PLAYERS:
Kevin Durant,
Charles Barkley,
Blake Griffin,
Kendrick Perkins
TEAMS: Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Clippers
TEAMS: Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Clippers
Kevin Durant is the anti-Charles Barkley. When asked a question about absolutely anything, the NBA’s cleanest-cut superstar can be counted on to come with one of those predictable, boring, cream-puff answers. While fuddy-duddies will applaud, call it class, and gush over the young man’s character, I find it to be rather uninteresting. I want to know how you really feel, Kevin! About the only thing I know about you is that you f@cking love your Thunder teammates right to death.
That’s another thing that drives me nuts about this dude; ask him about leading the league in scoring? Couldn’t have done that without my teammates, Craig. His chances of winning the MVP? I’ll have to be better at getting my teammates involved, Ric. While I’m sure it’s greatly appreciated within the Thunder organization, that whole spiel has simply become annoying to me.
So anyway, when I heard that Durant had been asked for his thoughts on Blake Griffin’s ...
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