2019 NBA Postseason: The Toronto Raptors are NBA Champions!

[Nuvendil]

NightlyPoe said:

Nuvendil said:

Yeah, leaving is looking like a much less viable option.  On the other hand, moving somewhere where he isn't as crucial to the team strategy could ease the burden on him as well.  It will be interesting to see what he does.

I was thinking the opposite.  He goes to somewhere like New York, Brooklyn, or the Clippers and he is the team.

That was the plan wasn't it?  To make a name for himself as an unquestioned alpha dog.  To erase the perception that he had to join the best team in the league to win championships and to lay a claim to that GOAT discussion that we were just having.

Well yeah that might have been his plan but he has to rethink that.  Obviously.  

Plus, if he wants into that discussion he needs multiple All Defensive Teams and a couple more MVPs.  That would do more for his discussion probabilities than anything else.