Basically since the day he decided to sign with the Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant has faced never ending criticism. Critics just pile on Durant, aghast that he would leave the Thunder to go chase after a championship with the Warriors. To his credit, Durant hasn't let the criticism faze him the least bit, brushing the dirt off his shoulders and going about his business by having a sensational first season with the Warriors.
Durant though, naturally hears from his naysayers and recounted a funny story on a recent appearance on the Bill Simmons podcast about Los Angeles Lakers legend James Worthy, who apparently said one thing to the Warrior All-Star's face and then had a much different take while on television.
Durant's conversation with Simmons was transcribed by CSN Bay Area:
Durant: “Out of his respect to him … but he did kind of do some shady sh*t to me.”
Durant then shared the following story:
“We played in Vancouver, first game in a Warriors uniform. And I see James Worthy walking out as I was leaving the game … it's a legend here. ‘Big Game James.' I didn't get to see him play but I just know all about him … I'm a little skeptical at this point to even talk to anybody from the generation before because I don't even know how they feel about me as a person, as a player because these dudes — they look at me as like, ‘Oh you switching teams, you chasing this, you chasing that.' So I'm just gonna keep it moving.
“But he was like, ‘Man. Don't worry about that stuff. People change jobs every single year, every single day. Don't worry about that. Just go out there and keep working and go win.' So I'm like, ‘Man that's nice.'
“So I came back home that night and my boy Randy — I was like, ‘Man. James worthy was cool. He showed me so much love. I appreciate that.' He (Randy) was like, ‘Huh? He was talking so bad about you on TV. He was saying Magic wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done that…'
“Yo, stop selling out. Stop selling your brothers out. This is a fraternity. Stop selling us out … stop doing that man, and then come in my face talking that nonsense. I was really fooled with him.”
While this is an amusing story, Worthy is an analyst for Lakers game so he likely wanted to play up the whole hot take angle with his criticism of Durant on television. But overall what Durant's story really tells us, is that Worthy's television personality is apparently heavily influenced by Batman's Harvey Dent, otherwise know as Two-Face.
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