A week after releasing new shoes that show his critics he doesn’t care what they think by, uhm, showing them he really-really cares what they think, KD hopped on Twitter and inadvertently explained the real reasons why he really left the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Check this out:
The fact that KD is speaking about himself in third-person seems to suggest that he meant to reply to the fan from some sort of fake / anonymous / spoof account. I believe that account is @LadyFartLover35. Either way, that means Kevin Durant is such a thin-skinned crybaby koward that he’s now creating fake aliases on social media to defend and stick up for himself. Skip Bayless sure would be proud! That’s almost as pathetic as his choke job in Game 6 of the 2016 Western Conference Finals.
That being said, it’s is kind of nice to see Kevin Durant finally being honest for once. He’s spent his entire professional career taking the PR high-road and telling the fans and media only what they want to hear. I just wish he would have been that honest when he played here.
“So Kevin. What do you think about Oklahoma City?”
“Well, Royce, in all honesty, I’m not that big of a fan. There’s not a lot to do here and the weather sucks. Plus, the organization is dry and boring. They traded away James Harden. Our third best player was like Steven Adams or Victor Oladipo. And worst of all, they hired a college coach to try to lead us to the NBA Finals. What a joke, huh? I honestly can’t wait to get out of here and join an established championship team that, barring injury, will guarantee me three to five championships.”
“Wow. Can I quote you on that?”
“No. Please attribute it to LadyFartLover35. I’m too image conscious to tell people what I really think.”
Homie’s lying to himself though. Add in Horford, and OKC’s roster is poised to have as good-of-a-shot as anyone (except maybe for the Warriors who were coming off a title and 73 wins…but who had also just been down 1-3 to KD’s Thunder).
KD had a fine roster. He just wanted the easiest road.
Patrick – if he had said just that exact comment you said there I would have respected that. I mean, not like you have to write it for him … but that general idea. Each of those critiques has some merit whether I agree with them or not. But he wasn’t man enough to say that. Thats the whole thing about it all that angered me.
First, let me begin by acknowledging my naivete about people being allowed to have more than one account on the Twitters; I did not know that and probably will regret discovering that tidbit of double-life information.
Second, It’s good that KD showed his ass on social media to rant vent on his old team that apparently was never his to begin with. There’s probably more than a little truth to what was written, even if it was heartbreaking to read.
Not surprisingly, his words speak for the majority of modern-day professional athletes who would rather whore themselves out to the highest bidder/biggest contender than stick to one or teams and work their asses off and actively participate in transforming an organization from zeros to heroes (except for maybe Sam Bradford, who is probably in the latter category. Poor Sammy, he’s turning out to be just one level above Matt Leinart as far as hot NFL prospects go. That sucks. Having bad knees Sucky McSucksuck).
Anyway, fuck KD and his attitude. I’ll still watch him play, marvel at his talent, and laugh when he’s out for three games because of a swollen big toe, but fuck him if he chooses to bail every time shit gets hard.
Nah…he left because being a 7 foot gay brother in OKC was hurting his down low game. In the bay area at least he has a chance at staying in the closet.
Homophobia is so cute.
Sadly, my first thought when he bailed was San Francisco would be perfect for his secret lifestyle. Doubly sad, I thought we would have accepted his lifestyle if he had trusted us.
I’m just concerned that no one ever got around to letting KD and his entourage know that we are, in fact….a Big League City.
Big League City? You’re kidding right? OKC is about as much a big league city as Omaha or Des Moines. Name something big league, besides a perennial 4th place (or worse once Westbrook leaves) NBA team.
Nah, he was totally cool with people waving Confederate flags in front of the hotel where the first black president was staying and no one saying that was wrong. Why would a guy who grew up in an incredibly diverse city move to another one where he wouldn’t stand out like a sore thumb when he could instead stay in a city whose logo should be a jar of mayo? Nah, I can’t see why he’d leave either….
I smell another nickname … LadyFart.
Ok..Ok… now balance all that with what Russ and now Paul George are saying. They will do what’s in their own best interests, and no, they probably don’t love this land of Mary Fallin and Co. all that much. Do you? Really?
My only issue continues to be his Eddie Haskell act. I had no issue if he wanted to leave, in fact, I don’t want players/people to stay if they don’t want to be in a certain place. If you look back at Oklahoma Sports, college/pro, anytime someone was contemplating leaving and then stayed due to; peer pressured, public scorn, etc., if failed anyway. I think most people would have respected him, taken him at his work and at least been clear on where he stood if he would have said: I want out, I don’t like it, I don’t like the team/yada-yada, but instead he went through the tortured soul act.
The people who should have wide open eyes are his new team, teammates-yes it’s a love fest now and yes they won, but this little twitter BS should show them KD has his own agenda and could at anytime diva the fuque out on them. How insecure you have to be to engage in this type of crap when you got $200 million dollars and treated better than a rock star? I know my ass would involved in something a whole more interesting and fun than trolling people on Twitter.
That’s where I was too. I expected him to leave, expect Russ and Paul George as well, and really hold them no ill will over the fact because people have the right to want to try different things.
It’s the act after the fact that makes me roll my eyes.
He was never going to avoid the criticism, but I think he could have stopped the constant barrage of stories about it if he was upfront about it all from the beginning, instead of dancing around the issue. Instead of just saying that, he held press conferences talking about how nobody cared about him, he spent time responding to all the taunts and jeers making it out like everybody was saying he’d fail, so on and so forth. That just made him look worse than it would have been if he’d just said this from the start, that he didn’t like playing for that coach and thought he’d be more successful elsewhere.
He clearly cares enough about his image that he keeps this up, yet he got a lot of really bad advice on how to handle it .
World champion, NBA Finals MVP and living in a city people stand in line to live in no matter the cost instead of a city that doesn’t even makes most American’s radar screen…yeah a real loser. Durant did what he felt in was in his own best interest in the BUSINESS he works in. You all think the Thunder ownership does anything any different…EVER!?! You think Clay Bennett gives a crap about Oklahoma City or Thunder fans or anything else, including putting a top tier team on the court, other than how it affects his bottom line? Get over it OKC!
Kevin? is that you?
Good point, Kevin.
Catfish and Krakatoa, if you don’t like Oklahoma you don’t have to stay here. Have either of you adopted or fostered a child, picked up trash on a busy street? Other than bitching, what have you done?
Lol, I’m not entirely sure where you got this whole “don’t like Oklahoma” thing when it was clear that we were both making jokes that Catfish was KD in disguise, because this story was about that very subject.
I also don’t feel as though I have to justify what I do, but since you seem to be in the mood for random callouts, I’ll play this game.
I have picked up trash on busy streets before. I’ve also cooked for the homeless and for the Ronald McDonald house on multiple occasions. I’ve bought school supplies and toys for others. I’ve handed out winter clothing and toys to impoverished families. I donate to local charities throughout the year. And I volunteered to aid in relief efforts after the last tornado outbreak.
Now, what have you done?
Krakatoa, After I posted I realized I had erroneously included you. I am sorry , please accept my apology.
I can not touch the services you have done for the community. My small gifts are passive: Our 15 acres feeds Spring Creek and Lake Arcadia which provides some of water for hated Edmond (we do not fertilize or spray on our property). We have provided soccer fields for the YMCA and Edmond Youth Soccer for 15 years and we only require an insurance certificate. I pick up the trash from my frontage on Coltrane and a few years ago I sent $1000 to the Red Andrews people.
Once again, I apologize.
I moved
Catfish, you are a person of conviction! I respect that and you.
YOU ARE KEVIN?
If you moved due to being so digusted with living in OKC/OK, then why pray tell or you on this blog bantering with people here? Doesn’t the great place you now live in have a much better, cooler, nicer, more modern blog for you to enjoy!
You’re one of those dudes who can’t just have an opinion, you want everyone to agree with you, tell you, you’re the best/greatest smartest and if they don’t, you get butt hurt, go all defensive, call names instead of letting your position/facts/personal beliefs speak (kinda like Kev).
Unless of course you’re being coy using the catfish name as hiding in place sight as a troll-if so well played, if not I’m probably not the only person glad you moved.
Don’t tell us to get over it. He’s the one who is keeping it going, through his desperate Twitter posts, ugly Cupcake shoes and big mouth. If he gets to keep taking shots at us, we get to react. Deal!