Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=26400100'>posted</a> on 10/15/2016:
All your points are understandable coming from a fans perspective. But in the end, he is a free agent. He can do whatever he wants. Even if he wants to take the easy way out.
No one really cares what Stephen A Smith says anyways, so who cares about him.
And in response to your last statement...If he stayed in OKC and never won, he would have been put in that category with guys like Malone, Barkley and Ewing. Great players who couldn't win the big one. Now people will say he won championships (he will win multiple ones with GS when it is all said and done). So IMO there is a difference. Ray Allen and KG had to join up for a superteam, and no one will really fault them for doing it. Bosh did it. Everyone will say those guys are champions. Same will happen for KD.
All your points are understandable coming from a fans perspective. But in the end, he is a free agent. He can do whatever he wants. Even if he wants to take the easy way out.
No one really cares what Stephen A Smith says anyways, so who cares about him.
And in response to your last statement...If he stayed in OKC and never won, he would have been put in that category with guys like Malone, Barkley and Ewing. Great players who couldn't win the big one. Now people will say he won championships (he will win multiple ones with GS when it is all said and done). So IMO there is a difference. Ray Allen and KG had to join up for a superteam, and no one will really fault them for doing it. Bosh did it. Everyone will say those guys are champions. Same will happen for KD.