3. Serious question: If the Rockets win this series, did KD still ruin the NBA?

Serious question: If the Rockets win this series, did KD still ruin the NBA?

But your last paragraph precisely proves that KD didn't ruin the league.

If a team is able to come up with the means to build a squad and compete with the present day iteration of the GSW, claim the best record, and initiate a historic offense (I'm not sure how the Warriors could have prevented that), have an elite defense, that shows it's perfectly doable in the first place. Very hard, but doable. Full credit to Daryl Morey and the Rockets.

Your premise that the best squad in the league has to win the championship, else it is a definite choke job, doesn't quite make sense. There have been teams in the past which were significantly more stacked than the rest, but were still inferior to another team which was just better as a collective whole. Pistons. Dirk's Mavs.

It's ridiculous that people just totally ignored the Rockets all season long. Everything they did, they did at an absolute elite level. Yet people still pushed out lazy and tired narratives like how CP3 and Harden were chokers, without actually applying some contextual knowledge of the situation. And how the Warriors were unbeatable, and would never rightfully lose a game to any team in history.

Context matters. Matchups matter. Let's use the next 2-3 games to see how things turn out, before we start overeagerly throwing out choking / lucky / flukey labels.

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