John Wall speaks on Kevin Durant not meeting with the Wizards

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FAIRFAX, Va. -- Nothing is official yet when it comes to Kevin Durant in regards to where he'll play next season, but the Wizards are on the outside looking in while the forward surveys his options outside of the Oklahoma City Thunder. John Wall understands why the hottest free agent this summer likely won't come play in his hometown or meet with team officials to discuss.

"A lot of people will be devastated. But at the end of the day he never promised us anything," Wall said to CSNmidatlantic.com on Sunday during the final day of his camp at Fairfax High School, before departing for his offseason home in Los Angeles. "Every day, everybody said KD-to-DC, coming to our games wearing all the Kevin Durant stuff, he didn’t like it at that time because you should cheer for the team that you got. That might sway him."

Durant made no secret of his disdain for what he perceived as a disrespect to Wall, a three-time All-Star, and Bradley Beal. They'd won 44 and 46 games in 2014 and '15 and got the Wizards to the conference semifinals in consecutive seasons. If not for Wall's broken wrist a year ago, they were in good position to advance to the East finals. Though that's still not a championship, it represented incredible progress for a franchise that had been on a six-year postseason drought.

Then came the 41-41 season, a players-only meeting for a team with an identity crisis, an injury rash that led to the firing of the longtime head athletic trainer and the firing of coach Randy Wittman.

"It’s his heart and his decision if he wants to meet with us," Wall said. "If he feels like he can win a championship here, so be it. If not, he probably won’t come. The way this season went might play into it. ... I think it’s early (in the process). Everybody knew the teams he was going to meet with early on, Warriors, Spurs, but after that you got to figure it out. But if you don’t have a shot you have to move on."
 

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So basically DC is a shytty sports city..

Bullets are a sleeping giant

Gentrification priced out fans, the fans who are native

All the out of towners coming here for jobs go to the games and they got no loyalty

It sucks

Makes me wish the arena wasn't in downtown but back in Landover :snoop:

Ernie Grunfeld being employed made a promising summer into a disaster.

Watch the bums they sign next week :scust:
 

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He already said early in the season he wasn't interested in playing at home so none of this is surprising.
This. Apparently he's not a fan of whenever he's in the area and ppl hit him up asking for favors and tickets and whatnot. Doesn't want to go through that all the time.
 

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This. Apparently he's not a fan of whenever he's in the area and ppl hit him up asking for favors and tickets and whatnot. Doesn't want to go through that all the time.

Exactly. He said he even hated playing the wizards in DC because people will blow his phone up
 

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The Wiz were always a long shot but I still felt they have a good core to offer him and clearer path to the Finals. Him Wall and Beal could make some noise and they got a couple of role players in Porter and Oubre. But home is a place that Durant wants to part of because of not only the pressure but just the fact that he would probably be bothered by someone everyday.
 

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The whole "cheer for your own team why you cheering for me" is the biggest crock of shyt I've heard from KD.
Whenever Kobe Bryant played the Sixers in Philadelphia he got booed

When Russell Westbrook goes to LA to play the Clippers or Lakers, fans at Staples Center support the home squad still

The actions of DC fans made them look like the fair weather fukbois they are
 

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While I can agree with him, I wouldnt advocate shytting on your home fans lol feel that way but you dont need to make it a media statement, but if thats his prerogative :yeshrug: #BobbyBrown
 

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The Servant was probably just intimidate by the Wall's dance moves

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