Kevin Durant on trade rumors “You can just make up lies and everybody’s going to believe you, you can just press the ‘KD wants to leave’ button anytime you want some attention… It bothers me that people lie like that and it bothers me that the audience eats up lies.”
Maybe if he didn’t always want to leave, it wouldn’t be so believable when anyone says it
espn going to turn this interview into a week long discussion filled with hot takes galore
Kinda a boy who cried wolf situation. Like if you hadnt requested a trade from Brooklyn twice after leaving OKC and GS in free agency, maybe people wouldnt believe if they said you wanted to move.
I dont think theres a single soul who would believe it if someone said “Jokic is looking to move on from the Denver Nuggets”.
I wonder why people get the feeling you’ll abandon ship when things don’t go your way
They wouldn’t be able to go to that if it wasn’t easily believable and it’s only easily believable, because Durant has left multiple teams in the past.
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Well maybe don’t do just that in Brooklyn, Kevin
You requested a trade twice after the team catered to your every whim, including sacrificing their future for a disgruntled James Harden and putting up with Kyrie’s then-latest string of bullshit
I get doubting how sincere he is, but him asking to be traded happened on a single team so far. I don’t get the borderline hate.
I might be considered a suns “fan” and thus be biased, but I honestly think the situation in brooklyn was understandable to some extent. On his 2nd request Kyrie wanted out, which will make KD stuck in that team with Ben taking up cap space. I’d be happy to be corrected or given relevant info because I do not know specifics
Nothing KD said was wrong at all. May not be the best of messengers but everything he said was correct. People are very quick to believe narratives that confirm biases or just reflexively in general, and we know the media will push stories with minimal context for clicks.
I don’t think when you reach the level of Woj/Haynes/Shams/Fischer/etc. you’re spreading “lies” but what is true is everyone has their own narrative and people talk and if it gets you clicks, you’re gonna report what the GM from another team has to say about a certain player, etc.
People will believe anything these days. A KD demanding a trade rumor is rather tame compared to others.
Well nobody is making Steph wants out rumors. Why is that?
Uncle Dennis and Nephew have damn near held 3 franchises hostage, while picking-n-choosing when to play, but they know Kawhi won’t acknowledge them, so they put the bone near KD😂😂😂
Truthful and mature response from a dude who seems like he’s having fun playing in a big city on a team where he’s got some bros like Booker and Royce, regardless of Suns lack of playoff success.
Maybe now he slightly understands politics
It was right last time though
it would be helpful to stop if teams and players didn’t lie about what was true and what was a lie instead of just calling anything negative that might be true a lie.
You created the situation you’re in bruh
The truth is rarely sexy. He’s absolutely correct.
The same fucker who is unhappy when his team wanted to play a more ball movement, selfless offense, at Warriors, Nets and Suns? lol
Buddy that button exists and you have pressed it yourself multiple times.
Maybe put out a statement then you fucking idiot…KD is absolutely clueless when it comes to the media and has never once accepted personal responsibility…he is a bum
Of course thats right about sports journalism in general and he is one of the most targeted within his field, but SAS rumour made actually a lot of sense and still, people barely believed him.
Well Kevin you yourself have hit that button three times so
Another interpretation of what KD said is that the media likes to stir stuff up to get attention and they use player’s names/reputation to garner more views. Kind of a lame relationship to have with an adjacent entity.
Flip side is that yeah, this comes with the territory but I think it is lame that the media is shilling out random stuff like this when we could be getting better or more educational content.
Also, I can rag on KD on my own time, I don’t need someone else to reiterate that almost 10 year old information.
Bradley Beal on that supermax might make anyone have 2nd thoughts tbh
Well, it’s something that’s happened three times before so it’s certainly believable. Even if it might not be true this time it’s not like there’s no reason to believe it might be
KD joins warriors /s
He’s completely right but he could also leave at the trade deadline after saying this.
Unfortunately for KD, these rumors foster engagement and interest in the NBA which make it more profitable leading to bigger salaries for players. Gotta take the good with the bad.
He might want to ask himself why the “KD wants to leave” button even exists.
Isn’t it weird how like 80% of the rumors end up being true?
Idk… The number of fans that don’t see the headlines or don’t believe them or just figure it’s a drama headline is probably a very high percentage
They’re just not the ones active on social media
OkC, Golden state, Brooklyn? You have a history there buddy.
Left OKC after getting embarrassed by GS. Left GS after getting carried to two championships. Left Brooklyn after the superteam he put together flopped. He has the nerve to cry when people think he’ll do what he’s always done? Most mentally weak superstar in the history of professional sports.
They very briefly tried it with Wemby before the Spurs stopped it.
They tried it.
If he doesn’t want people to be quick to believe the rumors maybe he shouldn’t have been so quick to take the hardest road.
We so back (we’re not)
He’s not wrong, but he also does have this reputation for a reason.
I think both KD and the people he’s talking about are too invested mentally on what is said. KD needs to stop checking out forums and social media. Someone is bound to talk about him. Why should he care? People are also so stupid spreading rumors and unnecessary hate on him.
He says these things, then he is going to leave lol
Then he really must have corpo news like Fox and friends
Why are ppl in this thread acting like KD is always asking out?
He’s always fulfilled his contracts and only ever asked out when he was facing an impossible situation of Kyrie being traded and getting little value of return. The Nets era quite literally blew up on an all fronts
By all means he’s committed to Phoenix and we have little history of showing that he’ll not fulfill his contract there
Bro is on his 4th team, always left the prior team on some messy shit. Asked for trades last 2 times
Me too KD, me too
Because most fans are overgrown child who parrot what others say and cannot think for themselves. It bothers you and they enjoy it.
He knows from experience because he posts lies on his alts all the time and people believe it.
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Maybe if he didn’t always want to leave, it wouldn’t be so believable when anyone says it
espn going to turn this interview into a week long discussion filled with hot takes galore
Kinda a boy who cried wolf situation. Like if you hadnt requested a trade from Brooklyn twice after leaving OKC and GS in free agency, maybe people wouldnt believe if they said you wanted to move.
I dont think theres a single soul who would believe it if someone said “Jokic is looking to move on from the Denver Nuggets”.
I wonder why people get the feeling you’ll abandon ship when things don’t go your way
They wouldn’t be able to go to that if it wasn’t easily believable and it’s only easily believable, because Durant has left multiple teams in the past.
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Well maybe don’t do just that in Brooklyn, Kevin
You requested a trade twice after the team catered to your every whim, including sacrificing their future for a disgruntled James Harden and putting up with Kyrie’s then-latest string of bullshit
I get doubting how sincere he is, but him asking to be traded happened on a single team so far. I don’t get the borderline hate.
I might be considered a suns “fan” and thus be biased, but I honestly think the situation in brooklyn was understandable to some extent. On his 2nd request Kyrie wanted out, which will make KD stuck in that team with Ben taking up cap space. I’d be happy to be corrected or given relevant info because I do not know specifics
Nothing KD said was wrong at all. May not be the best of messengers but everything he said was correct. People are very quick to believe narratives that confirm biases or just reflexively in general, and we know the media will push stories with minimal context for clicks.
I don’t think when you reach the level of Woj/Haynes/Shams/Fischer/etc. you’re spreading “lies” but what is true is everyone has their own narrative and people talk and if it gets you clicks, you’re gonna report what the GM from another team has to say about a certain player, etc.
People will believe anything these days. A KD demanding a trade rumor is rather tame compared to others.
Well nobody is making Steph wants out rumors. Why is that?
Uncle Dennis and Nephew have damn near held 3 franchises hostage, while picking-n-choosing when to play, but they know Kawhi won’t acknowledge them, so they put the bone near KD😂😂😂
Truthful and mature response from a dude who seems like he’s having fun playing in a big city on a team where he’s got some bros like Booker and Royce, regardless of Suns lack of playoff success.
Maybe now he slightly understands politics
It was right last time though
it would be helpful to stop if teams and players didn’t lie about what was true and what was a lie instead of just calling anything negative that might be true a lie.
You created the situation you’re in bruh
The truth is rarely sexy. He’s absolutely correct.
The same fucker who is unhappy when his team wanted to play a more ball movement, selfless offense, at Warriors, Nets and Suns? lol
Buddy that button exists and you have pressed it yourself multiple times.
Maybe put out a statement then you fucking idiot…KD is absolutely clueless when it comes to the media and has never once accepted personal responsibility…he is a bum
Of course thats right about sports journalism in general and he is one of the most targeted within his field, but SAS rumour made actually a lot of sense and still, people barely believed him.
Well Kevin you yourself have hit that button three times so
Another interpretation of what KD said is that the media likes to stir stuff up to get attention and they use player’s names/reputation to garner more views. Kind of a lame relationship to have with an adjacent entity.
Flip side is that yeah, this comes with the territory but I think it is lame that the media is shilling out random stuff like this when we could be getting better or more educational content.
Also, I can rag on KD on my own time, I don’t need someone else to reiterate that almost 10 year old information.
Bradley Beal on that supermax might make anyone have 2nd thoughts tbh
Well, it’s something that’s happened three times before so it’s certainly believable. Even if it might not be true this time it’s not like there’s no reason to believe it might be
KD joins warriors /s
He’s completely right but he could also leave at the trade deadline after saying this.
Unfortunately for KD, these rumors foster engagement and interest in the NBA which make it more profitable leading to bigger salaries for players. Gotta take the good with the bad.
He might want to ask himself why the “KD wants to leave” button even exists.
Isn’t it weird how like 80% of the rumors end up being true?
Idk… The number of fans that don’t see the headlines or don’t believe them or just figure it’s a drama headline is probably a very high percentage
They’re just not the ones active on social media
OkC, Golden state, Brooklyn? You have a history there buddy.
Left OKC after getting embarrassed by GS. Left GS after getting carried to two championships. Left Brooklyn after the superteam he put together flopped. He has the nerve to cry when people think he’ll do what he’s always done? Most mentally weak superstar in the history of professional sports.
They very briefly tried it with Wemby before the Spurs stopped it.
They tried it.
If he doesn’t want people to be quick to believe the rumors maybe he shouldn’t have been so quick to take the hardest road.
We so back (we’re not)
He’s not wrong, but he also does have this reputation for a reason.
I think both KD and the people he’s talking about are too invested mentally on what is said. KD needs to stop checking out forums and social media. Someone is bound to talk about him. Why should he care? People are also so stupid spreading rumors and unnecessary hate on him.
He says these things, then he is going to leave lol
Then he really must have corpo news like Fox and friends
Why are ppl in this thread acting like KD is always asking out?
He’s always fulfilled his contracts and only ever asked out when he was facing an impossible situation of Kyrie being traded and getting little value of return. The Nets era quite literally blew up on an all fronts
By all means he’s committed to Phoenix and we have little history of showing that he’ll not fulfill his contract there
Bro is on his 4th team, always left the prior team on some messy shit. Asked for trades last 2 times
Me too KD, me too
Because most fans are overgrown child who parrot what others say and cannot think for themselves. It bothers you and they enjoy it.
He knows from experience because he posts lies on his alts all the time and people believe it.