So, what are people thinking about this series with regard to Durant? Would Toronto winning tonight make Durant more likely to stay by giving him some validation of his starring role on this team? Would GS winning without him actually be better, given his injury now and his likely need to have more help moving forward?
I think Toronto winning probably does potentially benefit us more by maybe making it more likely that he stays in GS. I think that because Durant leaving now seems to be much more difficult for him to do given the injury, as he knows he'll never be the same and will likely need more help moving forward. That's a much more difficult decision to pick everything up now and restart on a new team given this injury, as not only is he out all of next year but the year after that he probably doesn't get to his new 100% until the end of the year. I think that's a difficult decision to make in this context, especially with all of the uncertainty that comes with new team building.
