Golden State to retire Durant’s number

[Robotech]

When you own a team you can enforce that your way

And there's a lot of examples of retired jerseys for players who didn't play that long for a team. Clyde Drexler and the Rockets, Shaq and the Heat, Charles Barkley and the Suns, Wilt Chamberlain and the Sixers, and others.

 

[WiggyRuss]

For those saying this is dumb:

Please find another player in the history of the NBA with 2 Finals MVPs in 1 city who doesn’t have his number retired there.

I get he was there 3 years and the team was really good without him. But if the Warriors want to retire his number, he earned it.

So did Klay, Curry, Draymond and Iggy.

Who I suspect will all get their due in time.

for all of you saying this is not dumb, find me a player that only played 3 years somewhere with his number retired.

 

[VikingFan2k2]

It's the millennial way.

Everyone deserves a trophy so they don't feel left out.

I'm a millenial (barely) and I think it's stupid. I always thought of Jersey retirees were guys who spent 10-15 years with a franchise and had an extreme positive impact on the team.

#21 isn't retired by the Timberwolves because Kevin Garnett and Glen Taylor can't get along and it's just absurd.

 

[tlance]

for all of you saying this is not dumb, find me a player that only played 3 years somewhere with his number retired.

Already did that.

Petrovich
Phils
Sealy
Chamberlain
Thurmond

Thanks for playing

 

[WiggyRuss]

Already did that.

Petrovich
Phils
Sealy
Chamberlain
Thurmond

Thanks for playing

i mean you kind of made my point for me, 5 guys? one because he died? (is that bobby phills?)

it just comes off as dick-sucking like the Heat retiring Jordan's number.

 

[WiggyRuss]

I'm a millenial (barely) and I think it's stupid. I always thought of Jersey retirees were guys who spent 10-15 years with a franchise and had an extreme positive impact on the team.

#21 isn't retired by the Timberwolves because Kevin Garnett and Glen Taylor can't get along and it's just absurd.

I mean, that would be the common sense notion of having a number retired.

The fans didnt even embrace Durant, he spent most of his time arguing with fans on burner accounts anyway. LOL

 

[tlance]

i mean you kind of made my point for me, 5 guys? one because he died? (is that bobby phills?)

it just comes off as dick-sucking like the Heat retiring Jordan's number.

5 guys.

You act like it is unprecedented. It isn’t.

The only player on that list of 5 who accomplished anything close to what Durant did is Wilt. And he won 0 rings with Philly.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Please find another player in the history of the NBA with 2 Finals MVPs in 1 city who doesn’t have his number retired there.

Also worth considering:

Of the players that do have 2 Finals MVPs in 1 city, how many of them signed a 3-year contract with a team that had reached the finals in the two seasons prior (including a Finals win), and then bolted as soon as the contract was up?

I don't know fuckall about basketball, but I'm gonna guess the answer to that is zero point zero.

 

[Wamu]

5 guys.

You act like it is unprecedented. It isn’t.

The only player on that list of 5 who accomplished anything close to what Durant did is Wilt. And he won 0 rings with Philly.

Drexler spent 3.5 years in Houston. And they retired his number. He sucked though. Only 1 ring that he stole & the last NBAer selected for the original Dream Team.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

If KD had even been there 4 or 5 years with the same number of finals trips, titles and MVP's and the Warriors said they were going to retire his number...no one would bat an eye.

If grandma had balls, she'd be grandpa, and you'd be giving him a handjob.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Point is, it is up to the franchise to decide who is worth honoring based on their contributions.

I agree with that.

The Warriors are fags.

 

[tlance]

Also worth considering:

Of the players that do have 2 Finals MVPs in 1 city, how many of them signed a 3-year contract with a team that had reached the finals in the two seasons prior (including a Finals win), and then bolted as soon as the contract was up?

I don't know fuckall about basketball, but I'm gonna guess the answer to that is zero point zero.

Durant didn’t do that either.

He signed 3 consecutive 1 year deals.

 

[msgkings322]

Also worth considering:

Of the players that do have 2 Finals MVPs in 1 city, how many of them signed a 3-year contract with a team that had reached the finals in the two seasons prior (including a Finals win), and then bolted as soon as the contract was up?

I don't know fuckall about basketball, but I'm gonna guess the answer to that is zero point zero.

Well, that is pretty specific....

 

[ill]

I didn't "retire #35" from this:

"As long as I am Co-Chairman of this team, no player will ever wear #35 for the Warriors again."

 

[Robotech]

Already did that.

Petrovich
Phils
Sealy
Chamberlain
Thurmond

Thanks for playing

Julius Irving 3 years for the Nets.
Oscar Robertson played for the Bucks for 3.5 seasons.
Drexler played for the Rockets for 3.5 seasons.
Bill Walton 3.5 seasons for the Blazers.

Maybe 3.5 seasons is where people usually draw the line.

 

[msgkings322]

Drexler spent 3.5 years in Houston. And they retired his number. He sucked though. Only 1 ring that he stole & the last NBAer selected for the original Dream Team.

He was also a star at University of Houston, so that factored in

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Durant didn’t do that either.

He signed 3 consecutive 1 year deals.

Ahhh, so he kept signing one year deals until it looked like the going was going to get a little rough and then he bailed. What a bitch.

Fuck him.

 

[trojanfan12]

If grandma had balls, she'd be grandpa, and you'd be giving him a handjob.

Not with your mouth in the way I wouldn't.

 

[Robotech]

Also, Nate Thurmond and the Cavaliers. Jersey retired after only playing 2 seasons for the Cavs.

 

[Myles]

for all of you saying this is not dumb, find me a player that only played 3 years somewhere with his number retired.

There are several. The difference is that typically they came to a shitty team and turned it around in their time there. Durant went to a championship team.