Kevin Durant Responds To Claims The Warriors Are Better Without Him

The Golden State Warriors defeated the Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers without Kevin Durant. The star player was sidelined due to a calf strain. Some said that the team is better of without Durant, and he decided to talk about it.

“It’s hard to get away from that because I watch the games, and you watch the lead-up to the games and that’s all everybody is talking about,” Durant said. “… As a player, I think about that and I’m just like ‘it’s not true.’ That’s not facts when it comes to a basketball perspective, but the competitive side of me also likes to talk basketball as well. So, if you want to say something like that, I’m going to engage in it. So it’s all fun, it’s all cool, but I know the real.” 

Durant is sidelined due to his calf injury, but he sure helps the team a lot.

“Just from what I see from a strategy standpoint,” he said. “Last series (sweep of Portland in NBA Western Conference Finals) we played a lot of pick-and-rolls. We were down at halftime of Game 2 and everyone was just talking about the coverage on the ball…Just chiming in and seeing how I could help. Giving guys perspective from a different view. I feel like almost a coach now a little bit because I get to analyze the game. It’s been fun.”

Durant got into a social media spats with Chris Broussard following his injury.

“I’m a human being with a social media account,” Durant said. “I can see if I ventured off into like politics, like to culinary arts or music and give you my input but I’m sticking to something I know…I’m sticking to stuff I know…This is all I know…I’m qualified to talk about basketball.
“So when I respond to something, especially if it’s about me, personally…Of course, I’ll going to tell you if you are wrong…I’m on the training table and getting treatment on my calf and I see a tweet come by and I disagree (I’ll respond),” he said while pretending to tweet on his phone. “I don’t talk to people because I’m worried about what they are going to say, it’s because I’m interested.”