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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 2745282, member: 1026"] I agree mostly, I wish KD had not chosen GState b/c it made these last two years defacto championships and the finals less compelling. But the seasons were still great and to this point the playoffs were very good, so I'm not too upset about just one series and missing 3-ish competitive games (games 1 and 3 were good entertaining games, game 1 epic-ly so). But there's a big difference between that and fans hating on players, calling names, labeling etc... That stuff I think is just over-the-top. I've 'forgiven' LeBron for the stupid The Decision debacle and I've enjoyed watching him play much more after Ray was in Miami to give me a reason or excuse to root for and enjoy LeBron. KD I was always on his bandwagon due to the Oden draft debate, I like watching him play and I don't see any reason to disparage his choice of playing somewhere that best suites his skills and gives him the best chance to win. Q: I don't care what he says about why he chose Golden State and I disagree that players have some obligation to tell me or the fans the truth about personal reasons and decisions. Any personal decision is multi-faceted and short of a breakdown that for Durant's example says (25% Russ ball-hoggery, 49% championship desire/certainty, 10% city & commercial interest, 16% chicks in that town) is always going to be incomplete and subject to debate. In same way as fans we got over the Celtics trading Isaiah and don't demand an explanation of their motivation. We just deal with it and move on b/c of laundry and frankly intellectually laziness that makes it harder to blame 1 person for a team's decision & easier to understand a team's decisions change and/or take multiple factors into account. Yet at same time every time an overabundance of top recruits from one class go to Kentucky or Duke I justifiably love to root for those teams to lose ! [/QUOTE]

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