Kevin Durant just won his third Olympic gold medal in Tokyo. Without Durant carrying the load this team otherwise would not have medaled.
Pop owes Kevin a year of dinners for saving his coaching ass for certain. Player makes the coach. How many times do I have to write this on my blog?
Time is a healer. To me…it seems like a basketball life has passed since Kevin left the Thunder in 2016 to join the Warriors. I feel no angst whatsoever for Kevin traveling the road he did. He did nothing wrong.
At first I was sad. But I feel as if we’ve both grown since then in our own ways.
He has and still is finding himself as a young man of thirty-three years of age. BTW…the exact same age of my son.
My son started his career with Devon and was with them the same amount of time Kevin was with the Thunder. Then an opportunity with a company in Denver materialized which was the kind of dream job he’d been striving for since getting his finance degree and MBA at OU.
He asked me what I thought? I said…”Go for it. This is what you worked so hard to achieve. Besides–Denver has the Broncos, the Avalanche, the Rockies, the Nuggets, and an iconic DI ice hockey program…your mother and I can visit. This will actually be better for me.”
Same thing with Kevin. He’d gone as far as he could with the Thunder because Sam Presti could never get it done as GM and find the right shooting guard to fill the Harden void unless you’re on of those who think Kevin Martin or Jeremy Lamb were an answer.
From a purely professional standpoint Kevin’s decision was a no-brainer. He never would have won anything in Oklahoma City for three reasons:
1 Russell Westbrook can’t even dream about being the pure shooter Steph is. I love Russell, but c’mon.
2 Sam Presti never filled the void at the shooting guard position after trading James Harden.
3 Klay Thompson. If Klay Thompson had been the Thunder’s shooting guard from say 2011-2016 how many rings would Kevin have won in Oklahoma City? I say two. I think the Thunder would hav won two rings in that span of time. Klay before the knee was a defensive hoss as well.
So here’s this video in 2019 with Kevin making an appearance with Serge on the Chef Mafuzzy Cooking Podcast. Kevin has two rings and Serge has one. If you’re a Thunder fan shame on you if you’re not thrilled for both of them.
The booing of Kevin makes you look stupid. Like a group of dumbasses not smart enough to come out of the rain or get vaccinated. Answer me this…is it an infringementof your personal freedom to not put your young children in car seats? Same thing. I thought you Trump evangelicals were pro-lifers who were sanctity of life people.
Grow up. Get your shots, wear a mask in certain social settings, and stop booing Kevin Durant. Because if not for Kevin this city would not have had the glorious decade of NBA ball which drove Sam Anderson to write a NY Times bestseller which took him five years to research.
Nick Collison..I would think you who played with Kevin in Seattle better than anyone would know it’s time for Kevin Durant to have his banner hanging from the rafters of PayCom Arena and put an end to this nonsense in Oklahoma City.
This might be a good project for you to undertake as Presti’s special assistant…. and we both know he’s in dire need of a special assistant given how we didn’t grab high school, NCAA, and now Summer League champ Davion Mitchell with out No. 6 pick.