“People want us to clash, and fight and hate each other. I think we hate each other once we’re playing each other on the floor.” — Kevin Durant on his relationship with LeBron
Headlines
- Serge Ibaka named first team All-Defense
- Report: KD reaches settlement in ‘Durantula’ lawsuit
- Derek Fisher fined $5,000 for flopping
- Durant finishes runner-up to LeBron for MVP
- Thunder-Grizzlies second round schedule released
- Report: LeBron to be named 2012-13 MVP
- Kevin Durant on Royce White: ‘Who is that?’
Harden and Lin both went to the rockets for $$$ and now their old teams are #1 in their respective conferences
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@BallSoHard Man, I want Andy V in Thunder blue.
No one likes you, Tuesday.
@BallSoHard After just having graduated from college and yet to enter the real world, I'm loving Tuesdays right now.
Also, ThunderChick, thanks for the birthday wishes, I meant to tell you before but slipped my mind.
The NBA Twitter account is doing lots of giveaways for their #BIGNBAXmas thing. I'm getting pissed because I'm answering the questions before the winners. Someone talk me off the ledge and tell me it's okay...
@SeanzieCrews You're a Thunder fan. You're future's so bright, you gotta wear Hater Shades
@KellOne You're right. I'll trade my losing on Twitter for the Thunder's winning in real life.
I just found out that Lance Stevenson has his own shoe line. I need answers to why and how this happened.
@OBoy Jones III coming out of hs he was one of the top players in the country.
@Lost Ones lol i know, he played 10 min per game last year and averaged 2.5 points though.
Westbrook obviously needs to shoot better but I don't understand how skip and Stephen a just gloss over the fact that Westbrook is averaging 9 assists. I also don't get why them or anyone talk about him not giving the ball to KD in the 4th. For all the things Russ does wrong one of them is defiantly not ignoring KD in the 4th. Our 4th quarter offense consists of back up and give KD the ball in the post.
@OKC035 russ rarely even takes shots or make plays in the 4th, i actually hate our offense in the 4th it breaks down terribly.
@Lost Ones @OKC035 Russ' USG is high in fourth quarters but along the lines of his full game average while Durant's goes up about 4-5 percentage points. Durant shoots more in fourth quarters, Westbrook stays about the same. It's a dumb criticism of Russ.
@Lost Ones lol, its hero ball pretending like it isnt.
@OKC035 Because they are stupid?
So true everyone needs to be involved
I too, think Russ is the best PG in the league right now.
@AIaska Did Chris Paul retire? Tough to put Russ over him.
@justin_mia I said right now. Not that tough Russ needs to get his shooting percentage back to where it was but he's averaging about 21 points and 9 assists right now and CP3 is averaging 16 and 9. Plus the defensive energy this year has been nuts.
@justin_mia @O O O O O O @AIaska KD says he's the best, we agree with KD. its that simple
@O O O O O O @AIaska Russ is very slightly better at overall Synergy PPP but Paul has heavy boxscore advantage, counterpart advantage, RAPM, etc.
@justin_mia @AIaska is paul still better than russ on defense? royce just put up something about russ being better in ppp like a day ago.., i know thats not the only measure, but defense is definitely closer than it has been.
@justin_mia @AIaska @Lost Ones @Tronchaser @KellOne @novelisticbee0 @f5alcon @dollarbillrussell lets all stop this argument and just agree to laugh that Deron was considered a top 3 point guard by many a few weeks ago.
@AIaska Russ being a Top 3 PG is still amazing accomplishment...
@AIaska Russ scores more than Paul because he take a lot of shots, a lot of high difficulty shots, to get those 21 points. Paul doesn't need those shots. Paul's also better on defense...
@justin_mia @AIaska How is it tough? its arguable.
@Lost Ones @AIaska It's only arguable if you see Russ' lone advantage over Chris Paul - volume scoring - as overturning CP3's higher value virtually everywhere else.
@AIaska Skip and Stephen A would say differently. These trolls are still on ESPN talking about how Russell doesn't pass to KD enough,,,
@dollarbillrussell @AIaska Russ wouldn't be Russ if he cared what they thought
@KellOne @dollarbillrussell @AIaska No one in their right mind thinks the honeybadger gives a flying F what the talking heads say. Ha!
@dollarbillrussell @AIaska And yet, KD has won the scoring title the last 3 years, and is one of the leaders this year. #LogicFail
@novelisticbee0 @Tronchaser @f5alcon That's the thing I wish they didn't ignore. They have a point that Russ neeeds to go to the hole more and shoot a little less or at least less difficult shots. Nevertheless, the fact that they ignored his improved defense and assist/TO ratio is frustrating
What KD and Russ learned from the finals last year was the evolution Lebron had made. He learned to let the rest of the team into the game. Jordan had to learn the same thing. You get farther by not trying to do so much by yourself. The more shots Serge and Thabo hit, the fewer times teams can double Russ, KD, or Kmart.
@Tronchaser @f5alcon As much as I'd like for KD to shoot more, this is a big step up from the two-man offense of last year. I just love how SAS and Skip comepletly skipped over the fact that Russ is averaging 9 assists a game. His shooting percentage needs to get better, but I like the growth I'm seeing.
@f5alcon heh, exactly. I actually like the new-look version of KD/Thunder. More passing, distributed scoring, and more WINNING!
@Tronchaser But he could average 40 per game and the thunder would suck so the teams they like would have a chance.
@dollarbillrussell @AIaska They're so ridiculous.