Kevin Durant is a pretty good basketball player. You can probably tell after he single-handedly tormented the New York Knicks for 53 points on Sunday night.

The man who received the brunt of the punishment was Knicks guard Evan Fournier. Now Fournier is far from small standing at 6'6ā€³, but defending Kevin Durant he might as well have not put a hand up as KD shot over him with ease every time.

Check out Kevin Durant hit a jumper right over the Knicks wing then proceed to savagely gesture at him for being too little:

While already pretty cold-blooded on its own, Kevin Durant's taunt was a little more sophisticated to the trained eye. Evan Fournier is a Frenchman and KD decided to flex his Duolingo streak with some foreign mockery at the Knicks defender's expense.

ā€œI was calling him trĆØs petit,ā€ said Durant after the game.

Kevin Durant just took a page out of Kobe Bryant's book against the Knicks' Fournier. The Los Angeles Lakers icon would famously learn bits and pieces of his opponent's native languages just to be able to dish out some extra savage, well-researched trash talk.

Jusuf Nurkic on Kobe Bryant cursing at him in Bosnian.

ā€œHeā€™s shooting the free throws (Kobe), and Iā€™m out there like: ā€˜Nobody can even touch him, how is that possible?ā€™ Whole night he was shooting free throws. He actually said a word in my language. Iā€™m I was like, ā€˜I didnā€™t really hear right. He canā€™t speak my language!ā€™ Then we go back and forward, and he goes again to [shoot] free throws. And he repeats that! It was [a] curse word! I was like, ā€˜Iā€™m pretty sure he said that!ā€™ After a couple years in the league, he was preparing himself and he plays against some teams he will try to learn a little bit about every player he plays.ā€

KD clearly went in his bag on Sunday, both for his play against the Knicks and his taunting directed at Evan Fournier.

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