>Americans unironically expect "loyalty" from mercenaries in their sports leagues
No one bats an eye when the average white collar worker changes jobs for better pay or career advancement, so why do you get so buttdevastated when basketball players do so?
>>69241867
Masked men?
>>69241867
We don't respect people taking the easy way out. He takes that same advancement in pay and goes to any other team except the cavs and warriors and we don't care. He's being a little bitch
>>69241867
People aren't mad that he left, they're mad that he left for the Warriors.
>>69241867
A LOTTA LOYALTY FOR A HIRED PLAYER
>>69242054
>taking another step toward fulfilling his childhood dream is "taking the easy way out"
only e/sp/n-watching losers are this retarded
Soccer players literally do the same thing... even more so.
His job is literally to entertain the masses. And his decision will make the NBA less fun to watch.
>>69242054
>being a little bitch
This argument never makes sense. All smart athletes should be mercenaries. They literally train and beat their bodies into oblivion and do things nobody else on the planet can do. They should go to places where they either get paid more or have better chances of winning.
Only an idiot would play for a no name squad for 15 years and destroy his body for no reason. Sure maybe the locals in that bumfuck city might remember and appreciate you, but being remembered doesn't make up for time wasted and a destroyed body.
>>69242165
>believing the bullshit excuses
lmao you got duped you fucking leaf
>>69242219
His job is to win play basketball and win games. The commissioner's job is to make sure the league entertains the masses. If anyone is to blame, it's the guys up top for letting the deal happen.
>>69242288
>believing the NBA isn't rigged for entertainment
kek the players are in on it too
>>69242288
That's fair. If fucking Kobe and CP3 couldn't play together due to basketball reasons, this should've been nixed immediately
>>69241867
>Anyone expects loyalty from players in their sports leagues
The only "loyal" players are the ones who were on extremely rich/successful teams to begin with (Kobe Bryant, Thomas Muller, etc.). There are only a handful of exceptions.
>>69242288
Exactly. The league stepped in to stop this before with the Lakers, why not do it again? KD could go to literally any team besides the Warriors or Cavaliers and it would be fine.
>>69242377
This.
>>69242413
The league stepped in on that trade because the league owned the Hornets at the time, David Stern was the owner of the Hornets when that trade went down.
professional sports is entertainment
viewing the players as heroes and villains makes it more enjoyable to watch
professional wrestling figured that out decades ago and it's why people watch and enjoy it even though there's only the weakest pretense of it being a legitimate athletic competition
if "white collar work" was televised as entertainment we'd do the same there
"bob from accounting left to join ernst & young? WHAT A LITERAL FUCKING KEK HIS LEGACY IS TRASH LMAO"
>>69241867
There's just a lot of manchildren watching sports. Just comes with the territory being so popular.
Good sports fans care about their team first, players come and go.
Niggers and degenerates think players are their best buds that owe them something. The NBA is just WWE for niggers so that explains why they're usually so obsessed with it.
>>69241867
There we 4 good teams in the NBA
> San Antonio Spurs
> Warriors
> Thunder
> Cleveland
Durant leaving Thunder means that there are only 3 good teams left in a league where the rest of the teams are shit.
Another reason why the NBA is a shit league compared to NFL/MLB/NHL
>>69242244
Because unlike you Canadian with a US proxy, there's respect for a player that spends their entire career with the same team through thick and thin even if they don't win a championship.
It's the same reason why people shit on Lebron for leaving the Cavaliers to go to a stacked Miami team since it was specifically for a ring. The moment that team collapsed and the Cavaliers were pooling talent, he went back. But since he promised the city to bring them ring, people tend to forgive him for the shit he pulled.
Also for the NBA, the teams that are good are pretty much set and the disparity is at an all time high not seen since the 1970s. For the MLB, NHL you can get hot at the end of the season even if your roster isn't stacked and make a good playoff run. That rarely happens in the NBA though.
>>69245942
>there's respect for a player that spends their entire career with the same team through thick and thin even if they don't win a championship
I suppose this is why /sp/ spends so much time discussing the careers of literal whos, right?
>>69246058
Going to list off all the Canadians we talk about if that's true then?
>>69242165
>joining a back to back finals team with an all-star cast already.
>not the easy way out.
>>69242054
Not even. He can go to the Cavs and still be ok. GSW are the villains here.
>>69242219
>And his decision will make the NBA less fun to watch.
Which is quite an achievement desu
>>69242288
>basketball
>job
