Kevin Durant, Raptors, NBA Fallout

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RAPTORS AND DURANT; WISHFUL THINKING AND NBA FALLOUT

Nationwide -- The drama, the circumstance, and the fallout surrounding Durant's - should he or should he not have played in game 5 is hot on the pundits' program topic list of discussion. Here is my rebuttal to many of the arguments being played out: it is the competitive nature of any athlete to compete so the rationale to get into the game - as a player - is not surprising; however, the denial of real economic, physical, and long term risk is not given it's due diligence.

We know corporations are enamored and oriented toward both the end game and the bottom line that the human element (Durant's Achilles) got lost in the decision-making to play, to go, or to stay put. Yet the decision making process almost always has as a determinant: a risk assessment undergirded and underwritten by either Lloyds of London or the Lord of wish-full thinking.

Durant, the Warriors, and the NBA were fully engaged in wishful thinking, rationalization, denial, and a win at all cost mentality. But was a one point win, an Achilles rupture, millions of lost dollars, and a career worth it? I don't think so! The problem is the Warriors thought of their Achilles Heel and not Durant's... their economic return if he played and not his possible re-injury.

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