Kevin Durant was recently on Bill Simmons’ show, Any Given Wednesday, in which he discussed several topics including the decision to join the Golden State Warriors. “Why should I care what they think if they don’t care about me as a whole?” But at the same time, it’s something I had to do, a decision I made… But I just kept going, so how am I weak if I’m at the top, elite level of my profession? But I just kept going. They have a chance to go play where they want to. It’s all about what I can do on the basketball court. I’m not going out and meeting Russell by his auto.
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“But I think to compare in history, you need wait for the guys to end their careers”. Nas replies, “To really tell them about the impact that they were gonna have being dead”.
“In my field, it’s like, you know, when we step in between the lines, that’s when we compete”, Durant said. That’s when we’re gonna go at each other. But I don’t carry that with me as soon as I step off the court. I was like, ‘I was ready for a new city.’ That’s the one narrative I never heard with you. Isiah hated such-and-such. I’m not thinking about you at home when I’m on my couch. That’s just not who I am, but when we play, I’m not even thinking about you. If I give him a hug, something’s gonna come out of it. Golden State reached the Finals by erasing a 3-1 deficit against Durant, Westbrook and the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. “The work doesn’t stop just because I have another jersey on”. At the time, he was still balancing life between two franchises and to speak out against those attacking him would have been unwise, so he didn’t really have a way to stand up for himself. When asked if the real estate mogul would have been a different person if he had grown up in the Queensbridge Projects, a public housing complex in NY, rather than the affluent Queens district, Nas had a cheeky reply.
Durant: I added the mental part. Durant was asked by Simmons if he was ready for the Westbrook-Durant storyline – the over-analysis of their interactions with each other.
Durant: Nobody cares about what I want as a person. I feel like you were mad at me for like two years.
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“Whether you’re hit in the face with a pie or a fist, you’ve been assaulted and you’re generally allowed to respond with similar force”, said Rory Little, a former litigator and professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law. You can see some of the group’s thoughts in the clip below. But I wasn’t upset. I was kind of puzzled. Durant said he was frustrated, more than anything. “You should’ve gotten over it by now”.
