If Larry Bird was black he would either be rembered as the greatest player ever or just another good shooter. His race played such a huge role in his legacy.
Miami doesn't make a difference. I'm saying that the argument of Jordan on winning because teams around him got old holds as much water as saying LeBron only won because he left Cleveland. Had he stayed he more then likely would never have won a title.
How about the only reason LeBron has been able to win titles is because Rose got hurt.
USA could beat either of these two teams playing today. Copa America was a much tougher tournament and a better testament to the level of play in the global game currently.
If Bosh doesn't play this year Miami has space to sign 2 max guys next year. (Some cap relief clause for injury)
Whiteside, Westbrook, Serge, Winslow wouldn't be terrible.
100% agree that people have asked for a plan B. But there is no way you can be caught off guard that plan A was never even an option. It's simply impossible for a front office not to know if a player is interested in them or not.
When I am back at a computer tomorrow I'll go back through your posts about how each move you describe above was part of the endgame to get KD. You (and many others) have posted about it for two years. Changing the narrative after the fact is silly.
That makes the front office look even worse then. You're telling me that KD never wanted to come here and they didn't know yet spent the last 2 years planning for it?
That's fine to say now but every move, literally every move from coaching to drafting was made to get KD.
Not even an interview was given.
There is no way the Wizards front office can be that dumb. Either they never floated the idea to KDs camp which is insane to believe or they screwed up so badly somewhere along the road that he didn't even want to listen to coming here.
It's 100% an F.