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Adrian Wojnarowski doesn't believe the Los Angeles Lakers are a legitimate potential free agent destination for Kevin Durant.

Wojnarowski's reporting has indicated the Golden State Warriors are the favorites for Durant should he decide to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder. Stephen A. Smith has reported about the possibility of the Lakers being in play for Durant.

"The Lakers are not front-runners for Kevin Durant, he wants to win a championship," said Wojnarowski. "If he leaves Oklahoma, he may end up staying there and I've written that. Golden State is a team that is worrisome for Oklahoma City -- that's a team that has Kevin Durant's attention. Kevin Durant wants to win a championship right away and either he wants to do that in Oklahoma City with the group they have or he's going to go somewhere where he can win a title right away.

"Kevin Durant doesn't care if they have the first pick, the second pick, third pick; no free agent cares. No free agent of his stature cares what draft pick a team has because that guy is not going to help them win championships in the next two or three years. And if Kevin Durant leaves Oklahoma, he wants to be ready to win a championship right away. He's at a point in his career where he can't wait two or three years and hope that it happens. I think part of his criteria, sources tell me, will be, 'Is that team good enough to beat Golden State with me on it? Or is it Golden State? Or can I stay in Oklahoma and continue to be able to do that and compete for a championship?

"Listen, I just don't think that the Lakers are a real significant factor for Kevin Durant."
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we didnt want him anyways 
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pums said:
The Goat Rasho Nesterovic and Fabricio Oberto were playing the 5 spot
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Outside of them and the admirable he's been a 5. He wasn't guarding blake in the playoffs last year. In the finals he guarded bosh...with bosh listed as a center playing next to Rashard lewis. He guarded Wallace in the finals...ben, not rasheed. He plays next to Lamarcus aldridge for pete's sake. Etc etc and on and on
 
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As his career progressed timmy d def played more 5. But if you look at his careeer as a whole as well as regular season games, he would guard the 4 the majority of the time.
 
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leemelone said:
Outside of them and the admirable he's been a 5. He wasn't guarding blake in the playoffs last year. In the finals he guarded bosh...with bosh listed as a center playing next to Rashard lewis. He guarded Wallace in the finals...ben, not rasheed. He plays next to Lamarcus aldridge for pete's sake. Etc etc and on and on
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His career is split between the 4 and the 5 spot but his prime was at the 4 spot he's a four
 
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leemelone said:
Timmy butthurt because this is low key the tim duncan farewell tour too but nobody cares :lol:.
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Stop it. You know damn well if he was to announce it to the world he was retiring, he'd definitely get the love all around the league but Duncan has always been a low key guy like Dirk.

I don't see anything wrong with how he answered. It's like you dudes feel like he should've gave that politcally correct, "oooh yeah, Kobe's the greatest...we'll miss him" bs spew. The Spurs are on a quest for a championship this year. I'm sure they worrying about a lot more than playing against Kobe for the last time.
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Pretty much. Spurs aren't far behind the Warriors. The Lakers haven't hit 20 wins yet. Kobe's Retirement Tour is their lone source of relevancy right now, comparable to 50 Cent and Instagram.
 
friscostylez said:
But if you look at his careeer as a whole as well as regular season games, he would guard the 4 the majority of the time.
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When?



pums said:
his prime was at the 4 spot he's a four
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How?


nickmaz96 said:
Duncan can't be considered top 5 at his position if he's called a center
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Exactly



"It's great. I have an opportunity to make the team now," Duncan said after the Spurs 128-110 win over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday. "To have an opportunity to be back on the ballot and to be at the forward, and to have a chance to start, it's an honor."



For years, the San Antonio Spurs’ mellow superstar has masqueraded as a power forward really by name only. When Yao Ming entered the league in 2002-03, he generated such an enormous number votes from his home country that there was no way Duncan, who broke in with the Spurs alongside 10-time All-Star center David Robinson, would have ever started an All-Star game if classified as a center.
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you mean to say from 2002-2005 when he won 2 mvps and 2 championships he still wasn't in his prime?
 
I'm still trying to figure out when the general public went from hating Kobe to the slurp fest that they have now.
 
This is slightly off-topic (watching the start of the Daytona 500), but does anybody know why the general public is requested to remove their hats, but people in the service keep them on during the national anthem? Can anybody who served or knows comment on this?
 
pums said:
you mean to say from 2002-2005 when he won 2 mvps and 2 championships he still wasn't in his prime?
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You're going to use 1 year (robinson retired in 03) out of a nearly 20 year career to justify him as a power forward? And even in that one year he still played a lot of 5

I honestly thought you were joking :lol:
 
dragicon said:
This is slightly off-topic (watching the start of the Daytona 500), but does anybody know why the general public is requested to remove their hats, but people in the service keep them on during the national anthem? Can anybody who served or knows comment on this?
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Because it's etiquette.  Military folks don't need to because it's part of their uniform.  I think it's some kind of law too if you wanted to get technical.
 
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dragicon said:
I'm still trying to figure out when the general public went from hating Kobe to the slurp fest that they have now.
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we always loved kobe 
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kobe fans have been here for literally decades 
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Yes... Laker fans have always loved him, the general public hasn't.
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there are always fanboys, haters and people in the middle

most people are in the middle, these are the people who come out and show appreciation in the later years.

its also because fans/media loves to overrate players based on what they are going to do

a few years back it was "KD is the goat scorer because he has a shot at passing kareem"

now its "steph could get 6 championships and be better than MJ"

when a players career is over people can finally properly rate a player so the hate goes away

like 4-5 years from now people will stop hating lebron as much when he retires as a borderline top 10 player 
 
leemelone said:
You're going to use 1 year (robinson retired in 03) out of a nearly 20 year career to justify him as a power forward? And even in that one year he still played a lot of 5

I honestly thought you were joking :lol:
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Well Nesterovic was the 5 back then so he was the 4 and Nazr was also the 5 who cares if Robinson retired he was still the 4
 
dragicon said:
I'm still trying to figure out when the general public went from hating Kobe to the slurp fest that they have now.
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It's just how it is.

You think is a big deal? When Lebron retires going be insane.

Also with Duncan; his 2 NBA MVPs, 3 NBA Finals MVPs were at PF. So he's considered a PF.
 
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pums said:
Well Nesterovic was the 5 back then so he was the 4 and Nazr was also the 5 who cares if Robinson retired he was still the 4
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Rasho played 7 minutes per game in the playoffs when the spurs won it all. Nazr averaged less than 19 minutes in the regular season with the spurs. So even with them Timmy spent most of his time at the 5.

Who cares if Robinson retired? You said he played next to him for 3 years, I was just pointing out that he actually didn't.

But if you believe deep down in your heart that he's a power forward then who am I and the fax to tell you different
 
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