Anthony hopes to use Olympics as platform for change

“This would give Oklahoma City the chance to recruit one of its top targets – 2017 free agent and Oklahoma native Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers – to partner with Westbrook, league sources said”, Wojnarowski reported on Tuesday. And we, as a society, can’t deal with breakups.

And while Durant denied any rift with Westbrook, his preference for the Warriors, which encompasses their playing style and players, came through loud and clear.

Carmelo Anthony wants more than a better United States basketball team leading into the Olympics.

The plan to recruit Blake Griffin will only push through if Westbrook decides to re-sign his contract extension next year, per CBSSports.com.

And even though he doesn’t have Anthony’s experience or Irving’s chutzpah, Durant’s new Warriors teammates are indeed getting a sense of how he will fit with their leadership council when he joins come fall.

“Letting the guys know how it is”, Durant said.

The departure of Kevin Durant to the Golden State Warriors has fueled speculation that Russell Westbrook may leave the Oklahoma City Thunder.

“Nah, it wasn’t a factor”, he said according to USA Today. “I mean obviously [that is] coming out now [that] I’m gone, all these reports are going to come out”.

I mentioned Westbrook above, and to me he’s the other big victor here – not in real life, where his Thunder won’t be the same without Durant – but in terms of putting up numbers. “I don’t like taking credit”, Anthony said. “I just want to hang with a group of guys that do the same thing I do, that love the same thing that I love and are passionate about it. It’s that mutual respect”.

Latest NBA rumors revealed the decisions of the A-players of Oklahoma Thunder such as Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. And maybe the strangest part of all this, is that neither Durant nor Westbrook actually brought up the elephant in the room: Westbrook’s 2017 free agency.

Anthony commented on the events which happened in recent weeks in the USA, calling them “unfortunate” and “sad”. You’ve got to have a guy who can just flat out catch and shoot and (Klay) is one of the best. “I wish him nothing but the best, man”. If you take those comments at face value, though, it doesn’t sound like it was almost as essential as we may have guessed.

There are only so many shots to go around, and there’s a good chance that Durant, Curry and Thompson will all see their shot attempts drop by 1-3 per game.

All he knows is that he’d be at USA Basketball’s training camp if he could when it opens Monday in Las Vegas.

“I understand”, Durant said, via Anthony Slater of the Oklahoman.

And this summer, the Thunder chose not to trade Kevin Durant, hoping that his ties to Oklahoma City and how close they came to a championship would persuade him to stay.

“I knew he was meeting with them”, Anthony added. Can they fend off an National Basketball Association that’s going to be gunning for them? For us as a country, we have to stand united. The general feeling in some quarters has been that, rather than take responsibility as a superstar and work to finally lead the Thunder over that final hump, Durant has instead taken a shortcut to the title by joining an elite band of talent under Steve Kerr.

“I thought about it”, he said, via Amick. “You cant really put into words whats going on throughout the whole country, throughout the whole world.