Kevin Durant, that as a great star of the Brooklyn Nets is suffering as much as the rest of his team hethe ravings of his companion Kyrie Irvingwhich are preventing the smooth running of the team, broke his silence for bleacher report to talk about it and stand up to those who criticize him for not acting as a leader and to have called to order and subdued Irving before his continuous acts of indiscipline that both hurt alya and its franchise.
Kyrie Irving greets the crowd at a Nets game.
One year after Irving refused to get vaccinated against covid-19what it cost him to miss many games in power, only play the ones at home, he has gotten into trouble another puddle by sharing a film full of anti-Semitism on social networksbeing criticized by fans, analysts and even Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsaiwhich separated him from the team until he publicly apologized.
Durant responds to his critics
But Kevin Durant had not yet ruled on the matter… until now, in which explains your role in all this astracanada of your compaero and responds to those who accuse him of lack of leadership for not meddling. “I’m not a leader? What the hell does that mean?” I questioned Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report. “A lot of people say I’m not a leader because I didn’t tell Kyrie to get vaccinated. Come on. Or don’t condemn Kyrie for leaving the team, going out and living his life. I’m not going to tell a grown man what he can and can’t do with his own life and dissect his views or what the fuck he thinks.”
I’m not a leader? What the hell does that mean? A lot of people say I’m not a leader because I didn’t tell Kyrie to get vaccinated. Or because they don’t condemn Kyrie for leaving the team, going out and living his life.
But he let it be known that he had had more than one conversation with the wayward base: “We can have a conversation and exchange perspectives on how I feel and how he feels about this issue, but everyone else doesn’t need to know or listen to our conversations because we are grown men. I don’t act like that,” he explained.
I don’t need to show or tell everyone what I’m doing with my teammates so everyone can cheer me on and say, ‘Yeah KD, you’re the boss, you’re the leader. Maybe others need that. I do not
“I don’t need to show or tell everyone what I’m doing with my teammates so everyone can cheer me on and say, ‘Yeah KD, you’re the boss, you’re the leader. Maybe others need that. I do not. I don’t come to you and say, ‘Haynes, write this story about me. I don’t do that to anyone. But I come here and I respect everyone. I speak to all of you as one of the others, even after a loss,” he said after the Nets fell with a bang in Sacramento (153-121).
