It’s telling how Lin , Novak, and pretty much every player was mentioned in D’Antoni’s hall of fame speech and even attended except fuck ass Melo
Guy created more problems than solutions here. Now that we got a Larry we can stop sucking him🏆 @carmeloanthony@7PMinBrooklyn#NBA
BREAKING: James Harden has agreed to a new three-year, $97 million contract to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, with a player option and a trade kicker, agents Mike Silverman, Troy Payne and Brandon Grier of Equity Sports told ESPN.
Mike “Nick-Nack” Conley
Tony “Niche” Allen
Rudy “Bi” Gay
Zach “Postup Powerhouse” Randolph
Marc “Brick Wall” Gasol
How did this squad not win a Larry O’Brein?????
#NBAReels#NBA#Grizzlies#Memphis#2013NBA#Ja
Jalen Brunson's one ring is worth more than both of Kevin Durant's combined.
To me it's not even a debate.
That's not disrespect to Durant's talent either. He's one of the most gifted scorers to ever play.
But rings don't exist in a vacuum. Context is everything. And the context of how those two got theirs tells you everything about what kind of competitor they are.
Durant had Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Serge Ibaka, and Steven Adams in Oklahoma City. They made the Finals in 2012 and were up 3-1 on a 73-win Warriors team in 2016. All that talent, and Durant still couldn't get it done. So he joined the team that just beat him.
A 73-9 Warriors squad with Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green already in place, as well as some of the best role players in history.
He got his rings. Two of them. And nobody with a functioning brain thinks those rings tell you he could build something. They tell you he could join something.
Now look at what Brunson did.
He chose the New York Knicks. A franchise that hadn't won a championship in 53 years. A franchise that LeBron, Durant, and every other marquee free agent avoided because the pressure and the spotlight would eat you alive if you weren't built for it.
Brunson came anyway. And he didn't come to ride shotgun. He came to build.
The Knicks constructed their roster around him piece by piece. OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges, Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Hart. Every one of them bought in and played their role to the ceiling every single night. No shortcuts, no superteam handshakes. Just a plan, and Brunson was the engine of it.
Then came the 2026 playoffs. The most dominant postseason run in NBA history. A +283 point differential across 19 games against four different defenses. Nineteen games, four rounds, four different schemes trying to solve them, and the Knicks solved every single one.
Brunson was the reason it held together. He averaged 32.6 points per game in the Finals, the highest ever by a point guard. He dropped 45 in the closeout game on the road in San Antonio. He went right at Wembanyama, the reigning DPOY, the 7'4 face of the league everyone else was scared of.
He did all of this with a torn tendon in his shooting wrist that required surgery three weeks later. He never mentioned it and never used it as an excuse.
11.2 points per game in the fourth quarter of the Finals. When the game tightened and the moment got heavy, Brunson wanted the ball and he buried them with it.
Durant borrowed his rings from a dynasty that didn't need him. Brunson earned his in the hardest market in sports, against the best competition in the world, while his body was falling apart.
History is going to remember who built something and who just showed up.
BREAKING: Cleveland, Denver and the Clippers have agreed on a trade sending Peyton Watson to the Cavaliers, Max Strus to LA, and an unprotected 2031 Cavs first-round pick and a 2032 Kings second-rounder to the Nuggets, sources tell ESPN.
Watson will sign a new four-year, $88 million deal to join the Cavaliers, plus a player option and a trade kicker.