Charles Barkley on the Durant Move

The simple truth is this for those who are defending what Durant just did—if the NBA had a legitimate collective bargaining agreement and like the NFL had a franchise player tag—Kevin Durant would still be in Oklahoma City as Aaron Rodgers is still in Green Bay. In theory, that’s why you have collective bargaining agreements so as all the teams have a chance to be competitive. So players cannot conspire within their own circles to construct their own teams.

Kevin Durant didn’t just leave a team which was three minutes away from the NBA Finals in the Oklahoma City Thunder, he left to go to the only team in the league which he felt would give him a better chance to beat LeBron James. Pure and simple.  I’m not going to call him a competitive coward or anything like that. But what he did was basically calibrate the odds to best serve his chances of beating LeBron at some point in his career because of his body and skill set it’s debatable whether he can do this himself being the best player on a team. Some of these ESPN and national guys can talk all this shit all they want, but I watched the guy for a year at the University of Texas and for his entire professional career. I doubt his own father has watched him play as much as I have.

The end.

War Eagle!