

[@Peezy15]

Clippers were never a super team.

[@josecarranza7555]

The warriors were a Superteam though. Any NBA fan knows that.

[@SuperY0gurt]

Media made KD leave the Dubbs. Kept asking him a lot of none basketball questions, Intentional

[@justinyan7938]

i respect KD but i would never like him cuz he ruined our era's magic vs larry

[@themillslaneshow]

You’re living in the past man lol

[@pandabear1576]

There was never going to be a magic v Larry rivalry in this era lol.

[@justinyan7938]

@@themillslaneshow its like 3 yrs ago lol aint that far off

[@brianwilson510]

@@pandabear1576 i think Steph vs Bron could have been that potentially. If KD never went to GS it’s possible that Cavs vs Warriors would have been more competitive series

[@Chaoskae]

You can always watch Magic and Larry on VHS. Stop expecting players to do what you like them to do

[@culture8109]

Keevin would make great GM.

[@20marvelman]

KD forever is going to be sensitive about it and should really quit trying to understand people. It was a weak move, and yeah if you were a casual basketball you could appreciate the level of play the warriors were on, but it was completely lopsided for any other team to get a chance. And the clippers were never a super team, DeAndre ain’t that type of guy lmfao

[@mitchsn7706]

It wasn’t that lopsided. The cavs were matched up. They say Lebron is the ‘greatest’ ever. Loads of people saying Kyrie>Steph especially after the previous year it’s a wash. Klay and K Love both all stars. Draymond can’t be that much better than everyone else.

[@brendanbloom3366]

It almost sounds like you are the one sensitive about it. Both Cavs and rockets had a chance. Maybe a healthy spurs too.

[@unseenotto]

@@mitchsn7706 what? Draymond is a goat.

[@cyberft]

@@unseenotto right, they acting like Draymond isn’t one of the best defenders in the history of the league, and one of the best facilitators in today’s game.

[@mitchsn7706]

@@cyberft He fits their system. We’ve seen draymond without Steph n Klay and it’s not pretty at all. He’s a good role player

[@lalovera9756]

6:04 Steph, Klay and Draymond?

[@LocallyConstantDuck]

“Challenges” LMAO

[@kingsleyjackson8287]

KG Wasn’t old when he went to Boston and played 13 season in Minnesota

[@altctrldel26]

By JJ’s definition, KD played for 3 Superteam.

[@brendanbloom3366]

No just 1 unless you count the 17 games him Kyrie and harden played together.

[@TheBronzeBomber38]

Dude said Deandre Jordan was part of a big 3 in LA😂😂😂😂. He was better than he is now but let’s not get carried away lol

[@beckethill7595]

Just because there's not always loyalty doesn't mean there never is loyalty or that loyalty isn't the best option.

[@goodprince5327]

Giannis owns

[@anthonyzarate9807]

P.S. In NBA history, only 2 players have won a title, won 58+ games in regular season, and had at least an 11.0 BPM in a 3 year stretch in playoffs. They are Kawhi Leonard with 11.4 BPM, MJ with 11.0 BPM! There are only 4 other players who qualify and they are Tim Duncan with 9.5 BPM and Larry Bird with 8.8 BPM. Kawhi did his after Duncan retired and Duncan did his before Manu and Parker arrived and Admiral was 36-38 during that run. The other 2 are KD at 8.3 and Steph at 8.2, but they played together all 3 years. P.S.Kawhi's would have been higher had he NOT been taken out by Pachulia!!! Also, Lebron does not qualify because he did not win at least 58 games in his 3 year stretch. It was a shortened season, but they were only on pace for 56 wins. His BPM would have been 10.4, but he also joined forces with top 3 player in NBA (Wade) and top 12 player (Bosh) and 10 time all-star in Ray Allen.

[@520LUNNY]

You can't convince me that KD leaving GS wasn't a dumb move.

[@amaziahyaohsharal9840]

That’s your opinion, no one has to convince you that your opinion is wrong. KD did what was best for him, so for him, it was the best move.

[@macabree5856]

@@amaziahyaohsharal9840 perfect mature reply. He did what was best for him and his life although Analyst have said multiple times that if KD stayed, clearly Warriors would've still been finals contender til this day.

[@SeaCryptWeave]

can i not not convince you though?

[@camerondaley6902]

It was

[@lio8161]

@@amaziahyaohsharal9840 it wasn’t the best move though. One little argument with Draymond caused him to leave lol

[@TheWizard5005]

I like superteams but some of them don’t make since

[@lambdamax]

KD on the Nets: going from something to nothing. The team with Spencer Dinwiddie, D'Angelo Russell, Jarrett Allen, Harris, Levert, was better than today's Nets.

[@vianouche1]

Yes I miss this team

[@imanbutton7072]

A reach but they were

[@robert2690]

They ain’t going to win anything anyways

[@flesruoYkcuFoGuoY]

They were not unfortunately, they won a single playoff game.

[@tarrenceconyers6548]

Lebron got into the goat conversation with superteams

[@jesseashmore8426]

Everyone thinks that having the best players automatically means their the best team. THERE IS ONLY ONE BALL!!! You need role players like Draymond and the likes to compliment the star players without taking the ball out of their hands. This is why my all time starting 5 is 16' Curry, 90' Jordan, 12' Lebron, 06' KG, and 94' Hakeem.

[@D15-b8j]

U got curry on there after a statement like that lol draymond & klay are the reason curry can be great. They do the things he can’t do or better.

[@richlor92]

Lebron is kinda a ball stopper he can't play with more than a second star the 3rd star will be left out.

[@pedromoreira2875]

Draymond literally takes the ball away from Curry. He is the facilitator. His job is to find Curry, Klay or a easy basket (that being cuts or finding defensive lapses). The one that are more valuable (outside of this particular system) are Curry and Klay because they don't need the ball on their hands to play their game.

[@jesseashmore8426]

@@D15-b8j KG is Draymond on steroids. They would compliment each other so well. I had Kidd but Steph's shooting would open up the lanes for everyone.

[@kaekae1782]

@@D15-b8j no he doesn’t.

[@DigitalOdyssey3001]

Props to JJ Redick. He asks good questions with fantastic insider knowledge. They only need two hosts max. The third guy is messing with the flow. Asking weird forced questions.

[@biznatcho7]

Pretty sure that’s KD’s boy.

[@goskawow1943]

Were there any questions about him joining the most winning team of all time?

[@josephwhite4631]

“If you wanna count Klay”

[@Ice-916]

We seriously talking about this? Like for real? Challenges? He played for the most stacked super team of all time. As basketball fans we shouldn't be indifferent to what happened those years he was on GSW. It was terrible for the game. People have short memories. There should never be any year where we should be 100% certain of who is going to win it all before the season starts. Absolutely no suspense. The only people that get a pass for being indifferent to this are Warriors fans. Everyone else should despise this and actively advocate against this.

[@papacinoooo]

poor kings fans

[@Ice-916]

@@papacinoooo don't remind me of the eternal pain

[@user-hx7yi6wx5k]

That started the downfall of the NBA, and it’s getting progressively worse.

[@brendanbloom3366]

@@user-hx7yi6wx5k they didn't start the "downfall"

[@Ice-916]

@@user-hx7yi6wx5k I disagree with that. The nba is in a good place rn in my opinion.

[@TheHomieBaca]

Wish they could of worked things out, if Golden State had KD still they’d probably still be winning

[@reggie7408]

Did bro jus say create nothing out of something 😂😂

[@noahsam6806]

There is loyalty. There is Malone and Stockton. Giannis and Khris Middleton.

[@victorjay3392]

KD will never have a ring in my personal record book!

[@Chaoskae]

Ok Stugotz lol

[@smoothsavage2870]

Too bad that doesnt matter in real life lmao.

[@lymphomasurvive]

Neither will you.

[@kevingriffin8180]

In the past it was about building for the future now it’s a win now league and worry about the future when it gets there 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@JoeMama-tl4tr]

There are no challenges. You have a cupcake walk in the playoffs and no challenge. Warriors are the most scaredy team ever

[@RayJovjov]

Mad cause he made a better super team than Lebron. You can’t be ok with LeBron forming super teams and then be mad when another one forms that’s better than his. This happened with the Celtics when he made the Heatles get over it

[@hueyfreeman5509]

Facts

[@hueyfreeman5509]

@@RayJovjov Creating a team is not the same as jumping on the previous seasons champion. Try again

[@pandabear1576]

@@hueyfreeman5509 which he didn’t do because the Cavs were the previous season’s champion when he signed with the warriors. You can’t join in free agency during the season. Words matter 😃

[@hueyfreeman5509]

@@pandabear1576 Right, but if you can only make a point off of technicalities like that, you know you can't really defend what kd did

[@Eboy227]

I knew on how the video was captioned people would be purposefully obtuse in the comment section

[@MarkLaw13]

He should know. Baby Super team in OKC. Super team in GS and Nets. Wow KD can you win without them all?!!!

[@brendanbloom3366]

Can bird magic Kareem LeBron Kobe wilt and Russell win without them?

[@Peezy15]

OKC wasn’t a super team. They just had great draft picks

[@MarkLaw13]

@@Peezy15 I agree

[@anthonyzarate9807]

One thing I honestly do believe is when KD joined GS (which I didn't like and still don't to this day) all 4 of their best players ONLY cared about winning and making an all-NBA team (Klay) for salary reasons. I'm not a Warriors fan but believe Klay has been wrongfully kept off the all-NBA (I'm talking 3rd team!). How Klay only made 2 all NBA teams (3rd team) is crazy and Kawhi Leonard not making the 3rd team in 2014-15 (he won DPOY) is even a bigger joke! He led his team in scoring, sharing the ball with Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili and led them to 55 wins! All the Spurs guys cared about was winning as well. That is why Lebron's superteams struggled against GS and SA and has a career 2-5 finals record against them. Even crazier is Lebron needed the Ray Allen miracle combined with coach Pop benching Duncan and the Draymond Green suspension to avoid losing in 5 & 6 games in thise series and would be 0-7 in his career against them. I will give LeBron and his teams credit, when they got a second chance, they made the most of it. P.S. The 2013 finals is my #2 finals ever (behind 1984 Celtics vs Lakers) and just ahead of 1988 Lakers over Pistons, 2016 Cavs over Warriors, and 2005 Spurs over Pistons.

[@MT-jq9ij]

Honestly KD great but overrated

[@PeePeeMilk]

Tell me my why he’s overrated without mentioning him going to the warriors.

[@Ice-916]

@@PeePeeMilk so he's supposed to say why he's overrated without mentioning the only years he won championships? Obviously, anyone that mentions KD as overrated is referring to his 'greatness' in terms of legacy. No one should ever doubt his talent.

[@PeePeeMilk]

@@Ice-916 I know but just because people don’t like those warriors rings doesn’t mean they don’t count?

[@Ice-916]

@@PeePeeMilk in my opinion he is a top 5 talent of all time, just talking basketball skill. But no one should ever forget what he did. The lowest move in sports history objectively. Had this had been Kobe, they would have banned him from the league. And if it was lebron, they would have burnt him alive at the stake.

[@PeePeeMilk]

@@Ice-916 the lowest move in sports history?!?! The guy went and won championships, what did u want him to do? Keep playing with Russ? Now listen I don’t like super teams at all. They make the lead waaaaayyyy too predictable. KG Celtics, LBJ Miami, and KD warriors. It was guaranteed they were going to win. But why would I fault them and try to diminish their careers for winning rings?

[@Poopoopoopoopoopoopoopoo]

He’s so right if you ain’t think your gonna win it all you ain

[@keithpedroso1282]

There are only 2 important things for a superteam, one is Ring(Fame) and the other is Failure( embarrassment ). Kd got lucky he got 2. lol but not worth it 😂

[@josecarranza7555]

durant’s legacy will always be the player that ran to the warriors that beat him in the playoffs after being up 3-1 on them.

[@RngWlf]

There's no loyalty because of the amount of 💰💰💰 on contracts now days...always boils down to the 💰...keep it 💯

[@oumarfofana8229]

So what? Stop the virtue signaling bs

[@jcanthony16]

This proves how crazy it was for KD to leave the Warriors to team up with Kyrie who is perceived to be selfish and unreliable. I wonder will KD ever admit that he made a mistake

[@macabree5856]

Yeah I wonder...because I mean he clearly woud've won another ring and still be a dynasty if still on Warriors today. They would've own the league until like 2025

[@Dux310]

“We were a super team” - JJ Redick hahahahhahahahahahahahahha