Kevin Durant did that thing again. Or, more correctly, I suppose he’s been doing that thing and hasn’t stopped, not since the confetti fell on a waiting stadium full of gold-clad Oaklanders. Here’s his latest tweet, one that voiced support for Tracy McGrady, who is officially being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday night.
Kevin Durant on Tracy McGrady: ‘When it comes to buckets, there was nobody like T-Mac’
Durant tweeted a compliment to McGrady, who officially enters the Hall of Fame Friday night.
It makes sense — Durant is already an all-time scorer and could easily end up in the top-10 all-time, maybe higher. McGrady at his prime was sensational, and it’s no wonder one would respect the other. (And vice versa, I’m sure, of course.)
It’s also an innocuous tweet! But it’s a tweet from Kevin Durant, he of 16.8 million followers and worldwide fame. There’s gonna be people who find fault in it, like this dumbo.
Which Durant clarified:
(In fairness to Noob Noob, I was initially confus—actually, you know what? If your Twitter name is “Noob Noob,” you just don’t get fairness. Them’s the rules.)
More interesting is Durant’s thoughts on buckets, and getting them.
In an attempt to be a woke basketball fan, you might ask yourself: If the game is “always about buckets,” then why did Durant leave the Oklahoma City Thunder, where he was a five-time scoring leader? Bad news — someone else had this same thought.
Getting buckets and winning basketball games isn’t mutually exclusive. Getting buckets while winning an NBA championship is pretty damn cool. So — feel free to keep hating Durant’s decision, or love it, or whatever, but he can praise McGrady without it proving he was hypocritical about leaving the Thunder. What a bizarre sentence that was to write.
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