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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 2715049, member: 1026"] I hear you. If Houston doesn't give the Warriors a series, then this year was much ado about a pre-destined outcome. Houston was the best team thru the regular season and absolutely everything they've done in personnel and style is geared towards beating the Warriors. The series should be at least very good and the defacto championship. Yet somehow I'm rooting for the Warriors to crush Houston b/c I'm not a fan of Harden's style & I've seen D'antoni crash & burn too many times. Maybe that'll change when the games start and if the Celtics take early games off the Cavs I will start rooting for the lesser opponent. Agree 100% LeBron going to Philly would be stupid, it was a cool idea in January when no one knew if Philly would make the playoffs, but now that we've all 'seen the future', LeBron joining the team would make the rest of the east totally irrelevant, even the Celtics. In the West, the Warriors core of Curry, Durant, Green & Thompson have 1 more year, then Thompson & Durant expire following next season. Expiring in 2020 are Iggy (16-17MM) and Draymond (17.5-18.5MM). So assuming they want to keep Durant and Thompson there's a decent chance that the Warriors make a trade next year (Draymond, no one is taking Izzy for that money) to breakup their core before losing players to free agency and chances for other teams to win a title open back up as early as next season. At worst its 2 more years of current core Warrior dynasty. The Durant to Warriors scenario was an unlikely anomaly due to sudden salary cap spike that immediately receded. But Philly's young tanking produced squad makes a different non-competitive scenario possible again. Hopefully the current crop of great young stars without a defined LeBron alpha opens both conferences back up soon. [/QUOTE]

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