Nor it was being an especially controversial interview. But wanting it or not, intentionally or unintentionally, Kevin DurantA superstar as high-level on the track as he is prone to chaos off the floor, He ended up releasing, in an interview with the Bleacher Report teammates, some tremendous statements towards his teammates.
Words questioning the quality of your peers are tremendously harsh. First for being, like it or not, the forward of the Brooklyn Nets, a direct attack on them, with names included.
“Look at our starting five. Edmond Sumner, Royce O’Neale, Joe Harris, Nic Claxton and myself. No disrespect, but what are you going to expect from that group? You expect us to win because I’m there. So if you see it from it’s optics, you expect us to play well because ‘number 7’ is out there.”. These statements have been produced after the loss against the Sacramento Kings by 153-121, in which it was the biggest loss of points (153) for the Nets since the 92-93 season.
KD7 and leadership
The words in which Durant clears himself of responsibilities on the march of some Brooklyn Nets (6-9 this season) that they have practically lived in a permanent hurricane since Joseph Tsai put the present of the franchise in their hands and in those of Kyrie Irvingresonate worse when hearing his comments about the team’s leadership, a subject on which Durant has always been pointed out and on which he will question himself again after these statements.
“Am I not a leader?”, he asked himself rhetorically a little earlier. “What the hell does that mean? There are a lot of people who don’t say I’m not a leader because I didn’t tell Kyrie (Irving) to get vaccinated. Come on man. Or that I didn’t condemn Kyrie leaving the team, going to live his life. I’m not the one to tell a grown man what he can and can’t do with his life.”.
From there, Durant continued the interview as normal.. It wasn’t a talk in which the forward exploded over a heavy loss, but a conversation in which the Washington man just talked about things. And he does it his way. Without any filter and without any awareness, it seems, of the enormous responsibility that he has on his shoulders. Los Brooklyn Nets son since the arrival of the great couple, an absolutely dedicated NBA franchise to his designs.
And the result is frustrating. Kevin Durant has always responded on the court, but beyond her he is an absolutely indomitable playerin which every day one does not know what will trigger a new crisis with him.
Steve Nash and the transfer request
Let’s break a spear for Durant. In many ways, the player is overwhelmed. More than once he has expressed, obliquely, that His problems with the board of directors or coaches have not been due to needing more and greater entertainment.
“It wasn’t a matter of saying, uh, I need everyone around me to make my life easier. No, I want to make everyone’s life easier.” Durant can have a very normal feeling. The one who is fed up with someone who he sees as everyone else is constantly trying to keep him happy at any cost. And that’s not what an elite basketball player – and practically no one – wants.
In this context, Durant reveals part of the reasons for two crucial aspects of the start of the season: his transfer request and the current departure of Nash. “”It was not difficult to request a transfer because it was a basketball issue. I told them: ‘I don’t like how we are training. I don’t like shots. I like the exercises. I need more.'”
“Nobody was on the same wavelength with me. Jacque Vaughn is. I had some complaints in the summer, and my complaints weren’t just about me, but about how we’re moving as a group.”
