Kevin Durant has decided to wuss out and join the enemy. He must think that a manufactured title is better than no title – just look at Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone (who joined the enemy too late).

The sad thing is that Durant could easily have won it all right where he was and been the best player on a championship team. It is now highly unlikely that this will ever happen in his career. If he’s lucky, he’ll go down as one of the best championship second bananas of all time.

Make no mistake, Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals was always going to be (and will always be) the biggest and most important game of LeBron’s career. The difference this one game has made to LeBron’s legacy is off the charts and you’ll be hard pressed to find another single game that has ever had so much riding on it for a player’s career.

Around half way into this season, I’d seen enough and declared that Chicago’s problems stemmed largely from giving Derek Rose 32 minutes a game:

While it’s terribly sad to say, the fact is that nothing even remotely close to ‘MVP Derek Rose’, let alone ‘competent starting point guard Derek Rose’ is ever coming back. Just ask Penny Hardaway. While it’s not all Rose’s fault, the sooner they move him aside – and get cranking with Jimmytime – the better the team will be. 

Here is this year’s all-idiot lineup of teams who won’t be drafting in the first round this year round due to brain flatulence:

  • Brooklyn – lost the no. 3 pick to Boston in the Garnett/Pierce trade. It’s ok, I’m sure they can still do something with the no. 55 pick.

Here’s Jabari’s February 2016 and March 2016 to date. It definitely looks like he’s figured something out, with some big scoring efforts in there.