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There is at least one national media personality that is decidedly Team Kevin after last night’s beef between Durant and his former teammate, Kendrick Perkins.
Jay Williams of ESPN defended Durant jumping into a conversation about Russell Westbrook being the “best to ever put on an Oklahoma City Jersey” as well as being “Mr. Thunder”, which Williams said are actually two different things.
While Williams agrees that Westbrook is “Mr. Thunder”, he said there is no denying that Durant is one of the best to play the game.
And when it comes to Durant weighing in on the conversation, Williams said simply, “everyone can get the smoke”, adding “I don’t care of you’re Kendrick Perkins or Kenny 246, if you’re going to bring the heat.”
The situation started when Perkins said he was jumping on SportsCenter to talk about why Westbrook was the greatest in OKC history. Others suggested that the title might belong instead to Durant.
In about 30 minutes I’m going to give my opinion on @SportsCenter on why Believe that Russell Westbrook is the best player to have ever put on a Oklahoma City Thunder Jersey!!! He is MR. THUNDER!!!
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) January 9, 2020
Perkins said that Durant “left that door open” when he left Oklahoma City for the Warriors, mentioning KD by name. Of course, that’s when Durant did what Durant does, and responded.
Yea and our starting center @KendrickPerkins averaged a whopping 2 and 3 during that series. U played hard tho champ lol
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) January 10, 2020
The two went back and forth, trading barbs, with Perkins eventually saying Durant took the “coward way out” by joining Golden State.
That’s fine!!! You worked that hard and still had to go join a 73-9 team. Truth be told you don’t even feel like a real Champ, you have hard time sleeping at night huh knowing that you took the coward way out!!!
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) January 10, 2020