🚨 Stephen A., Perk & Shannon DISAGREE during KD legacy debate 🚨 | First Take
🚨 Stephen A., Perk & Shannon DISAGREE during KD legacy debate 🚨 | First Take
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Kendrick Perkins debate whether Kevin Durant joining the Golden State Warriors did more harm than good for his legacy.
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People talk but what would you do if Golden State wanted you to play with them?
Would you have joined or stayed on OKC?
How do you commentators forget that KD -HAD TO GO to Golden State from the GREAT "SONICS" team SO HOW would he get respect anywhere else but SEATTLE which was out of his control bc SEATTLE NEVER GETS RESPECT FOR ANY TEAMS but thanks for trying👍
Going to Golden State did not hurt KD's CAREER because he eventually added 2 rings and 2 MVP awards to his resumé. His legacy, however, is a much different story. It was not just that he went to the Warriors; it was also the circumstances surrounding that decision that tarnished his legacy. He took the "easy road" to a championship in many people's eyes (I used to feel that way, but Idc anymore), and the fact that he hasn't gotten past the second round and has had a lot of drama and dysfunction around him since leaving the Warriors while they eventually won another title makes him look worse. However, I think there is a lot of hypocrisy when it comes to KD as well. The Warriors were not a "stacked" roster when he joined them. I doubt that anyone actually has a clear definition of what that term means. The people who claim that he should've stayed in Golden State to win more rings are probably the same ones who criticized him for going there to do that in the first place. The "bus rider" narrative is easy to use against him now considering he really can't be the "bus driver" at this point due to his age and decline. It's also being used to re-write a lot of his career. Even if he was to help another team win a championship, he would still be called a "bus rider" because people are just hypocrites like that. He gets criticized for having won titles with other good or great players who make things easier for him on the court… just like literally every other all-time great player. Overall, he will go down aa an all-time great and one of the best of his generation, but not on the level he could have if he had made a difference choice.
He should go back to Oklahoma City.
Truth is Warriors Burnt themselves out chasing 73 wins that’s why they lost. They didn’t need Kd. That’s a joke. Could have have added a number of players other than him and won those chips.
Leave KD alone at some point 😂
Even if he won this season it would have been Book getting the accolades
KD Got two Rings? Huh!? I thought he won 1?
It was a mistake to leave the warriors smh.
What if kd never joined warriors and they lost 2more finals still LeBron would be goat of the decade and Steph be the 2nd and still steph had 2championship
Why espn shows KP stats😅
There are remaining 8 teams playing out there in playoffs and you are talking about KD and Warriors??!! Talk about them and not the active players and teams not in the playoffs
Same as when old Paul pierce KG Ray Allen …was beating lebron so bad he ran to south beach And formed a super team of all the best players in the east in there prime ..
Not 4
Not 5
Not 6
Not 7 😂
KD and lebron are prime example of why Jordan is the Goat. I believed both are more skilled and physically gifted than Jordan but they lack the mindset and determination. Also it’s a different era it’s hard to say, social media makes everyone soft because we have becomes wired to run on likes 👍.
Kd just needs to pull a LeBron and head back to OKC and win a chip
KD's legacy as per Chuck " A BUS RIDER "
Goat debate ♻️ Legacy debate ♻️ mount Rushmore debate ♻️ top 15 , top 10 , top 5 debate
ESPN just be making up stuff!
Go back to okc!
He called that ninja Johnny Gill 🤣
I disagree with the bubble ad a championship no its not that is a mini championship 😂
Can't these shows come up new fresh topics to discuss. Could have sworn I've spoken about this a million times already
If would have stayed in OKC I seriously doubt he and Russ could have won a title. These Western Confence was stacked! If would have stayed , it would the same conversation we would have about Dame Lilard in Portland before he got traded to Milwaukee. Great player wasted his talent in a small market team. Love it or hate he went to Golden State as free agent. Yes the GS won a title before he got there and after he left. But the fact remains he and Russ in OKC were not a good fit .Let's be honest the roster they had with KD and Russ was not good enough . Love or it hate KD made a championship decision by joining GS. If KD joined anybody but GS this wouldn't be an issue about his legacy.
KD haters are crazy he still had to perform in golden state & he did! Y’all really think the warriors would’ve won back 2 back without KD. Warriors had 1 chip & lost a 3-1 lead I the finals after winning 73 games. KD helped create the warriors current legacy. KD left & the warriors didn’t win til 3 years later & that’s only because Tatum became a no show in the finals.
Perk is so wrong. Bron didn't go to Cleveland to win it on his own, he made sure he got surrounded by competent players to win. When Bron came back Kyrie was already rocking, so he got Love and a few other players and even then he didn't make the winning shot, it was Kyrie. So Bron should be thankful to Kyrie for that title.
KD quitting on his team and fans in OKC after choking away a 3-1 series lead against the Warriors and then actually going to join them is the weakest move in the history of not only the NBA but pro sports. I would challenge anybody to find an all time great in any sport who did something like this. It destroyed his legacy and he will always be remembered for doing this rather than how great of a scorer he was. Those championships were meaningless. The Warriors would have won both of them without him.
But Lebron can stack the deck every season but the media don’t look at it the same way when it’s Lebron
KD gets all the hate and people calling his rings weak (rightfully so), but no one hesitates saying that Steph is a four time champ when half of them are the very same rings.
Well at the end of the day lebron is ah 4 Time champ an he won everywhere he went👑👑👑👑💯
Going to GS hurt his legacy a little bit. But what crushed it was him leaving, Golden State winning a chip without him, and KD doing nothing since being in GS.
Can’t beat them, join them
Lil B curse is till in Full Effect. Be gotta go back to Golden State but they gotta get rid of Draymond FOR SURE 😂
Perk preaching the gospel
I think kd is best fit in San Antonio because that team needs to rise up and what better coach can do it then Greg Popovich, who has been with the franchise since David Robinson and Tim Duncan but then also you’re gonna want to surround KD and Victor with some good role players
Some great players don't know how to win.
No, mistake to leave the Warriors
It tarnished his legacy but leaving and never making it back to the finals with the nets and suns has tarnished his legacy even more. At this point he should have stayed with the warriors and dealt with Draymonds trash talk.
If anything yes! I feel like what he did in golden state set this idea about KD that isn’t real. He’s the same KD that was in OKC. He can put a team over the top, but he isn’t the guy to just WIN you won. Playing for GSW put him somewhere he’s not. He’s Melo with rings. THATS NOT BAD! But he’s not in that 1A, 1B tier superstar of all time. The 2 titles say he is, but that was GSW.
They've talked about this topic for probably the equivalent of like 2 full months