After Kevin Durant took issue with Draymond Green's Stephen Curry take, the Brooklyn Nets star then started feuding with Golden State Warriors fans.
Green recently shared how Curry's playoffs impact has been criminally undervalued because he has no Finals MVP to show for it. To make his point, the Warriors vet highlighted how the sharpshooter was “double-teamed” seven times the amount Kevin Durant did during their time together in Golden State.
When the Nets forward was asked about Green's remarks on Twitter, he boldly called it “100% false.”
From my view of it, this is 100% false… https://t.co/of6pFJUfvi
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) May 31, 2022
Of course given the Warriors fans' love for Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and the rest of the team, they took to Twitter to question and mock Kevin Durant's response. Naturally, the Nets leader responded and argued with the points raised by the Dubs faithful.
Nah there isn’t my guy
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) May 31, 2022
Yea I played
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) May 31, 2022
And I disagree with that scheme, why I gotta be a character flaw? Lol
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) May 31, 2022
Durant also made it a point to emphasize that where Green and the fans are wrong is in the fact that they didn't acknowledge the benefit he has brought to the team. True enough, if it were not for KD, it would have been difficult for the Dubs to win those back-to-back titles they got after losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016.
But u refuse to state the benefits of having me on that team too, see that’s where the discrediting comes in.
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) May 31, 2022
@BK9419 y’all let twitter trolls get y’all riled up and got y’all insecure, like I said I was the sole reason for anything. I ALWAYS made it about the team. Y’all insecurities got y’all like this
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) May 31, 2022
For what it's worth, though, the feud between the Nets superstar and the Warriors fan base just highlights even further the reason why KD left the team. While a lot has been said about it being Durant wanting his own team or because of his relationship with Green, he was just never really accepted by the fans.
Durant himself opened up about it in the past, noting that he has always been the odd man out since the Warriors built their team through the draft.
“I came in there wanting to be part of a group, wanting to be part of a family, and definitely felt accepted,” Durant said in 2019 after he left the Warriors for the Nets, via Wall Street Journal. “But I’ll never be one of those guys. I didn’t get drafted there … Steph Curry, obviously drafted there. Andre Iguodala, won the first Finals, first championship. Klay Thompson, drafted there. Draymond Green, drafted there. And the rest of the guys kind of rehabilitated their careers there. So me? Shit, how you going to rehabilitate me? What you going to teach me? How can you alter anything in my basketball life? I got an MVP already. I got scoring titles.”
This is certainly an unfortunate turn for KD and the Warriors. However, while that is the case, no one can deny how dominant and strong that Dubs team was when they were headed by Curry and Durant.
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