Alright, let El Mijo have it, Honer Sports faithful..
OK, feel better? Good, let's move on because this is 150% a celebratory post!!!
This is why you fall in love with sports. The unpredictability, the moments of pure joy and the triumph of winning. Kevin Durant hasn't even won a single game as a Warrior yet but this is the single biggest free agent signing in Bay Area Sports history since Barry Lamar Bonds. Kevin Durant's 2YR/54.3M deal is a sign that the Warriors have entered a new realm, the realm of dominate, always relevant sports franchises. All the decades of losing and terrible franchise decisions weren't over after winning the 2015 title, they were over when Joe Lacob bought the Warriors and said "no more".
The moves that followed the signing of KD are also awesome. Dumping Barnes and Bogut to the Mavericks couldn't have worked out any better. Especially now that Barnes will be making 23 million a year and Bogut will no longer be injured/unavailable when the Warriors need him most. Festivus Ezelli? Who needs to over-pay him? Dubs let him take a hike and then signed last season's fringe All-Star fan vote starter (stupid fans) Zaza Pachulia who will do nothing but rebound and finish the occasional alley-oop. Keep Livingston, keeping Speeets and bringing on the championship-hungry David West at the vet league minimum. The warriors are just firing on all cylinders right now. The roster is so freaking stacked and favored that Ray Allen has even started sniffing un-retirement to come suit up for the Dubs.
What a time to be a Warriors fan. Guess your boy El Mijo and The Flap will be some of the first people to see the new Warrior KD suit up for Team USA vs China in a couple weeks @ Oracle, so that's pretty fuckin cool. God damn you basketball, I love you ever so much! More celebration! More everything! And another round of Strawberry for me and my friends!!!!
The moves that followed the signing of KD are also awesome. Dumping Barnes and Bogut to the Mavericks couldn't have worked out any better. Especially now that Barnes will be making 23 million a year and Bogut will no longer be injured/unavailable when the Warriors need him most. Festivus Ezelli? Who needs to over-pay him? Dubs let him take a hike and then signed last season's fringe All-Star fan vote starter (stupid fans) Zaza Pachulia who will do nothing but rebound and finish the occasional alley-oop. Keep Livingston, keeping Speeets and bringing on the championship-hungry David West at the vet league minimum. The warriors are just firing on all cylinders right now. The roster is so freaking stacked and favored that Ray Allen has even started sniffing un-retirement to come suit up for the Dubs.
What a time to be a Warriors fan. Guess your boy El Mijo and The Flap will be some of the first people to see the new Warrior KD suit up for Team USA vs China in a couple weeks @ Oracle, so that's pretty fuckin cool. God damn you basketball, I love you ever so much! More celebration! More everything! And another round of Strawberry for me and my friends!!!!
By: El Mijo