Royce Young on Kevin Durant's departure

[ezrathegreat]

 

[Big Boss]

His last two signature shoes -- the KD7 and KD8 -- didn't sell well. His jersey sales slipped. Durant has never sweat market size, but those around him were beginning to. The phrase that kept getting used: "shake it up

 

[Big Boss]

that little detail about the boy crying sounds so made up.

Trying to make KD a bad person

 

[Piff Perkins]

Great article. While I think Durant shouldn't be attacked for making a professional decision on HIS career, I can't help but think he blew this. Yea he'll probably win a chip but this just feels weird to me.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Royce Young gotta cover a lottery team now and he hot about it.

 

[charknicks]

Thats all I was saying. Its more of a Nike business move then people think. Its not an all Durant decision.

 

[Big Boss]

Thats all I was saying. Its more of a Nike business move then people think. Its not an all Durant decision.

I did hear that nike was real happy that Durant joined golden state

 

[Cᵣₐₛₕ&ₜₕₑCₒᵤₚ]

at Stickman naming his master as his go-to pick​

 

[Big Boss]

Professional athletes say things, though, and as those close to Durant often say, he has a bad habit of telling people what he thinks they want to hear.

 

[Rob's al Ghul]

When the Thunder fired Scott Brooks last summer -- a move Durant was in favor of -- he talked to friends about wanting a coach who would change the team stylistically.

What're the odds are that EG and Ted were aware of this?

 

[boskey]

fukk Bill Simmons he spent like 7 years trying to psychoanalyze Lebron from his couch. But its different now....

 

[feelosofer]

I don't get it, you had the Warriors dead to rights, and the Thunder actually got him pieces to make the team even better.

 

[Mr210]

Durant should have signed with the spurs but he couldnt handle the coaching Pop would give him, he likes those soft coaches

 

[South Side Reject]

Privately, Durant was annoyed with a perceived media infatuation with the Warriors and Curry. He joked about how the Warriors were suddenly the "poster child" for the league. He expressed angst to friends about how they could seemingly do no wrong. He had come off a season from hell - three surgeries on his foot in the wake of his triumphant MVP, an award he desperately wanted. He was supposed to be Curry -- the aw-shucks golden child who plowed his way through the league and dethroned LeBron James. Instead, he was in a boot watching Curry win an MVP and a championship.

His star had fallen, something that bugged him. He had said he was tired of being second. He thought he had affirmed his place in the league, but he was slipping from the conversation.

"If you talked about the best players," Durant said at the end of the regular season," my name, still today, is still not in that conversation. And I feel as though I went out there and proved it to you, you know what I mean?"

KD sounds insecure as hell. Warriors are gonna have to stroke this dude's ego along the way or he'll end becoming a liability. Anything short of a title and the media is gonna have a field day.

 

[Mr210]

KD sounds insecure as hell. Warriors are gonna have to stroke this dude's ego along the way or he'll end becoming a liability. Anything short of a title and the media is gonna have a field day.

which is why he should have went to the spurs, played with Kawhi and LMA and coached by Pop,