?Hold on Man, This Can?t Be Real?: Kevin Durant Stirs Another Narrative With Audacious Claim That May Irk Stephen Curry Fans

Kevin Durant spent four seasons with the Golden State Warriors. During his tenure, the Warriors won two championship titles and Durant bagged the Finals MVP both times. For Durant, the Warriors will likely always be family. In his words, their success is his success because he is “part of that history forever”. So when the Warriors won the title in 2021-22, Durant was happy for his brothers. However, a tinge of unhappiness was injected after Durant read the narratives online.

The two-time champion left the Golden State Warriors in 2019. The common dialogue then was that the Warriors would never win another championship without the expertise of Durant. However, in 2021-22, this proved to be wrong. The title win brought about a new narrative that claimed that Durant depended on the Warriors, instead of it being the other way around. Durant was seemingly unhappy because the Warriors’ win became all about him. He said, “I feel like you can take it all in and appreciate what they did and not even talk about me”. While speaking in an interview with the Washington Post, the 12-time NBA All-Star made another claim.

Kevin Durant faces the brunt of NBA Twitter

Kevin Durant refuted the narrative about piggybacking his way on the shoulders of the Warriors organization. Durant said that he hated that claim. He added, “That?ll never happen when I?m playing basketball. Either I?m going to step back, so you can go ahead and do your thing, or I?m going to take control.??

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While Durant tried to silence this narrative, the NBA world, Stephen Curry?fans, in particular, didn’t receive this with open arms. For starters, they refused to believe that Durant had made such a claim and questioned if he was even being serious. Many claimed that Durant banked on Curry’s expertise hence his claim is wrong. While others stated that Durant took the easy way out since he joined a team who had already won a championship.

Here are some of the reactions from NBA Twitter:

https://twitter.com/missjskyy/status/1605613012508741633?s=20&t=aIf1V_m9po3AuePdacZKjw

https://twitter.com/ClevelandsOwnAC/status/1605682273885593625?s=20&t=LIpuPXNNPsHs1LGz1oe-8g

https://twitter.com/GrizzlyG26/status/1605685783851155456?s=20&t=lsNpElKx-8uNi-QfebriJw

The reunion between Durant and the Warriors this season

Following the release of the interview, Kevin Durant geared up to face the Golden State Warriors. With his old teammates Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson missing out, Durant was locked in on the court. He bagged 23 points while leading his team to beat the Warriors in convincing style. The Brooklyn Nets won by 30 points in the end, while making a franchise-record of 91 points in just the first half of the game.

Amidst this mighty performance, all eyes were on Kevin Durant. However, the star gave nothing away. He treated the game like any other NBA game. With that said, during the post-game interview, he acknowledged that his respect for his former teammates is always going to be there.

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