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

[I AM WARHOL]

He needs to just Kim. The haters will always hate. Take a page from LeBron and say what he said after they lost to the Mavs and KIM

 

[I AM WARHOL]

It's all LeBron stans super sayian pissed at him and hypocritical. Once he realises that he'll understand that he doesn't need to go back and forth with them

 

[Sccit]

And THIS is the dude some are saying surpassed Lebron?

He can never be the face of the league. Sorry Russ had to go through with this dude. Most faulted Russ, but we see more and more that it was KD who was the one. Kobe and Shaq part deux.

IT WAS LEBRON'S BLUEPRINT

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

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...

Bullshyt.

 

[an emissary from hell]

I feel bad for him honestly

 

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I feel bad for him honestly

 

[CantStop]

This dude is turning 30 with fake aliases. I honestly think he needs to seek proffesional help.

 

[boskey]

Bullshyt.

lol be mad. KD can do whatever he wants, its his money and his team.

But ya'll have been spinning this story about the "magical world of investing and endorsements" that only champions in San Francisco have access to and THATS bullshyt. He gave money away that he will never see again...hope he's comfortable with that decision

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

I feel bad for him honestly

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

KD i know you reading this, join the Lakers with Lebron, beat the Warriors and all will be absolved



Triple B

 

[staticshock]

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.

Durant has his own conglomerate

fukk the basketball shyt he could never invest in tech businesses like that in OKC. I woulda moved too.

 

[Bay Area]

KD i know you reading this, join the Lakers with Lebron, beat the Warriors and all will be absolved



Triple B

Im hoping that all of this humiliation causes KD to retire with the Warriors. Its the only region in America where he can go outside right now and get love instead of being roasted.

 

[Dwight Howard]

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...

even if it is the case that he trying to save Lacob money, Lacob seems to be going hard for KD in his investment circles, putting him around the right people. seems like a mutually beneficial relationship imo, especially if KD reups and some from these investments

 

[DonKnock]

This is why I laugh at guys railing on him for taking a pay cut; what he did is no different than Bill Gates $1 "Salary" with Microsoft. The official salary listed on tax filings and reported in the media is just a formality; all the real money these people earn comes through their investment avenues. The money KD sacrificed on the NBA's salary cap sheet looks like a lot as a gross sum, but year by year that amount he lost is pennies compared to the investments and connections Lacob is hooking him up with. And this is all in addition to those multi-million endorsement deals he has too; I could definitely see him owning a team down the line later in life if he continues to invest wisely and not blow everything he earns on private jets and shyt.

OKC might've been the team that could offer him the most "salary" in FA, but there's no team in the NBA that can get a player more money in their lifetime than the Warriors with how deeply in bed their whole organization is with all these Silicon Valley tyc00ns.

The Rockets have a similar capability because of their China connections.

China isn't like the U.S. where anyone can just come in and take over. If you're an outsider then you have to have people vouch for your credibility to be accepted into business dealings there.

Les Alexander achieved this through Yao and now the Rockets have the pipeline open. The Rockets play a preseason game there every year and Harden and Gordon have gone on their own tours through China in the offseason. I'm sure Chris Paul will have one at some point as well.

Lou Will got his own signature shoe model after being with the Rockets for only half a season because Peak is a corporate partner of the Rockets.

 

[sidenikkagawd]

KD i know you reading this, join the Lakers with Lebron, beat the Warriors and all will be absolved



Triple B

So joining the Warriors is taking the easy way out, but joining Bron on a super team isn't.

nikkas stay exposing their flawed logic.