KEVIN DURANT INITIALLY REGRETTED HIS MOVE TO GOLDEN STATE AND HAD A MENTAL BREAKDOWN

[ghostwriterx]

I disagree on the last part. Dude is just sensitive. The Yankees stay stacking the deck and nobody shyts on who signs there.

No such thing in baseball. No other sport has more random outcomes in the postseason. Stop caping for KD's bytchassness and enjoy your chips.

 

[sidenikkagawd]

pretty sad at this point, it's been a year and 6 months; Durant still having self doubt even after winning an guaranteed title. May basketball gods be easier on his soul

Russ still ain't signed that extension yet while you so concerned about KD.

 

[BigTyme Records]

.....nikka lost a 3-1 lead in the WCF against the hated Warriors and he shocked OKC fans weren't happy with him.....GTFOH KD





He should've been apologetic to them and "bound and determined" to get back and win next year......instead he left and joined them........I'm done wit KD.

Not to mention they broke the all time win record winning 73 games

 

[Loose]

Russ still ain't signed that extension yet while you so concerned about KD.

I said before i don't care if russ leaves or stay, i love rebuilding

 

[MeachTheMonster]

To have so many people just say, ‘fu*k you,’ that really does it to you,” Durant tells me, still clearly anguished. “Because I truly had invested everything I had into the people I played for…. And for those people that I know and love and trust to turn their back on me after I was fully invested in them, it was just…more than I could take. I was upset.”

I don't understand this.

Did he think the fans hadn't invested in him?

I mean these are working class people who literally have to save up their meager salaries to make him a millionaire.

Did he think these people would be happy with him leaving?

He turned his back on them.

 

[ghostwriterx]

With the seemingly inexhaustible Kleiman running point, Durant has, in just over a year, become a fixture in powerful Valley circles, breaking bread with, receiving intel from, and sometimes coinvesting beside such A-listers as venture capitalists Ben Horowitz and Ron Conway, Apple’s Tim Cook and Eddy Cue, YouTube’s Neal Mohan, and a raft of partners and managers at top VC firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, and IVP. Through the 18-month-old umbrella corporation known as the Durant Company, Durant and Kleiman have acquired equity stakes in no fewer than 30 young companies, investing between $50,000 and $250,000 in seed rounds and between $250,000 and $2 million in later-stage rounds.

A short list of the Durant Company’s commitments reads like a catalog of the Valley’s current fixations: Durant and Kleiman have gone in on automated drones (Skydio), personalized medicine (Forward), food stamps by smartphone (Propel), big-data marketing (Zenreach), microlending (Acorns), on-demand delivery (Postmates), quantified health (Q.bio), and polling bots (Polly). They’ve invested in online media brands like the Players’ Tribune and in restaurant and hospitality businesses in New York (Landmark Rooms) and Los Angeles (Ken Friedman’s forthcoming Hearth & Hound). Copycatting LeBron James’s lucrative Blaze Pizza investment, they’ve bought a piece of a customized-pizza chain, Pieology. They’ve got a cold-pressed-juice brand, Wtrmln Wtr. They’ve got a dance-workout-party gym, 305 Fitness, with locations in New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston. And they’ve purchased equity in at least 15 other companies currently in stealth mode, their products too embryonic to shoulder the weight of a celebrity investment being publicized prematurely. Two-thirds of these investments, according to Kleiman, have been made in the 15 months since Durant became a Golden State Warrior.

This investing spree began unofficially a year ago at a now-legendary barbecue and birthday party for Durant held at the Atherton home of Ben and Felicia Horowitz. The entire Warriors team showed up in support of their new teammate, as did team owner Joe Lacob and a who’s who of fellow tech eminences who came to welcome the long-limbed kid from Prince George’s County, Maryland, into the fold. It all started with Kleiman mentioning to longtime friend Steve Stoute, the former music industry heavyweight turned ad agency CEO, that Durant would love some intros in the Valley. Stoute called his pal Horowitz, cofounder of the influential VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, to ask him to throw the soon-to-be 28-year-old a coming-out party. “I didn’t know Kevin that well,” Horowitz tells me, “but Steve’s family. And if family asks for that, we’re barbecuing.”

Not that it took much arm-twisting. The Warriors, as Kleiman notes, have become the de facto “biggest company in Silicon Valley.” They are the home team of the digerati, with a bandwagon big enough to carry the imperial ambitions and mountainous egos of the triple-comma crowd. To them, Durant was the killer app atop the unbeatable operating system. He was also a kindred spirit, capable of making what Stoute calls a “critical, CEO-level, bet-it-all” decision: sacrificing millions of dollars in short-term free-agency money (not to mention complicating his nice-guy brand and infuriating millions of NBA fans) in favor of playing the long game in Northern California. Coming to Golden State was “a businessman’s bet,” Stoute says admiringly, “not an athlete’s bet.”








I know yall wanna beat a dead horse, but this was the most interesting part of the article to me. young black dude getting his hands on everything. that warriors connects seems LEGIT, and it makes his move look alot better from a pure financial standpoint.

Anybody else getting a Stringer and Clay Davis vibe from all this? Watch your pockets KD
Hope there's some black CEOs on these boards he's investing in.

 

[SHO-NUFF]

Russ still ain't signed that extension yet while you so concerned about KD.

Russ would have to search high and low for a way to piss off OKC fans like Tevin did
obviously there would be dissapointment that it didnt workout, but i'm a Russ fan for life
he's earned the right to seek something better, after being the whipping boy for Betarant's fakkitry all those years

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

When was the last time the Yankees stacked the deck?

They try to every year. Just suck at picking talent right now.

 

[James Dean]

This dude is so fukking corny man.

 

[Mad Good Dro]

Atleast KD acknowledges it was the largest hoe move in NBA history unlike gsw stans/''bubu bron'' hate brigade

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

No such thing in baseball. No other sport has more random outcomes in the postseason. Stop caping for KD's bytchassness and enjoy your chips.

I'm not caping for nothing. Any team would tool up the way we did it they could. The Spurs tried to sign KD right after signing LMA. They tried to stack the deck too.

 

[CarltonJunior]

This is wrong and completely speculative. Good for him on investing but theres no investment in the world thats paying 25 million a year guaranteed cash like an NBA deal. The article says he's only in for 2 million. If he can flip that 2 million into 20 million that would be a HUGE success....but thats still a risk and a one time payout compared to 20+ million GUARANTEED annually by the NBA. All these tech companies could be out of business or lose half their value in the next 5-10 years, it a happens all the time in that industry...

That 1$ dollar salary shyt only works for founders and majority owners who can double their networth when the share values increase. Not investors with 1 or 2% shares...

He sacrificed a total of what...7 million to stay on the Warriors? If he flipped that money into even 10 million he won

Plus when it comes to investing if he monitors it correctly he can grab his money before he loses it, and if he's really proactive he'll continue investing in more companies to spread it so no matter what happens he'll be more likely to profit from it even if a few companies tank. The GS move sounds like a winning bet.

That's not even counting all the opportunities he opens himself for by winning championships.

 

[NYC Rebel]

They try to every year. Just suck at picking talent right now.

No they don't. You're just talking out your ass now.

They're the youngest team in baseball

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

No they don't. You're just talking out your ass now.

They're the youngest team in baseball

Okay. Enjoy the season breh.

 

[boskey]

He sacrificed a total of what...7 million to stay on the Warriors? If he flipped that money into even 10 million he won

Plus when it comes to investing if he monitors it correctly he can grab his money before he loses it, and if he's really proactive he'll continue investing in more companies to spread it so no matter what happens he'll be more likely to profit from it even if a few companies tank. The GS move sounds like a winning bet.

That's not even counting all the opportunities he opens himself for by winning championships.

No he sacrificed that money so that Lacob could save money on resigning Livingstone and Iguadala. KD was gonna be on the Warriors no matter what...you think they were gonna let him walk?

And if he wouldve took the money he could invest even more, its not like the VC community was gonna shut him out cuz he was too greedy lol. He was already a A list superstar all the opportunities were already open to him.

He gave that money back cuz he felt like doing Joe Lacob a favor. PERIOD. That money from the new patch on the jersey probably more than covers whatever the luxury tax wouldve been...