Is Kevin Durant un-American?

Joining the Warriors was perhaps the most American thing he could've done in 2016. This says more about American decline than anything else.

>>76745300
lol terrible bait, fuck off

real american values
>murder
>appeasing your overlords
>anti-human
>anti-communal aid

>>76745300
>winning
>anti-american
Adds up

>>76745330
What was American about being a coward?

You know we DON'T look up to Benedict Arnold, right?

This thread adequately explains why America is a shithole

>>76745300
You forgot to complain about millennials and mention that you served in the military

>>76745300
>loyalty
Loyalty to team (((owners)))

Sure got Good Goy in here

>>76745414
What was Capitalist about joining the Golden State Warriors?

KD gave up $82 million

>>76745414
you know nobody ever explains why we're a "jewish puppet state". they just keep saying it. i was interested to discover that israel literally wouldn't even exist if it weren't for us.

>>76745409
Instant gratification is an American value based on how we live our lives. Joining GSW was the quickest, least arduous path to a title and Durant took it.
The worship of fame and popularity is also an American value. Durant bought into the hype surrounding the GSW, was memed and joined the "cool" team of the NBA.

>>76745453
do you not see the contradiction in your very own words?

>>76745483
He WAS the franchise player for the OKC Thunder. Him joining OKC was akin to a general defecting from his army to join the enemy army.

That's called treason. There's nothing American about being treasonous

I don't care how much you guys hat eon Durant but I have no problem with wanting to leave that shitty culture, franchise and city

>basketball
*yawns*

>>76745553
>implying Oakland is better than OKC

>>76745450
>What was Capitalist about joining the Golden State Warriors?

Using the advantages of free market and free society, I'm glad he buttfucked the entire NBA, aka the most overregulated league in sports, aka communism. In America you're literally limited with salary caps and you're forbidden from paying best players what they're really worth, i.e. Mike Conley makes the most money from his contract in NBA despite not even being a Top 10 playmaker. Plenty of owners would be willing to pay LeBron 50 mil. dollars per year but are not allowed to in the communist entertainment organization.

Plain and simple, he just a bitch ass nigga.

>>76745300
>American values include:
>>loyalty
>>hard work
>>not quitting when things get rough

People actually still believe this...

>>76745526
there is no contradiction, your brain is unfortunately incapable of critical thinking.

>>76745620
>aka communism.

So being paid $82 million more in OKC, what part of Communism is that?

>>76745300
American values include winning

>>76745778
Not winning at all costs

Otherwise the US would've joined the Axis in 1941 or the Central Powers in 1917

Is Lebron James un-American?

Was joining the Heat one of the most un-American decisions of all time in sports? American values include:

>loyalty
>hard work
>not quitting when things get rough

>>76745347
maybe 8ch /leftypol/ is more your speed, pinko
pro sports is an inherently market enterprise

>>76745300
>loyalty
To what, a mercenary team that got to pick second? You imply no one would've have picked him that high or at all when you say that
>hard work
pretty sure he still does that
>going gets tough
You know what's a much better American ideal? Seeking out better opportunities.

>>76745300
might not have been American by direct comparisons and metaphors. But he did take a cut in pay to achieve the ultimate goal and point of the sport which is to win. I dont want to hear BS that that point of it is to make money. The P.E. teacher that originally invented Bball was trying to 1-up Andrew Carnegie.

>>76746035
wasnt* was NOT trying to 1 up Carnegie.... (fucking fail)

Fake-ass Joe Rogan

>>76746011
He owes all his NBA successes to the team that drafted him. Without the environment OKC had to offer, he might've been Greg Oden'd

>>hard work
>pretty sure he still does that

That's why his scoring has gone down, right?

>You know what's a much better American ideal? Seeking out better opportunities.

And getting Horford and Oladipo wasn't a great opportunity on a team HE was the leader of?

They were up 3-1 on the Warriors with the Warriors playing the best basketball they could and the Thunder playing the worst basketball they could and still got 3-1'd

They would've had a starting lineup of

Westbrook
Oladipo
KD
Horford
Adams

Not a single weakpoint on that lineup. They would've won a championship this year

>>76745938
You do understand that revenue sharing and salary caps are fundamentally opposed to muh market, no?

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>>76745300

Dunno what the fuck American stands for anymore besides retardation and greed, but this guy is a first rate coward for sure

PIC UNRELATED: A true American who did it the right way

>>76745412
Hmm, I wonder who posted this comment on a Burmese smoke-signal forum. Oh, It's an Australian. LOL.

Daily reminder that the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 NBA Finals

>>76746183
Is Horford really that much better than Ibaka? is Oladipo better than Waiters?

>Playing basketball in a fun way with people you enjoy being around

>Still making a lot of money

>Living in a place that isn't a total shithole

>Winning NBA championships

>Taking sweet revenge for the city of Seattle

Durant is GOD DAMN AMERICAN HERO

>>76746704
>>Living in a place that isn't a total shithole

You mean a place that represents real America and not the coastal sponges that take and never give back?

>>76746747
https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/

Is KD hated because he's not 'black enough' to black people? I don't watch nor follow basketball so I genuinely do not know

>>76746852
Steph Curry and Klay Thompson definitely aren't

>>76746876
why do black people always have the most goddamned inane conflicts? The whole lightskin vs. darkskin hatred is absurd

>>76746792
Says more about the gutting of many sectors of the economy over the recent past enabled by disastrous economic policy than it does about any inherent fault of the economically disadvantaged regions of the country.

>>76746955
Steph Curry and Klay Thompson are both rich kids, both of whom never have spoken up about the Black struggle

The fact that KD hasn't made them address that either makes him a traitor as well

>>76745300
>loyalty
Americans rebelled against the British.
>hard work
Many Americans are on welfare.
>not quitting when things get rough
Half of marriages in America end up in divorce.

>>76747125
No knock on those regions but they are takers more than the Bay Area is. It's just fact.

>>76745300
America is the most unamerican country in the world according to those purported values

Fuck you OP, go suck on a door stopper somewhere.

>>76745300
Putting in the least amount of effort possible to achieve a necessary result is the most American thing possible

>>76745300
OKC fan here

We don't even want this bitch back.

If he EVER steps foot in OKC ever again, i wouldn't be surprised if he comes out of a casket

>>76745300
>tf
>tp

>>76747489
You wouldn't know a thing about loyalty, macaco eater

>>76747475
If I ever step foot in OKC I wouldn't be surprised if I come out in a casket, having died of sheer boredom.

>>76747475
This is what Cleveland fans said about Lebron after the Decision. Remember Dan Gilberts letter?

>>76747535
>when your town is so shit and you have to make up rumors about ghosts in the hotel as that's the only way to get guests to step into the hotel in the first place

Ayy lmao

>>76745549
I'll never understand why people are so anally ravished by this

OKC sucked and was continuously going to suck even with Muh Westbro

Him staying there was going to dead end his career with no ring

>>76746852
What no

The fuck

T. A black person

People hate him because of muh loyalty Muh LeBron woulda naever done it!
And so on and so forth

Even though LeBron literally did it

>>76747682
They were literally up 3-1 on the Warriors

The Warriors were playing their best basketball
The Thunder were playing their worst

they would've gotten over the hump with Horford. You have no evidence to prove otherwise especially since GSW was all healthy

>>76747541
Except KD isn't from OKC. He's just some traitorous piece of shit who's memory will be wiped away from here

He's already being taken out of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame

>>76748102
>Oklahoma Hall of Fame
*Gasps*

>>76748102
why would they take out the only member of their hall of fame?

>taking the easy way out instead of making the best of it where you are

it was literally the most American thing ever, more than an eagle holding a roman candle with one talon and a hot dog in the other while two women wearing American flag bikinis stand on each side holding shotguns.

>>76748591
>expanding west and building railroads to connect 4 million square miles of terrain while fighting bloodthirsty tribes of savages was taking the easy way out

>>76745418
>my sides

>>76745549
Lel, our president is is literally an Orange retard who sold our entire country out to the Russians.

>being """loyal""" to a """franchise""" that would trade you without second thought for your feelings if it would be best for business

By that logic Iverson is an American patriot.

It was a lame move.
He's even lamer now that he won and is acting like he did something special.

Like the footage of him celebrating with the Golden State fans, those people don't give a shit about him and he doesn't give a shit about them, it's all very ugly and absurd.

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>>76749063
He is.

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KD will likely make up a good portion of, if not all of, the money he lost by signing with the Warriors by receiving more endorsements than he would without perhaps multiple NBA Finals MVPs.

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>>76745300

Being American means winning. At their truest, Americans love winners above all else.

There's always the haters and the world hates us and talks a lot of shit but no matter what, deep down they know they all are our bitches. If you prefer being the "good guys" and winning the moral victories and other faggotry, you can fuck right off to Europe.

>>76745409
Benedict wasn't even a coward, just a traitor. He showed bravery in various battles, including an invasion of Canada that he constantly insisted upon. It was only when politics prevented him promotion and monetary compensation for his own money he put in the war effort he started war profiteering and eventually selling out to the British. Because of the fact he wanted to make a lot of money and became a sell out to achieve that goal makes him in fact the most American in modern standards.

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KD joining Golden State is the best thing to happen to the NBA ever because LeBron losing is always funny.

>>76749449

I only started watching NBA 4 years ago and the Warriors seem a lot more annoying than LeBron desu

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>>76749486
He's an arrogant prick who got "CHOSEN1" tattooed across his upper back before playing a single NBA game and who has slowly learned to fake a more palatable public persona, but, by all accounts, is still a monumental jackass off-camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7qFvAIRCk

>>76749637

All I know about Lebron is that everyone says he is the best player, that he won one for da land, that his name is funny for making up fake names, and that he showed his dick on TV.

Kind of sounds like our guy tbqhm8

>>76749486
>I only started watching NBA 4 years ago
exactly, now fuck off

>>76749801
I've been watching the league since way before he started playing and he's an asshat of the highest caliber.

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>>76749637
Oh, also, he flops constantly, travels and charges literally almost every time he drives the basket and never gets called for it yet has the nerve to bitch to the officials every time he thinks they missed a call and it didn't go his way. Webm unrelated but hilarious.

>>76745300

>having to play for a team because of a draft designed to provide welfare to the worst teams
>"American values"

>playing where the fuck you want for whatever fucking reason you want because the free market allows you to
>"socialist and unamerican"

>>76749856

Oh yeah excuse me for wandering into your super secret cool kids club you know the NATIONAL basketball association.

If you're gonna do the hipster thing pick something a little more obscure to be a dick about.

>>76749947
Nobody is calling it a secret club you brainless idiot. You admit to having little experience with the league, then wonder why people who have watched longer have a different perspective on something... You seem to have some insecurity about it though, sorry about that. The fact that you reach for "hipster" as an attempted insult to someone who watches the 2nd most popular league in the country is funny and misguided.

>>76750034

Oh.
You're autistic.
Sorry. Have a nice night.

>>76750120
this is embarrassing for you, just don't reply next time you can't hold up your end of a conversation

>>76747189
lmao black people struggle because dumb ass niggas turn on each other for not taking enough welfare and raping enough white girls

>>76747730
>reddit spacing
>defends Durant
>hates on LeGod
w e w

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>>76745891
>it's another false equivalency episode
I wonder how old you guys are because LeBron got it a million times worse than Durant and still gets some shit for it today.

Durant won't be remembered as a great

>>76747730
>and ANOTHER false equivalency episode
holy shit use memes correctly at least leldit

>>76747274 Pick very specific situations to define a country's entire history

Good argument faggot

>>76745300
>below reddit level shitposting

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>>76745300
Durant joining the warriors is like the gold rush when everyone flocked to, guess where, Californi. They wanted to go out west in search of a better life and find gold. Durant was stuck in a flyover state and wanted gold so guess where he went? That's right, niggers. Californi.

The analogy is probably the best one you'll find on anywhere on the internet so please don't steal.

>>76745549
Getting stupid rich in the big city and sticking a middle finger to all the small town folks you used to live with is the most American thing you can possibly do

>>76745300
>It's a I dickride lebeta thread

Why isn't anyone complaining about millennials ITT?

>>76752544
because the NBA is a millennial league

>>76751863
Then why didn't he go to the Lakers or Clippers? Bigger market and better obvious fit

>>76752798
Man KD on the Clippers would've been game over

CP3
Reddick
KD
Blake
D'Andre Jordan

Literally NO weak spot

>>76745300
His dislike of beer proves he's un-American

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlCIZswH5Do

>>76752956
To sign durant they would need to get rid of reddit and gut their already shitty bench, and durant would still need to take a pay cut.

>>76753107
Yeah but SG's are a dime a dozen. Nothing wrong with starting Jamal Crawford

>>76753071
>being addicted to piss looking liquid

>>76745300
t. LeBron

>>76746350
>True American

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itt: commie retards from burgerica

>>76751365
Durant will be remembered as a top 5 player

>>76748102
>Except KD isn't from OKC

exactly, i don't see why he sould feel loyal to the club that hadn't even existed when he was born and matter a fact when he was drafted.

>>76745891
>it's another B-BUT LEBRON episode
>implying leaving a trash as team you took to finals is the same as leaving westbrook and them to join a team that already won a title and 3-1'd you the year before

>>76756287
>OKC wasn't trash
>Westbrook isn't trash

Mergers and Acquisitions is the pinnacle of Americanism

>>76745412
Enjoy your atrocious cost of living, awful internet access and inhospitable living conditions in 99% of your shit hole of a country faggot.

>le durant ruined the NBA and not leGM meme
loving every laugh

>>76752798
>Bigger market and better obvious fit
But there's nothing worth going there. It's a clear difference between going for gold or going for shit.

Why would anyone choose shit?

I can't really blame Durant. He wasn't going to win anything with Westbrick bricking it up with his hot 41% shooting.

>>76745773
you are an idiot, KD didn't stand to make an extra 82 mil in OKC, that was implemented AFTER KD went to the warriors to curb it in the future, holy SHIT you are stupid

Lebron started the whole super team thing. When Wade and Bosh got old, he ran to a younger star and another All-Star power forward. KD just took Lebron's blueprint and made it better.

>white americans pay hundreds of dollars so they and their daughters can cheer big black men play a boring sport
Is being a apehoop fan literally the same as being a cuckold?

>>76745300
All these socialist retards don't realize that KDs move to the Warriors was one of the most communist things to ever happen

The NBA needs to redistribute the talent in order to survive as a league. What KD did was unprecedented in US history

>>76764037
Apehoop in person is impressive because the players are basically circus freaks. It makes more sense to go to a game (fun) than watch on TV (boring)

Your president sold you out to the Russians, there are no American "values" other than being instantly gratified, which is what KD got.

>>76747189
>t. Nigger
Black people struggle because they're retarded? Even most nba players go broke after retirement.

>>76745773
The whole parity and draft system is communism. There is no free market like in soccer. Want to spend a lot of money? Here is this luxury tax as punishment. Want to give this player $60 mil to take him away from his team? Nope, can't do it because he's a restricted free agent or nope, can't do it because you're already over the cap. Spread some fairness to everyone.

Come on bro. Funny thing is if you allowed teams to spend a shit load of money on a player I doubt you would see the super team because you would have a harder time of keeping your star players as another team would be lining up to pay him more than you want.

>>76745300
american values
>fuck over anyone and anything, taking the easiest and scummiest path for maximum amount of money - consequences and morals need not apply
>consumerism-based tradition and interests
>consumerism in general
>fake optimism
>fake general personality (this and the one above usually used to entice people into being able to conduct the 1st on the list on them)
>ignorance of one's own country and the entire world
I think I covered everything.

>>76756565
>muh triple doubles

>>76745300
>refusing to go to the white house

>>76757025
No he did not you new assed faggot