Hate to say it but I'd imagine that's exactly the territory he's in. Maybe a different story if he had skill to fall back on other than just leaping out of the gym for blocks, lobs, and putbacks but if those days are gone I can't imagine he'll have much to offer. Sucks.
Yup. Conflicting feelings for sure. Glad he locked in that contract, something IT didn’t get to do here.
IT never got his brinks truck, though. But he did get a few more NBA contracts. Came away with $34.4M for his career, and he's only 34 years old now. But man, did Danny dodge a bullet when IT4 rejected his offer of 3 years, ~$100M on an extension. Would've really hurt the steady roster-building success we've had the last 5-6 years.
Did he really? We’ll never really know, but if that contract ended up a barrier to trading IT to Cleveland that probably would have been a good thing. The Cs wouldn’t have ended up with an under-performing Kyrie, and Danny might have ended up keeping Brooklyn’s 2018 pick and drafting Shai - who he apparently prized in that year’s draft.
We’ll never know about that team because of the catastrophic Hayward injury. It changed everything. I’ve always felt that it accelerated the development of Tatum/Brown but it also could have cost this team a ring at some point. Of course, Kyrie probably would have screwed up either scenario.
True, who knows? But I agree, I’m pretty confident Kyrie would of somehow screwed it up regardless.
Thanks for this. Worth clicking for the third highlight alone.
I just want that man playing basketball while healthy again. The Knicks aren't going to scare me any more than they do already if they pick him up. I honestly don't care where he goes, go to f'ing Miami if need be, just for God's sake, stay healthy and happy. We got the best 6 months of ball he's ever going to play, it came within an ass hair of winning us a title we had no business sniffing, and it was the most fun I'd had watching the Cs since Peak Izayer, maybe since the Big 3. And he'd turned enough heads that he was able to basically be the centerpiece to get us Jrue Holiday?! Timelord owes me nothing. It's like Keith Foulke pitching until his arm fell off, because it was the playoffs and the Yankees and we needed him desperately. He sucked the next year. So what? We all know why. All we should feel is gratitude.
Oh for sure 100% agree, at his peak he was one of my favorite players to watch. I'm also not one of those people that hates a player on the other team just because they are a rival, sure I'll root against them in a game vs the Cs, but never wish ill will on anyone. I just know that if he ends up there and is healthy he's more likely than not going to affect the outcome of a playoff game all on his own and I'm going to have some real conflicted feelings ha
