KD Joins The Warriors | The Signing That Stunned The NBA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ย. 2022
- Kevin Durant entered the summer of 2016 with the basketball world at his feet.The Oklahoma City Thunder superstar was set to test free agency for the first time in his illustrious career, just as an influx of new TV money was about to send the league's salary cap soaring.
As that rising cap cleared a path for a number of unexpected suitors, the juggernaut Golden State Warriors loomed. What followed was the most stunning free-agency partnership in NBA history.
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for a second I thought this was news that KD returned back to the warriors....I was finna blow my brains out!
i had a heartattack
Same, then I sighed when he was still on the nets.
I guess Steph is a good guy, he will never say shit about KD in public, but no one is that good guy to accept KD coming back again just for credit, not winning
Lol
@@Time4SumAksion021 dont think Steph would care if it doesn’t kill their future.
As a Warriors fan who has spent their entire life minutes from Oracle Arena, the pain we felt after going 73-9 just to blow that 3-1 lead was indescribable. The whole Bay Area was utterly devastated... Then KD signed 3 weeks later and completely alleviated 90% of our pain. Steph winning after he left healed us even more.
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2019 was kinda bullshit that we lost that
2020 and 2021 being out of the picture was bs too
@@Pandyzandy We never lead the Raptors in that series so 2019 isn’t as painful as 2016, we were finished once KD & Klay went down.
The trade always make me wonder what could it be if prime Chris Paul paired with Kobe in the lakers
Or if KD got CP3 instead of Westbrook.
The strength of those Lakers teams was their length (Odom, Gasol, Bynum) the cp3 trade included Gasol and Odom leaving only Bynum who is always injured... That trade would NOT of worked
@@smoothsavage2870 cp3 got KD now
well not sure he would of worked out well with kobe
A whopping 6 years later it still comes as the MOST shocking move in not just NBA but sports history in terms of a giant superstar with Free Agency. I still can’t believe it to this day honestly lmao, doesn’t even sound right whenever I look back and I’m a great fan of KD at that.
Sucks that he’s still trying to prove he can win without a superteam though. He’s turning 34 this month so his prime window is slowly getting smaller and smaller. He’s gotta try and make it happen with Brooklyn
I dont think KD can win in Brooklyn. The culture just isn't there when they are getting beat they shrivel. No chemistry and the league is so much tougher than it was 5 years ago. Smaller markets are rising
I'd argue Messi to PSG might be more shocking as far as sports history is concerned.
Well now thanks to kyrie it doesn't look like he's gonna win anything
As a warriors fan I don't like Kevin Durant because he got too much credit for when we want to be honest we could have one with any other good small forward and I feel like people ranking him over stuff was disrespectful
As a Thunder Fan I’m excited for the future⚡️
I wish he had signed a 1 year with a player option to return to okc
As long as it is legal, it’s fine.
Did the NBA change any rules after this signing? IDK
I mean there is nothing that would need to be changed.
Ahh, the free-agency signing that ruined the entire NBA for the next 3 years
And also did irreparable damage to KD’s legacy
Gave me so many amazing and heartbreaking rockets moments
Two years. The Raptors put an end to that mess
@@Matt-nw2te If were honest injury's did more to put an end to that team then the raptors
@@PhishFil the raptors championship is among the best/ underrated of all time- have some respect! No star player wants to play here and Kawhi and the next best scorer on the team at 16 ppg BEAT a prime all-star Jimmy Butler, all-star Ben Simmons, star Embiid, and a prime Tobias Harris. That same raptors team beat the Bucks coming back down from O-2 against MVP level Giannis, prime Bledsoe, All-star level Middleton, quality Brooke Lopez, and high end version of Mirotic- Did I mention NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY IN CANADA? The next best player was 16 ppg for raptors- have some respect! Some of y'all just don't get it
KD is one of the best players I have watched hands down. He's also the biggest punk I've seen on and OFF the court. These 2 chips will forever have an asterisk
An asterisk? That's dumb. He left and signed in free agency. He didn't cheat.
@@14isoldenough when you stack the deck so much it has an asterisk
Ok so give Brons Miami rings asterisks then 🤷🏼
@@eeeee4686 Uh no, you don't dictate the rules
@@bodies_by_corpus they do have an asterisk. Nobody said they didn't. The title with the cavs and the lakers are his career.
KD hasn't brought a chip to Brooklyn but when he does then respect bro.. simple as that. He could have stayed with OKC like Giannis
Wish I could relive that day. Waking up to the news as a Warriors fan was the ultimate high a sports fan could get. 🔥🔥🔥
Biiitchiest move ever in nba history
Dates in 8:03 to 8:25 are off by a year, should be 2017, 2018!
Good content though, theScore!
The greatest team assembled of all-time!
My heart stopped beating for one second
that Warriors team was the 3rd best team ever, behind only to Dream team and Redeem team.
Kevin Durant want easy championship in Warriors 🔥🔥🔥
Fun Fact : this move by gsw was in the works way back in 2014
How so?
this move changed the warriors forever if it wasn't for KD coming him we never would of got russell in the sign and trade, because of KD leaving, then trading him for are best two player wiggins and the 7th pick kuminga who has potential to be a great player in the future so he's helped us have a future
@@JP-ks7ey even if it wasn't KD they had other options, they could have picked other allstars if KD rejected it, cuz they had the money cuz of Steph's cheap contract
@@benndarayta9156 agree
@@benndarayta9156 They wanted KD though.
One of the Softest move in the NBA ever
In any sport ever
Unimaginable softness. Unexplained 🤣
No not really he made the correct choice if he had won a ring with the warriors we be looking at the same we look at Carmelo one the most underachievers of all time
KD's championship rings is as valuable as a bag of doritos
They're as valuable as you.
8:00 *2017 and 2018
Just here for the comments 🍿
how good is Lebron. the last 3 MVPs joined together on a 73-9 team with a DPOY to stop him. and then you get the jokers like skip and jalen rose, chris broussard saying so what. sad really sad
Who he's the difference between LeBron and Kevin Durant when Durant went to the warriors we all knew the only way the warriors were going to not win a championship is if they got a bad injury run but when the brown went to Miami there was still teams that could bait them. Celtic spurs the Mavericks Lakers
Jaylen Brown next video theScore 🙏🙏🙏
oh... i thought he went back for a second
idgaf they still blew a 3-1 lead in the finals.
Now he never should of left them.
Draymond tryna say that he took a pay cut for Durant killed me like bro bro you signed that contract a year before kd was even an option he's so annoying dude
No, he's saying that he took in less than what was in his contract to get KD.
8:07 this is the 2017 finals not 2016. KD wasn’t on the warriors in 2016
So the salary cap spike was actually the players association fault? So they basically they shot themselves to their feet and blamed KD? 🤔 That's interesting 3:40
well, it's not unusual that players would d rather make more money than a championship
@@bedsheets1867 players themselves knows a ring is not for everyone
@@benndarayta9156 that's mind blowing. And I'm not saying that's bad, just that the nba owners got screwed by the players association (except warriors). In the end, players don't want to win, they want money, which is reality
@@irocklalot 🤣
4 rings. They doubted us!
Lol kinda hard to doubt a team with the best regular season record and adding one of the best players in the league to your team. I wouldn’t use the word doubt lol
@@shawncharles6077 And yet everyone will say best regular season but didn't win the title because they choked. KD's OKC team also blew a 3-1 lead to the Warriors in the WCF so you have a choker joining a choker team. Can't have it both ways.
Curry was not in the conversation for best player in 2016, there was no conversation.
Louder vocals please.
Why dude put Mozgov here wkwkwk
The score jacked SECRET BASE whole sh#t! Yall aint sh#t 4 that😂😂 ( unless yall did it first, then I digress)
i thought he returned
The way people made KD out to be the villain or ONLY culprit for this move was crazy to me. It's like as soon as KD went to the Warriors, people all of a sudden stopped shitting on Steph and focused all their hate to KD. A lot of folks forget that Steph was not nearly as beloved as he is now post-KD.
I’ve never seen a man get so much hate in my life, If lebron did what kd did it would have been all good.
LeBron gets accused for starting superteams. FOH
Are you 8 years old? You don't remember how much Lebron was hated when he went to Heat?
@@blue-phoenix115 I’m 17.
@@naveensehdev9973 You were 5 or 6 then. You probably weren’t fully aware on how much Lebron was hated.
@@blue-phoenix115 straight up but those 2 guys get too much hate. I guess controversy sells
II wonder what it would've been like if the Warriors HAD won 2016, but Durant still joined them anyway...
He would of went to Cavs
The most anticompetitive move made in NBA history
KD gets a lot of heat for his decision when fans need to realize that the entire GSW team act like groupies to recruit KD
This is factual by Adrian Woj for all the groupies that defend KD
Yeah I think nobody should blame KD for joining the warriors, because if I'm not wrong "Steph and Draymond had a gun to KD's head , Bob , lacob and Steve Kerr were all armed and the Hamptons was sieged and KD and his family were held hostage" when he signed the deal.
@@rams3737 💯
@@rams3737 nobody is blaming anyone for anything. KD made a grown man decision. His career suffered. Period. GSW had a major role in recruiting him and trying to resign him again before he fled to the Nets. All straight from Adrian Woj at espn
So why weren't the other 29 teams trying to recruit him? You make it sound as if only the Warriors wanted him. Maybe if the other teams' players acted like groupies KD might have signed elsewhere.
@@realessayog6947 your point? Didn't the Lakers try to trade for Kyrie? Stop acting d*mb , if a player like KD is available in the free agent market, tell me which team wouldn't sign him?
Okay so one problem I have with this video is back in 2016 nobody was calling steph one of the best players. He was viewed as a very good player this is a bit of revisionist history.
I mean he was a 2 time mvp once unanimous and had been to the finals twice winning once. He was viewed as better than very good.
@@dustinsirois4788 this is incorrect, he was still not viewed as a true super star. Even after the back to back MVPs and championship people were still putting him in the same realm as Russell Westbrook instead of the second greatest point guard to ever live. Keep in mind the injuries and he was still only a 3 time all star at the time
@@MDagrosa I don't disagree that he wasn't considered the best pg ever. But let's not act like he wasn't considered a superstar. Thats all I'm saying Westbrook at that time ad example eas considered a superstar
Lmaooooo back to back MVPs and scoring titles alongside all star selections and being the face of the franchise at golden State with plenty of arguments that he should have won FMVP in 2015. Yea that isn't one of the best players right?
@@nithilanamudhan6260 so nobody is saying now he isnt the second great's point guard of all time. However I'm referring to at the time he was not viewed as one of the best players in the league. All those injuries kept I'm away from club super star now there is no question
I really believe if KD only stayed in OKC they could've won it all.
KD already played in OKC for 9 years yet no titles. The reason? Westbrook. No one can win the title with Westbrook (OKC, Rockets, Wizards and Lakers).
Ayo hold up… didnt OKC beat the rockets in 7 in the bubble? Or was it the other way around? Chris Paul and shai?
Rockets won in 6
@@emilioreyes4159 Won in 7
I've always seen this team as the Basketball gods vengeance against Lebron for his team hopping tendencies, Basketball gods saw Lebron creating superteams and created one of their own to kill his GOAT case
team hopping? bro he had been on a grand total of 2 teams by the time the KD signed with the warriors
@@thestach7729 Yes, left cavs when they lost, left Miami when they lost and cavs finally got a star so he goes back there. All the while decimated their young core for WIN NOW players. He doesn't care about the team only winning. Selfish player
Y’all weird af bro 😂😂😂😂
@@AtlanticCanadianAstronomy are you idiot if that's the case so barkley too barkley hopping teams to teams in 90s when dr j and moses is gone he requested a trade to phx when he was not winning there he requested to the rockets the only difference is lebron had the privilege and all of lebron team he's the best of all on that team
@@AtlanticCanadianAstronomy he got the Cavs a chip and his first Cavs stint his best teammate was mo Williams
I dont like team trying to buy championships. I didnt follow GSW when KD was here. I prefer Player development and developing within. I accepted Wiggins because he was seen as a bust, the rest is history.
What are you talking about , they drafted klay,Steph and draymond 🙄😂
I can count NBA champions who won titles with player development and developing from within on one hand. 😆
KD could've won 5-8 championships with warriors but he listened to the media pressuring him to move to other teams.
You're saying that as if winning 5 chips was that easy lol
@@emilioreyes4159 healthy warriors with KD is unbeatable. NBA lucky KD left on 2019
@@MNLQC what was KD's last healthy season? 2018? Klay out for 2 years, Steph out for 1
None of that had to do with KD's exit of the franchise
@@emilioreyes4159 2021 he almost won vs milwaukee. 2020 would be warriors only lottery season because they could win both win 2021 and 2022 alone if he stayed
KD joined an established championship team and wonder why he wasn't crowned the best player in the world LOL
2022 playoffs showed that Curry simply deferred to KD when they played together. Even then, KD couldn't accept the fact that people loved Steph more. I don't know the term for people who needs constant validation, but KD's definitely that guy
Major clickbait thumbnail and caption. Cmon guys, you're better than that.
If Kawhi didn't get hurt they would have lost to the Spurs in game 1 2017 cf
If Klay didn't get hurt in game 6 Kawhi would've blown a 3-1 lead in 2019 finals
If jayson tatum got injured after game 1 this year , you idiots would've ran with that same narrative lol.
you can't discount injuries, a lot of players push themselves so hard because the opposition is so strong that they end up injuring themselves
stop this narrative about team injuries winning cheap its wrong. the road is not ez to take. I think Lakers and Bucks are the only teams in recent years won the chip having both opposing team healthy squad (but Warriors is almost healthy but regardless Boston is healthy team). It means they now know how to handle their bodies well expecting to perform in finals without injuries. its a good sign tho not because they cant make excuses after losing if ever, but WE FANS CAN ENJOY THEIR FULL DISPLAY OF THEIR SKILLS AND CRAFT REGARDLESS OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER. THE LEAGUE IS GETTING BETTER
@@lemzpotutan2839 Lakers and Bucks won against Healthy competition? Wtf are you going on about? Bam was crippled In the Bubble, Dragic didn't even play and Bucks only started to win after Kyrie and Harden went down, they were getting ripped apart the first 2 games by Nets, Giannis was so scared shirtless of KD that he wasn't even guarding KD
No f en way wtf😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤓🤓🤓
So the NBA denied the chris paul to lakers trade yet let KD walk freely to the warriors where people disliked the 2 seasons they dominated which decline in viewership? wtf
You're comparing apples to oranges (trade vs free agency). The NBA owned the New Orleans team that year. They had every right to say no because having Chris Paul on the Hornets made the team more attractive to a potential buyer.
Ah, the hypocritical criticism of Kevin Durant while okaying everything that LeBron James did quite literally years before this in 2010. I never get over seeing how stupid people are and how much hate they have for it. Y'all act like Chris Bosh and LeBron James never lost to Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat in the regular season and the postseason.
GSW become great players because of the cast selfishly playing while Bron joined the Wade Bosh Allen Chalmers Haslem and even Birdman? WTF is that team!! THATS WAS THEEEEEE MOST OUTRAGEOUS TEAM EVER ASSEMBLED and Im glad they failed many times. They ruined the league buy doing that and led to KD joining Warriors and eventually become more successful because how they play unlike Miami was playing. But atleast Bron got 4 and Steph klay Dray Iggy also has 4 a piece.
Lebron never played Miami in the playoffs
Still a Soft Move
At least Durant has 2 championships
Most fake championships in history
@@mylastaltsrrsly5967 with all due respect last time I checked the 2 championships were real and he did it with Stephen curry
They dont have much value
All this just to beat Lethanos
The free agency that ruined his career.
Crazy how this single move by KD overshadowed lebron forming a superteam in 2010 and is not even talked about often.
Also I know bron fans are gonna say " well lebron didn't join a 73-9 team". Lol, " Not 1, Not 2, Not 3, Not 4,............"
But that’s the truth, Lebron move was fair, he formed a Big 3 with the 7th best player in the league (I think Bron, Kobe, KD, Dwight, Dirk, Duncan and Cp3 were better than Wade in 2011) and a Top 20 player Bosh.
KD joined a 2x reigning first unanimous MVP and scoring leader Steph Curry, the 2nd greatest shooter of all time who was arguably a Top 10 player in 2016, the 2017 DPOY and best defender of this era and the 2015 FMVP.
Bron formed a Big 3, KD joined a big 3 and formed a Big 4+ Wade and Bosh were already washed after 2012, both injury prone Wade even tought about retiring in 2013 because of his knee …
Also Wade wasn’t the best fit for Lebron, Wade was basically a mini Lebron (or a smarter Westbrook with great defense), he was a ball dominant super athletic guard who made most of his damage by attacking the rim just like Lebron, and he wasn’t a good shooter just like Lebron. That’s why the HEAT with prime fucking Lebron didn’t dominated like the Warriors, if Lebron had just Klay Thompson, not even Curry just Klay the HEAT would have been way better not because Klay is better than Wade but because it would have been a way better fit.
So you really can’t compare these 2 moves, not only KD had better teammates, but they were a good fit with him and already had all time great chemistry, you just can’t compare man .
@@Anthonydu01630 yea it was totally "fair" lol gtfo. If lebron hadn't choked in 2011 it would have been three straight championship, they had no rivals in the east and when he went to Cleveland it was much the same
Wade wasnt a superstar after 2011 and Bosh isn’t better than draymond green or Thompson
@@theeyetest1704 the warriors still make it to the finals in 17 without Durant the heat wouldn’t get passed the second round without lebron
But the Heat don't win 73-9 before Bron join in
Hot take: KD going to the golden state helped his legacy BUT it ruined his image and legacy more.
We all have KD atleast at our top 14. If KD hadn't left OKC and still ringless 'till now, he'd be at best top 20 and would be known as the greatest player to never win the ring. But due to him going to golden state, we can't, don't and won't put him in the top 10 because of this move.
man fuck image and legacy, clyde drexler abandoned portland to play a winning houston alongside hakeem olajuwon and no one gives him flak
this ish is so clickbait.
SAS is correct. Durant made one of the weakest moves ever.
When he left the Warriors.
Charles Barkley joined the back-to-back champion Houston Rockets in 1996 after his Suns lost to them in the playoffs in back-to-back 7 game series. It ended up being a disaster but it's funny how little backlash he got at the time for the move. Hey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right?
Barkley lost to the rockets in 95 playoffs, lost to the sonics in the 96 playoffs, then joined rockets 96-97 and was traded there , not signed as a free agent
if barkley joined the rockets in 93 and teamed with prime hakeem while he was in his own mvp prime he would have gotten just as much backlash, if kd joined gs in 2019 after trying to win for a few more years no one would care, it's all about which stage of your career you're in
U go tit wrong it was 2017/2018
More like Pissed off the NBA
Timeline:
June 19, 2016 Cavs win NBA finals 4-3. Haters mock Warriors for being the first team to blow 3-1 finals lead. 🤣🤣🤣
July 4, 2016 Durant signs with Warriors. Haters cry foul. 😠😠😠
June 12, 2017 Warriors win NBA finals 4-1. Haters blow a gasket. 😤😤😤
June 8, 2018 Warriors win NBA finals 4-0. Haters swear off basketball forever. 😭😭😭
Felt so good to make the haters blow a gasket because of Durant.
Weakest move ever in Pro Sports.
But lebrick can play with Irving, wade, bosh, Davis, love, and he’s still wanting to join Steph LOL disturbing double standards
@@deezelkane Who said Lebron manufacturing the Heatles wasn't a weak move too? Only difference is, KD won MVP and lost to GSW only months prior to signing with them. Miami was down when Lebron decided to go there. Both weak moves, but Lebron's next best players were old man Ilgauskas and Larry Hughes, KD had Westbrook, big difference.
KD took an easy path to win a ring
Always funny to me how it’s just a given Bron would’ve won those next two chips lol
lebron can't beat curry in 17 even without durant lmao
@@ronaldbibi209 agreed! They would’ve retooled differently and been just as dominant, I have no doubt in my mind about that.
What Curry and Durant did was allow the team to stay mostly on pace when either of them got injured as they both tend to do and did during their time together. They got to the finals largely without Durant in 19, played a series without curry in 18 I think. Went 14-2 or something without KD his first year there. From that standpoint it was genius and a no brainer for them to join forces.
But the warriors would’ve beat that Cavs team either way
One of the easiest championship ring eva🤣🤣🤣💩💩💩thats why no one is talking about his ring
And yet here we all are, including yourself, absolutely talking about KD joining the Warriors and the resulting championships. 🤣🤣🤣🏆🏆
@@rocketfighter8 oh look a big kd fan🤣🤣🤣lmao!!!
@@simple2959 Oh look a disgruntled fan whose team is a failure so he spends his time dumping on champions. 🤣🤣🤣
if lebron's was called "the decision". what do we call this one? can i nomimate " the bitch move"?
Move on guys
-DefinitelyNotKD35