Kevin Durant gets ejected & talks shyt about referee : "He was emotional" UPDATE: KD aplogizes

[ABlackMan]

I wish I could ref. I’d shyt talk them fools right back. Young ass dudes yelling at you lmfaooo nah nikka look at me I’m the captain now

 

[Harleminthe80s]

WTF is he talking about he wrist carried his ass off that one play

 

[steph_harden]

except both calls were correct... superstars mad they can't get away with offensive fouls, carrying and traveling anymore


OAKLAND, Calif. -- Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant, who was ejected late in Tuesday's 123-112 win over the New York Knicks, accused official James Williams of targeting him during the game.

Durant said the beef with Williams began early in the game.

"Well, the first half, I was dribbling up the right side and I made a left-to-right cross, and he said I carried," Durant said. "I kind of let that go. I asked him where he got the carry from. He said I froze the defender, and I said that's what the crossover is for and that's why I do it, to freeze my defender.

"And he tried to make a bunch of excuses, and I told him he was wrong, and he went into halftime probably with an attitude. So the second half, his whole thing is like he's trying to get me."

Tension between players and officials has been a dominant theme this season, with multiple star players criticizing the manner in which they have been treated by the referees.

Williams hit Durant with his first technical foul in the third quarter, after Durant slammed the ball down in frustration, believing he had delivered a clean block at the rim on Knicks big man Willy Hernangomez. Williams was actually calling the personal foul on Warriors forward Kevon Looney.

Late in the fourth, Durant drove to the basket and there was contact, but no call was made. He slowed to get back on defense. Draymond Green had to commit a quick foul to prevent a 5-on-4 advantage.

Once Durant made it past half court, he screamed, "Why the f--- that's not a foul?" at official Brett Nansel and began to stare him down while on defense.

Williams, not Nansel, issued the second technical that sent Durant to the showers early.

"Look at my first tech," Durant said. "I got the rebound and I dribbled the ball hard, and he teched me up. He was searching for me. He was looking to try to tech me up to get me back because he's still in his feelings from the first half. That's what's been going on around the league the whole year. A bunch of that. I got to keep my head a little bit, but I was upset. I'm a human being too. I get upset."

It marked Durant's fourth ejection and 10th technical on the season. He had only one ejection for his entire career prior to 2017-18.

Right before the ejection, Green, who has 11 technical fouls and two ejections on the season, did his best to keep Durant from going off by shoving him away from the official. But Durant had his mind made up that he was going to let his voice be heard.

"The irony," Durant jokingly said about Green playing the levelheaded role. "I was not trying to hear that. I didn't want to get teched up or thrown out, but I did want him to hear what I had to say. It is part of the game. I'm sure when I see James again, I'm sure he'll still be in his feelings."

Durant finished with 14 points, a career-high 14 assists and two blocks in 32 minutes.

KD is out of line. Calling out the ref by name and everything. Says the ref was “in his feelings” but he was crying and being extra demonstrative the whole time. Then unloads this long diatribe. Is that not the very definition of “being in your feelings” ?

He flat out admits that he told the ref that “he was wrong”...yea that’s a good way to reason with someone. By telling them that they can’t do their job.

fukk outta here with that bullshyt you’re the last person that should be talking about “being in your feelings”

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

You’ve got to be a beta in order to be a referee and KD is the ultimate beta so something had to give

 

[chemicalsword]

Ain't that the cupcake calling the cookie sweet

 

[RiffRaff]

How many times has KD been ejected this year

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

They had just let Durant get away with a blatant goaltend and gave him a block for it, which was ridicuous, then the next time down he goes for another block and there's contact so he throws a tantrum and slams the ball yelling at the ref.

Warriors already get ridiculous calls the majority of the time, but they want the call 100% of the time regardless of what actually happened. Refs give Draymond and Durant more leeway than anyone else in the league yet they still lead the NBA in techs. Then they talk shyt in interviews like the refs were the ones outta line :jagfan: Insufferable

 

[deewayne]

How long until the comparisons to police officers and how they treat minorities start?

 

[Shogun]

fukk the refs they’ve been terrible but I can see why they T’ing everyone up. Use to be one superstar per team consistently complaining now with these super teams they probably tired of 3-4 guys on same team complaining about calls they should be getting so these refs try to act like they are in charge by giving T instead of talking to players

They cant give superstar calls to a whole damn lineup

 

[UserNameless]

They all carry

 

[Shogun]

Players are also to blame for flopping and pretending to the point where refs dont know wtf they're looking at. shyt is hard enough when they aren't manipulating the rules.

 

[chkmeout]

How long until the comparisons to police officers and how they treat minorities start?

 

[010101]

@Gil Scott-Heroin*

 

[Versa]

14 assists

I thought KD did everything better than LeBron now EXCEPT pass. Do I have to revisit my opinion on this?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

This is becoming an issue.

Steve Jaffe did an interview on Sirius XM NBA Radio a few days ago where he was like "every time they get demonstrative and show us up, they're getting teched up. We DON'T dislike them or have an agenda...we just miss calls sometimes, we're human." He was actually being kinda conciliatory to the players, but he was clear that if you run up on them or cuss at them, like you're belittling them, you can forget it.

Clearly they need to work some things out before the playoffs in the Spring....that's the LAST place you want this issue to come to a head.

During the playoffs they're going to let everything go tho

All those players who rely on shytty calls will be exposed....it's been going on for the past few seasons