KD had beef with Warriors reporters + their obsession with Steph Curry / Klay according to new book

[murksiderock]

@Kinguno

By the way, the seminal players of the 10s were Bron, KD, Steph, I agree with you. Kawhi is a distant fourth, winning that backdoor chip last year has elevated him overnight into discussions he wasn't in a year ago, meaning, people thought he could be the best player alive if he was healthy, but legacy wise?

People weren't having legacy conversations about Kawhi a year ago, his resume ain't on the level of the other three guys. And I don't think he has a strong argument that he's better than any of them; at no point in Kawhi's career has he been a greater player than KD when KD is healthy; at no point in Kawhi's career until LeBron went down in Year 16 was he better than LeBron, yet people throw parties like a guy 8 years younger shouldn't be better than anybody playing in their 16th year if that guy is truly an elite player...

And Kawhi struggled acclimating with Aldridge the first year Aldridge came to SA, Kawhi dealt with injuries that postseason but he hardly left a mark in 2016, which we all know was the Year of Steph. His impact and legacy on the sport pales in comparison to Steph's, and he's only two years younger in basketball years. He may be better than Steph now but he ain't anywhere near Steph on a legacy scale yet...

The difference is while we know all athletes have egos, and they all think about being the greatest player and beating their top competition, Durant is the only one with a seemingly unhealthy obsession over it. They all think about it, they all want to be the last man standing, but only KD pouts if some random 34-year old white woman from Kansas posts on her Twitter that somebody is better than him...

 

[Apprentice]

Reading that excerpt Ethan Strauss just sound like a nikka who can get his ass whooped

 

[Ziggiy]

I mean who didn’t see this coming?

But Durant you went to the Warriors for rings not respect. Can’t move like that and expect everyone to not still favor their homegrown talent.

If he wanted to be the undisputed face of a franchise then don’t join a 73 win team.

Nuff said.


I have absolutely ZERO issue with what Durant did. I applaud it actually. But you GOT to be able to take the good with the bad. Bron took it (wayyyyy worse actually) a fee years ago so you knew what time it was.


Although I will say that Draymond situation made shyt 2x worse. Durant shouldn’t be blamed for feeling a way about that

 

[Rekkapryde]

Lol him.being annoyed by Klay is funny too cause klay strike me as a suuupper laid back guy who probably didmr even give one fukk about adulation...

That man just wanna play off ball, drain threes, smoke weed and fukk groupies

Yup. But it don't hurt GETTIN ZERO blame all the time.

 

[Ziggiy]

I don't understand how KD thought (according to this article) that he was ever going to overtake steph in terms of popularity in GS. Lol

Ego?


Or maybe he thought it would be more of a Bron/Wade situation where they’d both get alot of love even though Wade/Steph was the hometown guy and he was the Bron coming into take them to the next level?


The only issue with that is you can’t come onto a SEVENTY THREE WIN situation thinking about the “next level”

 

[Cadillac]

Y’all really believing this agenda bullshyt from Ethan. Breh was writing love ballads about Steph and Kerr even before KD arrived. He’s a major reason why people were brainwashed into thinking Draymond was a superstar and called him the leagues top center at one point.

He was anti KD from the jump and KD called him out. He’s rightfully called out the media more than anybody the last few years and called them groupies but y’all wanna believe what the media say about him

Its cause this is KD, if anyone else, there might be more suspicion raised.

 

[Cadillac]

Yup. OKC was favored to win the series (I'm talking betting odds and media preference). All the juice was with KD.

It's only retroactively that ppl say them boys were too young/outmatched.

In actuality they beat the Lakers and the Spurs and looked primed and ready.

Nyggas simply fumbled the bag

thats cause of what they went through by getting passed the Spurs, plus The heat were strugglng and grinded against a out of their prime Celtics.

just because they were favorites doesn't erase they were young. Plus given scott brooks system. They were pretty outmached basketball style wise.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Yup. But it don't hurt GETTIN ZERO blame all the time.

You think Klay would give a fukk if he did get any blame?

 

[JYoung24]

There's some inherent differences here between KD and Bron...

Bron was the biggest superstar the game had seen since Jordan, and like Mike, before Bron actually won a ring he was already considered the greatest player and an All-Time great. Kevin Durant was definitely known as a great player but his stature pre-GS was not anywhere near that level...

He's said in his own words that he always measured himself up to LeBron, his first mistake was not realizing they were on different levels to start with. That's KD living a different reality in his own head...

KD took way less heat for going to GS than Bron took for going to Miami, anyone who was around to remember The Decision and its aftermath, it's really not an argument to be made against that. Now, LeBron did earn some goodwill back when he started winning in Miami, but let's not forget he lost Year 1 in Miami and that made a LOT of people happy...

The problem with KD is he never has seemed to understand that there were few parallels, if any, beyond the surface between his move and Bron's. He's trying to copy LeBron's career and has shown a complete delusion in the circumstances surrounding each's career...

If anybody was a media darling it was KD until he made the move to GS, for 9 years he was probably the most well-liked superstar basketball player. Even before The Decision, while it wasn't on the levels of post-Decision, LeBron was never the most "liked" player. He was used to a certain level of criticism and his shoulders were strong enough to carry all the animosity thrown at him afterwards...

This all boils down to that. KD had one "bad" headline written about him in OKC and had a fukking meltdown. He wants to be the most liked and shirk criticism, so because he didn't catch criticism like that in OKC, he thought he could go to GS and get the same treatment just because he's better than Steph; it's also evident now that KD puts a strong onus on who's "better" in basketball. I mean, we all know it matters to all athletes to a degree, but KD appears to be consumed by the notion of who is "better" and it fukks with his relationships with media and teammates alike...

I do think dude is a likeable cat but it isn't really deniable that he's quite insecure and bytchy at this point. It's like dude, relax. You're at worst a Top 15 basketball player ever if you never play another game. You're a 1%'er of all black people financially. You've been blessed with gifts and relationships that people work their entire lives and never achieve...

He does a lot of complaining about how "bad" he has it with the media and is tone deaf with understanding how that lands when he says this. He doesn't have it as bad as Bron has gotten it, AI had it worse, Vick had it worse, Bonds has it worse, and in the grand scheme of things a bunch of us would trade lives with this nikka any day for what is "bad" in his life and let him have the "bad" in ours...

I've been a fan his entire career but enough's enough with this dude and his dramatics...



Bruh you beat me to it, only on thos forum and this forum only do you heat about there being this mass media pull for LeBron. Completely revisionist and we all old enough to remember Bron's career in real time...

Lebron was not the greatest before he won the chip that would be kobe

 

[JYoung24]

Don't do that. You realize basketball is a team game, right? There are always moving parts to why a gameplan works...

You the type of nikka who has dumped on LeBron on here like basketball is a 1v1 game, this is a bad take even for your standards. However it had to work, it worked, and Durant didn't play particularly well the final three games of that series, either...



Here we go again. Only a handful of people even mentioned Kobe in reference to LeBron's MVP candidacy...

Nobody was "much" more deserving of Bron for MVP this year. One player only could be argued as more deserving buy it wasn't by some great margin. I don't say this alot but your dislike of one player makes your takes almost completely irrational...

I don't know what series you're talking about but the only series Bron lost where I remember them seriously considering him for MVP was 2015. Your bias has no limits if you think he wasn't deserving of consideration...

There are as many personalities in the media who dislike LeBron and rejoice at his shortcomings as there are cheerleaders. Yall gotta stop this shyt, it is not only untrue but irrational. As "bad" as KD has gotten it, he'd probably commit that if he ever dealt with the level of criticism LeBron has repeatedly dealt with...

And none of these nikkas, not Bron, Iverson, Vick, Melo, Moss, none of these dudes went on repeated tirades against the media even when there was concerted attacks not just on their games, but their characters. shyt is inexcusable KD hasnt dealt with anywhere near the level of scrutiny those guys did and quite frankly his life wasn't as shytty before the game either compared to alot of guys, which helps explain his softness. He acts more like an entitled, pampered diva than anybody I can recall in a long time...

How does lebron deserve mvp when hes playing with a top 5 player

 

[Rekkapryde]

You think Klay would give a fukk if he did get any blame?

 

[Flywin Lannister]

Bruh behave like an insecure bytch. This is KD W I T H rings.. on possibly the best team ever put together, where he gets all the touches he wants.

I immediately dismiss anybody who mentions him in the same sentence as MJ or Kobe.

What a clown. Can't respect this dude as a man, respect his game like crazy though, but can't respect him as a man. That's WITHOUT the fact he joined the team that beat his team after being 3-1 up ... this is all off his behavior/energy/responses. Sucka shyt.

 

[Cadillac]

Bron would have two more.

Hell No, especially if 2017-2018 would have occured the same if KD never went to GSW. no way is bron winning 2018

 

[DaRock]

It was never going to work for what Kevin overall wanted..TheColi laughed because he "one up Lebron" in stacking the deck but KD shyt was much deeper....as Shay Sharpe said " how you go help someone beat someone else up, who beat you up"

KD really thought, "hey Steph let's go get Lebron", was go really make GS fans love him equal or more

He actually got double Ether, while winning championships....
He's was not loved in GS like he thought and most still don't think he is better than Lebron...

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

It was never going to work for what Kevin overall wanted..TheColi laughed because he "one up Lebron" in stacking the deck but KD shyt was much deeper....as Shay Sharpe said " how you go help someone beat someone else up, who beat you up"

KD really thought, "hey Steph let's go get Lebron", was go really make GS fans love him equal or more

He actually got double Ether, while winning championships....
He's was not loved in GS like he thought and most still don't think he is better than Lebron...

We had mad love for KD tho. Still do. I'll give him a standing ovation if I ever see him play at Chase Center. But Steph is Steph....breh is like our Michael Jackson....no hyperbole.