Is an NBA championship and a NBA finals MVP worth $82 million?

>>76530957
He'll probably make more over his lifetime this way - oh wait california taxes.

>>76530957

You honestly think players at that level are worried about that? His Nike shoe line might gain100M in sales over the summer. If he wins 3-4 rings in a row (which is likely at this point) he will enter the stupid GOAT talk as well.

I know you're an assblasted Oklahomo, OP, but you're being quite short-sighted. You need to think a little bigger.

Nike is going all in on him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_TlQvhUyI

That will get him back the 82 million. And did n't he grow up poor? Probably doesn't need the money.

>>76530957
It absolutely is worth it, the amount of jerseys and merchandise the warriors will sell over the next two years alone will probably pay for the 82 million dollar contract

>>76530957

Yes.

>based god lifts the curse
>durant immediately wins a ship

If he made peace with lil b years ago, he's still in okc with multiple ring. Fuck kd.

t. Salty okc fan

>>76531066

You have it backwards, leaf.

Durrant left 82M on the table in OKC to take 82M less in salary from GSW. He's asking if losing that money to improve your career legacy is worth it or if players should just make as much as they can.

>>76530957

Yes.

Legacy and championships are far more important than cash upfront.

>westbrickites actually think muh stats are better than winning

>>76531092
Meh. If he hasn't been dumb with what he's already earned, he's already set for life.

>>76531093
Yeah you can't feed your family with rings.

>>76531209
He doesn't have his own family.

>>76531209
He's made over $100 million just from his NBA contracts over his career, he already has more money than he will ever spend

>>76531093

No, because he knows he needed tons of help to get that ring. It won't feel special to him. Dude literally got carried to water.

If he won it with the OKC Thunder, he would have felt a million times better than he did last night.

So his ring is like the 2012 Lebron ring. Half of a season due to lockouts, insane string of injured players that year, and over all shitty season.

>>76531092
What is this meme. Is this over a long contract? Who thinks he's quitting/done after 2 years

>>76531296
Yeah who would want to increase their net worth 67%. You're right

The whole thing is embarrassing. It would be like if Jordan left the Bulls to join the Pistons after they blew him out.

>>76531505

Not really. It would be more like Gary Peyton leaving the Sonics to join the Bulls. As in a great player on a contender that didnt really have a great shot at a ring joining a team that guarenteed him a title. Like Lebron leaving Cleveland for Miami.

>>76531311

That would be true except he's not capable of that amount of insight.
Watch him celebrating with the Golden State fans last night, he's literally acting like he just conquered the world. He's retarded.

>>76531311
>If he won it with the OKC Thunder, he would have felt a million times better than he did last night.

How would you know?

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>>76531410
>get even more money that you will never spend or accomplish a lifelong goal

>>76530980
>Not having residency in Oklahoma
>Not incorporating his brand there
>Not moving all his endorsement money thru there
Lrn2jew

>>76531848
Money is the root of all happiness. Anything else is not necessary

>>76530957
How did he give up $82 million again? Was Okc gonna pay him under the table that much more than his max contract or what? I hate commiefornia and hate to shit on okc but youre delusional as fucking hell if you don't think his popularity, merch sales and business opportunities wont explode moving there.

Then if he wins multiple rings instead of being just one of the best of his generation 20 years from now hes making 8-9 figures a year just putting his name on shit.

Jordan isnt making nine figures on endorsement deals to this day a year if all his stats stay the same and he wins 2 titles

>>76532061
http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2016/6/28/12050498/kevin-durant-contract-salary-money-nba-free-agent-rumors

The Thunder could've paid out $244.1 million
The most the Warriors can pay is $162.9 million

>>76530957
What's worth more when you are dead, a legacy, or 82 million?

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>>76530957
Durant looks much happier playing now than he ever did in OKC. Who the fuck wants to live in Oklahoma? What a shit place to have to play.

He'll make most of that 82 million back from endorsements in a larger market.

>>76532254
OK

San Francisco: 700,000
Oklahoma City: 650,000

Yeah, SF is so much bigger

>>76531311
>Dude literally got carried to water.
More like he carried the warriors to water. He was by far the most dominant player on that team.

>>76531093
That's what David West said. You can't take your contract to the grave, but you can cement yourself as a champion.

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>>76531025
The thread was bait from the beginning. Notice how there's about 30 replies and no one decided to reply to you? Its because they feel bad you didn't "get it".

>>76532283

BAY AREA you stupid fucking nigger

>>76532354
Yeah, but when his grandkids are wondering why they are living in poverty, I wonder what they'll think

>>76532283
SF>OKC don't even deny it. Also he lives in the Oakland hills which are very nice.

>>76532378
Ok

Bay Area: 4.1 million
Oklahoma: 3.5 million

k.

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>>76532283
The Bay Area has a population of over 7 million people. How retarded are you?

>>76532386
>living in the coat tails of your grandparents
ISHYDDT

>>76532399
Where the fuck are you getting 4.1?

>>76532426
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%E2%80%93Hayward,_CA_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area

I'm sorry, I mean 4.6 million. Still not all that large

>>76532401
What is this damn picture from, I've seen it for 20 years now and still don't know

>>76532386
>waiting for dad to die so you get paid

nothing more degenerate than this.

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>>76531882
spoken like a true pleb

>>76532457
citizan kane

>>76532470
I dread the day when my dad dies...
I can't think of a sadder moment that'll happen in my lifetime

>>76532454
It's actually 7.6 million. But nice cherry picking stats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

>>76532538
What's the difference between that and this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland,_CA_Combined_Statistical_Area

>>76532538
It's okay people who've never been simply don't understand that from Vacaville in the east, san Rafael in the north, and San Jose in the south it's practically all uninterrupted urban space or state/national park or reservation

>>76532527

your dad's a fag.

>>76532605
My dad dies every day

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>>76532554
Loved how you gave population stats for the whole state of Oklahoma vs one city in the bay area. That's advance faggorty at it's finest.

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>>76532614

>>76532684
Yeah but the Bay Area is not a large market

Why don't they have their own ESPN page like New York, LA, Chicago, or Dallas?

>>76530957

It depends. I had a financial advisor once tell me that you shouldn't stay or go to a new job just because they offer you more money. If the organization doesn't make you happy or meet your standards of what you are looking for in a group then in all likelihood you won't be there long enough to see yourself make the money the company offered you. You'll likely quit or get fired. Not to mention you should also consider looking at other stuff like the healthcare they are offering you as well as the taxes you might have to pay if its a new city.

>>76532554
The Bay Area has 8.7 million people? What?

How come I've never heard of the place?

>>76532732
>(((ESPN)))
>Informing your opinion
Ishyddt

>>76531882
I know who's behind this post

omg he's only making $26mil a year now how will he survive?

fuck you guys are stupid

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>>76530957
An extra $82 millions don't give you peace and relaxation the way championship rings do. I bet Charles Barkely would trade 80% of his wealth for just one championship ring.

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>>76532401
>>76535842
>porno chicks

Nigga he will make that in endorsements

>>76535977
He could have endorsements PLUS $82 million

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>>76536895

>>76530957
There's no monetary value for an asteriked championship. Leave it to KD to be swimming in bankruptcy in 10 months when (((Commiefornia))) taxes get to him so much that he can't pay his own salary. Rent is 90k in that degenerate spichole so he better file for social security fast.

>>76530957
it MIGHT be.... if he can get lebron tier endorsements

lebrick will make +1B from nike alone

>>76531209
what if you sell the rings for food?

>>76531311
Except OKC isn't good enough to beat the cavs, the warriors, or even the fucking spurs, dude.

Get real.

>>76538802
Except...the Thunder would've gotten Horford

And that would've been a guaranteed WCF winner. Tell me where the hole is

Westbrook
Oladipo
Durant
Horford
Adams

>>76538919
>horford and adams on the same team

disgusting

>>76538763
>letting memes compose the entirety of your opinion of an administrative region in your own country
Sad!

I know you retards have never heard of the law of diminishing returns and you're too poor to be even able to comprehend it but when you're going to make upwards of 500 million dollars another 82 means absolutely nothing to you

>>76532283
Spoken like a true retard. You probably haven't been to either place. This is like saying New Delhi is better than NYC because it has more people.

>>76538919
>Tell me where the hole is
westbrook

>>76539010
This.

>>76538919
Horford is garbage, did you not see how he played with Boston? And even if he was good centers don't win rings anymore.

>>76532454
It's the second biggest tv market in the country

>>76539061
OH so it's bigger than LA, Chicago, D.C-Baltimore, Dallas and Philly now?

How is our friend Westbrook doing

>>76539074
studying tape of Lebron's stat padding

>>76539074
RICher than KD

>>76539096
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/nba/russell-westbrook-net-worth/
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/nba/kevin-durant-net-worth/

>>76539004
You like Cali more because you're a Spic and non white

Whites and Asians prefer places like OKC much more

>>76538919
As long as Westbrook is starting they ain't winning shit.

>>76531041

Pretty embarrassing commercial all around

The Warriors and KD embody the millennial spirit so much

>try something
>lose
>instead of working hard, look for an easy way to solve it
>get KD, already the second best player in the league, to leave his team and join the debatable best team in the league
>win
>We Did It Reddit!

leaves a bad taste in your mouth

>>76539453
I don't get the idea of working easier instead of harder

>people still reply to this guy's awful bait thread

>>76531209
im sure KD is having a hard time feeding his family

>>76532283
I promise you the bay area is more populated than the entire mid west shithole

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>KD has a ring, may get multiple rings
>Westats will have willl lead in statpadding while having multiple 1st round exits

>>76539523
You're assuming Westbrook stays

He could go to the Lakers with PG and prevent KD from even reaching the finals

>>76539600
what was stopping him from doing that this year?

>>76539453
Nice omission of them beating the lebron's second superteam in 2015 w/o any fuckery behind steph's MVP season

>>76539523
>may get multiple rings
>multiple

heh

>>76531025
That's the problem with the salary cap. It seems fair that a team can only spend x amount of money on their players, but it's more complex than that. You take an "official" pay cut when you join a championship team but you get more money and fame from sponsors and royalties.

I woke up this morning and somehow Westbrook and OKC had become the villains of the NBA.

>>76530957
Is KD a millennial?

>>76530957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zub0fmBxVCU&t

>>76540432
He's a 90s kid.

>>76532354

until humans go extinct

what then, David?

>>76531566

>okc didn't have a great shot at the ring

did you start watching basketball after the 2016 playoffs?

>>76540478
Why the fuck does this dude sound so fucking whiny?

>>76531311
>if
Maybe but that shit didn't happen. He took a risk and it paid off.

>>76540576
15 minutes is too long of a video to watch.

>>76530957
cavs were 1st in payroll, GS is 14th so yeah it's worth it

>>76539073
People do buy a lot of TVs here. I know several people that broke theirs the night idiots like you voted for Trump.

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>>76531025
>kd
>goat talk
>ever

low energy bait