Don’t Disrespect Kevin Durant’s Thunder
Kevin Durant’s sentiment is that of disrespect on Phil Jackson’s comments of Durant’s preferential star treatment and prowess of excessively getting to the free throw line. Durant is saying all the right things, taking the high road, and planting countering seeds via the media into the minds of newspaper-reading referees.
“I respect Phil Jackson,” Durant started. “It really doesn’t matter, to be honest.”
“Ever since KG said something, everybody’s been questioning how I get to the line.”
Jackson is infamous for using media to voice his concerns on officiating, but this time he might want to shut his mouth. Kevin Durant is not the type of player whom simply disappears when the pressure rises. Also, in the defense of Duran,t or any other NBA player for that matter, it blows my mind to smithereens when the coach of Kobe Bryant is the accusser of preferential treatment.
Making Durant angry is strongly unadvised.
Durant is the player you should reconsider making such statements about. He is a scoring machine who just won his first NBA scoring title this season at the age of 21, making him the youngest NBA scoring champion in league history. So yeah, this kid is a ridiculous superstar of all things NBA. Portland fans go ahead and go puke, then come back and finish reading. The rest of you, please continue.
Under Durant’s leadership the Thunder have won 50 games this year and earned a playoff birth in the super tough Western Conference. They face off against the Lakers in the first round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs. Jackson should be careful.
Also, Durant and the Thunder beat the Lakers the last time they met recently in March, 91-75. Durant dropped in 26, and was 7 for 7 from the line. Are 7 free throws really worth crying out to the press about? Or are the Lakers personnel you so worried about Durant that they will use any tactic possible to aid in suppressing his game?
Durant is a mellow, polite, mild mannered and friendly person. He is a model citizen, and an all-around nice guy. However, if you are going to lead the league in scoring at the age of 21, you have ice-cold blood running through those veins behind those innocent kid grins. The way I see it, waking up the beast inside Durant, and having him feel disrespected leaves one of only two possible outcomes.
Outcome 1: Durant gets psyched out, and implodes while the Lakers sweep the Thunder in Round 1.
Outcome 2: Durant goes nuts, lets his playing provide the explicates towards Jackson, and the Thunder defeat the Lakers.
However unlikely outcome 2 seems, I pray it happens. Durant is simply uncanny to watch. At an age where most of us are/were trying to figure out who we are by wasting hours on introspection, this kid outscored LeBron James and Kobe Bryant for the season.
While leading his team to one of the best turnarounds in losing to winning records in NBA history, without a blockbuster trade including Kevin Garnett, Durant has obviously just barely begun realizing his potential.
My point is this kid is like an unstable radioactive isotope waiting to cause catastrophic levels of damage in the playoffs, and Phil Jackson is applying the heat. In my opinion, this method is a highly unwise move.
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Thu, Apr 15, 2010 by Adam Sedie
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